Integrative Models of Broca’s Area

Descrizione

Introduction – Integrative models of Broca’s area and the ventral premotor cortex. Position papers -The language faculty, Broca’s region, and the mirror system; Why is Broca’s area involved in syntax? Broca’s area and the ventral premotor cortex in language: Functional differentiation and specificity; Structure mapping and semantic integration in a construction-based neurolinguistic model of sentence processing; Is Broca’s area part of a basal ganglia thalamocortical circuit? Hand actions and speech representation in Broca’s area; Broca’s area: A supramodal hierarchical processor? Comparable mechanisms for action and language: Neural systems behind intentions, goals, and means; Dynamic anticipatory processing of hierarchical sequential events: A common role for Broca’s area and ventral premotor cortex across domains? Beyond a single area: Motor control and language within a neural architecture encompassing Broca’s area; A sentence is to speech as what is to action? What re-enactment earns us; Significance of Broca’s area and ventral premotor cortex for music-syntactic processing; The ventral premotor cortex, corticospinal region C, and the origin of primates; The anatomical segregation of the frontal cortex: What does it mean for function? Review – Sign language processing and the mirror neuron system. Original articles – Abstract grammatical processing of nouns and verbs in Broca’s area: Evidence from fMRI; Broca’s area and inflectional morphology: Evidence from Broca’s aphasia and computer modeling; A functional neuroimaging investigation of the roles of structural complexity and task-demand during auditory sentence processing; Determinants of BOLD signal correlates of processing object-extracted relative clauses; When Broca experiences the Janus syndrome: An ER-fMRI study comparing sentence comprehension and cognitive sequence processing; Specific reading and phonological processing deficits are associated with damage to the left frontal operculum; Functional neuroanatomy of segmenting speech and nonspeech; Left-right asymmetry in volume and number of neurons in adult Broca’s area.