Toward a neural theory of language: Old issues and new perspectives

摘要: Abstract The cognitive neuroscience of language is an exciting interdisciplinary perspective that suffers from unresolved epistemological and methodological issues. Despite the impressive amount neural evidence accumulated until now, field research results fragmented it quite difficult to reach a unit analysis consensus on object study. This frustrating state art in detrimental reductionism consisting practice associating linguistic computation hypothesized at theoretical level with neurobiological computation. However, these two entities are moment ontologically incommensurable. problem lies fact theory consistent range neurophysiological neuroimaging techniques investigation verifiable through data still lacking. In this article, I focus main issues, questions, concerns prevent integrated study brain explore feasible way for linguistics pursue susceptible neuroscientific testability light recent neurocognitive models functional-anatomic organization brain. Finally, discuss possible program order achieve capable predictions real-time constrains characterizing biological bases language.