This text describes the biologically determined rules that underlie human and animal behaviour, as well as the issue of how rules that guide behaviour are acquired. By presenting aspects from different fields, the book seeks a view on the brain-behaviour relationship.

Dieses Buch behandelt jene kognitiven Strukturen und Prozesse, die der menschlichen Sprachverarbeitung zugrundeliegen. Das hier vorgestellte Modell geht von zwei parallel arbeitenden Subsystemen im Sprachverarbeitungsprozess aus:

The second edition of the book on language comprehension in honor of Pim Levelt's sixtieth birthday has been released before he turns sixty-one. Some things move faster than the years of age. This seems to be especially true for advances in science. Therefore, the present edition entails changes in some of the chapters and incorporates an update of the current literature. I would like to thank all contributors for their cooperation in making a second edition possible such a short time after the completion of the first one. Angela D. Friederici Leipzig, November 23, 1998. Preface to the first...

This highly interdisciplinary project presents new results and the state of the art of knowledge in the psychology and neurophysiology of language, reading and dyslexia. It concentrates on basic cognitive functions of understanding and producing language and disorders within its spoken and written execution. The book grew out of the Basic Mechanisms of Language and Language Disorders conference (Leipzig, Sept. 1999).