The comparative study of music and language is drawing an increasing amount of research
interest. Like language, music is a human universal involving perceptually discrete elements …

In the domain of written sentence comprehension, the computation of agreement
dependencies is generally considered as a form-driven processing routine whose domain is …

In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the
standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh D. Patel challenges the widespread belief …

The day-night task requires saying" night" to a picture of the sun and" day" to a picture of the
moon. In this investigation of why young children fail at this task, systematic variations of the …

Spoken language comprehension requires the coordination of different subprocesses in
time. After the initial acoustic analysis the system has to extract segmental information such …

Syntactic comprehension is a fundamental aspect of human language, and has distinct
properties from other aspects of language (eg semantics). In this article, we aim to identify if …

Neuroimaging studies have revealed an association between word generation and activity
in the left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) that is attentuated with item repetition. The experiment …

Understanding the processes that permit us to extract meaning from spoken or written
linguistic input requires elucidating how, when, and where in the brain sentences and …

Selective deficits in aphasic patients' grammatical production and comprehension are often
cited as evidence that syntactic processing is modular and localizable in discrete areas of …

Accessing stored knowledge is a fundamental function of the cognitive and neural
architectures of memory. Here, the authors review evidence from cognitive-behavioral …