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Previous Volume 349:1197 September 18, 2003 Number 12

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Edited by Albert M. Galaburda, Stephen M. Kosslyn, and Yves Christen. 418 pp., illustrated. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2002. $65. ISBN 0-674-00772-7.

There are more than 5000 languages in the world. One of the extraordinary features of the developing human brain is its capacity, under the right circumstances, to learn any of those languages regardless of their linguistic complexity or syntactic peculiarities. Linguists have taught us much about the syntax and semantics of the world's languages, and behavioral neurologists have mapped out the regions of the brain that are essential for the normal functioning of these subcomponents of language, but we know very little about the internal languages of the brain. How many "languages" does the brain use to process, store, and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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