Brain, Vol. 125, No. 1, 215-216,
January 2002
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Book Review |
THE NEUROCOGNITION OF LANGUAGE.
Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
THE NEUROCOGNITION OF LANGUAGE.
By Colin M. Brown and Peter Hagoort.
2000. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Price £17.99. Pp. 409. ISBN 0-19850-793-3..
Brown and Hagoorts The Neurocognition of Language is a welcome guide for researchers to the merging fields of neuroscience, linguistics and psycholinguistics. This book encompasses theoretical and technical aspects of the cognitive neuroscience of language, an emerging field that exemplifies the synthesis of neuroscience, linguistics and psycholinguistics. Many of the 25 contributing authors, who come from North America, Europe (Germany, The Netherlands and England) and Russia, are well-known experts in these three fields. The book is divided