Language Electrified

ISBN-13: 9781071632628 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Opis

Language, as a system we use to communicate, represents the brain’s biologically perfected machinery for converting thoughts (ideas, concepts, and reflections of both the outside world and our inner feelings) into words and sentences. Crucially, this process occurs in real time. How hundreds of billions of neurons within the dark of the skull control language and speech remains, in some respects, a mystery. To track such neural dynamics in time, we need to exploit physiological tools capable of following temporal patterns of neural activity on a fine-grain time scale. In parallel, it is necessary to begin to provide a real interdisciplinary academic background for scholars wishing to embark on this field of study. Unlike many similar efforts, this book has been conceived as a hands-on tool offering the reader the possibility to progressively acquire principles, techniques, and methods necessary to pursue interdisciplinary research in a fascinating field intersecting linguistic and neuroscience. It focuses on neurophysiological methods and applications useful to track the high speed and rapid temporal dynamics of neural activity involved in language and speech. The chapters in this book are organized into four parts. Part One discusses neural principles and tools for an effective approach to the field of investigation. Part Two looks at the issues and perspectives concerned with the use of a range of neurophysiological technologies to investigate the neural computations of language and speech processes. Part Three focuses on an in-depth exploration of the neural processes associated with the main types of linguistic information, ranging from phonemes and prosody to syntax, pragmatics, and figurative language. Lastly, Part Five explores the phenomena that goes beyond the segments of basic linguistic units. In the Neuromethods series style, chapters include the kind of detail and key advice from the specialists needed to get successful results in your laboratory    

Cutting-edge and thorough, Language Electrified: Principles, Methods, and Future Perspectives of Investigation is a valuable resource that offers the necessary tool-box for all researchers and scientists interested in the challenging field of the neurophysiology of language and speech.

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Series Preface…

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Table of Contents…

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Part I Principles and Tools

1. From Neurons to Language and Speech: An Overview

Mirko Grimaldi and Cosimo Iaia

2. How the Brain Works: Perspectives on the Future of Human Neuroscience Research

Ramesh Srinivasan 

3. How Do We Get the Brain to Tell Us about Language Computations and Representations? Designing and Implementing Experiments

Miika Leminen and Alina Leminen 

4. Software and Resources for Experiments and Data Analysis

Lau Møller Andersen

5. Principles of Statistical Analyses: Old and New Tools

Franziska Kretzschmar and Phillip M. Alday 

Part II Technologies and Methods

6. Fundamentals of Electroencephalography and Magnetoencephalography

Antonio Criscuolo and Elvira Brattico

7. Event Related Potentials (ERPs) and Event-Related Fields (ERFs)

Tiina Parviainen and Jan Kujala 

8. Neural Oscillations in EEG and MEG

Alessandro Tavano, Johanna M. Rimmele, Georgios Michalareas, and David Poeppel

9. Human Intracranial Recordings for Language Research

William L. Schuerman and Matthew K. Leonard

10. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Speech and Language Research

Alessandro D’Ausilio, Maria Concetta Pellicciari, Elias Paolo Casula, and Luciano Fadiga

11. Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS)

Roberta Ferrucci, Fabiana Ruggiero, Francesca Mameli, Tommaso Bocci, and Alberto Priori 

12. Electromyographic (EMG) Responses of Facial Muscles during Language Processing

Anton van Boxtel

Part III From Sounds to Syntax

13. Neurocomputational Properties of Speech Sound Perception and Production

Mirko Grimaldi 

14. Neural Correlates of Morphology Computation and Representation

Phaedra Royle and Karsten Steinhauer 

15. Electrophysiology of Word Learning

Alina Leminen, Eino Partanen, and Yury Shtyrov

16. Neural Underpinnings of Semantic Processing

Milena Rabovsky

17. Sentence Processing: How Words Generate Syntactic Structures in the Brain

Jordi Martorell, Piermatteo Morucci, Simona Mancini, and Nicola Molinaro

Part IV Beyond Segments

18. Pragmatics Electrified

Paolo Canal and Valentina Bambini

19. Electrophysiology of Non-Literal Language

Vicky Tzuyin Lai, Ryan Hubbard, Li-Chuan Ku, and Valeria Pfeifer 

20. Neurological Evidence of the Phonological Nature of Tones

Amedeo De Dominicis 

21. Neurophysiological Underpinnings of Prosody

Silke Paulmann 

22. Using Facial EMG to Track Emotion during Language Comprehension: Past, Present, and Future

Jos J.A. van Berkum, Marijn Struiksma, and Björn ‘t Hart

23. Eye-Tracking Methods in Psycholinguistics

Mikhail Pokhoday, Beatriz Bermúdez-Margaretto, Anastasia Malyshevskaya, Petr Kotrelev, Yury Shtyrov, and Andriy Myachykov

24. Neurophysiology of Language and Speech Pathologies

Laura Verga, Michael Schwartze, and Sonja A. Kotz 

25. Electrophysiological Correlates of Second Language Acquisition: From Words to Sentences

Sendy Caffarra and Manuel Carreiras 

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