The core and beyond in the language-ready brain
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In this paper a general cognitive architecture of spoken language processing is specified. This is followed by an account of how this cognitive architecture is instantiated in the human brain. Both the spatial aspects of the networks for language are discussed, as well as the temporal dynamics and the underlying neurophysiology. A distinction is proposed between networks for coding/decoding linguistic information and additional networks for getting from coded meaning to speaker meaning, i.e. for making the inferences that enable the listener to understand the intentions of the speaker.
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Recent studies of language function recovery after stroke, long-term plasticity of language organization in the blind, and a recent review continue to focus on language-network nodes, frontotemporal language areas, and temporal and inferior frontal regions.
“For instance, a recent study of language function recovery after stroke (Del Gaizo et al., 2017) used Connectome-Dynamics Lesion Symptom Mapping to identify changes to network structure that are caused by lesions and their correlation with language function.”
From Grounding the neurobiology of language in first principles: The necessity of non-language-centric explanations for language comprehension (2018) · cites this paper as Hagoort, 2017
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- Authors
- Hagoort, P.
- Venue
- Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2017-10
- Volume
- 81
- Issue
- Pt B
- Pages
- 194-204
- ISSN
- 0149-7634 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2587235757
- Cited by
- 150
- References
- 134
- Citations by year
- 2026: 18 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 19 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 20 · 2021: 21 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 2
- FWCI
- 1.19
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Radboud Repository (Radboud University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Spinoza Prize and the Academy Professorship Award
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Reading and Literacy Development
- Keywords
- spoken language processing, cognitive architecture, language network, temporal dynamics, neurophysiology, speaker meaning, intention understanding
- MeSH terms
- Brain, Cognition, Humans, Language, Linguistics, Models, Neurological, Neural Pathways, Phonetics, Semantics, Speech, Comprehension
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