The Neuroscience of Language - On Brain Circuits of Words and Serial Order

Friedemann Pulvermüller

Cambridge

2002

320 páginas

10h 40m

ISBN-10: 0521790263

How is language organized in the human brain? This book puts forth the first systematic model of language to bridge the gap between linguistics and neuroscience. Introductory chapters focus on neuronal structure and function, cognitive brain processes, the basics of classical aphasia research and modern neuroimaging of language, neural network approaches to language, and the basics of syntactic theories. Also included are chapters on neural algorithms and networks, basic syntax, serial order mechanisms, and neuronal grammar. Excursuses illustrate the functioning of brain models of language, and a web site with animations is available.