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 …

Verbal Working memory (vWM) capacity measures the ability to maintain and manipulate
verbal information for a short period of time. The specific neural correlates of this construct …

Unlike any other species, humans can learn and use language. This book explains how the
brain evolved to make language possible, through what Michael Arbib calls the Mirror …

Code-switching—the alternating use of two languages in the same stretch of discourse by a
bilingual speaker—is a dominant topic in the study of bilingualism and a phenomenon that …

Neuropsychological Evaluation of the Child: Domains, Methods, and Case Studies, Second
Edition, is an updated and expanded desk reference that retains the first edition's …

This article provides a selective overview of theoretical issues and empirical findings relating
to the question of age and second language acquisition (L2A). Both behavioral and brain …

Fluent speech comprises sequences that are composed from a finite alphabet of learned
words, syllables, and phonemes. The sequencing of discrete motor behaviors has received …

In functional neuroimaging studies, individuals with dyslexia frequently exhibit both
hypoactivation, often in the left parietotemporal cortex, and hyperactivation, often in the left …

While the primary function of the basal ganglia (BG) is linked to motor behaviour, several
investigations of non-motor behaviour allocate cognitive and language-specific functions to …

The large majority of humankind is more or less fluent in 2 or even more languages. This
raises the fundamental question how the language network in the brain is organized such …