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Dana Boatman, THE NEUROCOGNITION OF LANGUAGE., Brain, Volume 125, Issue 1, 1 January 2002, Pages 215–216, https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awf061
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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 Hagoort’s 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 into four sections, with a total of 12 chapters. Three orthogonal themes underlie the choice of chapter topics; these include the complexity of language, issues in mapping measures of brain activity to language and functional and neuroanatomical variability.
The first section (Chapters 1–3) provides an introduction to the cognitive neuroscience of language, linguistic theory and functional neuroimaging. The chapter on linguistic theory assumes some familiarity with linguistic structure and terminology and may prove difficult reading for the novice. The last chapter in the section is a clear and concise primer on functional neuroimaging techniques that are defined as non‐invasive brain mapping approaches and include not only PET and fMRI (functional MRI), but electrophysiology methods as well.
