The anatomy of language has been investigated with PET or fMRI for more than 20years.
Here I attempt to provide an overview of the brain areas associated with heard speech …

There is considerable behavioral evidence that morphologically complex words such as 'tax-
able'and 'kiss-es' are processed and represented combinatorially. In other words, they are …

Abstract Syntax, the structure of sentences, enables humans to express an infinite range of
meanings through finite means. The neurobiology of syntax has been intensely studied but …

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 …

Recent theories of morphological processing have been dominated by the notion that
morphologically complex words are decomposed into their constituents on the basis of their …

Parallel generational tasks for music and language were compared using positron emission
tomography. Amateur musicians vocally improvised melodic or linguistic phrases in …

Recent research has indicated that processing different kinds of action verbs, such as those
related to arm or leg movements (eg grab, kick), engages regions along the motor strip …

For the past 150 years, neurobiological models of language have debated the role of key
brain regions in language function. One consistently debated set of issues concern the role …

Current accounts of spoken language assume the existence of a lexicon where wordforms
are stored and interact during spoken language perception, understanding and production …

The role of morphological, semantic, and form-based factors in the early stages of visual
word recognition was investigated across different SOAs in a masked priming paradigm …