To the linguist, language is a formal system defined by rules that allow us to compile an
infinite number of messages from a finite system of symbolic elements. The study of …

A complete neurolinguistic model of language comprehension must include the
representational and processing components housed in both the left and right cerebral …

The chapter focuses on two well-studied examples of figurative language: jokes and
metaphors. We begin each section with a review of cognitive neuroscience research used to …

Accordingly, two topics become fundamental: first of all we must define the notion of
pragmatic meaning and its relation to the concepts, mental representations, and cognitive …

In the nervous system, the orbitofrontal cortex, the amygdala, and the body proper are
involved in personal and social decision making. Since normal conversational interaction …

Pragmatics is one of the most vibrant and rapidly growing fi elds in linguistics and the
philosophy of language. In recent years, it has also increasingly become a central topic in …

What research is conducted on language processing and how that research is conducted
are largely determined by researchers' assumptions about the functional organization of …

This volume brings together linguistic, psychological and neurological research in a
discussion of the Cognitive Dualism Hypothesis, whose central idea is that human cognitive …

Often the starting point of the study of the biological bases of language is the question: How
is language represented in the brain? This question might suggest that linguistic meaning is …

As we start a new century, rich and diverse evidence from the social and cognitive sciences
continues to provide an ever sharper conception of the way we humans think. It is now …