Languages tend to encode events from the perspective of agents, placing them first and in
simpler forms than patients. This agent bias is mirrored by cognition: Agents are more …

The questions posed have many aspects. I would like to begin with some general remarks
on the nature of the inquiry, and then turn to the kinds of problems that arise and what might …

We make the case for developing a Computational Comparative Neuroprimatology to inform
the analysis of the function and evolution of the human brain. First, we update the mirror …

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 …

The language comprehension system preferentially assumes that agents come first during
incremental processing. While this might reflect a biologically fixed bias, shared with other …

Do principles of language processing in the brain affect the way grammar evolves over time
or is language change just a matter of socio-historical contingency? While the balance of …

Agents consistently appear prior to Patients in sentences, manual signs, and drawings, and
Agents are responded to faster when presented in visual depictions of events. We …

A survey of reports of sign order from 42 sign languages leads to a handful of
generalizations. Two accounts emerge, one amodal and the other modal. We argue that …

TEST is a novel taxonomy of knowledge representations based on three distinct
hierarchically organized representational features: Tropism, Embodiment, and Situatedness …

Although recent research on the neural substrates of word classes has generated some
valuable findings, significant progress has been hindered by insufficient attention to …