Description
Neurolinguistics is a young and highly interdisciplinary field, with influences from psycholinguistics, psychology, aphasiology, and (cognitive) neuroscience, as well as other fields. Neurolinguistics, like psycholinguistics, covers aspects of language processing; but unlike psycholinguistics, it draws on data from patients with damage to language processing capacities, or the use of modern neuroimaging technologies such as fMRI, TMS, or both. The burgeoning interest in neurolinguistics reflects that an understanding of the neural bases of this data can inform more biologically plausible models of the human capacity for language.The Oxford Handbook of Neurolinguistics provides concise overviews of this rapidly-growing field, and engages a broad audience with an interest in the neurobiology of language. The chapters do not attempt to provide exhaustive coverage, but rather present discussions of prominent questions posed by given topics. The volume opens with essential methodological chapters: Section I, Methods, covers the key techniques and technologies used to study the neurobiology of language today, with chapters structured along the basic divisions of the field. Section II addresses the neurobiology of language acquisition during healthy development and in response to challenges presented by congenital and acquired conditions. Section III covers the many facets of our articulate brain, or speech-language pathology, and the capacity for language production-written, spoken, and signed. Questions regarding how the brain comprehends meaning, including emotions at word and discourse levels, are addressed in Section IV. Finally, Section V reaches into broader territory, characterizing and contextualizing the neurobiology of language with respect to more fundamental neuroanatomical mechanisms and general cognitive domains.
Table of Contents
ContributorsPrefaceGreig I. de Zubicaray & Niels O. Schiller1. Neurolinguistics: A Brief Historical PerspectiveSheila E. BlumsteinSection I The Methods2. Neurolinguistic Studies of Patients with Acquired AphasiasStephen M. Wilson3. Electrophysiological Methods in the Study of Language ProcessingMichelle Leckey & Kara D. Federmeier4.Studying Language with functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)Stefan Heim & Karsten Specht5. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) to Study the Neural Network Account of LanguageTeresa Schuhmann6. Magnetoencephalography (MEG) and the Cortical Dynamics of Language ProcessingRiitta Salmelin, Jan Kujala, Mia Liljeström7. Shedding light on language function and its development with optical brain imagingYasuyo Minagawa & Alejandrina Cristia8. What has direct cortical and subcortical electrostimulation taught us about neurolinguistics?Hugues Duffau9. Diffusion imaging methods in language sciencesStephanie Forkel and Marco CataniSection II Development and Plasticity10.Neuroplasticity: Language and emotional development in children with perinatal strokeJudy S. Reilly & Lara R. Polse11.The neurolinguistics of bilingualismDavid W. Green & Judith F. Kroll12. Language and ageingJonathan Peelle13. Language plasticity in epilepsyJeffrey Cole & Marla J. Hamberger14. Language Development in Deaf Children: Sign Language and Cochlear ImplantsAaron NewmanSection III Articulation and Production15. Neurocognitive organisation of the articulatory and motor processes of speechPascale Tremblay, Isabelle Deschamps, & Anthony S. Dick16. The Neural Organization of Signed Language: Aphasia and Neuroscience EvidenceDavid P. Corina and Laurel A. Lawyer17.Understanding how we produce written words: Lessons from the brainBrenda Rapp and Jeremy Purcell18.Motor speech disordersWolfram Ziegler, Theresa Schölderle, Ingrid Aichert, & Anja Staiger19.Investigating the spatial and temporal components of speech productionGreig de Zubicaray & Vitoria Piai20. The Dorsal Stream Auditory-Motor Interface for SpeechGreg HickokSection IV Concepts and Comprehension21. Neural representations of concept knowledgeAndrew J. Bauer & Marcel A. Just22.Finding concepts in brain patterns: From feature lists to similarity spacesElizabeth Musz & Sharon L. Thompson-Schill23.The Organization of Manipulable Object Concepts in the Human BrainFrank Garcea & Bradford Mahon24.Neural Basis of Monolingual and Bilingual ReadingPedro M. Paz-Alonso, Myriam Oliver, Ileana Quiñones & Manuel Carreiras,25.Dyslexia and its Neurobiological BasisKaja Jasinska & Nicole Landi26.Speech perception: a perspective from lateralisation, motorisation, and oscillationDavid Poeppel, Greg Cogan, Ido Davidesco, Adeen Flinker27.Sentence processing: towards a neurobiological approachIna Bornkessel-Schlesewsky and Matthias Schlesewsky28.Comprehension of metaphors and idioms: an updated meta-analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging studiesAlexander M. Rapp29.Language comprehension and emotion: Where are the interfaces, and who cares?Jos J.A. van BerkumSection V Grammar and Cognition30.Grammatical categoriesDavid Kemmerer31.Neurocognitive mechanisms of agrammatismCynthia Thompson & Jennifer Mack32.Verbal working memoryBradley Buchsbaum33.Subcortical contributions to languageDavid Copland & Anthony Angwin34.Lateralisation of languageLise Van der Haegen and Qing Cai35.Neural mechanisms of music and languageMattson Ogg and L. Robert Slevc
