Brain, Vol. 123, No. 5, 1062-1063,
May 2000
© 2000 Oxford University Press
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THE NEUROCOGNITION OF LANGUAGE.
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School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
The title of this book conveys its theme neatly, although I imagine there may have been considerable debate on what the best title should have been for this cross-disciplinary work. It reflects the current move away from the ultra-cognitive neuropsychology approach to language and the brain, with its highly focused emphasis on the functional basis of language disorders, and a de-emphasizing of anatomical considerations. A great many boxes and arrows were drawn on the basis of how language processing broke down after brain lesions, with only a vague idea of what they represented in anatomical terms. The reason for this was partly the lack of an animal model, which meant
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