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This handbook provides a comprehensive review of new developments in the study of the relationship between the brain and language, from the perspectives of both basic research and clinical neuroscience.
* Includes contributions from an international team of leading figures in brain-language research
* Features a novel emphasis on state-of-the-art methodologies and their application to the central questions in the brain-language relationship
* Incorporates research on all parts of language, from syntax and semantics to spoken and written language
* Covers a wide range of issues, including basic level and high level linguistic functions, individual differences, and neurologically intact and different clinical populations
List of contents
Contributors xii
Preface xxvi
Acknowledgments (personal) xxxiv
Part 1 Language Processing in the Brain: Basic Science
Section I Language and Hemispheres: From Single-Word Recognition to Discourse 1
1 Individual Differences in Brain Organization for Language 3
Christine Chiarello, Suzanne E. Welcome, and Christiana M. Leonard
2 The Perceptual Representation of Speech in the Cerebral Hemispheres 20
Henri Cohen
3 Mechanisms of Hemispheric Specialization: Insights from Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Studies 41
Michal Lavidor
4 Understanding Written Words: Phonological, Lexical, and Contextual Effects in the Cerebral Hemispheres 59
Orna Peleg and Zohar Eviatar
5 The Organization of Discourse in the Brain: Results from the Item-Priming-in-Recognition Paradigm 77
Debra L. Long, Clinton L. Johns, Eunike Jonathan, and Kathleen Baynes
Section II Computational Modeling of Language 101
6 Connectionist Modeling of Neuropsychological Deficits in Semantics, Language, and Reading 103
Christine E. Watson, Blair C. Armstrong, and David C. Plaut
7 Neural Network Models of Speech Production 125
Matthew Goldrick
8 Word Learning as the Confluence of Memory Mechanisms: Computational and Neural Evidence 146
Prahlad Gupta
Section III Neural Correlates of Language Production and Comprehension 165
9 Neural Correlates of Semantic Processing in Reading Aloud 167
William W. Graves, Jeffrey R. Binder, Mark S. Seidenberg, and Rutvik H. Desai
10 In a Word: ERPs Reveal Important Lexical Variables for Visual Word Processing 184
Chia-lin Lee and Kara D. Federmeier
11 Hemodynamic Studies of Syntactic Processing 209
Peter Indefrey
12 The Neurobiology of Structure-Dependency in Natural Language Grammar 229
Marco Tettamanti and Daniela Perani
13 How Does the Brain Establish Novel Meanings in Language? Abstract Symbol Theories Versus Embodied Theories of Meaning 252
Dorothee Chwilla
14 Motor and Nonmotor Language Representations in the Brain 276
Nira Mashal, Michael Andric, and Steven Small
15 What Role Does the Cerebellum Play in Language Processing? 294
Kristina A. Kellett, Jennifer L. Stevenson, and Morton Ann Gernsbacher
Section IV Coping with Higher-Level Processing: The Brain Behind Figurative and Creative Language 317
16 Bilateral Processing and Affect in Creative Language Comprehension 319
Heather J. Mirous and Mark Beeman
17 Two-Track Mind: Formulaic and Novel Language Support a Dual-Process Model 342
Diana Van Lancker Sidtis
18 Neuropsychological and Neurophysiological Correlates of Idiom Understanding: How Many Hemispheres are Involved? 368
Cristina Cacciari and Costanza Papagno
19 Cognitive Neuroscience of Creative Language: The Poetic and the Prosaic 386
Seana Coulson and Tristan S. Davenport
20 The Brain Behind Nonliteral Language: Insights From Brain Imaging 406
Alexander Michael Rapp
21 Thinking Outside the Left Box: The Role of the Right Hemisphere in Novel Metaphor Comprehension 425
Miriam Faust
Section V The Multilingual Brain 449
22 Word Recognition in the Bilingual Brain 451
Ton Dijkstra and Walter J. B. van Heuven
23 Vocabulary Learning in Bilingual First-Language Acquisition and Late Second-Language Learning 472
Annette M. B. de Groot
24 What ERPs Tell us About Bilingual Language Processing 494
Judith F. Kroll, Taomei Guo, and Maya Misra
25 How the Brain Acquires, Processes, and Controls a Second Language 516
Jubin Abutalebi and Pasquale Anthony Della Rosa
Part 2 Language Processing in the Brain: Clinical Populations
About the author
Miriam Faust is the Rector of Bar Ilan University and head of the Brain and Language Laboratory, Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar Ilan University. She is a member of the editorial board for
Brain and Language.
Summary
This handbook provides a comprehensive review of new developments in the relationship between the brain and language from both basic research and clinical neuroscience perspectives. Contributions from leading figures emphasize state-of-the-art methodologies and their application to the central questions of the field.
