HISTNEUR-L: The History of Neuroscience Internet Forum

Re: wernicke

• Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 08:40:34 +0100
• To: histneur-l@library.ucla.edu
• From: Paul Eling <eling@NICI.KUN.NL>
• Subject: Re: wernicke
• Message-ID: 1.5.4.32.19980128074034.006c8c20@kunps1.psych.kun.nl

hi hugh

nice to hear from you. i think your argument about the letters on the
diagrams makes sense. and it may also well be that the localization issue
did impress the rest of the world more than the laterality issue. apparently
broca took france in that aspect at a weak moment, when they were accepting
the loc. issue.


however. in my paper on meynert and wernicke i will argue that whit was
probably not correct and that meynert was talking about the role of the
auditory images during speech production!! (the little he had to say about
language at all)

well, i suppose it is too late now to wish you good luck with the history
lecture, but i am sure that you kept them busy and amused them for some time.

tell your students that it was my intention to produce a book that was so
cheap that they could buy it. it was explicitly meant for students and not
libraries. i don't earn a cent from that book.

cheers
paul