The result of the conference of the same name held at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in September 2005, these papers and commentaries reflect new research on the neural
implementation of language. Topics and commentaries on each include an overview of age and second language acquisition and processing; development of the human cortex and the concept of
＂critical＂ or ＂sensitive＂ periods; convergence, degeneracy and control; executive control in bilingual language processing; novice learners, longitudinal designs and event-related potentials as
means for exploring the neurorecognition of second language processing; second language processing in the miniature language model; meta-analysis of hemodynamic studies on first and second
language processing as to which suggested differences can trust and what they mean; and a summary of the themes in the cognitive neurosciences of second language acquisition. Annotation ©2006
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