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Language: Linguistics · Semiotics · Speech

The topics covered in the book, Language Viewed from the Brain by Iwao Honjo, provide a good initial outline of topics that are important for the study of how the brain makes human language behavior possible. Feel free to modify this list of topics:

Disorder of Speech

• Language and the brain
• Brain imaging studies and language

• Language perception
• From the viewpoint of aphasia
• Brain Activities in Language Perception
• Development of Cortical Mechanism of Speech Perception
• Disorders of Language Development and Plasticity of the Brain
• Cochlear and the auditory tract level of speech processing

• Language Production

• Brain Activities in Reading Written Language
• Brain Activities during Speaking
  • Temporal Process of Speech Production in the Brain
  • In Organs of Vocalization and Articulation
  • Mechanism of Vocalization
  • Mechanism of Articulation
• Interaction between language production and recognition

• Brain Activities in the Language
  • Development period and language acquisition
  • Interaction between language production and recognition
  • Role of the cerebellum in language
  • Brain activities in the process of language acquisition
  • Brain activities after completion of language development

• Summary and Prospects of Biological Linguistics
• Role of Wernicke's Area in Speech Perception
• Activities of the auditory area during language production
• Relations of language with the cerebellum and supplementary motor area
• Lang:Physiology: Cortical activities of cochlear implant users
• Lang:Physiology: Interactions among Different Functional Areas in the Brain