If the cortex is an associative memory, strongly connected cell assemblies will form when
neurons in different cortical areas are frequently active at the same time. The cortical …

A model for the organization of language in the adult humans brain is derived from electrical
stimulation mapping of several language-related functions: naming, reading, short-term …

The concepts of the innateness, universality, species-specificity, and autonomy of the human
language capacity have had an extreme impact on the psycholinguistic debate for over thirty …

A new view of the functional role of the left anterior cortex in language use is proposed. The
experimental record indicates that most human linguistic abilities are not localized in this …

Following much work in linguistic theory, it is hypothesized that the language faculty has a
modular structure and consists of two basic components, a lexicon of (structured) entries and …

This target article presents a plausible evolutionary scenario for the emergence of the neural
preconditions for language in the hominid lineage. In pleistocene primate lineages there …

In the past 30 years there has been a growing body of research using different methods
(behavioural, electrophysiological, neuropsychological, TMS and imaging studies) asking …

This paper explores a variety of different versions of the thesis that natural language is
involved in human thinking. It distinguishes amongst strong and weak forms of this thesis …

Normal children learn tens of thousands of words, and do so quickly and efficiently, often in
highly impoverished environments. In How Children Learn the Meanings of Words, I argue …

One of the most popular and influential theories of word processing, dual-route theory,
proposes that there are two functionally independent means of processing words, one …