Recent years have witnessed an exponential growth of studies on the relationships between brain and language/cognition, many of which involved the temporal lobe. This volume summarizes research on the anatomy and function of the temporal lobe under both normal and pathological conditions. It additionally discusses the interactions of the temporal lobe with other brain structures. The book will highlight the role of the temporal lobe in language processing as well as vision, object, and face recognition and processing. It will also discuss its role in reading, speech, and the processing of color, music, action, and memory. Temporal Lobe disorders, assessment and treatment will be covered including encephalitis, Alzheimer's, epilepsy, Korsakov's syndrome and more.


Section I. Introduction
1. The connectional anatomy of the temporal lobe
2. Anatomy of the temporal lobe: From macro to micro
Section II. Structure/functions of the T Lobe, as they emerge from studies in healthy participants and brain-damaged populations
3. Music processing and amusia
4. Cortical disorders of speech processing: Pure word deafness and auditory agnosia
5. Neuroplasticity following cochlear implants
6. Components of language processing and their long-term and working memory storage in the brain
7. Cross-modal integration and plasticity in the superior temporal cortex
8. Visual mental imagery: Inside the mind's eyes
9. The functions of the temporal-parietal junction
10. Visual objects and their colors
11. Face processing in the temporal lobe
12. The neural underpinnings of word comprehension and production: The critical roles of the temporal lobes
13. Domain-specific connectivity drives the organization of object knowledge in the temporal lobe
14. The noun-verb distinction
15. The neural correlates of abstract and concrete words
16. Acquired dyslexias following temporal lesions
17. Proper names and personal identity
18. Neural correlates of recognition and naming of famous persons and landmarks: A special role for the left anterior temporal lobe
19. The temporal lobes and memory
20. Working memory and active sampling of the environment: Medial temporal contributions
21. Amygdala function in emotion, cognition, and behavior
22. Amygdala connectivity and implications for social cognition and disorders
Section III. Diseases of/in the temporal lobe
23. Neuropathology of the temporal lobe
24. Frontotemporal dementia: A unique window on the functional role of the temporal lobes
25. The temporal lobe in typical and atypical Alzheimer disease
26. Limbic encephalitis
27. Semiology, EEG, and neuroimaging findings in temporal lobe epilepsies
28. Neuropsychology of temporal lobe epilepsies
29. Surgery procedures in temporal lobe epilepsies