Theories of human cognition prominently feature'Broca's area', which causally contributes to
a myriad of mental functions. However, Broca's area is not a monolithic, multipurpose unit–it …

The frontal lobes in the brain are a component of the cerebral system that supports goal-
directed behaviour. However, their functional organization remains controversial. Recent …

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 …

Stories are used extensively for human communication; both the comprehension and
production of oral and written narratives constitute a fundamental part of our experience …

The work of Paul Broca has been of pivotal importance in the localization of some higher
cognitive brain functions. He first reported that lesions to the caudal part of the inferior frontal …

This important resource presents the latest information on brain-behavior relationships and
describes ways school practitioners can apply neuropsychological principles in their work …

Many paradigms employed so far with functional imaging in language studies do not allow a
clear differentiation of the semantic, morphological, and syntactic components, as …

Broca's area has been considered, for over a century, as the brain centre responsible for
speech production. Modern neuroimaging and neuropsychological evidence have …

Abstract Language comprehension in everyday life requires the continuous integration of
prior discourse context and general world knowledge with the current utterance or sentence …

It is a near truism of philosophy of language that sentences are prior to words. Sentences, it
is said, are what we believe, assert, and argue for; uses of them constitute our evidence in …