Action and perception are functionally linked in the brain, but a hotly debated question is
whether perception and comprehension of stimuli depend on motor circuits. Brain language …

Music perception involves acoustic analysis, auditory memory, auditory scene analysis,
processing of interval relations, of musical syntax and semantics, and activation of (pre) …

INTRODUCTION Tool use is a hallmark of human evolution. Beyond its sensorimotor
components, the complexity of which has been extensively investigated, tool use affects …

Over the last decade, many neuroimaging studies have assessed the human brain networks
underlying action observation and imitation using a variety of tasks and paradigms …

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 …

Long-standing speculations and more recent hypotheses propose a variety of possible
evolutionary connections between language, gesture and tool use. These arguments have …

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 …

How do our brains enable us to tell and follow stories? And how do stories affect our minds?
In Stories and the Brain, Paul B. Armstrong analyzes the cognitive processes involved in …

There is a considerable contrast between the various functions assigned to Broca's region
and its relatively simple subdivision into two cytoarchitectonic areas (44 and 45). Since the …

Apraxia is a symptom of cerebral lesions that has puzzled clinicians and researchers for
some 100 years. It has engendered many fascinating descriptions and a wide diversity of …