Cortex special issue on Broca's area

[Michael Ullman]

Cortex
A Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System & Behavior

Special Issue: INTEGRATIVE MODELS OF BROCa'S AREA AND THE VENTRAL
PREMOTOR CORTEX

Guest Editors:
Ricarda I. Schubotz (schubotz at cns.mpg.de)
Max Planck Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience; PO Box500 355;
D-04303Leipzig; Germany
Christian J. Fiebach (christian at fiebach.org)
Department of Psychology & Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute;
University of California, Berkeley; 4143 Tolman Hall; Berkeley, CA
94720-5050; USA

Deadline for submission: March 31, 2004

We are pleased to announce a special issue of Cortex focusing on Broca's area
and the ventral premotor cortex. Today, it is without doubt that
Broca's area is
involved in language processing, but also in several other domains
including working
memory, music processing, action perception and execution, and
imitation. Broca's
area shares many functional and anatomical features with the
neighboring ventral
premotor cortex, and both have been suggested as regions serving the
integration of
sensory and motor events. The challenge for modern cognitive neuroscience is to
formulate models capable of accounting for the domain-general nature
of these brain
areas. The present special issue provides a platform for discussing
such integrative
models of the functioning of Broca's area and the ventral premotor cortex. This
special issue was inspired by a workshop recently held at the Max
Planck Institute of
Cognitive Neuroscience which brought together researchers in the
field of cognitive
neuroscience addressing the topics of action processing and language (see
http://www.cns.mpg.de/brocapmc).

We welcome the submission of original research papers which employ functional
neuroimaging techniques to target functions of Broca's area and/or the ventral
premotor cortex.

Please send your intention to submit by February 15, 2004 to:
schubotz at cns.mpg.de.

Please note:
1. Cortex has new Editors (Sergio Della Sala, Aberdeen, UK and Jordan
Grafman, Bethesda, USA).
2. This special issue will be made into a hard cover book with proper ISBN.
3. Color figures are printed at no cost for authors (within reasonable limits).
4. Cortex provides free access to electronic on-line versions of
Cortex (www.cortex-online.org), which
guarantees a wider audience.
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