Reading a sentence entails integrating the meanings of individual words to infer more
complex, higher-order meaning. This highly rapid and complex human behavior is known to …

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 …

" Introduction There are numerous neurobiological models of language, ranging from those
concerned with speech perception, white matter structure, and the function of dorsal and …

Recent research has established that cortical activity “tracks” the presentation rate of
syntactic phrases in continuous speech, even though phrases are abstract units that do not …

The “core language network” consists of left frontal and temporal regions that are selectively
engaged in linguistic processing. Whereas functional differences among these regions have …

In recent years research on natural speech processing has benefited from recognizing that
low-frequency cortical activity tracks the amplitude envelope of natural speech. However, it …

As one of the most widely used languages in the world, Chinese language is distinct from
most western languages in many properties, thus providing a unique opportunity for …

Grammar is central to any natural language. In the past decades, the artificial grammar of the
AnBn type in which a pair of associated elements can be nested in the other pair was …

Chunking is a key mechanism for sequence processing. Studies on speech sequences have
suggested low-frequency cortical activity tracks spoken phrases, that is, chunks of words …

Speech mental imagery is a quasi-perceptual experience that occurs in the absence of real
speech stimulation. How imagined speech with higher-order structures such as words …