The Biological Foundations of Gesture: Motor and Semiotic Aspects

Contents
In Memoriam (Paul Ivan Yakovlev) • André Roch Lecours
Introduction • Jean-Luc Nespoulous, Paul Perron and André Roch Lecours
PART I: THE NATURE AND FUNCTION OF GESTURES
	1. Current Issues in the Study of Gesture • Adam Kendon
	2. Gestures: Nature and Function • Jean-Luc Nespoulous and Andre Roch Lecours
PART II: THE NEUROLOGICAL SUBSTRATUM OF GESTURES AND MOTOR ACTIVITY
	3. Brain Organization Underlying Orientation and Gestures: Normal and Pathological Cases • Marcel Kinsbourne
	4. Lateral Differences in Gesture Production • Pierre Feyereisen
	5. From Movement to Gesture: "Here" and "There" as Determinants of Visually Guided Pointing • Michèle Brouchon, Yves Joanette and Madeleine Samson
	6. IPSI-Lateral Motor Control Study in a Total Callosal Disconnection Syndrome with Lateral Homonymous Hemianopia • Michel Poncet, Daniel Beaubaton and André AIi-Chérif
	7. The Eye in the Control of Attention • Michael Mair
PART III: DEVELOPMENTAL THEORIES OF GESTURE
	8. Form, Significance and Psychological Potential of Hand Gestures of Infants • Colwyn Trevarthen
	9. Some Implications of Lateralization for Developmental Psychology • Sidney J. Segalowitz
	10. The Impact of Visual-Spatial Information on the Development of Reading Proficiency in Deaf Children • Cheryl Gibson and Sidney J. Segalowitz
PART IV: THE PATHOLOGICAL MANIFESTATIONS OF GESTURAL BEHAVIOR
	11. Standard Teaching on Apraxia • André Roch Lecours, Jean-Luc Nespoulous and Pierre Desaulniers
	12. New Perspectives on Apraxia and Related Action Disorders • Eric A. Roy
	13. Central Communication Disorders in Deaf Signers • Yvan Lebrun and Chantal Leleux
	14. Deficits in Facial Expression and Movementas a Function of Brain Damage • Joan C. Borod, Elissa Koff, Marjorie Perlman Lorch and Marjorie Nicholas
	15. Shrugging Shoulders, Frowning Eye-Brows, Smiling Agreement: Mimic and Gesture Communication in the Aphasic Experience • Dominique Labourel
Author Index
Subject Index