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Toward a cognitive neuroscience of language

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 1999

Friedemann Pulvermüller
Friedemann Pulvermüller
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Konstanz, 78434 Konstanz, [email protected] www.clinical-psychology.uni-konstanz.de
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Abstract

In this response to multidisciplinary commentaries on the target article, “Words in the brain's language,” additional features of the cell-assembly model are reviewed, as demanded by some of the commentators. Subsequently, methodological considerations on how to perform additional tests of neurobiological language models as well as a discussion of recent data from neuroimaging, neuropsychological, and other behavioral studies in speakers of spoken and sign languages follow. Special emphasis is put on the explanatory power of the cell-assembly model regarding neuropsychological double dissociations. Future perspectives on neural network simulations, neuronal mechanisms of syntax and semantics, and the interaction of attention mechanisms and cell assemblies are pointed out in the final paragraphs.

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Author's Response
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , April 1999 , pp. 307 - 327
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© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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