Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and
pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It …

Abstract The Arcuate Fasciculus (AF) is of considerable interdisciplinary interest, because of
its major implication in language processing. Theories about language brain evolution are …

A central property of human language is its hierarchical structure. Humans can flexibly
combine elements to build a hierarchical structure expressing rich semantics. A hierarchical …

This paper argues that the origins of language can be detected one million years ago, if not
earlier, in the archaeological record of Homo erectus. This controversial claim is based on a …

Studies in comparative neuroanatomy and of the fossil record demonstrate the influence of
socio-ecological niches on the morphology of the cerebral cortex, but have led to oftentimes …

Neuronal oscillations are suggested to play an important role in auditory working memory
(WM), but their contribution to content-specific representations has remained unclear. Here …

Accumulating evidence shows that auditory cortex (AC) of humans, and other primates, is
involved in more complex cognitive processes than feature segregation only, which are …

The brains and minds of our human ancestors remain inaccessible for experimental
exploration. Therefore, we reconstructed human cognitive evolution by projecting …

Music and language are universal human abilities with many apparent similarities relating to
their acoustics, structure, and frequent use in social situations. We might therefore expect …

Multimodal integration is crucial for human interaction, in particular for social
communication, which relies on integrating information from various sensory modalities …