Biology - Cognitive Neuroscience Of Human Communication - (Vesna Mildner) Taylor & Francis 2008.pdf

The Cognitive
Neuroscience of Human
Communication
The Cognitive
Neuroscience of Human
Communication
Vesna Mildner
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mildner, V (Vesna)
The cognitive neuroscience of munication / Vesna Mildner.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8058-5435-5 (alk. paper) -- ISBN 0-8058-5436-3 (pbk.) 1.
Cognitive neuroscience. 2. Communication--Psychological aspects. 3.
Communication--Physiological aspects. I. Title.
2006
’233--dc22 2005049529
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Contents
Foreword ..............................................................................................................xi
Raymond D. Kent
Preface ...............................................................................................................xiii