Introduction The emergence of advanced in vivo neuroimaging methods has redefined the
understanding of brain function with a shift from traditional localizationist models to more …

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 …

Reflecting recent changes in the way cognition and the brain are studied, this thoroughly
updated fourth edition of this bestselling textbook provides a comprehensive and student …

Spelling a word involves the retrieval of information about the word's letters and their order
from long-term memory as well as the maintenance and processing of this information by …

There is strong scientific consensus that emphasizing print-to-sound relationships is critical
when learning to read alphabetic languages. Nevertheless, reading instruction varies across …

Research on cross-linguistic comparisons of the neural correlates of reading has
consistently found that the left middle frontal gyrus (MFG) is more involved in Chinese than …

ABSTRACT The “many-to-many” hypothesis proposes that visual object processing is
supported by distributed circuits that overlap for different object categories. For faces and …

It has long been suggested that face recognition relies on specialized mechanisms that are
not involved in visual recognition of other object categories, including those that require …

In setting out to explore the neural substrates of spelling and writing, a useful theoretical
point of departure is to consider the development of written language from an evolutionary …

Visual word recognition, at a minimum, involves the processing of word form and lexical
information. Opinions diverge on the spatiotemporal distribution of and interaction between …