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For more than a century, the cerebral cortex has been thought of as the site of memory, language and other cognitive activities. However, more recent studies on brain-damaged patients have revealed that subcortical structures are also involved in these activities. This book reviews the research that has led to this conclusion, and explores the nature of the complex neural circuits that mediate higher cognitive function. Part I: General Introduction: S.F. Cappa & G. Vallar: Neuropsychological disorders after subcortical lesions: implications for the neural models of language and spatial attention; I. Divac & R.G.E. Oberg: Subcortical mechanisms in cognition; E.T. Rolls & S. Johnstone: Neurophysiological analysis of striatal function; R.K. Deuel & T.W. Anderson: procedural and symbolic learning after large unilateral thalamic lesions in monkeys; Part II: Subcortical Lesions, Memory and Amnesia: D.Y. von Cramon: Focal cerebral lesions damaging (subcortical) fibre projections related to memory and learning functions in man; N.R. Graff-Radford, D. Tranel, G.W. Van Hoesen & J.P. Brandt: Diencephalic amnesia; D. Perani, L.D. Kartsounis & A. Costello: Korsakoff’s psychosis: a neuropsychological and positron-emission tomography study of two cases; Part III: Cognitive Function in Extrapyramidal Disease: C. Lee & R. Brown: Use of advance information in Parkinson’s disease; J.A. Saint-Cyr, A.E. Taylor, L.L. Trpanier & A.E. Lang: The caudate nucleus: head ganglion of the habit system; C.-W. Wallesch, H.O. Karnath & P. Zimmermann: Is there a frontal lobe dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease? A comparison of the effects of Parkinson’s disease and circumscribed frontal lobe lesions in a maze-learning task; E.J. Metter: Brain glucose metabolism in subcortical dementias; Part IV: Aphasia, Apraxia, Neglect, and Subcortical Lesions: B. Crosson: Is the striatum invoved in language?; M.A. Naeser: Relationship between lesion in deep, subcortical white matter areas on chronic CT scans and recovery of speech and comprehension in chronic aphasia; L.A. Vignolo, M.E. Macario & S.F. Cappa: Clinical-CT scan correlations in a prospective series of patients with acute left-hemispheric subcortical stroke; A. Kertesz: Subcortical agraphia; S. Della Sala, A. Basso, M. Laicona & C. Papagno: Subcortical localization of ideomotor apraxia: a review and an experimental study; I.P. Martins & J.M. Ferro: Acquired subcortical lesions in children; J.-F. Dmonet, P. Celsis, M. Puel, D. Cardebat, J.P. Marc-Vergnes & A. Rascol: Thalamic and non-thalamic subcortical aphasia: a neurolinguistic and SPECT approach; M. Puel, F.-F. Dmonet, D. Cardebat, I. Berry, P. Celsis, J.P. Marc-Vergnes & A. Rascol: Three topographical types of thalamic aphasia: a neurolinguistic, NMR, and SPECT study; J. Ferro, G. Cantinho, A. Levy & F. Godinho: Subcortical neglect: is cortical diaschisis relevant?; J.C. Baron, M. Levasseur, B. Mazoyer, F. Legault-Demare, F. Mauguiere, S. Pappata, P. Jedynak, P. Derome, J. Cambier, S. Tran-Dinh & H. Cambon: Cortical hypometabolism and neuropsychological impairment in unilateral thalamic lesions; M.P. Alexander: Speech and language deficits after subcortical lesions of the left hemisphere: a clinical, CT, and PET study; E.J. Metter: Role of subcortical structures in aphasia: evidence from studies of resting cerebral glucose metabolism.
