Language and Action in Cognitive Neuroscience [Hardcover]

This book collates the most up to date evidence from behavioural, brain imagery and stroke-patient studies, to discuss the ways in which cognitive and neural processes are responsible for language processing.

Divided into six sections, the edited volume presents arguments from evolutionist, developmental, behavioural and neurobiological perspectives, all of which point to a strong relationship between action and language. It provides a scientific basis for a new theoretical approach to language evolution, acquisition and use in humans, whilst at the same time assessing current debates on motor systems contribution to the emergence of language acquisition, perception and production.

The chapters have been written by internationally acknowledged researchers from a variety of disciplines, and as such this book will be of great interest to academics, students and professionals in the areas of cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, neuroscience, psycholinguistics and philosophy.

M. Jeannerod, Foreword Part 1. Language and Action: Past, Present and FutureP. Jacob, Embodied Cognition, Communication and the Language Faculty Part 2. Motor origin of languageM. Corballis, Toward a Darwinian Perspective on Language Evolution M. Gentilucci, G. C. Campione, From Action to Speech Part 3. Action in Language ProcessingY. Coello, C. Ild?i-Bidet, Motor Representation and Language in Space, Object, and Movement Perception S. Rueschemeyer, H. Bekkering, Embodied Lexical Representations: Flexible Tools for Predicting the Future A. Borghi, Action Language Comprehension, Affordances and Goals, L. J. Taylor, R. Zwaan, Fault Tolerant Comprehension Part 4. Action in Language AcquisitionJ. Velay, M. Longcamp&llC