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Lesion Momentum and Behavior

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Recovery from Brain Damage

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In 1836 Marc Dax wrote a short manuscript in which he specifically associated aphasia with lesions of the left cerebral hemisphere. His paper was intended for presentation at a regional medical congress at Montpellier (Joynt and Benton, 1964). There is no evidence, however, that Dax actually attended the conference (Broca himself made personal inquiries), and it was not until 1865 that the manuscript was published by his son, Gustav Dax, also a physician. By this time Marc Dax had been dead for 28 years and Broca’s key papers (1861, 1863, 1865) already had been published.

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Finger, S. (1978). Lesion Momentum and Behavior. In: Finger, S. (eds) Recovery from Brain Damage. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7723-2_7

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