Papers by Hugh Buckingham
The Training of Archdeacons
Ecclesiastical Law Journal, Jul 1, 1997
A few months ago there was a national conference for all the archdeacons of the Church of England... more A few months ago there was a national conference for all the archdeacons of the Church of England. We number just over a hundred and of these eighty were present. On the following weekend The Church Times had a cartoon on its front page showing two anxious clergy, one saying to the other, ‘What bothers me is what the other twenty-two were doing!’ Such is the reputation of archdeacons, who bear something of the character of that God whom the small boy once famously described as the Person who goes around seeing what you are up to and then telling you to stop.
On linguistic perseveration
Studies in neurolinguistics, 1979
The Marc Dax (1770-1837)/Paul Broca (1824-1880) controversy over priority in science: Left hemisphere specificity for seat of articulate language and for lesions that …
Clinical linguistics & phonetics, 2006
One of the most fascinating and frustrating issues in the priority of discovery in science is ove... more One of the most fascinating and frustrating issues in the priority of discovery in science is over just who, for the first time, went on record in the public forum, either orally at a conference or through a published communication, proclaiming that the faculty of articulate human speech was located in the left, not the right, cortical hemisphere. The disputed paper was purportedly written in 1836 by Marc Dax, who died subsequently in 1837. He was a physician in southern France in the city of Montpellier--far from the medical center of Paris. Little note was made of the presumed paper until the early and mid-1860s, when the issue of language localization in the human brain took on increased activity, as the clinico-pathological method of explanation continued to flourish in the "Art of Physick." Marc Dax's son, Gustave, happened to be studying medicine in Paris in the 1860s, and, as most of the neuroscientific and anthropological researchers, came to know of Broca's published work, which in 1861, agreed with phrenological theory that this faculty was, indeed, in the anterior lobes, but further claimed, de novo, that the region in the anterior lobe was more precisely focused at the foot of the 3rd frontal convolution in that lobe, still assuming with phrenological theory and the "Law of Symmetry" that the faculty was bilaterally located. It was not until 1865 that Broca clearly, non-hesitatingly, and unambiguously claimed that the faculty was in the left hemisphere. As it turned out, Gustave, six weeks before Broca's paper appeared, had published the paper he said his father had written in 1836. In 1863, in fact, Gustave had submitted his (Gustave's) long monograph on aphemia, integrating what he claimed to be his father's 1836 pronouncement along with his own data. He sent this communication to the French Academy of Sciences and to the French Academy of Medicine; he heard nothing back from either academy. After waiting two years, he managed to publish his material. Gustave's valiant move to promote his…
The Training of Archdeacons
Ecclesiastical Law Journal, 1997
A few months ago there was a national conference for all the archdeacons of the Church of England... more A few months ago there was a national conference for all the archdeacons of the Church of England. We number just over a hundred and of these eighty were present. On the following weekend The Church Times had a cartoon on its front page showing two anxious clergy, one saying to the other, ‘What bothers me is what the other twenty-two were doing!’ Such is the reputation of archdeacons, who bear something of the character of that God whom the small boy once famously described as the Person who goes around seeing what you are up to and then telling you to stop.
Neurognostics Question 5
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, Aug 8, 2010
Acta Neuropsychologica
Anomia remains one of the most recalcitrant linguistic disruptions in aphasia to treat. Developin... more Anomia remains one of the most recalcitrant linguistic disruptions in aphasia to treat. Developing successful interventions to address the word-finding deficits are complicated by the post-stroke symptom variability and inconsistent recovery patterns associated with anomia. Most of the current treatment methods, with a focus on specific compensating techniques and the repetitive practice of a limited set of items, have had variable success in naming treatment. However, it has not been possible to predict the gains in generalizing the learning beyond the stimuli used in practice or the controlled clinical setting. In this preliminary case study, we explore the value of a novel treatment concept, grounded in centuries of cognitive-perceptual exercises in mindfulness training. It incorporates the practice of mental imagery and focused attention to remedy the broken phonological assembly patterns found in word finding deficits. The aim of this study was to evaluate the potential effecti...
