Talking Brains: Sign language piece made Scientific American's "Best of the Brain..." volume

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Sign language piece made Scientific American's "Best of the Brain..." volume

Run, don't walk... actually, you can probably walk for this one. Scientific American has just released a "Best of the Brain" volume which is a compilation of neuro articles, edited by Floyd Bloom, that have appeared in the magazine in the last several years. The 2002 Hickok, Bellugi, Klima piece, Sign Language in the Brain, made the cut.

1 comment:

David Poeppel said...: Hey, that's cool! Good for you. I wanna be on a top-ten list (and not on "top-ten people whose papers we reject instantly" ...).

Of course, when one considers the history of signing and how signers were treated, it is clear that this type of research is of not just scientifically valuable but also sociologically and politically important.; July 19, 2007 at 10:15 AM

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Greg Hickok is Professor of Cognitive Sciences at UC Irvine, Editor-in-Chief of Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, and author of The Myth of Mirror Neurons. David Poeppel, after several years as Professor of Linguistics and Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park, is now Professor of Psychology at NYU. Hickok and Poeppel first crossed paths in 1991 at MIT in the McDonnell-Pew Center for Cognitive Neuroscience where Hickok was a post doc, and Poeppel a grad student. Meeting up again a few years later at a Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting in San Francisco, they began a collaboration aimed at developing an integrated model of the functional anatomy of language. Research in both the Hickok and Poeppel labs is supported by NIDCD.