Table Of ContentThe Cambridge Handbook of Psycholinguistics
Our ability to speak, write, understand speech, and read is critical to our ability to function
in today’s society. As such, psycholinguistics, or the study of how humans learn and use lan-
guage, is a central topic in cognitive science. This comprehensive handbook is a collection
of chapters written not by practitioners in the field, who can summarize the work going
on around them, but by trailblazers from a wide array of subfields, who have been shaping
the field of psycholinguistics over the last decade. Some topics discussed include how chil-
dren learn language, how average adults understand and produce language, how language is
represented in the brain, how brain-damaged individuals perform in terms of their language
abilities, and computer-based models of language and meaning. This is required reading for
advanced researchers, graduate students, and upper-level undergraduates interested in the
recent developments and the future of psycholinguistics.
Michael J. Spivey was on the faculty of Cornell University for twelve years before moving
to the cognitive and information sciences unit at the University of California, Merced, in
2008. His research uses dense-sampling methods (such as eyetracking and reach tracking)
to explore the real-time interaction between language and vision. He has published in a
variety of top-tier journals, including Science, Cognitive Science, Trends in Cognitive Sciences,
Psychological Science, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Spivey is the recip-
ient of Sigma Xi’s William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement and multiple teaching
awards from Cornell University. The dyn amical cognition framework that guides his research
is described in his book The Continuity of Mind (2007).
Ken McRae has been at the University of Western Ontario since 1993, where he has been
studying language and concepts. He has published articles regarding sentence processing and
semantic memory from numerous perspectives, including modality-specific representations,
the roles of statistical correlations and causal relations in object concepts, category-specific
semantic deficits, and the integration of meaning and structure in sentence comprehension.
He has also published a number of computational models of these important human abil-
ities. McRae has published in journals such as Cognition, Journal of Memory and Language,
Journal of Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Neuropsychologia.
Marc F. Joanisse has been at the University of Western Ontario since 2000, studying the cog-
nitive and brain bases of spoken and written language. Work in his laboratory emphasizes the
importance of studying multiple aspects of language ability, in a variety of populations, using
a range of techniques. His research spans a range of topics encompassing speech perception,
spoken word recognition, and reading and grammar abilities in adults and children, using
everything from traditional behavioral techniques to eyetracking, event-related potentials,
and fMRI. In addition, he has published articles in the field of connectionist modeling of
language processing, aphasia following brain injury, and language disorders in children. He
has published in a wide range of journals, including the Proceedings of the National Academy
of Sciences, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Cerebral Cortex, NeuroImage, Journal of Memory
and Language, and Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition.
The Cambridge Handbook
of Psycholinguistics
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Edited by
Michael J. Spivey
University of California, Merced
Ken McRae
University of Western Ontario
MaRc F. JoaniSSe
Universit y of Western Ontario
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Shortly after completing her chapter, Rebecca Sandak
passed away in an auto accident that also took the
life of her husband, Sam. As is evident in her chapter,
Rebecca was a promising young scholar who made a
number of important contributions to our understand-
ing of the neural bases of skilled reading and dyslexia.
We are sad to have lost her, but are proud to include
her contribution in this handbook. The Cambridge
Handbook of Psycholinguistics is dedicated to her.
contents
List of Contributors page xi
Preface by Michael J. Spivey, Ken McRae, and Marc F. Joanisse xv
section 1: speech perception
1. Speech Perception 3
Carol A. Fowler and James S. Magnuson
2. Neural Bases of Speech Perception – Phonology, Streams,
and Auditory Word Forms 26
Sophie Scott
3. Learning the Sounds of Language 42
Jenny R. Saffran and Sarah D. Sahni
section 2: spoken word recognition
4. Current Directions in Research in Spoken Word Recognition 61
Arthur G. Samuel and Meghan Sumner
5. Computational Models of Spoken Word Recognition 76
James S. Magnuson, Daniel Mirman, and Harlan D. Harris
6. Finding the Words: How Young Children Develop Skill
in Interpreting Spoken Language 104
Anne Fernald and Michael Frank
7. Event-Related Potentials and Magnetic Fields Associated with
Spoken Word Recognition 127
Randy L. Newman, Kelly Forbes, and John F. Connolly
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section 3: written word recognition
8. Visual Word Recognition in Skilled Adult Readers 159
Michael J. Cortese and David A. Balota
9. Computational Models of Reading: Connectionist and
Dual-Route Approaches 186
Mark S. Seidenberg
10. Decoding, Orthographic Learning, and the Development of Visual Word
Recognition 204
Kate Nation
11. How Does the Brain Read Words? 218
Rebecca Sandak, Stephen J. Frost, Jay G. Rueckl, Nicole Landi, W. Einar Mencl,
Leonard Katz, and Kenneth R. Pugh
section 4: semantic memory
12. The Human Conceptual System 239
Lawrence W. Barsalou
13. Computational Models of Semantic Memory 259
George S. Cree and Blair C. Armstrong
14. Developing Categories and Concepts 283
Linda B. Smith and Eliana Colunga
section 5: morphological processing
15. Derivational Morphology and Skilled Reading: An Empirical Overview 311
Kevin Diependaele, Jonathan Graing er, and Dominiek Sandra
16. The Neural Basis of Morphology: A Tale of Two Mechanisms? 333
Anna Woollams and Karalyn Patterson
section 6: sentence comprehension
17. Individual Differences in Sentence Processing 353
Thomas A. Farmer, Jennifer B. Misyak, and Morten H. Christiansen
18. The Neurobiology of Sentence Comprehension 365
Lee Osterhout, Albert Kim, and Gina R. Kuperberg
19. Computational and Corpus Models of Human Sentence Comprehension 390
Douglas Roland and Mary Hare
section 7: sentence production
20. Research in Language Production 409
Zenzi M. Griffin and Christopher M. Crew
21. Language Production: Computational Models 426
Gary S. Dell and Joana Cholin
22. Language Production: Patient and Imaging Research 443
Gabriella Vigliocco, Daniel Tranel, and Judit Druks
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