The anatomy of language has been investigated with PET or fMRI for more than 20years.
Here I attempt to provide an overview of the brain areas associated with heard speech …

Language processing is a trait of human species. The knowledge about its neurobiological
basis has been increased considerably over the past decades. Different brain regions in the …

A landmark account of the neurobiological basis of language—arguing that species-specific
brain differences may be at the root of the human capacity for language. Language makes …

Psycholinguistics–the field of science that examines the mental processes and knowledge
structures involved in the acquisition, comprehension, and production of language–had a …

This article provides a selective overview of theoretical issues and empirical findings relating
to the question of age and second language acquisition (L2A). Both behavioral and brain …

Publisher Summary In 1994, there were only two dominant noninvasive techniques to offer
insight about the functional organization of language from its brain bases: the behavior of …

This book is at the very heart of linguistics. It provides the theoretical and methodological
framework needed to create a successful linguistic project. Potential applications of …

The human language faculty has been claimed to be grounded in the ability to process
hierarchically structured sequences. This human ability goes beyond the capacity to process …

It is widely believed that adults cannot learn a foreign language in the same way that
children learn a first language. However, recent evidence suggests that adult learners of a …

Lesion and neuroimaging studies indicate that the insula mediates motor aspects of speech
production, specifically, articulatory control. Although it has direct connections to Broca's …