Welcome to Brain and Language!

LING 4110/4890/5110 & NSCI 4110/4891/6110

Fall 2025

Background

• Introduction to the course
• My philosophy of teaching
• The fields of linguistics
• Frequency
• Speech
• Perception
• Efficiency

The extended auditory pathway

• Auditory transduction
• The neuron
• Auditory pathways
• Cerebral cortex
• Models
• Networks
• The auditory cortex
• The superior temporal sulcus
• Wernicke’s aphasia
• Arecchi

The dorsal pathway

• The dorsal pathway
• The sensorimotor interface
• The posterior inferior frontal gyrus
• Ventral premotor cortex
• Ventral primary motor cortex
• Articulation

The ventral pathway

• The ventral pathway
• The lexical interface
• The combinatorial network
• The anterior inferior frontal gyrus
• Broca’s aphasia

Leftovers

• Discourse
• Final thoughts
• Visual language: the visual wordform area
• Bilingualism
• Methodologies
• Final project

Indices and tables

• Bibliography
• Glossary

• Index

• Search Page

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Initialization 08/27/08; last edit Aug 18, 2025