Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Books

New and Published Books

1. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Semantic Processing

   A Special Issue of Language and Cognitive Processes

   Edited by Wolfram Hinzen, David Poeppel

   Series: Special Issues of Language and Cognitive Processes

   The issue presents a selection of approaches to the cognitive neuroscience of semantic processing. The term ‘semantics’ covers a range of approaches: perception-based conceptual structures, the impact of concepts such as animacy on syntactically determined meaning, the unification of incoming...

   Published November 15th 2011 by Psychology Press
2. Talking Heads

   The Neuroscience of Language

   By Gianfranco Denes

   The origin, development, and nature of language has been the focus of theoretical debate among philosophers for many centuries. Following the pioneering clinical observations 150 years ago of loss of language following a cerebral lesion, language started to be considered a biological system, that...

   Published September 6th 2011 by Psychology Press
3. Reading and Dyslexia in Different Orthographies

   Edited by Nicola Brunswick, Sine McDougall, Paul de Mornay Davies

   This book provides a unique and accessible account of current research on reading and dyslexia in different orthographies. While most research has been conducted in English, this text presents cross-language comparisons to provide insights into universal aspects of reading development and...

   Published May 13th 2010 by Psychology Press
4. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Communication

   By Vesna Mildner

   This is a book about speech and language. It is primarily intended for those interested in speech and its neurophysiological bases: phoneticians, linguists, educators, speech therapists, psychologists, and neuroscientists. Although speech and language are its central topic, it provides information...

   Published October 11th 2007 by Psychology Press
5. Higher Level Language Processes in the Brain

   Inference and Comprehension Processes

   Edited by Franz Schmalhofer, Charles A. Perfetti

   Higher Level Language Processes in the Brain is a groundbreaking book that explains how behavior research, computational models, and brain imaging results can be unified in the study of human comprehension. The volume illustrates the most comprehensive and newest findings on the topic. Each section...

   Published March 4th 2007 by Psychology Press