The cognitive neuroscience of discourse: Covered ground and new directions

Jeffrey M. Zacks; Raymond A. Mar; Navona Calarco

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The cognitive neuroscience of discourse: Covered ground and new directions

Jeffrey M. Zacks, Raymond A. Mar, Navona Calarco

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Cognitive neuroscience and discourse processing are both young fields, yet their intersection has already produced a surprisingly rich body of results. In this chapter, we outline the major findings of past work and then describe some exciting new directions in discourse processing research. We begin with a discussion of the evolutionary origins of discourse processing, follow this with a discussion of the mechanisms of interest to neuroscientists who study discourse, and conclude with an overview of the new directions in which this work has recently begun to move. Our hope is to provide a useful overview of what neuroscience has to offer researchers interested in discourse, as well as to push the field forward by highlighting new methodological advances and what they have revealed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Processes, Second Edition
Publisher	Taylor and Francis
Pages	269-294
Number of pages	26
ISBN (Electronic)	9781317417989
ISBN (Print)	9781138920095
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315687384
State	Published - Jan 1 2017

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