Cognitive Neuroscience of Language - Brossura

Kemmerer, David

Brossura

ISBN 10: 113831840X ISBN 13: 9781138318403

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2022

Riassunto

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It guides students through all of the major areas of investigation, beginning with the fundamental aspects of brain structure and function and then following with key topics such as classic and progressive aphasia syndromes; speech perception and production; the meanings of object nouns, action verbs, and abstract words; the formulation and comprehension of complex expressions, including grammatically inflected words, complete sentences, and entire stories; and several other domains of neurolinguistic research, including reading and writing, sign language, and the bilingual brain. Drawing heavily on prominent theoretical models, the core chapters illustrate how such frameworks are supported, and sometimes challenged, by experiments employing diverse brain mapping techniques.

This edition has been thoroughly updated throughout, and now includes a dedicated chapter on the neural substrates of bilingualism. Chapters have been revised to reflect the most salient developments in the field, and the book has undergone a thoughtful restructure to mirror course teaching.

While the study of language can be challenging, the text has been written accessibly and requires no previous knowledge of either neuroscience or linguistics and includes definitions of technical terms and explanations of important principles from both disciplines along the way. Accompanied by online resources for students and instructors, it is an essential companion for graduate or upper-level undergraduate students.

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Informazioni sull?autore

David Kemmerer is a professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences and the Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University.

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This text provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and pedagogically practical survey of the neural underpinnings of language.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 113831840X
• ISBN 13: 9781138318403
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 692
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor & Francis group unlimited; liza walraven; liza.walraven@taylorandfrancis.com