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The Cognitive Neuroscience of Semantic Processing
A Special Issue of Language and Cognitive Processes
- Edited by Wolfram Hinzen, and David Poeppel.
Published November 2011
The issue presents a selection of approaches to the cognitive neuroscience of semantic processing. The term ‘semantics’ covers a range of approaches: perception-based conceptual structures, the impact of concepts such as animacy on syntactically determined meaning, the unification of incoming…
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Talking Heads
The Neuroscience of Language
- By Gianfranco Denes.
- Translated by Philippa Venturelli Smith.
Published September 2011
The origin, development, and nature of language has been the focus of theoretical debate among philosophers for many centuries. Following the pioneering clinical observations 150 years ago of loss of language following a cerebral lesion, language started to be considered a biological system, that…
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Reading and Dyslexia in Different Orthographies
- Edited by Nicola Brunswick, Sine McDougall and Paul de Mornay Davies.
Published May 2010
This book provides a unique and accessible account of current research on reading and dyslexia in different orthographies. While most research has been conducted in English, this text presents cross-language comparisons to provide insights into universal aspects of reading development and…
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The Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Communication
- By Vesna Mildner.
Published October 2007
This is a book about speech and language. It is primarily intended for those interested in speech and its neurophysiological bases: phoneticians, linguists, educators, speech therapists, psychologists, and neuroscientists. Although speech and language are its central topic, it provides information…
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Higher Level Language Processes in the Brain
Inference and Comprehension Processes
- Edited by Franz Schmalhofer, and Charles A. Perfetti.
Published March 2007
Higher Level Language Processes in the Brain is a groundbreaking book that explains how behavior research, computational models, and brain imaging results can be unified in the study of human comprehension. The volume illustrates the most comprehensive and newest findings on the topic. Each section…
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