Yann Coello - Language and Action in Cognitive Neuroscience

LANGUAGE AND ACTION IN COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

This book collates the most up-to-date evidence from behavioural, brain imagery and stroke-patient studies, to discuss the ways in which cognitive and neural processes are responsible for language processing.

Divided into six sections, the edited volume presents arguments from evolutionist, developmental, behavioural and neurobiological perspectives, all of which point to a strong relationship between action and language. It provides a scientific basis for a new theoretical approach to language evolution, acquisition and use in humans, while at the same time assessing current debates on motor systems contribution to the emergence of language acquisition, perception and production.

The chapters have been written by internationally acknowledged researchers from a variety of disciplines, and as such this book will be of great interest to academics, students and professionals in the areas of cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, neuroscience, psycholinguistics and philosophy.

Yann Coello is Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Neuropsychology at the University of Lille. He is the director of the Research Unit on Cognitive and Affective Sciences and is the leader of the Perception, Action and Communication research team.

Angela Bartolo is Assistant Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Neuropsychology at the University of Lille.

CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE SERIES

Series Editors:

Stanislas Dehaene, Collge de France, Paris, France

Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Harvard Medical School, USA

Jamie Ward, University of Sussex, UK

Reflecting contemporary and controversial issues in the study of cognitive neuroscience, the series aims to present a multi-disciplinary forum for cutting edge debate that will help shape this burgeoning discipline. It offers leading figures in the field and the best new researchers an opportunity to showcase their own work, expand on their own theories and place these in the wider context of the field.

Titles in the series may be authored or edited; each book must aim to make a contribution to a specific topic by reviewing and synthesizing the existing research literature, by advancing theory in the area, or by some combination of these missions.

Published titles in the series

Neuroscience of Decision Making

Edited by Oshin Vartanian & David. R. Mandel

The Neural Basis of Human Belief Systems

Edited by Frank Krueger & Jordan Grafman

Language and Action in Cognitive Neuroscience

Edited by Yann Coello and Angela Bartolo

For more information about the series, please visit www.psypress.com/ctcn

Language and Action in Cognitive Neuroscience

Edited by Yann Coello and Angela Bartolo

First published 2013

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Contents

5. Embodied lexical representations: Flexible tools for predicting the future

16. When words trigger activity in the brains sensory and motor systems: It is not remembrance of things past

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Contributors

Pia Aravena L2C2 CNRS UMR 5230, Institut des Sciences Cognitives, Universit Lyon 1, 67 Bd Pinel, 69675 Bron Cedex, France, e-mail:

Lisa Aziz-Zadeh University of Southern California, 3641 Watt Way Suite B20, Los Angeles, CA 900892520, USA, e-mail:

Angela Bartolo Laboratoire URECA, Universit Charles-de-Gaulle Lille III, Domaine universitaire du Pont de Bois BP 60149, 59653 Villeneuve dAscq Cedex, France, e-mail:

Harold Bekkering Donders Institute for Brain Cognition and Behaviour, University Nijmegen, PO Box 9104, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands, e-mail:

Christel Bidet-Ildei CeRCA, MSHS, Universit de Poitiers, 5 rue Thodore Lefebvre, F-86000 Poitiers, France, e-mail:

Anna M. Borghi Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, Viale Berti Pichat, 5, 40127 Bologna, Italy, e-mail:

Vronique Boulenger Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage UMR CNRS 5596, Universit Lumire Lyon 2, 14 avenue Berthelot, 69363 Lyon Cedex 07, France, e-mail:

Jessie Bullens Experimental Psychology, Helmholtz Instituut, Utrecht University, PO Box 80125, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands, e-mail:

Laura A. Carlson University of Notre Dame, 119-D Haggar Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA, e-mail:

Yann Coello Laboratoire URECA, Universit Charles-de-Gaulle Lille III, Domaine universitaire du Pont de Bois BP 60149, 59653 Villeneuve dAscq Cedex, France, e-mail:

Michael C. Corballis Department of Psychology, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand, e-mail:

Kenny R. Coventry School of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK, e-mail:

Raphal Fargier L2C2 CNRS UMR5230, Institut des Sciences Cognitives, Universit Lyon 1, 67 Bd Pinel, 69675 Bron Cedex, France, e-mail:

Martin H. Fischer Division of Cognitive Sciences, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24/25 House 14, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany, e-mail:

Maurizio Gentilucci Department of Neuroscience, Section of Physiology, University of Parma, Via Volturno, 39/E, 43100 Parma, Italy, e-mail:

Masami Ishihara Department of Health Promotion Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 11 Minamiosawa, Hachioji, Tokyo 1920397, Japan, e-mail:

Pierre Jacob Institut Jean-Nicod, Ecole Normale Suprieure, 29 rue dUlm, 75005 Paris, France, e-mail:

Marc Jeannerod

Peter E. Keller Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Stephanstrasse 1A, 04103 Leipzig, Germany, e-mail:

Nina Lienenkmper Experimental Psychology, Helmholtz Instituut, Utrecht University, PO Box 80125, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands, e-mail: n.lienenk

Marieke Longcamp Laboratoire de Neurociences Cognitives, UMR 7291, Centre Saint-Charles, Case C, 3 place Victor Hugo 13331 Marseille cedex 3, France, email: