History of Neurolinguistics

Professor Harry A. Whitaker

 

 

Week 1 (2 days): Fourth Century B.C.E. through Sixteenth Century 

Medieval Cell Doctrine & Ventricular Theory (Avicenna)

            Neurolinguistic Case Histories from the 11th to16th centuries (Jules Soury)

Johannes Schenk & idea of double dissociation

 

Week 2 (2 days): Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 

            Johannes Wepfer & laterality of language

            Schmidt & Rommel - early aphasia analysis

            Rene Descartes, Thomas Willis, Nicolas Steno & transition brain models   

G. B. Morgagni, H. Boerhaave & clinico-pathological correlation

            David Hartley, Charles Bonnet &  the re-conception of mind=brain relations

            R. Leny & late 18th century knowledge of localization of brain functions

 

Weeks 3 and 4 (4 days): Nineteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries

            Franz Joseph Gall, Phrenological Doctrine & language

            Alexander Hood & what came to be called Broca’s aphasia

            Francois Lallemand, Jean Baptiste Bouillaud & the great debate

            Marc Dax, Pierre Paul Broca & laterality of language

            Pierre Marie, Francois Moutier & Broca’s aphasia

            Theodor Meynert, Carl Wernicke & the re-conception of language & brain

            Gottlieb Burckhardt & origins of psychosurgery (language consequences)

            David Ferrier, ESB and beginnings of modern neurosurgery

            H. Cushing, F. Krause, Wilder Penfield & mapping brain functions

            J.H. Jackson, Arnold Pick, Henry Head and sentence-level analysis

            William Elder, Weisenburg & McBride & aphasia tests

 

 

 

Readings: (available at the Institute)

 

Arbib, M., Caplan, D. and Marshall, J. (1982) Neurolinguistics in

Historical Perspective in M. Arbib, D. Caplan, and J. Marshall (Eds.)

Neural Models of Language Processes. NY: Academic Press. pp. 5-24

 

Benton, A. (1988) Pitres and Amnesic Aphasia Aphasiology: Vol 2, No 3 and

4: 209-214

 

Bouton, C.P. (1991) Neurolinguistics: historical and theoretical perspectives. New York: Plenum. pp 1-154

 

Caplan, D. (1987) The discoveries of Paul Broca: localization of the faculty for

articulate language, and, Classical connectionist models. in  Neurolinguistics and Linguistic Aphasiology. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ Press. pp 43-64.

 

Cognitive Neuropsychology Volume 6 Number 6 (1989) papers on German

aphasiology, Grashey, Wernicke and Pick (DeBleser)

 

De Bleser, R. (1994) Kurt Goldstein (1878-1965) in Paul Eling (Ed.) Reader in the History of Aphasia: from Franz Gall to Norman Geschwind. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp 319-348.

 

Eling, P. (1994) Paul Broca (1824-1880) in Paul Eling (Ed.) Reader in the History of Aphasia: from Franz Gall to Norman Geschwind. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp 29-58

 

Finger, S. (1994) History of Neuropsychology in D. Zaidel (Ed.)

Neuropsychology. San Diego, Academic Press. pp 1-28

 

Friederici, A. (1994) Arnold Pick (1851-1924) in Paul Eling (Ed.) Reader in the History of Aphasia: from Franz Gall to Norman Geschwind. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp. 251-280.

 

Head, H. (1963/1926) From the Schoolmen to Gall and Bouillaud to Broca in

H. Head. Aphasia and Kindred Disorders of Speech, Volume 1. NY: Hafner.

pp.1-29

 

Heeschen, C. (1994) Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) in Paul Eling (Ed.) Reader in the History of Aphasia: from Franz Gall to Norman Geschwind. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp 1-28.

 

Hommes, O.R. (1994) Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) in Paul Eling (Ed.) Reader in the History of Aphasia: from Franz Gall to Norman Geschwind. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp. 169-196.

 

Hudson, P. (1994) Henry Head (1861-1940) in Paul Eling (Ed.) Reader in the History of Aphasia: from Franz Gall to Norman Geschwind. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp 281-318.

 

Jarema, G. and Lecours, A.R. (guest editors) (1993) Brain and Language,

Volume 45, Number 4. Dedicated to Jean Martin Charcot on the 100th

Anniversary of his Death.

 

Keyser, A. (1994) Carl Wernicke (1848-1905) in Paul Eling (Ed.) Reader in the History of Aphasia: from Franz Gall to Norman Geschwind. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp 59-98

 

Lebrun, Y. (1994) Pierre Marie (1853-1940) in Paul Eling (Ed.) Reader in the History of Aphasia: from Franz Gall to Norman Geschwind. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp 219-250.

 

Lecours, A.R., Nespoulous, J-L & Pioger, D. (1987) Jacques Lordat or the

Birth of Cognitive Neuropsychology in E. Keller & M. Gopnik (Eds.) Motor

and Sensory Processes of Language. Hillsdale: Erlbaum. pp. 1-16

 

Luzzatti, C & Whitaker, H.A. (1995/6) Johannes Schenck and Johannes Jakob Wepfer: Clinical and Anatomical Observations in the Prehistory of Neurolinguistics. Journal of Neurolinguistics  9: 157-164.

 

Luzzatti, C. and Whitaker, H.A. (2001) Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud, Claude-François Lallemand and the role of the frontal lobe: location and mislocation of language in the early 19th century. Archives of Neurology 58: 1157-1162

 

Marshall, J. (1994) Henry Charlton Bastian (1837-1915) in Paul Eling (Ed.) Reader in the History of Aphasia: from Franz Gall to Norman Geschwind. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp 99-132

 

Morton, John (1984) Brain-Based and Non-Brain-Based Models of Language. in

D. Caplan, A.R.Lecours & A. Smith. Biological Perspectives on Language.

Cambridge: MIT Press. 40-64.

 

Renier, W. (1994) Jules Dejerine (1849-1917) in Paul Eling (Ed.) Reader in the History of Aphasia: from Franz Gall to Norman Geschwind. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp. 197-218.

 

Schulte, B. (1994) John Hughlings Jackson (1835-1911) in Paul Eling (Ed.) Reader in the History of Aphasia: from Franz Gall to Norman Geschwind. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp 133-168.

 

Whitaker, H.A. & Etlinger, S.C.(1993) "Theodor Meynert's Contribution to Classical 19th Century Aphasia Studies" Brain and Language 45: 560-571.

 

Whitaker, H. (1988) William Elder (1864-1931): Diagram Maker and

Experimentalist in L.M.Hyman & C.N.Li (Eds.) Language, Speech and Mind.

Studies in Honor of Victoria A. Fromkin. London: Routledge. pp. 163-174

 

Whitaker, H., Stemmer, B. and Joanette, Y. (1996) A Psychosurgical Chapter

in the History of Cerebral Localisation: The Six Cases of Gottlieb

Burckhardt (1891) in. C. Code, C-W Wallesch, Y. Joanette & A.R.Lecours

(Eds) Classic Cases in Neuropsychology. East Sussex: Psychology Press. pp.

275-304

 

Whitaker, H. (1997) An Introduction to Premodern Agrammatism Research. in

H. Whitaker (Ed) Agrammatism. San Diego: Singular. pp 1-8.

 

Whitaker, H. (1998) History of Neurolinguistics in B. Stemmer & H. Whitaker

(Eds.) Handbook of Neurolinguistics. San Diego: Academic Press. pp. 27-54.

 

Whitaker, H. (1998) Electrical Stimulation Mapping of Language Cortex in B.

Stemmer & H. Whitaker (Eds.) Handbook of Neurolinguistics. San Diego:

Academic Press. pp. 126-131.

 

Whitaker, H.A. (1999) Paul Broca” MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences. Edited by R.A.Wilson & F.C.Keil. Boston: MIT Press. 97-98.

 

Whitaker, H.A. (2000) Pierre Flourens” Encyclopedia of Psychology. (Alan E. Kazdin, Editor-in-Chief ) Washington: American Psychological Association.

 

Whitaker, H.A. (2000) Phrenology” Encyclopedia of Psychology. (Alan E. Kazdin, Editor-in-Chief ) Washington: American Psychological Association.