For a long time the cortical systems for language and actions were believed to be
independent modules. However, as these systems are reciprocally connected with each …

In the past 30 years there has been a growing body of research using different methods
(behavioural, electrophysiological, neuropsychological, TMS and imaging studies) asking …

This bold and brilliant book asks the ultimate question of the life sciences: How did the
human mind acquire its incomparable power? In seeking the answer, Merlin Donald traces …

As a cognitive neuropsychologist, Tim Shallice considers the general question of what can
be learned about the operation of the normal cognitive system from the study of the cognitive …

The patterns of semantic errors in speaking and writing are used to constrain claims about
the structure of lexical access mechanisms in speech and written language production. It is …

Syntactic structures are complex objects, whose subtle properties have been highlighted
and elucidated by half a century of formal syntactic studies, building on a much older …

If the cortex is an associative memory, strongly connected cell assemblies will form when
neurons in different cortical areas are frequently active at the same time. The cortical …

This book presents a unique synthesis of the current neuroscience of cognition by one of the
world's authorities in the field. The guiding principle to this synthesis is the tenet that the …

In a task designed to elicit the production of verbs, the patients known as AN-1033 and
Boswell consistently produced the correct target words, performing no differently from …

In this study we investigated the category specificity of the comprehension impairments of
YOT, a patient with a severe global dysphasia. Using matching to sample techniques it was …