Cognitive Neuroscience of Language - David Kemmerer

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language

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Buch | Softcover
600 Seiten
2014
Psychology Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84872-621-5 (ISBN)
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Language is one of our most precious and uniquely human capacities, so it is not surprising that research on its neural substrates has been advancing quite rapidly in recent years. Until now, however, there has not been a single introductory textbook that focuses specifically on this topic.

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language fills that gap by providing an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in the field. It guides students through all of the major areas of investigation, beginning with fundamental aspects of brain structure and function, and then proceeding to cover aphasia syndromes, the perception and production of speech, the processing of language in written and signed modalities, the meanings of words, and the formulation and comprehension of complex expressions, including grammatically inflected words, complete sentences, and entire stories.

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. Although much of the content is inherently challenging and intended primarily for graduate or upper-level undergraduate students, it requires no previous knowledge of either neuroscience or linguistics, defining technical terms and explaining important principles from both disciplines along the way.

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. He is also an affiliate of the Interdepartmental Linguistics Program at Purdue. In addition, he has an adjunct appointment in the Division of Behavioral Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Iowa, where he worked as a postdoctoral fellow before becoming a faculty member at Purdue. He has taught courses on the neural bases of speech and language, the broader field of cognitive neuroscience, and diverse topics in linguistics. Professor Kemmerer’s research focuses on how different kinds of linguistic meaning are mediated by different neural systems, drawing on behavioral and lesion data from brain-damaged patients as well as behavioral, electrophysiological, and functional neuroimaging data from healthy subjects. He has published over 40 journal articles and book chapters describing various aspects of his research.

Part 1: Fundamentals. The Human Brain. Brain Mapping Methods. Part 2: Aphasia. Classic Aphasia Syndromes. Primary Progressive Aphasia Syndromes. Part 3: The Perception and Production of Speech. Speech Perception. Speech Production. Prosody. Part 4: Other Modalities of Language Use. Reading and Writing. Sign Language. Part 5: The Meaning of Words. Object Nouns. Action Verbs. Abstract Words. Part 6: Morphology, Syntax, and Discourse. Morphology. Sentence Production. Sentence Comprehension. Discourse.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 16.1.2015
Zusatzinfo 59 Tables, black and white; 352 Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort Hove
Sprache englisch
Maße 203 x 254 mm
Gewicht 1440 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Verhaltenstherapie
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Humanbiologie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Zoologie
ISBN-10 1-84872-621-X / 184872621X
ISBN-13 978-1-84872-621-5 / 9781848726215
Zustand Neuware
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