A Glossary --brain terms from the Society for Neuroscience
Language and the Brain --chapter from Introduction to Psycholinguistics (Longman. 1993).
MITECS entry on Neural Plasticity
MITECS entry on Lateralization
MITECS entry on Neural Basis of Grammar
MITECS entry on Neural Basis of Language
Intro to the Brain,short article from the Australian Academy of Science
Bibiolgraphy on Critical Age for Learning Second Language Phonology
The Cerebral Cortex,a dictionary-type short defintion from MITECS
The Cerebellum,a dictionary-type short defintion from the Society for Neuroscience.
Brain Pasticity, interview from the Australian Boradcasting Corp.
Interview with Helen Neville on brain plasticity.
The Developing Brain --roundtable discussion
Liquid Genius, article from New Scientist: "There's more to the mind than neural networks. Messages also percolate through the soup-like fluid bathing the brain."
Brain Evolution and Neurolinguistic Preconditions --article
Right Hemisphere and Verbal Communication -- book review
"Is it true that creativity resides in the
right hemisphere of
the brain?" --from the
Scientific American "Ask the Experts" page
New Neurons --a study finds that humans can grow new brain neurons throughout life.
Adult brain can sprout new cells - "Against seemingly unbeatable odds, it turns out that new cells can sprout in the brain of an adult, even one in his 60s or 70s."
Another article on new brain cells in adults
What is the function of the various brainwaves?--from Scientific American 'Ask the Experts' page.
Do scientists understand why there are so many more right-handers than left-handers? --from Scientific American 'Ask the Experts' page.
Fact Memory Spared Despite Hippocampal Damage
Gene may determine right-handedness --from ScienceNews.com
Language processing is strongly left lateralized in both sexes --abstract from the journal Brain.
"Splitting the Brain" --from
Left
Brain, Right Brain: Perspectives from Cognitive
Neuroscience, 5th Ed.
"The Man with Two Brains" -- Alan Alda interview with Michael Gazzaniga (transcript of Scientific American TV program).
Consciousness and Will --things that can go wrong in our brains when there are problems with the two brain hemispheres.
What's right about the neural organization of sign language? A perspective on recent neuroimaging results --article
Late Bloomer, article --A boy with one hemisphere upsets old ideas on speech acquisition
Blaming Nature for Language Delay --short article
Babies Don't Forget What They Hear --article: "Infants can remember the sounds of words almost a year before realizing their meanings."