Table Of ContentThe Handbook of the Neuropsychology
of Language
Volume 1
Language Processing in the Brain: Basic Science
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The Handbook of the Neuropsychology of Language (2 Volumes)
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The Handbook
of the Neuropsychology of
Language
Edited by Miriam Faust
Volume 1
Language Processing in the Brain:
Basic Science
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The handbook of the neuropsychology of language / edited by Miriam Faust.
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1. Neurolinguistics–Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Faust, Miriam. II. Series: Wiley-Blackwell handbooks
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1 2012
I dedicate this book with love to the memory of my father, Professor
Joseph Alexander Stein, who inspired me with a passion for knowledge, and
to the memory of my mother, Yemima Gottesdiener - Stein, who provided me
with the support and strength that enabled me to persist in my pursuit of this
passion. A signifi cant part of my accomplishments are theirs.
Contents
Volume 1 Language Processing in the Brain: Basic Science
Contributors xii
Preface xxvi
Acknowledgments (personal) xxxiv
Part I La nguage and Hemispheres: From Single-Word Recognition
to Discourse 1
1 Individual Differences in Brain Organization for Language 3
Christine Chiarello, Suzanne E. Welcome, and Christiana M. Leonard
2 The Perceptual Representation of Speech in the Cerebral Hemispheres 20
Henri Cohen
3 Mechanisms of Hemispheric Specialization: Insights from Transcranial
Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Studies 41
Michal Lavidor
4 Understanding Written Words: Phonological, Lexical, and
Contextual Effects in the Cerebral Hemispheres 59
Orna Peleg and Zohar Eviatar
5 The Organization of Discourse in the Brain: Results from the
Item-Priming-in-Recognition Paradigm 77
Debra L. Long, Clinton L. Johns, Eunike Jonathan, and Kathleen Baynes
Part II Computational Modeling of Language 101
6 Connectionist Modeling of Neuropsychological Defi cits in Semantics,
Language, and Reading 103
Christine E. Watson, Blair C. Armstrong, and David C. Plaut
viii Contents
7 Neural Network Models of Speech Production 125
Matthew Goldrick
8 Word Learning as the Confl uence of Memory Mechanisms:
Computational and Neural Evidence 146
Prahlad Gupta
Part III Neural Correlates of Language Production
and Comprehension 165
9 Neural Correlates of Semantic Processing in Reading Aloud 167
William W. Graves, Jeffrey R. Binder, Mark S. Seidenberg,
and Rutvik H. Desai
10 In a Word: ERPs Reveal Important Lexical Variables for Visual Word
Processing 184
Chia-lin Lee and Kara D. Federmeier
11 Hemodynamic Studies of Syntactic Processing 209
Peter Indefrey
12 The Neurobiology of Structure-Dependency in Natural
Language Grammar 229
Marco Tettamanti and Daniela Perani
13 How Does the Brain Establish Novel Meanings in Language?
Abstract Symbol Theories Versus Embodied Theories of Meaning 252
Dorothee Chwilla
14 Motor and Nonmotor Language Representations in the Brain 276
Nira Mashal, Michael Andric, and Steven Small
15 What Role Does the Cerebellum Play in Language Processing? 294
Kristina A. Kellett, Jennifer L. Stevenson, and Morton Ann Gernsbacher
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
Heather J. Mirous and Mark Beeman
17 Two-Track Mind: Formulaic and Novel Language Support
a Dual-Process Model 342
Diana Van Lancker Sidtis
18 Neuropsychological and Neurophysiological Correlates of Idiom
Understanding: How Many Hemispheres are Involved? 368
