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The Neuroscience of Language: On Brain Circuits of Words and Serial Order
Friedemann Pulvermuller
Hardcover: 275 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; ; (January 2003) ISBN: 0521790263
AMAZON - US
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521790263/darwinanddarwini
AMAZON - UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521790263/humannaturecom

      How is language organized in the human brain? The Neuroscience of
Language puts forth the first systematic model of language to bridge the gap
between linguistics and neuroscience. Neuronal models of word and serial order
processing are presented in the form of a computational, connectionist neural
network. The linguistic emphasis is on words and elementary syntactic rules.
Introductory chapters focus on neuronal structure and function, cognitive brain
processes, the basics of classical aphasia research and modern neuroimaging of
language, neural network approaches to language, and the basics of syntactic
theories. The essence of the work is contained in chapters on neural algorithms
and networks, basic syntax, serial order mechanisms, and neuronal grammar.
Throughout, excursuses illustrate the functioning of brain models of language,
some of which are accessible as animations on the book's accompanying web site.
It will appeal to graduate students and researchers in neuroscience,
psychology, linguistics, and computational modeling.

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      Contents
      Preface; 1. A guide to the book; 2. Neuronal structure and function; 3.
>From aphasia research to neuroimaging; 4. Words in the brain; Excursus E1:
Explaining neuropsychological double dissociations; 5. Regulation, overlap, and
web tails; 6. Neural algorithms and neural networks; 7. Basic syntax; 8. Serial
order mechanisms I: Synfire chains; 9. Serial order mechanisms II: Sequence
detectors; 10. Neuronal grammar; Excursus E2: Basic bits of neuronal grammar;
Excursus E3: A web response to a sentence; 11. Neuronal grammar and algorithms;
12. Refining neuronal grammar; Excursus E4: Multiple reverberation for
resolving lexical ambiguity; Excursus E5: Multiple reverberation and multiple
center embeddings; 13. Neurophysiology of syntax; 14. Linguistics and the
brain.

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can be created by unskilled labor. Arthur C. Clarke

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