The science of complexity aims to answer the question of what rules nature chooses when
assembling the basic constituents of matter and energy into structures and dynamical …

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 …

When Levelt's pioneering book about the Lemma Model of speech production appeared in
1989, cognitive neuroscience was just starting to take off. During the 30 years since then …

Children with dyslexia are often diagnosed after they fail school even if dyslexia is not
related to general intelligence. In this work, we present an approach for universal screening …

Children with dyslexia have difficulties learning how to read and write. They are often
diagnosed after they fail school even if dyslexia is not related to general intelligence. Early …

Dyslexia is a widespread specific learning disorder, which can have a particularly negative
influence on the learning success of children. Early detection of dyslexia is the foundation for …

In the realm of linguistics, the concept of “semanticity” was recently introduced as a novel
measure designed to study linguistic networks. In a given text, semanticity is defined as the …

Background Up to 90% of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) eventually develop the
speech and voice disorder referred to as hypokinetic dysarthria (HD). However, the brain …

This study examines the effect of foreign-accented speech on the predictive ability of our
brain. Listeners actively anticipate upcoming linguistic information in the speech signal so as …

When we use language, we combine sounds, signs, and letters into words that then form
sentences, which together tell a story. Both language production and language …