Cambridge, MA, Estados Unidos : MIT Press, c2019.

1 recurso electrónico (749 p.)

1. Introduction. -- I. Cognitive architectures. -- 2. Mental representations for language. -- 3. Language comprehension: insights from research on spoken language. -- 4. The architecture of speaking. -- 5. The cognitive architecture of reading: the organization of an acquired skill. -- 6. Language in the visual modality: co-speech gesture and sign language. -- 7. Key issues and future directions: toward a comprehensive cognitive architecture for language use. -- II. The development of language. -- 8. Six questions in infant speech and language development. -- 9. How to learn a word: the dynamic coupling of words and referents in real and developmental time. -- 10. Insights into understanding human language from children’s acquisition of morphology and syntax: a historical and current perspective on central questions in the field. -- 11. A neural blueprint of language acquisition. -- 12. Multilingual development. -- 13. Key issues and future directions: how do children acquire language? -- III. Communications with and before language. -- 14. Interactional foundations of language: the interaction engine hypothesis. -- 15. The structure and timing of human versus primate social interaction. -- 16. The Resilience of language: homesign. -- 17. Depicting in communication. -- 18. Conceptual alignment as a neurocognitive mechanism for human communicative interactions. -- 19. Key issues and future directions: interactional foundations for language. -- IV. Modeling language. -- 20. Speech perception and production. -- 21. Neural network models of language acquisition and processing. -- 22. Cognitive models of syntax and sentence processing. -- 23. Vector-based and neural models of semantics. -- 24. Language processing in the brain: mapping neural activity to language meaning. -- 25. The robot writer. -- 26. Key issues and future directions: models of human language and speech processing. -- V. The functional neurobiology of language. -- 27. The cortical processing of speech sounds in the temporal lobe. -- 28. Functional anatomy of speech production: from words to motor control. -- 29. Neural oscillations and their role in speech and language processing. -- 30. Explaining speech comprehension: integrating electrophysiology, evolution, and cross-linguistic diversity. -- 31. A cognitive neuroscience perspective on language comprehension in context. -- 32. Key issues and future directions: where have we been and where are we going? -- VI. Neuroanatomy of language. -- 33. Receptor and cytoarchitecture of language-related cortical areas. -- 34. The human language connectome. -- 35. The “speech ready” auditory cortex. -- 36. The speech-ready organization of the motor cortex. -- 37. Insights into the neurobiology of language from individuals born blind or deaf. -- 38. Key issues and future directions: the neural architecture for language. -- VII. The genetics of language. -- 39. Mapping genes involved in reading and language skills. -- 40. Deciphering genetics of speech-motor disorders. -- 41. Neuromolecular approaches to the study of language. -- 42. The genetic bases of brain lateralization. -- 43. Key issues and future directions: genes and language. -- VIII. Animal models of language. -- 44. The comparative approach to the biology and evolution of language. -- 45. Primate vocalization as a model for human speech: scopes and limits. -- 46. Vocal learning and spoken language: insights from animal models with an emphasis on genetic contributions. -- 47. The grammatical abilities of animals: a comparative overview. -- 48. Speech perception: what do nonhuman Animals have to say? -- 49. Key issues and future directions: the comparative approach to language. --

A unique overview of the human language faculty at all levels of organization. Language is not only one of the most complex cognitive functions that we command, it is also the aspect of the mind that makes us uniquely human. Research suggests that the human brain exhibits a language readiness not found in the brains of other species. This volume brings together contributions from a range of fields to examine humans' language capacity from multiple perspectives, analyzing it at genetic, neurobiological, psychological, and linguistic levels. In recent decades, advances in computational modeling, neuroimaging, and genetic sequencing have made possible new approaches to the study of language, and the contributors draw on these developments. The book examines cognitive architectures, investigating the functional organization of the major language skills; learning and development trajectories, summarizing the current understanding of the steps and neurocognitive mechanisms in language processing; evolutionary and other preconditions for communication by means of natural language; computational tools for modeling language; cognitive neuroscientific methods that allow observations of the human brain in action, including fMRI, EEG/MEG, and others; the neural infrastructure of language capacity; the genome's role in building and maintaining the language-ready brain; and insights from studying such language-relevant behaviors in nonhuman animals as birdsong and primate vocalization.

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