The acquisition of literacy transforms the human brain. By reviewing studies of illiterate
subjects, we propose specific hypotheses on how the functions of core brain systems are …

The anatomy of language has been investigated with PET or fMRI for more than 20years.
Here I attempt to provide an overview of the brain areas associated with heard speech …

For over a century neuroscientists have debated the dynamics by which human cortical
language networks allow words to be spoken. Although it is widely accepted that Broca's …

Semantic memory refers to knowledge about people, objects, actions, relations, self, and
culture acquired through experience. The neural systems that store and retrieve this …

" Brings together the cognitive, the cultural, and the neurological in an elegant, compelling
narrative. A revelatory work."--Oliver Sacks, MD The act of reading is so easily taken for …

Many current neurophysiological, psychophysical, and psychological approaches to vision
rest on the idea that when we see, the brain produces an internal representation of the …

Despite intensive work on language–brain relations, and a fairly impressive accumulation of
knowledge over the last several decades, there has been little progress in developing large …

Music performance is both a natural human activity, present in all societies, and one of the
most complex and demanding cognitive challenges that the human mind can undertake …

Broca's area in the posterior half of the left inferior frontal gyrus has long been thought to be
critical for speech production. The current view is that long-term speech production outcome …

The 'asymmetric sampling in time'(AST) hypothesis developed here provides a framework
for understanding a range of psychophysical and neuropsychological data on speech …