The 19th century has brought to linguistics “Broca's problem” (Boeckx, 2009), the question of how knowledge of language is implemented in the brain. Since then neuroscientific work on language was mostly driven by aphasiology, a state of affairs that has changed drastically with the advent of cognitive neuroscience toward the end of the 1970s and 1980s (Gazzaniga, 2015) and the subsequent further technical advancement and establishment of neuroimaging. With the publication of the textbook Cognitive Neuroscience of Language David Kemmerer aims at and succeeds in closing a long-standing gap in the available neurolinguistics literature, taking into account that cognitive neuroscience has come of age and progressed considerably in addressing Broca's problem in the relatively short timespan since its establishment.
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