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"Bringing together contributions from internationally renowned scholars, this Handbook provides a complete guide to research in the field of language and the brain. It is essential reading for researchers and students in the fields of neurolinguistics, language and the brain and cognitive linguistics, and also neuroscience and cognitive psychology"--
List of contents
Part I. Introduction: Theoretical Foundations of Language and Brain: 1. At the crossroads of the study of language and brain in healthy subjects and in pathology: foundational questions through an innovative lens (Deepening of the analysis of networks crucial for language processing: Questions, theory, application) Edna Andrews and Swathi Kiran; Part II. Neuroimaging Studies of Brain and Language: Hemodynamic and Electrophysiological Studies: 2. Neuroimaging of cognitive reserve in bilinguals Federico Gallo and Jubin Abutalebi; 3. Networks and multimodalities underlying language processing in the brain: evidence from structural and functional neuroimaging Edna Andrews and Charlotte Sophia Rammell; 4. TMS as a tool for mapping the dynamic properties of language in the brain Harsheen Kaur, Gerald Grant and Fiona Baumer; Part III. Language and Cognitive Development: 5. Functional connectivity and recovery from Aphasia Tali Bitan; 6. Recent developments in psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics through the lens of Aphasia Erin L. Meier and Chaleece W. Sandberg; 7. The default mode network and language impairment in stroke and neurodegeneration E. Susan Duncan, Aswathy Anakkathil Pradeep, Juhi Kidwai and Adam Buchwald; 8. Language and cognition Sarah Villard, Lauryn Zipse, and Sofia Vallila-Rohter; Prediction in language processing: some ideas about how it's done Matthew J. Traxler and Tamara Y. Swaab; Part IV. Brain and Languages: A. Building Cognitive Brain Reserve and the Importance of Proficiency: 10. Bilingualism as a dynamic experience and its effects on brain structure, function and metabolism Christos Pliatsikas; 11. Factors in variable outcomes in second language acquisition David Birdsong; 12. Longitudinal fMRI analyses of second language acquisition: expanding the repertoire of imaging techniques and proficiency measures in future studies Edna Andrews and Alexandria Swaine; 13. Cognitive and neural aspects of the multilingual mental lexicon John Schwieter and Gabrielle Klassen; B. Aphasia and Autism Spectrum Disorders: 14. Language control in bilingual aphasia Teresa Gray and Arpita Bose; 15. Neural foundations of language in autism spectrum disorder Meredith Pecukonis, Lindsay Butler, Charlotte Gaynor, and Helen Tager-Flusberg; Part V. Brain, Language and Music: 16. Neuroplastic effects of music expertise on speech-language processing Gavin M. Bidelman, Jane A. Brown, Rose Rizzi, and Jessica MacLean; 17. Music and language in the brain: balancing domain-specific and domain-general mechanisms Stephen C. Van Hedger and Urvi Maheshwari; Part VI. New Directions and Perspectives: 18. Hippocampal dependent memory supports communication and language: Implications for cognitive-communication disorders Melissa C. Duff and Natalie V. Covington.
About the author
Edna Andrews is Professor of Linguistics & Cultural Anthropology, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences and the Duke Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and the Nancy & Jeffrey Marcus Distinguished Professor.Swathi Kiran is a James and Cecelia Ying Professor of Neurorehabilitation in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences and the founding director for the Center for Brain Recovery at Boston University.
Summary
Bringing together contributions from internationally renowned scholars, this Handbook provides a complete guide to research in the field of language and the brain. It is essential reading for researchers and students in the fields of neurolinguistics, language and the brain and cognitive linguistics, and also neuroscience and cognitive psychology.
Foreword
Bringing together an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this Handbook provides a complete guide to research in language and brain.
