Key points

There has been remarkable progress in the last 25 years in understanding the brain's language network.

Language is a "species" of sensorimotor processing.

We still don't fully understand hemispheric asymmetry for language.

In their classic 1998 textbook on cognitive neuroscience , Michael Gazzaniga, Richard Ivry, and George Mangun made a sobering observation: there was no clear mapping between how we process language and what was happening in our brains. Fast forward to today, and the landscape has changed dramatically. We now have a much more sophisticated understanding of language's neural architecture—not just the basic abilities of speaking and understanding, but the intricate computational machinery that makes human communication possible.

Although there is still muc

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