The intense effort to characterize Broca's region has produced many views on its anatomy
and function. Here, we present the leading approaches and consider ways to adjudicate …

Among other things, humans talk about what they perceive and do, like “glowing,”“hopping,”
and “squeaking.” What is the relationship between our sensory‐motor experiences and word …

Comprehending and producing sentences is a complex endeavor requiring the coordinated
activity of multiple brain regions. We examined three issues related to the brain networks …

We present a new dorsal–ventral stream framework for language comprehension which
unifies basic neurobiological assumptions (Rauschecker & Scott, 2009) with a cross …

The idea that concepts are embodied by our motor and sensory systems is popular in
current theorizing about cognition. Embodied cognition accounts come in different versions …

Verbs have two separate levels of meaning. One level reflects the uniqueness of every verb
and is called the “root”. The other level consists of a more austere representation that is …

Agrammatism in aphasia is not a homogeneous syndrome, but a characterization of a
nonuniform set of language behaviors in which grammatical markers and complex syntactic …

Argument structure, as in the participant roles entailed within the lexical representation of
verbs, affects verb processing. Recent neuroimaging studies show that when verbs are …

Functional neuroimaging and lesion-symptom mapping investigations implicate a left frontal–
temporal–parietal network for sentence processing. The majority of studies have focused on …

Sentence processing problems form a common consequence of left‐hemisphere brain
injury, in some patients to such an extent that their pattern of language performance is …