Does Gustave Dax Deserve to Be Forgotten? The Temporal Lobe Theory and Other Contributions of an Overlooked Figure in the History of Language and Cerebral Dominance  

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Finger, Stanley ; Roe, Daniel

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 69 no. 1 (1999), page 16-30.
Topik: aphasia; Broca; cerebral dominance; Gustave Dax; Marc Dax; cortical localization; lateralization; speech; Wernicke
Fulltext: 69_01_Finger.pdf (266.67KB)

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Gustave Dax played an important role in the early history of cerebral dominance for language. He not only sent the 1836 memoir of Marc Dax, his deceased father, to Paris in 1863, but saw to it that this important document was published before Paul Broca’s own article on cerebral dominance appeared later in 1865. In addition, he supported his father’s contention that the left hemisphere is special for speech with 140 additional clinical cases. Gustave Dax’s own unique contribution, however, has been almost completely overlooked. Although his theory lacked specificity, he preceded Meynert, Schmidt, and Wernicke in suggesting that the left temporal lobe may be especially important for speech.

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