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Rapid developments in the field of non-invasive neuroimaging have yielded exquisite details about brain structure and connectivity. This volume capitalizes on the details, presenting multiple perspectives on language organization in the brain that take the reader from the seat of phonology and phonetics, to thought, meaning, and memory, and the evolutionary basis of speech and language abilities. Methodological advances highlight the importance of functional and structural connectivity analyses in recognition of the brain working as a dynamic whole. A growing awareness of the role of frequency-specific neural oscillations in sensory and cognitive processing in combination with causal modeling is bringing us closer to more realistic models of speech and language processing grounded in the neurosciences.
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Mody, M. (2017). Introduction: Speech and Language in the Brain—Framing Multiple Perspectives. In: Mody, M. (eds) Neural Mechanisms of Language. Innovations in Cognitive Neuroscience. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7325-5_1
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