Right Hemisphere Language Comprehension : Perspectives From Cognitive Neuroscience

ISBN-13: 9780805819250 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 424 str.

Beeman; Mark Jung Beeman; Christine Chiarello

Opis

The statement, The right hemisphere (RH) processes language - while not exactly revolutionary - still provokes vigorous debate. It often elicits the argument that anything the RH does with language is not linguistic but paralinguistic. The resistance to the notion of RH language processing persists despite the fact that even the earliest observers of left hemisphere (LH) language specialization posited some role for the RH in language processing, and evidence attesting to various RH language processes has steadily accrued for more than 30 years.

Recenzje

"The editors should be commended for the selection of high level work, and for their effort to integrate it with an excellent introduction, comments on each section and summary. This is an enjoyable and current text in an important area, which can be read by the novice and expert alike. It provides useful references in addition to serving as an important educational resource."
—The Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences

"The chapters are uniformly excellent and the commentaries following each section summarize and provide additional food for thought. This is a text that would be appropriate for advanced graduate and post-graduate students as well as cognitive and affective neuroscientists willing to accept the challenges of an expanded view of right hemisphere language function."
—Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Spis treści

Contents: C. Chiarello, M. Beeman, Introduction to the Cognitive Neuroscience of Right Hemisphere Language Comprehension. Part I:Decoding Speech Sounds and Individual Words. R. Ivry, P.C. Lebby, The Neurology of Consonant Perception: Specialized Module or Distributed Processors? J.M. Clarke, C.M. McCann, E. Zaidel, The Corpus Callosum and Language: Anatomical-Behavioral Relationships. M.T. Banich, C.D. Nicholas, Integration of Processing Between the Hemispheres in Word Recognition. K. Baynes, J.C. Eliassen, The Visual Lexicon: Its Access and Organization in Commissurotomy Patients. H.B. Coslett, E.M. Saffran, Reading and the Right Hemisphere: Evidence From Acquired Dyslexia. C. Chiarello, M. Beeman, Commentary: Right Hemisphere Linguistic Decoding--More Than Meets the Eye and Ear? Part II:Lexical and Sentence-Level Semantics. C. Chiarello, On Codes of Meaning and the Meaning of Codes: Semantic Access and Retrieval Within and Between Hemispheres. M. Faust, Obtaining Evidence of Language Comprehension From Sentence Priming. J.W. King, G.G. Ganis, M. Kutas, Potential Asymmetries in Language Comprehension: In Search of the Electrical Right. C. Burgess, K. Lund, Modeling Cerebral Asymmetries in High-Dimensional Space. C. Chiarello, M. Beeman, Commentary: Getting the Right Meaning From Words and Sentences. Part III:Discourse Processing and Problem Solving. M. Beeman, Coarse Semantic Coding and Discourse Comprehension. J.C. Borod, R.L. Bloom, C. Santschi-Haywood, Verbal Aspects of Emotional Communication. H. Brownell, G. Martino, Deficits in Inference and Social Cognition: The Effects of Right Hemisphere Brain Damage on Discourse. B. Stemmer, Y. Joanette, The Interpretation of Narrative Discourse of Brain-Damaged Individuals Within the Framework of a Multilevel Discourse Model. S.M. Fiore, J.W. Schooler, Right Hemisphere Contributions to Creative Problem Solving: Converging Evidence for Divergent Thinking. M. Beeman, C. Chiarello, Commentary: Getting the Right Meaning From Discourse. M. Beeman, C. Chiarello, Concluding Remarks: Getting the Whole Story Right.

O autorze

Mark Jung Beeman, Christine Chiarello