… language of thought hypothesis, according to which our minds employ an amodal, language-like
… processes in the brain and consider this work's relation to the language of thought. We …

… most powerful teaching tool: language.Throughout this book, author Peter Johnston provides
examples of seemingly ordinary words, phrases, and uses of language that are pivotal in …

… neural model of language should be formed, including brain language mappings that reflect
… language and the role of nonlinguistic skills [32]. Of course, by establishing the brain areas …

… If we are to understand brains as the dynamic biological systems they are, theory firmly …
words, even for the most well studied species, we know embarrassingly little about how brains …

… This review paper summarizes the various brain modules that are involved in speech and
language communication in addition to a left-dominant “core” language network that, for the …

… These stored patterns and words, referred to by scientists as lexical representations, we
refer to here as brain words. As we will explain throughout this book, brain words are key to …

… concepts, and (ii) language as a set of cues to … the words-as-mappings view, and argue in
favour of the words-as-cues alternative. We then review some surprising ways that language …

… This acquisition modality, along with the more marked role of inner experience with abstract
concepts, has an influence also on their brain representation. Here I propose that language …

… words, it is particularly pronounced for abstract words. Furthermore, words are tools that shape
the state of our own brains/… Hence, words are tools to perform action modifying the state of …

… Language is a highly important yet poorly understood function of the human brain. While
studies of brain activation patterns during language comprehension are abundant, what is often …