The Neuroscience of Language
Subtitle: On Brain Circuits of Words and Serial Order
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9780511069215; 9781280160301
Subjects: Simone de Beauvoir; Language; Neurolinguistics; Neural networks (Neurobiology); Brain; Speech; Cognition; Physiology
Description: 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. Excursuses illustrate the functioning of brain models of language, and a web site with animations is available.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; CHAPTER ONE A Guide to the Book; CHAPTER TWO Neuronal Structure and Function; CHAPTER THREE From Classic Aphasia Research to Modern Neuroimaging; CHAPTER FOUR Words in the Brain; CHAPTER FIVE Regulation, Overlap, and Web Tails; CHAPTER SIX Neural Algorithms and Neural Networks; CHAPTER SEVEN Basic Syntax; CHAPTER EIGHT Synfire Chains as the Basis of Serial Order in the Brain; CHAPTER NINE Sequence Detectors; CHAPTER TEN Neuronal Grammar; CHAPTER ELEVEN Neuronal Grammar and Algorithms; CHAPTER TWELVE Refining Neuronal Grammar.; title: EXCURSUS FOUR Multiple Reverberation for Resolving Lexical AmbiguityEXCURSUS FIVE Multiple Reverberations and Multiple Center Embeddings; CHAPTER THIRTEEN Neurophysiology of Syntax; CHAPTER FOURTEEN Linguistics and the Brain; References; Abbreviations; Author Index; Subject Index.