Foreword -- Preface -- Part I: Sensorimotor and visuo-spatial functions -- 1. Motor control -- 2. Vision -- 3. FEF -- 4. Spatial cognition -- Part II: Language functions -- 5. Lexical access -- 6. Spontaneous speech -- 7. Reading -- 8. Writing -- 9. Repeating -- 10. Syntactic abilities -- 11. Verbs versus nouns naming -- 12. Verbal short-term memory -- 13. Proper names retrieval -- 14. Bilingual patients -- Part III: Higher-order functions -- 15. From verbal to non-verbal semantics -- 16. Inhibition -- 17. Set-shifting -- 18. Social cognition -- 19. Multitask mapping -- Part IV: Prospects -- 20. Creativity -- 21. Psychiatric and behavorial traits -- 22. Awake surgery in patients with poor abilities of verbal communication -- 23. Can we map inner speech? -- 24. Beyond tasks: when experience shapes intuition.

This book aims to give the state-of-the-art of intraoperative brain function mapping for resection of brain tumors in awake conditions, and to become a reference for acquiring the fundamental expertise necessary to select the right intraoperative task at the right time of the surgery. The chapters, all focused on a specific brain function, are divided in 4 parts: sensori-motor and visuo-spatial functions, language functions, higher-order functions, and prospects. Each chapter follows the same outline, including a brief review of the current knowledge about the networks sustaining the function in healthy subjects, the description of the intraoperative tasks designed to monitor the function, a review of the literature describing the deficits in that function after surgery, and a critical appraisal of the benefit provided by intraoperative mapping of that function.