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The topics covered in the book, Language Viewed from the Brain by Iwao Honjo, provide a good initial outline of topics that are important for the study of how the brain makes human language behavior possible. Feel free to modify this list of topics:

Disorder of Speech


  • Language Production


  • Brain Activities in Reading Written Language
  • Brain Activities during Speaking
    • Temporal Process of Speech Production in the Brain
    • In Organs of Vocalization and Articulation
    • Mechanism of Vocalization
    • Mechanism of Articulation
  • Interaction between language production and recognition
  • Brain Activities in the Language
    • Development period and language acquisition
    • Interaction between language production and recognition
    • Role of the cerebellum in language
    • Brain activities in the process of language acquisition
    • Brain activities after completion of language development
  • Summary and Prospects of Biological Linguistics
  • Role of Wernicke's Area in Speech Perception
  • Activities of the auditory area during language production
  • Relations of language with the cerebellum and supplementary motor area
  • Lang:Physiology: Cortical activities of cochlear implant users
  • Lang:Physiology: Interactions among Different Functional Areas in the Brain