Das Sonderheft "Linguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience" enthält insgesamt vierzehn, in englischer Sprache verfaßte Beiträge. Die Autoren untersuchen, wie sprachliche Einheiten im menschlichen Gehirn unter normalen und neurologisch gestörten Bedingungen verarbeitet werden. Die Untersuchungsmethoden sind linguistischer und psychologischer Natur, und die Ergebnisse werden stets unter Berücksichtigung von Theorien, Hypothesen, experimentellen Ergebnissen und Beobachtungen interpretiert.Der Leser erhält dadurch vom Forschungsbereich "Sprache, Kognition und Gehirn" einerseits ein umfassendes Bild, und andererseits wird er über neueste, richtungsweisende Ergebnisse detailliert informiert.This special issue, "Linguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience", consists of articles investigating language processing in neurologically impaired populations. The general approach of the authors is to describe such language disorders in behavioral terms by applying primarily linguistic as well as psychological methods. The reported findings are interpreted by taking models, hypotheses, and experimental data into account. Thus, the research field of language, cognition, and brain is discussed in broad terms and new findings relevant for future research are presented.

Inhalt
The Nature of Semantic and Morphosyntactic Context Effects on Word Recognition in Young Healthy and Aphasic Adults.- Activation of the Lexical-semantic System in Right-brain-damaged Right-handers.- Category-Specific Lexical Dissociations.- Selective Impairments of Action Naming: Arguments and a Case Study.- Some Remarks on Representational Aspects of Language Production.- Spontaneous Language and Impairment of Communication in Alzheimer's Disease.- The Time Course of Lexical Activation in Fluent and Nonfluent Aphasia.- Interactive/Activation in Normal and Brain-damaged Individuals: Can Context Penetrate the Lexical 'Module'?.- On Lexical Properties, Syntax, and Brain Damage.- Morphological Deficits in Aphasia: Problems of Representation, Access or Integration?.- On-line Integration of Grammatical Information in Wernicke's and Broca's Aphasia.- The Neurological Organization of Lexical and Structural Operations in Sentence Comprehension: Findings and Methodological Considerations.- Automatic Semantic Activation for Lexical Perception: Normal and Disordered Processing.- The Authors.