Efforts to understand the brain bases of language face the Map** Problem: At what level
do linguistic computations and representations connect to human neurobiology? We review …

Recent event-related potential (ERP) studies in language comprehension converge in
finding anticipatory negativities preceding words or word segments that can be pre-activated …

Abstract Syntax, the structure of sentences, enables humans to express an infinite range of
meanings through finite means. The neurobiology of syntax has been intensely studied but …

Much research in cognitive neuroscience supports prediction as a canonical computation of
cognition across domains. Is such predictive coding implemented by feedback from higher …

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 …

Human language is expressive because it is compositional: The meaning of a sentence
(semantics) can be inferred from its structure (syntax). It is commonly believed that language …

When listening to spoken narratives, we must integrate information over multiple, concurrent
timescales, building up from words to sentences to paragraphs to a coherent narrative …

To understand language, we must infer structured meanings from real-time auditory or visual
signals. Researchers have long focused on word-by-word structure building in working …

Prediction in language processing has been a topic of major interest in psycholinguistics for
at least the last two decades, but most investigations focus on semantic rather than syntactic …