Functional dissociations within the neural basis of auditory sentence processing are difficult
to specify because phonological, syntactic and semantic information are all involved when …

Within the framework of Friederici's (2002) neurocognitive model of sentence processing,
the early left anterior negativity (ELAN) in event-related potentials (ERPs) has been claimed …

A comprehensive 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 …

Teaching and Researching Listening provides a focused, state-of-the-art treatment of the
linguistic, psycholinguistic and pragmatic processes that are involved in oral language use …

We performed a comprehensive cognitive, neuroimaging, and genetic study of 31 patients
with primary progressive aphasia (PPA), a decline in language functions that remains …

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 …

An event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) paradigm was used to
specify those brain areas supporting the processing of sentence-level semantic and …

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 …

Competence-based theories of island effects play a central role in generative grammar, yet
the graded nature of many syntactic islands has never been properly accounted for …

When a word is preceded by a supportive context such as a semantically associated word or
a strongly constraining sentence frame, the N400 component of the ERP is reduced in …