Mind, Brain, and Language: Multidisciplinary Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Marie T. Banich, Molly Mack

• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 417
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Much of the groundbreaking work in many fields is now occurring at the intersection of traditional academic disciplines. This development is well demonstrated in this important and unique volume, which offers a multidisciplinary view of current findings and cutting-edge issues involving the relationship between mind, brain, and language. Marie T. Banich and Molly Mack have edited a collection of 11 invited chapters from top researchers (and have contributed two of their own chapters) to create a volume organized around five major topics--language emergence, influence, and development; models of language and language processing; the neurological bases of language; language disruption and loss; and dual-language systems. Topics range from the evolution of language and child-language acquisition to brain imaging and the "bilingual brain." To maintain continuity throughout, care has been taken to ensure that the chapters have been written in a style accessible to scholars across many disciplines, from anthropology and psycholinguistics to cognitive science and neurobiology. Because of its depth and breadth, this book is appropriate both as a textbook in a variety of undergraduate and graduate-level courses and as a valuable resource for researchers and scholars interested in further understanding the background of and current developments in our understanding of the mind/brain/language relationship.

✦ Table of Contents

Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 14
About the Contributors......Page 16
I The Emergence, Influence, and Development of Language......Page 24
1 Language Evolution and Innateness......Page 26
2 Language, Mind, and Culture: From Linguistic Relativity to Representational Modularity......Page 46
3 The Role of Speech Perception Capacities in Early Language Acquisition......Page 84
II Models of Language and Language Processing......Page 108
4 Dissociation and Modularity: Reflections on Language and Mind......Page 110
5 Linguistic Models......Page 136
6 Connectionist Modeling of Language: Examples and Implications......Page 166
III The Neurological Bases of Language......Page 192
7 Language in Microvolts......Page 194
8 Functional and Structural Imaging in the Study of Auditory Language Processes......Page 234
9 Parallel Systems for Processing Language: Hemispheric Complementarity in the Normal Brain......Page 252
IV Language Disruption and Loss......Page 272
10 Evidence From Language Breakdown: Implications for the Neural and Functional Organization of Language......Page 274
11 The Neurocognitive Bases of Developmental Reading Disorders......Page 306
V Two Languages, One Brain......Page 330
12 The Phonetic Systems of Bilinguals......Page 332
13 Differential Use of Cerebral Mechanisms in Bilinguals......Page 374
Author Index......Page 394
Subject Index......Page 412