This is an advanced introduction to the cognitive neuroscience
of language. Lectures will cover electrophysiological, brain
imaging and neuropsychological literature on central topics in
the neurobiology of language processing, starting from early
sensory processing (Day 1) and leading up to sentence level
semantic interpretation (Day 5). The course will have two main
themes:
(1) To what extent can a general functional neuroanatomy of
language be articulated today?
(2) What is the role of neurolinguistics in theoretical
linguistics, i.e., what kinds of questions about linguistic
representation can be investigating with the currently
available cognitive neuroscience methods?
Links to all the readings are available on the LOT course website.
DAY 1: Questions, Goals, Methods & Early prelexical processing
DAY 2: Left temporal areas, lexical access
DAY 3: The right hemisphere and lexical semantic processing
DAY 4: Broca's area
