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Learning processes and recovery of higher functions after brain damage

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All brain damage, whatever its nature (usually vascular or traumatic), gives rise to serious deficiencies that are often interconnected. Some may be described as elementary to the extent that they result from changes to the sensorimotor cortex or primary sensorial cortex (rolandic areas, visual cortex, or primary auditive areas), or nervous pathways originating from them or projecting out of them. Others concern the so-called higher functions based on the multimodal association cortex, of which, it should be remembered, the surface is phylogenetically most developed in the human species; the association cortex conforms to the now largely relativized principle of functional asymmetry of the hemispheres.

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Barat, M., Mazaux, JM., Joseph, PA., Dehail, P. (2010). Learning processes and recovery of higher functions after brain damage. In: Rethinking physical and rehabilitation medicine. Collection de L’Académie Européenne de Médecine de Réadaptation. Springer, Paris. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-2-8178-0034-9_8

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