Advances in the Neuroanatomical Correlates of Aphasia and the Understanding of the Neural Substrates of Language

Abstract

If it is true that Victoria Fromkin’s scientific contributions are in the field of linguistics, it is no less correct that a preoccupation of her career has been to elucidate the elusive bridges between cognition and the workings of the brain. Cognitive scientists often pay lip service to the mind-brain connection, but Fromkin has, instead, framed her work in a way that reflects genuine interest in a deceptively simple question: how do the architecture and operation of neural structures support and constrain the phenomena of human cognition, and, most especially, those phenomena we designate as linguistic?

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