neurolinguistics
noun
the study of the neurological processes underlying the development and use of language.
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“At many tasks, I’m just average. A neurolinguist at the City University of New York, Loraine Obler, ran some tests on me, and I performed highly on recalling lists of nonsense words.”
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 27, 2018