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<div><font size="+2" color="#000000">Cortex<br>
A Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System &
Behavior</font><br>
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<div><font size="+2" color="#000000">Special Issue:</font><font
size="-3" color="#000000"> INTEGRATIVE MODELS OF BROC</font><font
color="#000000">a<font size="-3">'S AREA AND THE VENTRAL PREMOTOR
CORTEX</font></font></div>
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</font><font color="#000000">Guest Editors:</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Ricarda I. Schubotz
(schubotz@cns.mpg.de)<br>
<font size="-1">Max Planck Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience; PO
Box500 355; D-04303Leipzig; Germany<br>
</font>Christian J. Fiebach (christian@fiebach.org)<br>
<font size="-1">Department of Psychology & Helen Wills
Neuroscience Institute;<br>
University of California, Berkeley; 4143 Tolman Hall; Berkeley, CA
94720-5050; USA<br>
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</font>Deadline for submission: March 31, 2004<br>
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We are pleased to announce a special issue of Cortex focusing on
Broca's area<br>
and the ventral premotor cortex. Today, it is without doubt that
Broca's area is<br>
involved in language processing, but also in several other domains
including working<br>
memory, music processing, action perception and execution, and
imitation. Broca's<br>
area shares many functional and anatomical features with the
neighboring ventral<br>
premotor cortex, and both have been suggested as regions serving the
integration of<br>
sensory and motor events. The challenge for modern cognitive
neuroscience is to<br>
formulate models capable of accounting for the domain-general nature
of these brain<br>
areas. The present special issue provides a platform for discussing
such integrative<br>
models of the functioning of Broca's area and the ventral premotor
cortex. This<br>
special issue was inspired by a workshop recently held at the Max
Planck Institute of<br>
Cognitive Neuroscience which brought together researchers in the field
of cognitive<br>
neuroscience addressing the topics of action processing and language
(see<br>
http://www.cns.mpg.de/brocapmc).<br>
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We welcome the submission of original research papers which employ
functional<br>
neuroimaging techniques to target functions of Broca's area and/or the
ventral<br>
premotor cortex.<br>
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<font size="-3">Please send your intention to submit by February 15,
2004 to: schubotz@cns.mpg.de.<br>
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</font><font size="-1">Please note:<br>
1. Cortex has new Editors (Sergio Della Sala, Aberdeen, UK and Jordan
Grafman, Bethesda, USA).<br>
2. This special issue will be made into a hard cover book with proper
ISBN.<br>
3. Color figures are printed at no cost for authors (within reasonable
limits).<br>
4. Cortex provides free access to electronic on-line versions of
Cortex (www.cortex-online.org), which</font></font></div>
<div><font size="-1" color="#000000">guarantees a wider
audience.</font></div>
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