Thought Without Language (Fyssen Foundation symposium series)

Does abstract reasoning depend on language, or can thought exist without language? This volume addresses this crucial question in a new way, bringing together experts on non-verbal thinking in adults, pre-linguistic infants, and animals. Topics covered include the role of the 'non-verbal' right-cerebral hemisphere in humans; the investigation of non-verbal aspects of various categories of cognition (such as abstract reasoning, spatial awareness, and pattern recognitions); evidence for cognition without conscious awareness; and neurological and developmental evidence. The concluding chapter is a personal account by a gifted, dyslexic mathematician of the nature of his handicap and the non-verbal reasoning that he has developed to cope with his disability. Psychologists, neuroscientists and neurologists will find these insights fascinating.Weiskrantz, Lawrence is the author of 'Thought Without Language (Fyssen Foundation symposium series)', published 1988 under ISBN 9780198521808 and ISBN 0198521804.