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ERP evidence for cross-domain prosodic priming from music to speech

Considerable work has investigated similarities between the processing of music and language, but it remains unclear whether typical, genuine music can influence speech processing via cross-domain priming. To investigate this, we measured ERPs to …

Book review: Language, Music, and the Brain: A Mysterious Relationship (M. Arbib, Ed.)

The emergence of semantic meaning in the ventral temporal pathway

In the ventral visual pathway, early visual areas encode light patterns on the retina in terms of image properties, for example, edges and color, whereas higher areas encode visual information in terms of objects and categories. At what point does …

Memory and cognitive control in an integrated theory of language processing

Pickering & Garrod's (P&G's) integrated model of production and comprehension includes no explicit role for nonlinguistic cognitive processes. Yet, how domain-general cognitive functions contribute to language processing has become clearer with …

Memory disorders and impaired language and communication