A neural model for language and speech
Journal of Phonetics
Linguistic Structures in Stereotyped Aphasic Speech
Linguistics, 1975
The breakdown in the communicative value of his speech is to a large extent due to a severe disto... more The breakdown in the communicative value of his speech is to a large extent due to a severe distortion of substantives and to a lesser extent due to syntactic irregularities. Examples of clearly demarcated disruptions of content words, primarily nouns and/or noun phrases, are given in (1).
Introductory essay: Perseveration happens!
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ABSTRACT Patients with recurrent perseveration as part of a fluent left temporal lobe aphasia oft... more ABSTRACT Patients with recurrent perseveration as part of a fluent left temporal lobe aphasia often consciously intend to produce a requested target on confrontation testing in the clinic. However, suddenly and quite unexpectedly, they will have a perseveration happen to them. Being focused on the task at hand, and having no discernable attention deficit, the modular and automatic utterance of a whole‐word perseverate will startle patients, leaving them puzzled and at a loss to explain such a blunder. In this paper the claim is made that, in a sense, these patients have found themselves at the nexus of the conscious and the unconscious. This phenomenon is discussed based on data from a longitudinal study of a patient who has classical conduction aphasia with severe word‐finding deficits, but intact comprehension and attention. He perseverates only in the response modes that have been compromised by his brain damage.
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Introduction The book under review is a distinguished Speech-Language Pathologist's the caring, w... more Introduction The book under review is a distinguished Speech-Language Pathologist's the caring, wry and bemused survey by a distinguished speech and language pathologist of all that surroundsconcerns Pierre Paul Broca and how Broca'shis descriptions and theories of language and articulate speech, and particularly of how they are localized, and therefore represented, in the human brain. Leonard L. "Chick" LaPointe (hereinafterhereafter L) has writtenprepared a very good summaryoverview of the neuroscientific and socio-political surrounds forenvironments of Broca's contributions, largely throughparticularly the period to 1861, rememberingwhereby it should be remembered that in 1861 the day of cerebral dominance had not yet "officially dawned" (Schiller, 1979, p. 187). The papers of Broca that most interest L are the three published in that year, which have been translated into English by our colleague, Christopher Green (2000). The first two of these papers are short ones, three and seven pages respectively, while the last and by far the most impressive and detailed comprised twenty-seven pages and appeared later in that year. The translation of this last paper has been fully reprinted as Appendix A, and in fact, its importance is in fact witnessed by theits partial duplication of itin chapter 10 (pp 226-234) in L's book, as a part of Chapter 10,), which deals specifically with Leborgne and Lelong. Presumably,; this is presumably to reduce the need for a less effortful page-turning (backthe reader to refer to Appendix A) by the reader.). It is in this chapter wherethat one of L's principal purposes offor writing his book became clear to me.: He wants to document beyond any reasonable doubt the intriguing similarities in the assessments of Broca's "aphemia" concept offered by Fredrick Darley in two groundbreaking conference presentations at back-to-backsuccessive annual conventions of the American Speech and Hearing Association (1968, 1969), and in an earlierhis 1965 Princeton University NIH convention presentation in 1965, later (published as Darley (, 1967). Actually, it appears, somewhat). Somewhat sadly and astonishingly, it seems that, although both Darley and Geschwind were both present at the Princeton meeting and had their papers printed in Millikan and Darley (1967), neither addressed eachthe other directly. Comment [PF1]: This is unclear to me: why are similarities in three papers by the same author 'intriguing'? Comment [PF2]: For a non-linguist this is also confusing: although I know (vaguely) ho Geschwind was , I am not sre of why it is sad that he and Darley did not discuss their respective work with each other. details of Descartes's sleeping habits, of leeches, of trepanations, of guillotines and of other bizarre but human moments in the history of medicine. L's expressed love of painting, photography, and the literary arts, as influenced by his colleague at Florida State University, Robert Olen Butler, are apparentevident throughout the book. I especially enjoyed L'sthe analogies he drew between this history of artistic painting and photography with howthe manner in which artists, photographers, and imagers have played important roles in the history of science-in our case, , including that of the neurosciences. L is perfectly aware of French impressionism with its blurrinessblurredness and fuzziness, which, I, for one, saw in the early radio-isotopic and computerized tomography brain scans. Recall; the side by sidereader is reminded of the collaborative autopsies ofby anatomists and artists through the visual history of the neurosciences from Vesalius and Paracelsus on (Finger, 2000, Chapter 5). We have turned to a more modernadvanced and clearly imagedhigher resolution art and imagery, aided by computers, physics, neurochemistry, and neuropharmacology, that craftinform, for example, the wonderful pictures ofbrilliantly detailed volumetric magnetic resonance images of the brain in brilliant detail to, as well as Comment [PF19]: Is this surgery? 