The Oxford Handbook of Neurolinguistics

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Neurolinguistics is a young and highly interdisciplinary field, with influences from psycholinguistics, psychology, aphasiology, and (cognitive) neuroscience, as well as other fields. Neurolinguistics, like psycholinguistics, covers aspects of language processing; but unlike psycholinguistics, it draws on data from patients with damage to language processing capacities, or the use of modern neuroimaging technologies such as fMRI, TMS, or both. The burgeoning interest in neurolinguistics reflects that an understanding of the neural bases of this data can inform more biologically plausible models of the human capacity for language. The OxfordHandbook of Neurolinguistics provides concise overviews of this rapidly-growing field, and engages a broad audience with an interest in the neurobiology of language. The chapters do not attempt to provide exhaustive coverage, but rather present discussions of prominent questions posed by given topics. The volume opens with essential methodological chapters: Section I, Methods, covers the key techniques and technologies used to study the neurobiology of language today, with chapters structured along the basic divisions of the field. Section II addresses the neurobiology of language acquisition during healthy development and in response to challenges presented by congenital and acquired conditions. Section III covers the many facets of our articulate brain, or speech-language pathology, and the capacity for language production-written, spoken, and signed. Questions regarding how the brain comprehends meaning, including emotions at word and discourse levels, are addressed in Section IV. Finally, Section V reaches into broader territory, characterizing and contextualizing the neurobiology of language with respect to more fundamental neuroanatomical mechanisms and general cognitive domains. Cover The Oxford Handbook of Neurolinguistics Copyright Contents Preface List of Contributors 1. Neurolinguistics: A Brief Historical Perspective Part I. The Methods 2. Neurolinguistic Studies of Patients with Acquired Aphasias 3. Electrophysiological Methods in the Study of Language Processing 4. Studying Language with Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) 5. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to Study the Neural Network Account of Language 6. Magnetoencephalography and the Cortical Dynamics of Language Processing 7. Shedding Light on Language Function and Its Development with Optical Brain Imaging 8. What Has Direct Cortical and Subcortical Electrostimulation Taught Us about Neurolinguistics? 9. Diffusion Imaging Methods in Language Sciences Part II. Development and Plasticity 10. Neuroplasticity: Language and Emotional Development in Children with Perinatal Stroke 11. The Neurolinguistics of Bilingualism: Plasticity and Control 12. Language and Aging 13. Language Plasticity in Epilepsy 14. Language Development in Deaf Children: Sign Language and Cochlear Implants Part III. Articulation and Production 15. Neuromotor Organization of Speech Production 16. The Neural Organization of Signed Language: Aphasia and Neuroscience Evidence 17. Understanding How We Produce Written Words: Lessons from the Brain 18. Motor Speech Disorders 19. Investigating the Spatial and Temporal Components of Speech Production 20. The Dorsal Stream Auditory-​Motor Interface for Speech Part IV. Concepts and Comprehension 21. Neural Representations of Concept Knowledge 22. Finding Concepts in Brain Patterns: From Feature Lists to Similarity Spaces 23. The How and What of Object Knowledge in the Human Brain 24. Neural Basis of Monolingual and Bilingual Reading 25. Dyslexia and Its Neurobiological Basis 26. Speech Perception: A Perspective from Lateralization, Motorization, and Oscillation 27. Sentence Processing: Toward a Neurobiological Approach 28. Comprehension of Metaphors and Idioms: An Updated Meta-​analysis of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies 29. Language Comprehension and Emotion: Where Are the Interfaces, and Who Cares? Part V. Grammar and Cognition 30. Grammatical Categories 31. Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Agrammatism 32. Verbal Working Memory 33. Subcortical Contributions to Language 34. Lateralization of Language 35. Neural Mechanisms of Music and Language Index