Any account of “what is special about the human brain”(Passingham 2008) must specify the
neural basis of our unique ability to produce speech and delineate how these remarkable …

Recent literature on thalamic aphasia and thalamic activity during neuroimaging is
selectively reviewed followed by a consideration of recent anatomic and physiological …

How does the bilingual brain distinguish and control which language is in use? Previous
functional imaging experiments have not been able to answer this question because …

The large majority of humankind is more or less fluent in 2 or even more languages. This
raises the fundamental question how the language network in the brain is organized such …

Sentence comprehension requires the retrieval of single word information from long-term
memory, and the integration of this information into multiword representations. The current …

Several studies have recently shown that basal ganglia (BG) deterioration leads to
distinctive impairments in the domains of syntax, action verbs, and action semantics. In …

Containing 50 chapters by some of the most prominent clinical neuropsychologists, the
Textbook of Clinical Neuropsychology sets a new standard in the field in its scope, breadth …

Previous studies suggest that anatomical anomalies [Foundas, AL, Bollich, AM, Corey, DM,
Hurley, M., & Heilman, KM (2001). Anomalous anatomy of speech-language areas in adults …

Abstract We conducted an Activation Likelihood Estimation (ALE) meta-analysis to identify
brain regions that are recruited by linguistic stimuli requiring relatively demanding semantic …

Recent studies suggest that action-verb processing is particularly affected in early stage
Parkinson's disease (PD), highlighting the potential role of subcortical areas in language …