Contributors to this book argue that we should study the brain basis of language as used in our daily lives.

When we think of everyday language use, the first things that come to mind include colloquial conversations, reading and writing e-mails, sending text messages

Language is one of our most precious and uniquely human capacities, so it is not surprising that research on its neural substrates has been advancing quite rapi

How do infants learn a language? Why and how do languages evolve? How do we understand a sentence? This book explores these questions using recent computational

An essential reference for the new discipline of evolutionary cognitive neuroscience that defines the field's approach of applying evolutionary theory to guide