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Overview

Harry A. Whitaker is affiliated with Northern Michigan University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of neuroscience, with several contributions that intersect history, neurology, and cognitive neuroscience. Whitaker's recent work is published mainly in venues such as History of Psychology, Journal of the Neurological Sciences, and Journal of the History of the Neurosciences.

Whitaker's main topics of research encompass History of Medicine Studies, Neurology and Historical Studies, Medical and Biological Sciences, and the Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism. Additional topics explored include Medical History and Innovations, Reading and Literacy Development, and Hearing Impairment and Communication.

Among the notable recent papers are:

  • La Revanche de Gall., 2020, History of Psychology
  • On Italian and English sonnets., 2020, History of Psychology
  • A poem., 2022, History of Psychology

Whitaker has collaborated with frequent co-authors including Brent R. Carr, Claudio Luzzatti, Rami Hatem, Melanie Marcille, and Rhea N. Shah. These collaborations contribute to a multidisciplinary approach across neurology, history, and psychology.

Their work is situated within several subfields of study, notably History, Neurology, Anatomy, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Developmental and Educational Psychology. The broad and interdisciplinary nature of Whitaker's research addresses both historical and scientific dimensions of neuroscience and related disciplines.

Best Publications

  • Studies in neurolinguistics

    Haiganoosh Whitaker;Harry A. Whitaker

  • Language acquisition following hemidecortication: Linguistic superiority of the left over the right hemisphere

    Maureen Dennis;Harry A. Whitaker

  • The Bilingual Brain

    George A. Ojemann;Harry A. Whitaker

  • Language localization and variability

    George A. Ojemann;Harry A. Whitaker

  • Early effects of normal aging on perseverative and non‐perseverative prefrontal measures

    Sylvie Daigneault;Claude M. J. Braun;Harry A. Whitaker

  • Handbook of Neurolinguistics

    Brigitte Stemmer;Harry A. Whitaker

  • Language Production: Electroencephalographic Localization in the Normal Human Brain

    Dale W. McAdam;Harry A. Whitaker

  • Language function and dysfunction among Chinese- and English-speaking polyglots: Cortical stimulation, Wada Testing, and clinical studies

    R.L Rapport;C.T Tan;H.A Whitaker

  • Hemispheric Equipotentiality and Language Acquisition

    Maureen Dennis;Harry A. Whitaker

  • Verbal and cognitive sequelae following unilateral lesions acquired in early childhood.

    Dorothy M. Aram;Barbara L. Ekelman;Douglas F. Rose;Harry A. Whitaker

  • Handbook of the neuroscience of language

    Brigitte Stemmer;Harry A. Whitaker

  • LATERALIZATION OF HIGHER CORTICAL FUNCTIONS: A CRITIQUE

    Harry A. Whitaker;George A. Ojemann

  • Graded localisation of naming from electrical stimulation mapping of left cerebral cortex

    Harry A. Whitaker;George A. Ojemann

  • Dyslexia: A Global Issue

    R. N. Malatesha;Harry A. Whitaker

  • The ontogeny of hemispheric specialization: Some old hypotheses revisited

    Paul Satz;Esther Strauss;Harry Whitaker

  • Spoken syntax in children with acquired unilateral hemisphere lesions.

    Dorothy M. Aram;Barbara L. Ekelman;Harry A. Whitaker

  • Cognitive disturbances in Parkinson's disease.

    William W. Beatty;R. Dennis Staton;William S. Weir;Nancy Monson

  • Contemporary reviews in neuropsychology

    Harry A. Whitaker

  • Semantic confusions by aphasic patients.

    Carol Rinnert;Carol Rinnert;Harry A. Whitaker

  • Acquired capsular/striatal aphasia in childhood.

    Dorothy M. Aram;Douglas F. Rose;Harold L. Rekate;Harry A. Whitaker

  • Brain, mind, and medicine : essays in eighteenth-century neuroscience

    Harry A. Whitaker;Christopher Upham Murray Smith;Stanley Finger

  • Handbook of Neurolinguistics

    Paul A. Watters;Brigitte Stemmer;Harry A. Whitaker

Frequent Co-Authors

Stanley Finger
Stanley Finger Washington University in St. Louis
Claudio Luzzatti
Claudio Luzzatti University of Milano-Bicocca
Panagiotis G. Simos
Panagiotis G. Simos University of Crete
Alexander I. Tröster
Alexander I. Tröster Barrow Neurological Institute
Esther Strauss
Esther Strauss University of Victoria
Peter J. Snyder
Peter J. Snyder University of Rhode Island
Paul Satz
Paul Satz University of California, Los Angeles
William W. Beatty
William W. Beatty University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
David Caplan
David Caplan Harvard University

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