The handbook of the neuropsychology of language

Volume 1: Language Processing in the Brain: Basic Science......Page 5
Contents......Page 9
Contributors......Page 14
Preface......Page 28
Acknowledgments......Page 36
Part I: Language and Hemispheres: From Single-Word Recognition to Discourse......Page 37
1: Individual Differences in Brain Organization for Language......Page 39
2: The Perceptual Representation of Speech in the Cerebral Hemispheres......Page 56
3: Mechanisms of Hemispheric Specialization: Insights From Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Studies......Page 77
4: Understanding Written Words: Phonological, Lexical, and Contextual Effects in the Cerebral Hemispheres......Page 95
5: The Organization of Discourse in the Brain: Results From the Item-Priming in-Recognition Paradigm......Page 113
Part II: Computational Modeling of Language......Page 137
6: Connectionist Modeling of Neuropsychological Deficits in Semantics, Language, and Reading......Page 139
7: Neural Network Models of Speech Production......Page 161
8: Word Learning as the Confluence of Memory Mechanisms: Computational and Neural Evidence......Page 182
Part III: Neural Correlates of Language Production and Comprehension......Page 201
9: Neural Correlates of Semantic Processing in Reading Aloud......Page 203
10: In a Word: ERPs Reveal Important Lexical Variables for Visual Word Processing......Page 220
11: Hemodynamic Studies of Syntactic Processing......Page 245
12: The Neurobiology of Structure-Dependency in Natural Language Grammar......Page 265
13: How Does the Brain Establish Novel Meanings in Language? Abstract Symbol Theories Versus Embodied Theories of Meaning......Page 288
14: Motor and Nonmotor Language Representations in the Brain......Page 312
15: What Role Does the Cerebellum Play in Language Processing?......Page 330
Part IV: Coping with Higher-Level Processing: The Brain Behind Figurative and Creative Language......Page 353
16: Bilateral Processing and Affect in Creative Language Comprehension......Page 355
17: Two-Track Mind: Formulaic and Novel Language Support a Dual-Process Model......Page 378
18: Neuropsychological and Neurophysiological Correlates of Idiom Understanding: How Many Hemispheres Are Involved?......Page 404
19: Cognitive Neuroscience of Creative Language: The Poetic and the Prosaic......Page 422
20: The Brain Behind Nonliteral Language: Insights From Brain Imaging......Page 442
21: Thinking outside the Left Box: The role of the Right Hemisphere in Novel Metaphor Comprehension......Page 461
Part V: The Multilingual Brain......Page 485
22: Word Recognition in the Bilingual Brain......Page 487
23: Vocabulary Learning in Bilingual First-Language Acquisition and Late Second-Language Learning......Page 508
24: What ERPs Tell Us About Bilingual Language Processing......Page 530
25: How the Brain Acquires, Processes, and Controls a Second Language......Page 552
Acknowledgments......Page 575
Volume 2: Language Processing in the Brain: Clinical Populations......Page 579
Part I: Neuropsychology of Language: Methods and Paradigms......Page 591
26: Potentials and Paradigms: Event-Related Brain Potentials and Neuropsychology......Page 593
27: What the Speaking Brain Tells us About Functional Imaging......Page 613
28: Uncovering the Neural Substrates of Language: A Voxel-Based Lesion–Symptom Mapping Approach......Page 630
29: Analytic Methods for Single Subject and Small Sample Aphasia Research: Some Illustrations and a Discussion......Page 643
30: Verbal Fluency Tasks and the Neuropsychology of Language......Page 667
Part II: Neuropsychology of Language: Language Loss......Page 683
31: The Acquisition, Retention, and Loss of Vocabulary in Aphasia, Dementia, and Other Neuropsychological Conditions......Page 685
32: Computational Neuropsychology of Language: Language Processing and Its Breakdown in Aphasia......Page 709
33: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Aphasia Research......Page 727
34: Longitudinal Study of Recovery from Aphasia: The Case of Lexical Retrieval......Page 748
35: Multiple Languages in the Adult Brain......Page 768
36: Clinical Neurolinguistics of Bilingualism......Page 786
37: Sentence Comprehension in Healthy and Brain-Damaged Populations......Page 808
38: The Neural Basis for Aging Effects on Language......Page 826
Part III: Neuropsychology of Language: Developmental Language Disorders......Page 849
39: Neuropsychological and Neuroimaging Aspects of Developmental Language Disorders......Page 851
40: Specific Language Impairment: Processing Deficits in Linguistic, Cognitive, and Sensory Domains......Page 874
41: The Neurobiology of Specific Language Impairment......Page 895
42: Dyslexia: The Brain Bases of Reading Impairments......Page 916
43: Acquired and Developmental Disorders of Reading and Spelling......Page 940
44: The Role of Anchoring in Auditory and Speech Perception in the General and Dyslexic Populations......Page 969
45: The Neurobiological Basis of Dyslexia: The Magnocellular Theory......Page 986
46: Word Retrieval in Developmental Language Impairments: Application of the Tip-of-the-Tongue paradigm......Page 1011
Acknowledgments......Page 1031
Index......Page 1033