The Marc Dax (1770-1837)/Paul Broca (1824-1880) controversy over priority in science: left hemisphere specificity for seat of articulate language and for lesions that cause aphemia.
One of the most fascinating and frustrating issues in the priority of discovery in science is over just who, for the first time, went on record in the public forum, either orally at a conference or through a published communication, proclaiming that the faculty of articulate human speech was located...
| Publicado en: | Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics Vol. 20; no. 7/8; pp. 613 - 620 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sep2006
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