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This book offers an introduction to the bilingual brain. It is a useful resource for researchers and students, bringing together various theories and research approaches in the cognitive neuroscience of bilingualism and a state-of-the-art overview of empirical findings on this topic from various perspectives.
List of contents
1. Theories and methods in the cognitive neuroscience of bilingualism: an introduction; 2. Neural representations and language processing in the bilingual brain; 3. Bilingualism, language development, and brain plasticity; 4. Aphasia and the bilingual brain; 5. Cross-linguistic effects of bilingualism; 6. Bilingual lexical and conceptual memory; 7. Cognitive and neurocognitive effects of bilingualism; 8. Conclusion.
About the author
John W. Schwieter is Professor of Spanish and Linguistics, cross-appointed in psychology, and Director of Bilingualism Matters @ Laurier and the Language Acquisition, Multilingualism, and Cognition Laboratory at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Linguistics at McMaster University, Canada, and is Executive Editor of Bilingual Processing and Acquisition (2016), Editor-in-Chief of Ampersand, and Co-Editor of Cambridge Elements in Second Language Acquisition (2019).Julia Festman is Professor of Multilingualism at the University College of Teacher Education Tyrol, Austria. Her main research focus is on multilingualism on the individual, cognitive and educational level. She combines psycholinguistic, and neuroscientific methods for investigating learning and processing of multiple languages. Her latest book, Second Language Acquisition and Lifelong Learning (2023), is coauthored with S. Pfenninger and D. Singleton.
Summary
This book offers an introduction to the bilingual brain. It is a useful resource for researchers and students, bringing together various theories and research approaches in the cognitive neuroscience of bilingualism and a state-of-the-art overview of empirical findings on this topic from various perspectives.
Foreword
An introduction to bilingualism from the perspective of neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and psycholinguistics.
