The Neurocognition of Language - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 019852448X ISBN 13: 9780198524489

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1999

Synopsis

The Neurocognition of Language is the first critical overview of the cognitive neuroscience of language, one of the fastest-moving and most exciting areas in language research today. And it is a necessity for anyone requiring a summary of our current understanding of the relation between language and the brain. It brings together human language experts who discuss the representations and structures of language as well as the cognitive architectures that underlie speaking, listening, and reading. In addition to valuable reviews of existing brain imaging literature on word and sentence processing and contributions from brain lesion data, this book provides a basis for future brain imaging research. It even explains the prospects and problems of brain imaging techniques for the study of language, presents some of the most recent and promising analytic procedures for relating brain imaging data to the higher cognitive functions, and contains a review of the neuroanatomical structure of Broca's language area. Uniquely interdisciplinary, this book offers researchers and students in cognitive neuroscience with state-of-the-art reviews of the major language functions, while being of equal interest to researchers in linguistics and language who want to learn about language's neural bases.

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About the Author

Colin M. Brown and Peter Hagoort, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Wundtlaan 1, NL-6525 XD Nijmegen, The Netherlands Tel: 31-24-352-1911 Fax: 31-24-352-1213 colin@mpi.nl peha@mpi.nl

Review

"This book is a comprehensive review of language theory, nicely integrated wtih evidence of subvervient neural architecture gleaned from neuroimaging. It is a valuable resource for someone seeking an integrated overview of neurocognitive theories of language." --Brown

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019852448X
• ISBN 13: 9780198524489
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 409
• Editor: Brown Colin M., Hagoort Peter