Toward a cognitive neuroscience of language

In this response to multidisciplinary commentaries on the target article, " Words in the brain's language," additional features of the cell-assembly mo del are reviewed, as demanded by some of the commentators. Subsequently, me thodological considerations on how to perform additional tests of neurobiol ogical language models as well as a discussion of recent data from neuroima ging, neuropsychological, and other behavioral studies in speakers of spoke n and sign languages follow Special emphasis is put on the explanatory powe r of the cell-assembly model regarding neuropsychological double dissociati ons. Future perspectives on neural network simulations, neuronal mechanisms of syntax and semantics, and the interaction of attention mechanisms and c ell assemblies are pointed out in the final paragraphs.