Mildner, V. (2008). The Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Communication. New York:

What does cognitive neuroscience have to do with communication? For those interested in pursuing the theoretical and practical intersections between what communication scholars explore and what neuroscience offers, Vesna Mildner’s The Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Communication is a primary scholarly reference. Although scholars of communication disorders, linguistics, and cognitive neuro-science have articulated biological explanations for the creation and use of language, few communication scholars have taken that path. When they have (the communibi-ological paradigm, for example), these approaches have been eschewed or deni-grated, or narrowly categorized as theories of message production. However, the field of cognitive neuroscience—which essentially is mind and brain research that draws on psychology and neuroscience—is relatively new but developing quickly and internationally. Scholars identifying themselves as cognitive neuroscientists founded the Cognitive Neuroscience Societ