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Production and reception of meaningful sound in Foville's 'encompassing convolution'
1University of California Medical School, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
|October 20, 2001
Abstract:
In the history of neurology. Achille Louis Foville (1799-1879) is a name deserving to be remembered. In the course of time, his circonvolution d'enceinte of 1844 (surrounding the Sylvian fissure) became the 'convolution encompassing' every aspect of aphasiology, including amusia, ie., the localization in a coherent semicircle of semicircle of cerebral cortext serving the production and perception of language, song and instrumental music in health and disease.