9 other fMRI's and now especially throughforms of fMRI, particularly diffusion tensor imaging (DFI).. L is sufficiently informed enough to demonstrate how these newer techniques can inform and extend our knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of white fiber connection systems in neuroscientific modeling, not to mention the tracking of post-stroke recovery and reorganization of language post stroke (Kiran, 2012) NotI don't wish to endfinish on a negative note, but, unfortunately, the reader will unfortunately have to grin at and bear the numerous bibliographical and indexing infelicities of this 1 st first edition of L's book, jar andthat frustrate the bibliophiles among us; I await a much improved and more carefully edited 2 nd edition-an edition that will surely be, more reader-friendly. second edition. Plural pressPress must clean upimprove its actcopy-reading processes, both for the readers' sake as well as for L's. HeL: he has toiled far too hard to house his research in such editing disarray.
Brain Lang, 1981
Norman Geschwind, in his Foreword to Aphasia and Associated Disorders (henceforth, AAD) writes th... more Norman Geschwind, in his Foreword to Aphasia and Associated Disorders (henceforth, AAD) writes that Andrew Kertesz (henceforth, K) "is an old and close associate" and that he was "one of the early fellows to serve on the Aphasia Ward of the Boston Veterans Administration Hospital" while Geschwind was working there. As with many other neurology fellows from the Boston V.A., K has been influenced by Geschwind's views of language and the brain (Geschwind, 1974; Buckingham, 1978). Geschwind's theory is also very apparent in the work of other ex-Boston V.A. fellows such as Heilman (1979), Rubens (1976), and Strub (1974). For the past decade or so, since his return to Canada from Boston, K has been working, teaching, and carrying out research at St. Joseph's Hospital and at The University of Western Ontario, both in London, Ontario. The medical world in London is an active one; there are three very large hospitals in addition to the teaching hospital at the University. K is based at St. Joseph's, where for many years he has been Head of the Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences. Aside from maintaining an active neurology practice, he has carried on an active program of research, together with psychometricians, psychologists, linguists, statisticians, and other staff at St. Joseph's. The research has centered on: (I) localization of lesions in aphasia, (2) aphasic patient classification and taxonomy, and (3) recovery patterns in aphasia. Many of these studies have appeared in published form; a large part of AAD is based on the findings from these studies, and as such it serves as an excellent source for much of K's contribution to the field. It is likely that many of the readers of Bruin and Language are already familiar with certain of the key articles which K has published to date concerning the
The phenomenon of phonemic false evaluation has been appreciated since the latter part of the 19t... more The phenomenon of phonemic false evaluation has been appreciated since the latter part of the 19th century, when it was first observed that hearers quite often assign speech sounds produced by speakers to phonemic units different from the ones intended by speakers. This speaker-hearer mismatch had occasioned serious problems for the first linguistic analyses of American Indian languages. Early in the 20th century, N. Trubetzkoy coined the term 'phonemic false evaluation', and elaborated upon it in his characterizations and comparisons of the phonological systems of a vast array of languages of the world. The present paper is an attempt to show that phonemic false evaluation can represent a stumbling block in the analysis of aphasia, since as we demonstrate, many subphonemic articulatory aberrations produced by aphasic speakers are perceived by hearers as higher level phonemic substitutions-substitutions quite often never intended by the aphasic. The theoretical and diagnostic consequences of phonemic false evaluation are subsequently considered for the description, analysis and evaluation of aphasia. clinician. In laboratory work, this phenomenon is typically discussed in terms of Clin Linguist Phon Downloaded from informahealthcare.com by Wissenschaftliche Bibliothek des Klinikums Grosshadern on 12/20/10
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