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The Neuroscience of Language

Coming soon in April 2025

Authors

, Northeastern University, Boston

Description

The Neuroscience of Language offers a remarkably accessible introduction to language in the mind and brain. Following the chain of communication from speaker to listener, it covers all fundamental concepts from speech production to auditory processing, speech sounds, word meaning, and sentence processing. The key methods of cognitive neuroscience are covered, as well as clinical evidence from neuropsychological patients and multimodal aspects of language including visual speech, gesture, and sign language. Over 80, full color figures are included to help…

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Key features

  • Written to be accessible to those with no previous study on this topic, as well as advanced readers
  • Provides an introduction to key brain anatomy and cognitive neuroscience methods such as fMRI
  • Bolded keywords, a glossary, boxed sections, and end-of-chapter annotated lists of suggested reading scaffold learning

About the book