Cristina Cacciari and Costanza Papagno
Contents ix
19 Cognitive Neuroscience of Creative Language: The Poetic
and the Prosaic 386
Seana Coulson and Tristan S. Davenport
20 The Brain Behind Nonliteral Language: Insights From
Brain Imaging 406
Alexander Michael Rapp
21 Thinking Outside the Left Box: The Role of the Right Hemisphere
in Novel Metaphor Comprehension 425
Miriam Faust
Part V The Multilingual Brain 449
22 Word Recognition in the Bilingual Brain 451
Ton Dijkstra and Walter J. B. van Heuven
23 Vocabulary Learning in Bilingual First-Language Acquisition
and Late Second-Language Learning 472
Annette M. B. de Groot
24 What ERPs Tell us About Bilingual Language Processing 494
Judith F. Kroll, Taomei Guo, and Maya Misra
25 How the Brain Acquires, Processes, and Controls a Second Language 516
Jubin Abutalebi and Pasquale Anthony Della Rosa
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
Marta Kutas, Michael Kiang, and Kim Sweeney
27 What the Speaking Brain Tells us About Functional Imaging 565
John J. Sidtis
28 Uncovering the Neural Substrates of Language: A Voxel-Based
Lesion–Symptom Mapping Approach 582
Juliana V. Baldo, Stephen M. Wilson, and Nina F. Dronkers
29 Analytic Methods for Single Subject and Small Sample Aphasia
Research: Some Illustrations and a Discussion 595
Hiram Brownell, Ken J. Hoyte, Tepring Piquado, and Arthur Wingfi eld
30 Verbal Fluency Tasks and the Neuropsychology of Language 619
Seija Pekkala
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Part II Neuropsychology of Language: Language Loss 635
31 The Acquisition, Retention, and Loss of Vocabulary in Aphasia,
Dementia, and Other Neuropsychological Conditions 637
Andrew W. Ellis
32 Computational Neuropsychology of Language: Language
Processing and its Breakdown in Aphasia 661
Stephen R. Welbourne
33 Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Aphasia Research 679
Margaret A. Naeser, Paula I. Martin, Michael Ho, Ethan Treglia,
Elina Kaplan, Errol H. Baker, and Alvaro Pascual-Leone
34 Longitudinal Study of Recovery from Aphasia: The Case
of Lexical Retrieval 700
Patricia Marinaro Fitzpatrick, Loraine K. Obler, Avron Spiro III,
and Lisa Tabor Connor
35 Multiple Languages in the Adult Brain 720
Mira Goral
36 Clinical Neurolinguistics of Bilingualism 738
Andrea Marini, Cosimo Urgesi, and Franco Fabbro
37 Sentence Comprehension in Healthy and Brain-Damaged Populations 760
Sonja A. Kotz, Kathrin Rothermich, and Maren Schmidt-Kassow
38 The Neural Basis for Aging Effects on Language 778
Deborah M. Burke and Elizabeth R. Graham
Part III Neuropsychology of Language: Developmental
Language Disorders 801
39 Neuropsychological and Neuroimaging Aspects of Developmental
Language Disorders 803
Margaret Semrud-Clikeman and Jesse Bledsoe
40 Specifi c Language Impairment: Processing Defi cits in Linguistic,
Cognitive, and Sensory Domains 826
Laurence B. Leonard and Christine Weber-Fox
41 The Neurobiology of Specifi c Language Impairment 847
Richard G. Schwartz and Valerie L. Shafer
42 Dyslexia: The Brain Bases of Reading Impairments 868
Ioulia Kovelman, Joanna A. Christodoulou, and John D. E. Gabrieli
43 Acquired and Developmental Disorders of Reading and Spelling 892
Max Coltheart and Saskia Kohnen
Contents xi
44 The Role of Anchoring in Auditory and Speech Perception
in the General and Dyslexic Populations 921
Karen Banai and Merav Ahissar
45 The Neurobiological Basis of Dyslexia: The Magnocellular Theory 938
John Stein
46 Word Retrieval in Developmental Language Impairments:
Application of the Tip-of-the-Tongue Paradigm 963
Katy Borodkin and Miriam Faust
Acknowledgments 983
Index 985
