The Cambridge Handbook of Psycholinguistics (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology)

Cambridge University Press, 8/20/2012
EAN 9780521677929, ISBN10: 0521677920

Paperback, 760 pages, 25.4 x 17.8 x 3.2 cm
Language: English

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 language, 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 children 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 who are interested in the recent developments and the future of psycholinguistics.

Part I. Speech Perception
1. Speech perception Carol A. Fowler and James S. Magnuson
2. Neural bases of speech perception – phonology, streams and auditory word forms Sophie Scott
3. Learning the sounds of language Jenny R. Saffran and Sarah D. Sahni
Part II. Spoken Word Recognition
4. Current directions in research in spoken word recognition Arthur G. Samuel and Meghan Sumner
5. Computational models of spoken word recognition James S. Magnuson, Daniel Mirman and Harlan D. Harris
6. Finding the words
how young children develop skill in interpreting spoken language Anne Fernald and Michael Frank
7. Event-related potentials and magnetic fields associated with components and subcomponents that enable spoken word recognition John F. Connolly, Randy L. Newman and Kelly Forbes
Part III. Written Word Recognition
8. Visual word recognition in skilled adult readers Michael J. Cortese and David A. Balota
9. Computational models of reading
connectionist and dual-route approaches Mark S. Seidenberg
10. Decoding, orthographic learning and the development of visual word recognition Kate Nation
11. How does the brain read words? Rebecca Sandak, Stephen J. Frost, Jay G. Rueckl, Nicole Landi, W. Einar Mencl, Leonard Katz and Kenneth R. Pugh
Part IV. Semantic Memory
12. The human conceptual system Lawrence W. Barsalou
13. Computational models of semantic memory George S. Cree and Blair C. Armstrong
14. Developing categories and concepts Linda B. Smith and Eliana Colunga
Part V. Morphological Processing
15. Derivational morphology and skilled reading
an empirical overview Kevin Diependaele, Jonathan Grainger and Dominiek Sandra
16. The neural basis of morphology
a tale of two mechanisms? Anna Woollams and Karalyn Patterson
Part VI. Sentence Comprehension
17. Individual differences in sentence processing Thomas A. Farmer, Jennifer B. Misyak and Morten H. Christiansen
18. The neurobiology of sentence comprehension Lee Osterhout, Albert Kim and Gina R. Kuperberg
19. Computational and corpus models of human sentence comprehension Douglas Roland and Mary Hare
Part VII. Sentence Production
20. Research in language production Zenzi M. Griffin and Christopher M. Crew
21. Language production
computational models Gary S. Dell and Joana Cholin
22. Language production
patient and imaging research Gabriella Vigliocco, Daniel Tranel and Judit Druks
Part VIII. Figurative Language
23. Figurative language
normal adult cognitive research Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr, Nicole L. Wilson and Gregory A. Bryant
24. Computational approaches to figurative language Birte Loenneker-Rodman and Srini Narayanan
25. The development of figurative language Cristina Cacciari and Roberto Padovani
26. Cognitive neuroscience of figurative language Seana Coulson
Part IX. Discourse and Conversation
27. Spoken discourse and its emergence Herbert H. Clark
28. Computational modeling of discourse and conversation Arthur C. Graesser, Danielle S. Macnamara and Vasile Rus
29. Children, conversation, and acquisition Eve Clark
30. The electrophysiology of discourse and conversation Jos J. A. Van Berkum
Part X. Language and Thought
31. How the languages we speak shape the ways we think
the FAQs Lera Boroditsky
32. Computational approaches to language and thought Terry Regier
33. Language and cognition in development Dedre Gentner and Stella Christie
34. Language, thought and … brain? Monica Gonzalez-Marquez.