Neuroscience and Multilingualism

With a sharp focus, this culmination of cutting-edge research offers a new neuroscientific model for analysing multilingualism. Alongside a comprehensive analysis of the theoretical and experimental contributions to the field, it presents new data and analysis obtained from a multilingualism fMRI study.

List of contents

1. Assembling the pieces, the neuroscience disciplines essential for the study of language and brain; 2. Building the basis, linguistic contributions to a theory of language and their relevance to the study of language and brain; 3. Neuroscience applications to the study of multilingualism; 4. Exploring the boundaries of cognitive linguistics and neurolinguistics: re-imagining cross-cultural contributions; 5. Imaging technologies in the study of multilingualism: focus on BOLD fMRI; 6. Reassembling the pieces: languages and brains.

About the author

Edna Andrews is Professor of Linguistics and Cultural Anthropology and Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at Duke University, North Carolina.

Summary

With a sharp focus, this culmination of cutting-edge research offers a new neuroscientific model for analysing multilingualism. Alongside a comprehensive analysis of the theoretical and experimental contributions to the field, it presents new data and analysis obtained from a multilingualism fMRI study.

Product details

• Authors: Edna Andrews, Edna (Duke University Andrews, Andrews Edna
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781108810401
• ISBN: 978-1-108-81040-1
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 230 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Print on demand
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Language, Linguistics, Neurosciences, Psycholinguistics, Language acquisition, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Bilingualism and multilingualism