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Friedemann Pulvermuller

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MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge, CB2 2EF

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+44 (0) 1223 355 294 Ext 670

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+44 (0) 1223 359 062

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Research

My main interests in science are in the neurobiological basis of language and in the treatment of neurological language disorders called aphasias. Over the past 15 years, I developed a model of language processing in the human brain that specifies neural circuits processing words, meaning and syntax. Words are envisaged to be represented in the brain by distributed cell assemblies whose cortical topographies reflect aspects of word meaning. The rules of syntax are proposed to be a product of the interplay between specialized neuronal units, called sequence detectors, and general principles of neuronal dynamics designed to control and regulate activity levels in cortical areas.

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F.Pulvermuller (2003) [http://books.cambridge.org/0521793742.htm The Neuroscience of Language]. On Brain Circuits of Words and Serial Order, Cambridge University Press.

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