The notion that prediction is a fundamental principle of human information processing has
been en vogue over recent years. The investigation of language processing may be …

How is the processing of task information organized in the brain? Many views of brain
function emphasize modularity, with different regions specialized for processing different …

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 …

To understand what you are reading now, your mind retrieves the meanings of words and
constructions from a linguistic knowledge store (lexico-semantic processing) and identifies …

Abstract Language comprehension recruits an extended set of regions in the human brain.
Is syntactic processing localized to a particular region or regions within this system, or is it …

Abstract We conducted an Activation Likelihood Estimation (ALE) meta-analysis to identify
brain regions that are recruited by linguistic stimuli requiring relatively demanding semantic …

Abstract Language and music are two human-unique capacities whose relationship remains
debated. Some have argued for overlap in processing mechanisms, especially for structure …

The brain networks supporting speech identification and comprehension under difficult
listening conditions are not well specified. The networks hypothesized to underlie effortful …

Over the past 30 years hemispheric asymmetries in speech perception have been construed
within a domain-general framework, according to which preferential processing of speech is …

Until now, considerable effort has been made to determine structural brain characteristics
related to exceptional multilingual skills. However, at least one important question has not …