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DISCUSSION AT THE CONGRESS OF PHILOSOPHY AT OXFORD. SEVERAL subjects of direct scientific interest were discussed at the Congress of Philosophy held at Oxford on September 24–27. One of the greatest importance, because based on recent clinical and experimental research, was the discussion introduced by Dr. Henry Head in a paper entitled “Disorders of Symbolic Thinking due to Local Lesions of the Brain.” It raised the whole problem of the relation of language to thought while concentrating attention on the significance of certain definite observations—cases of young men who had received cerebral injuries in the war—in which the injury to the brain had affected the power of articulation.
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Disorders of Symbolic Thinking. Nature 106, 197–198 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106197a0
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