What the Hands Reveal about the Brain
- ISBN-10
- 0262161052
- ISBN-13
- 9780262161053
- Category
- Brain damage
- Pages
- 236
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1987-01-01
- Publisher
- MIT Press (MA)
- Author
- Howard Poizner
Description
What the Hands Reveal About the Brain provides dramatic evidence that language is not limited to hearing and speech, that there are primary linguistic systems passed down from one generation of deaf people to the next, which have been forged into antonomous languages and are not derived front spoken languages.
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