Thought without Language: Symposium Proceedings: Vol 2 (Fyssen Foundation symposium series) - Hardcover

Weiskrantz, Lawrence

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198521804 ISBN 13: 9780198521808

Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1988

Synopsis

A collection of 19 essays aiming to answer questions about the dependancy of thought on language, based on a Fyssen Foundation symposium held in Versailles in April 1987 and bringing together research into non-verbal thinking in adults, in pre-linguistic infants and in animals. Topics covered include the role of the "non-verbal" right cerebral hemisphere in humans; the investigation of non-verbal aspects of various categories of cognition (such as abstract reasoning, spatial awareness and pattern recognition); evidence for cognition without conscious awareness, and neurological and developmental evidence. The concluding chapter is a personal account by a dyslexic mathematician of the nature of his handicap and the non-verbal reasoning that he has developed to cope with this.

About this edition

• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0198521804
• ISBN 13: 9780198521808
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 548