Explorations in the Explorations in the Biology of Language / Biology of Language (Higher Mental Processes Series)

Sponsored by the Sloan Foundation, the book is the result of collaborative efforts by The MIT Work Group—distinguished scholar in biology, linguistics, psychology, physiology, and medicine.

Contents: Preface, Morris Halle and Salvador E. Luria; What Is the Biology of Language? Barbara Von Eckardt Klein; The Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Background, Noam Chomsky and Edward Walker; Inferring Functional Localization from Neurological Evidence, Barbara Von Eckardt Klein; The Linguistic Interpretation of Aphasic Syndromes, Mary-Louise Kean; Accessing the Mental Lexicon, Kenneth I. Forster; A Case Study: Face Recognition, Susan Carey; Current Studies of Animal Communications Paradigms for the Biology of Language, Edward Walker; Some Neurological Techniques for Accessing Localization of Function, David Rosenfield.\

"This book provides a well-argued response to well-entrenched prejudice: linguists, concerned with abstract notions of competence, have tended to ignore neurological data; and clinicians have shunned transformational and structural grammars as remote from the practical business of localization, taxonomy, and prognosis.... These 'explorations' should be welcomed as a rare and worthwhile contribution."
—F. Newcombe, Journal of the Neurological Sciences

"This book would be a valuable addition to the libraries of instructors of language behavior and disorders."
—G. Albyn Davis, ASHA Journal