Language functions : syntax and semantics / Rita Sloan Berndt, Alfonso Caramazza, and Edgar Zurif -- Hemisphere processing of phonological information / Victoria J. Molfese, Dennis L. Molfese, and Carl Parsons -- Pragmatic aspects of communication in brain-damaged patients / Nancy S. Foldi, Michael Cicone, and Howard Gardner -- The right hemisphere's contribution to language : a review of the evidence from brain-damaged subjects / Janice M. Millar and Harry A. Whitaker -- Bumps on the brain : right-left asymmetry as a key to functional lateralization / Sandra F. Witelson -- Motor and perceptual functions of the left hemisphere and their interaction / Catherine A. Mateer -- Thalamic mechanisms in language and memory / Catherine A. Mateer and George A. Ojemann -- The placement of experience in the brain / Robert M. Anderson, Jr. and Demetria C.Q. Leong -- Cerebral asymmetries for speech in infancy / Sidney J. Segalowitz -- Hemispheric specialization and integration in child development / Jaan Valsiner -- Relationships among brain organization, maturation rate, and the development of verbal and nonverbal ability / C. Netley and Joanne Rovet -- Language and brain dysfunction in dementia / Loraine K. Obler -- Cerebral specialization in deaf individuals / Phyllis Ross -- Bilingualism and brain lateralization / Jyotsna Vaid -- Individual differences in hemispheric representation of language / Sidney J. Segalowitz and M.P. Bryden.