Contents

Volume 1 Language Processing in the Brain: Basic Science

Part I Language and Hemispheres: From Single-Word Recognition to Discourse 1

1 Individual Differences in Brain Organization for Language 3

2 The Perceptual Representation of Speech in the Cerebral Hemispheres 20

3 Mechanisms of Hemispheric Specialization: Insights from Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Studies 41

4 Understanding Written Words: Phonological, Lexical, and Contextual Effects in the Cerebral Hemispheres 59

5 The Organization of Discourse in the Brain: Results from the Item-Priming-in-Recognition Paradigm 77

Part II Computational Modeling of Language 101

6 Connectionist Modeling of Neuropsychological Deficits in Semantics, Language, and Reading 103

7 Neural Network Models of Speech Production 125

8 Word Learning as the Confluence of Memory Mechanisms: Computational and Neural Evidence 146

Part III Neural Correlates of Language Production and Comprehension 165

9 Neural Correlates of Semantic Processing in Reading Aloud 167

10 In a Word: ERPs Reveal Important Lexical Variables for Visual Word Processing 184

11 Hemodynamic Studies of Syntactic Processing 209

12 The Neurobiology of Structure-Dependency in Natural Language Grammar 229

13 How Does the Brain Establish Novel Meanings in Language? Abstract Symbol Theories Versus Embodied Theories of Meaning 252

14 Motor and Nonmotor Language Representations in the Brain 276

15 What Role Does the Cerebellum Play in Language Processing? 294

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

17 Two-Track Mind: Formulaic and Novel Language Support a Dual-Process Model 342

18 Neuropsychological and Neurophysiological Correlates of Idiom Understanding: How Many Hemispheres are Involved? 368

19 Cognitive Neuroscience of Creative Language: The Poetic and the Prosaic 386

20 The Brain behind Nonliteral Language: Insights from Brain Imaging 406

21 Thinking outside the Left Box: The Role of the Right Hemisphere in Novel Metaphor Comprehension 425

Part V The Multilingual Brain 449

22 Word Recognition in the Bilingual Brain 451

23 Vocabulary Learning in Bilingual First-Language Acquisition and Late Second-Language Learning 472

24 What ERPs Tell Us about Bilingual Language Processing 494

25 How the Brain Acquires, Processes, and Controls a Second Language 516

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

27 What the Speaking Brain Tells Us about Functional Imaging 565

28 Uncovering the Neural Substrates of Language: A Voxel-Based Lesion-Symptom Mapping Approach 582

29 Analytic Methods for Single Subject and Small Sample Aphasia Research: Some Illustrations and a Discussion 595

30 Verbal Fluency Tasks and the Neuropsychology of Language 619

Part II Neuropsychology of Language: Language Loss 635

31 The Acquisition, Retention, and Loss of Vocabulary in Aphasia, Dementia, and Other Neuropsychological Conditions 637

32 Computational Neuropsychology of Language: Language Processing and Its Breakdown in Aphasia 661

33 Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Aphasia Research 679

34 Longitudinal Study of Recovery from Aphasia: The Case of Lexical Retrieval 700

35 Multiple Languages in the Adult Brain 720

36 Clinical Neurolinguistics of Bilingualism 738

37 Sentence Comprehension in Healthy and Brain-Damaged Populations 760

38 The Neural Basis for Aging Effects on Language 778

Part III Neuropsychology of Language: Developmental Language Disorders 801

39 Neuropsychological and Neuroimaging Aspects of Developmental Language Disorders 803

40 Specific Language Impairment: Processing Deficits in Linguistic, Cognitive, and Sensory Domains 826

41 The Neurobiology of Specific Language Impairment 847

42 Dyslexia: The Brain Bases of Reading Impairments 868

43 Acquired and Developmental Disorders of Reading and Spelling 892

44 The Role of Anchoring in Auditory and Speech Perception in the General and Dyslexic Populations 921

45 The Neurobiological Basis of Dyslexia: The Magnocellular Theory 938

46 Word Retrieval in Developmental Language Impairments: Application of the Tip-of-the-Tongue Paradigm 963

Acknowledgments 983

Index 985