According to the grounded perspective, cognition emerges from the interaction of classic
cognitive processes with the modalities, the body, and the environment. Rather than being …

Abstract Language is a key human faculty for communication and interaction that provides
invaluable insight into the human mind. Previous work has dissected different linguistic …

Abstract Language behaviour is complex, but neuroscientific evidence disentangles it into
distinct components supported by dedicated brain areas or networks. In this Review, we …

Reading a sentence entails integrating the meanings of individual words to infer more
complex, higher-order meaning. This highly rapid and complex human behavior is known to …

Efforts to understand the brain bases of language face the Mapping Problem: At what level
do linguistic computations and representations connect to human neurobiology? We review …

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and
pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It …

Human brains grasp the gists of visual scenes from a single glance, but to what extent is this
possible for language? While we typically think of language in terms of sequential speech …

To understand what you are reading now, your mind retrieves the meanings of words and
constructions from a linguistic knowledge store (lexico-semantic processing) and identifies …

Human languages are based on syntax, a set of rules which allow an infinite number of
meaningful sentences to be constructed from a finite set of words. A theory associated with …

Piecing together the meaning of a narrative requires understanding not only the individual
words but also the intricate relationships between them. How does the brain construct this …