Contents
Volume 1 Language Processing in the Brain: Basic Science
Part I Language and Hemispheres: From Single-Word Recognition to Discourse 1
1 Individual Differences in Brain Organization for Language 3
2 The Perceptual Representation of Speech in the Cerebral Hemispheres 20
3 Mechanisms of Hemispheric Specialization: Insights from Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Studies 41
4 Understanding Written Words: Phonological, Lexical, and Contextual Effects in the Cerebral Hemispheres 59
5 The Organization of Discourse in the Brain: Results from the Item-Priming-in-Recognition Paradigm 77
Part II Computational Modeling of Language 101
6 Connectionist Modeling of Neuropsychological Deficits in Semantics, Language, and Reading 103
7 Neural Network Models of Speech Production 125
8 Word Learning as the Confluence of Memory Mechanisms: Computational and Neural Evidence 146
Part III Neural Correlates of Language Production and Comprehension 165
9 Neural Correlates of Semantic Processing in Reading Aloud 167
10 In a Word: ERPs Reveal Important Lexical Variables for Visual Word Processing 184
11 Hemodynamic Studies of Syntactic Processing 209
12 The Neurobiology of Structure-Dependency in Natural Language Grammar 229
13 How Does the Brain Establish Novel Meanings in Language? Abstract Symbol Theories Versus Embodied Theories of Meaning 252
14 Motor and Nonmotor Language Representations in the Brain 276
15 What Role Does the Cerebellum Play in Language Processing? 294
Part IV Coping with Higher-Level Processing: The Brain Behind Figurative and Creative Language 317
16 Bilateral Processing and Affect in Creative Language Comprehension 319
17 Two-Track Mind: Formulaic and Novel Language Support a Dual-Process Model 342
18 Neuropsychological and Neurophysiological Correlates of Idiom Understanding: How Many Hemispheres are Involved? 368
19 Cognitive Neuroscience of Creative Language: The Poetic and the Prosaic 386
20 The Brain behind Nonliteral Language: Insights from Brain Imaging 406
21 Thinking outside the Left Box: The Role of the Right Hemisphere in Novel Metaphor Comprehension 425
Part V The Multilingual Brain 449
22 Word Recognition in the Bilingual Brain 451
23 Vocabulary Learning in Bilingual First-Language Acquisition and Late Second-Language Learning 472
24 What ERPs Tell Us about Bilingual Language Processing 494
25 How the Brain Acquires, Processes, and Controls a Second Language 516
Acknowledgments 539
Volume 2 Language Processing in the Brain: Clinical Populations
Part I Neuropsychology of Language: Methods and Paradigms 543
26 Potentials and Paradigms: Event-Related Brain Potentials and Neuropsychology 545
27 What the Speaking Brain Tells Us about Functional Imaging 565
28 Uncovering the Neural Substrates of Language: A Voxel-Based Lesion-Symptom Mapping Approach 582
29 Analytic Methods for Single Subject and Small Sample Aphasia Research: Some Illustrations and a Discussion 595
30 Verbal Fluency Tasks and the Neuropsychology of Language 619
Part II Neuropsychology of Language: Language Loss 635
31 The Acquisition, Retention, and Loss of Vocabulary in Aphasia, Dementia, and Other Neuropsychological Conditions 637
32 Computational Neuropsychology of Language: Language Processing and Its Breakdown in Aphasia 661
33 Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Aphasia Research 679
34 Longitudinal Study of Recovery from Aphasia: The Case of Lexical Retrieval 700
35 Multiple Languages in the Adult Brain 720
36 Clinical Neurolinguistics of Bilingualism 738
37 Sentence Comprehension in Healthy and Brain-Damaged Populations 760
38 The Neural Basis for Aging Effects on Language 778
Part III Neuropsychology of Language: Developmental Language Disorders 801
39 Neuropsychological and Neuroimaging Aspects of Developmental Language Disorders 803
40 Specific Language Impairment: Processing Deficits in Linguistic, Cognitive, and Sensory Domains 826
41 The Neurobiology of Specific Language Impairment 847
42 Dyslexia: The Brain Bases of Reading Impairments 868
43 Acquired and Developmental Disorders of Reading and Spelling 892
44 The Role of Anchoring in Auditory and Speech Perception in the General and Dyslexic Populations 921
45 The Neurobiological Basis of Dyslexia: The Magnocellular Theory 938
46 Word Retrieval in Developmental Language Impairments: Application of the Tip-of-the-Tongue Paradigm 963
Acknowledgments 983
Index 985