I've yet to see a hardcopy myself but Amazon has some actual photos posted.

My attempt to depict the neural architecture of language as motivated in my forthcoming book, Wired for Words. Like colors represent functional connectivity. Main insight: linguistic levels are all organized with a sensorimotor-like architecture. pbs.twimg.com/media/G2cwsM...

Wired for Words
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Honored to have such nice endorsements from Cathy Price and
Steve Pinker for my forthcoming book, Wired for Words. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255341...

"More work with causal approaches is needed..." For the interested reader, here's some citations to work involving such causal approaches that didn't make the cut in this summary. They tell a rather different story on the cortical organization of syntax. @wmatchin.bsky.social

Coming this fall from @mitpress.bsky.social!

Finally, the if-you-think-you-have-a-new-idea-it-just-means-you-haven't-read-enough disclaimer. Luria made exactly these points before many of you were born.

Here's data from the same task following left hemisphere stroke (see www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35640...). Again, most people do really well but we do see cases (5-10%) who show significant deficits. These seem to be people who are atypically left dominant for word comprehension.

Here's the result. Most people are ~symmetric! The group averaged difference comes from a small group of atypically left dominant people.

Concrete example. Here's data from a Wada study we published in 2008. Task: word-picture matching. Although overall comprehension was good (~70% correct) even with left anesthesia, left dominance is evident: more phonemic and semantic foil choices with left compared to right anesthesia.