Language is considered to be one of the most lateralized human brain functions. Left
hemisphere dominance for language has been consistently confirmed in clinical and …

Much is known about the role of cortical areas in language processing. The shift towards
network approaches in recent years has highlighted the importance of uncovering the role of …

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 …

Lesion to symptom mapping (LSM) is a crucial tool for understanding the causality of brain-
behavior relationships. The analyses are typically performed by applying statistical methods …

Computational models of lexical selection in spoken word production have been applied to
semantic interference effects in picture naming response times obtained with continuous …

While current dual-steam neurocognitive models of language function have coalesced
around the view that distinct neuroanatomical networks subserve semantic and …

Damage to the white matter underlying the left posterior temporal lobe leads to deficits in
multiple language functions. The posterior temporal white matter may correspond to a …

Voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping (VLSM) is an important method for basic and
translational human neuroscience research. VLSM leverages modern neuroimaging …

Autobiographical memory (AM) is multifaceted, incorporating the vivid retrieval of contextual
detail (episodic AM), together with semantic knowledge that infuses meaning and coherence …

Background: Aphasia patients can produce some words reliably but have difficulty retrieving
other words. In this article we review one of the variables that have been proposed to …