Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience 2013

The Psychology of Language

From Data to Theory, 4th Edition

By Trevor A Harley

This fully revised edition of the popular textbook provides an up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to the psychology of language for undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers. It contains everything the student needs to know about how we acquire, understand, produce, and store language....

To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Psychology Press

Uncommon Understanding (Classic Edition)

Development and disorders of language comprehension in children

By Dorothy Bishop

Series: Psychology Press Classic Editions

This is a 'classic edition' of Dorothy Bishop's award-winning text on the development of language comprehension, which has been in print since 1997 and now includes a new introduction from the author. It integrates research in language acquisition, psycholinguistics and neuropsychology to...

To Be Published July 9th 2013 by Psychology Press

Foreign Vocabulary in Sign Languages

A Cross-Linguistic Investigation of Word Formation

Edited by Diane Brentari

This book takes a close look at the ways that five sign languages borrow elements from the surrounding, dominant spoken language community where each is situated. It offers careful analyses of semantic, morphosyntactic, and phonological adaption of forms taken from a source language (in this case a...

To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press

Automaticity and Control in Language Processing

Edited by Antje Meyer, Linda Wheeldon, Andrea Krott

Series: Advances in Behavioural Brain Science

The use of language is a fundamental component of much of our day-to-day life. Language often co-occurs with other activities with which it must be coordinated. This raises the question of whether the cognitive processes involved in planning spoken utterances and in understanding them are...

To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press

Relating Events in Narrative, Volume 2

Typological and Contextual Perspectives

Edited by Sven Str”mqvist, Ludo Verhoeven, Sven Stromqvist

Relating Events in Narrative, Volume 2: Typological and Contextual Perspectives edited by Sven Strömqvist and Ludo Verhoeven, is the much anticipated follow-up volume to Ruth Berman and Dan Slobin's successful "frog-story studies" book, Relating Events in Narrative: A Crosslinguistic...

To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press

An Emergence Approach to Speech Acquisition

Doing and Knowing

By Barbara L. Davis, Lisa M. Bedore

The central assertion in this volume is that the young child uses general skills, scaffolded by adults, to acquire the complex knowledge of sound patterns and the goal-directed behaviors for communicating ideas through language and producing speech. A child’s acquisition of phonology is seen...

Published May 12th 2013 by Psychology Press

Twenty-First Century Psycholinguistics

Four Cornerstones

Edited by Anne Cutler

Psycholinguistics is an interdisciplinary field, and hence relationships are at its heart. First and foremost is the relationship between its two parent disciplines, psychology and linguistics, a relationship which has changed and advanced over the half century of the field's independent existence....

Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge

Speech Recognition in Adverse Conditions

Explorations in Behaviour and Neuroscience

Edited by Sven Mattys, Ann Bradlow, Matthew Davis, Sophie Scott

Series: Special Issues of Language and Cognitive Processes

Speech recognition in ‘adverse conditions’ has been a familiar area of research in computer science, engineering, and hearing sciences for several decades. In contrast, most psycholinguistic theories of speech recognition are built upon evidence gathered from tasks performed by healthy listeners on...

Published April 11th 2013 by Psychology Press

Perspectives on Classifier Constructions in Sign Languages

Edited by Karen Emmorey

Classifier constructions are universal to sign languages and exhibit unique properties that arise from the nature of the visual-gestural modality. The major goals are to bring to light critical issues related to the study of classifier constructions and to present state-of-the-art linguistic and...

Published March 21st 2013 by Psychology Press

Language, Literacy, and Cognitive Development

The Development and Consequences of Symbolic Communication

Edited by Eric Amsel, James P. Byrnes

Series: Jean Piaget Symposia Series

Language, Literacy, and Cognitive Development addresses the impact of language and literacy on cognitive development. Top researchers examine the cognitive significance of the growth in children's ability to express themselves symbolically, whether that involves communicating linguistically,...

Published February 13th 2013 by Psychology Press

From Orthography to Pedagogy

Essays in Honor of Richard L. Venezky

Edited by Thomas R. Trabasso, John P. Sabatini, Dominic W. Massaro, Robert Calfee

From Orthography to Pedagogy pays tribute to Richard L. Venezky's work and influence on reading, linguistics, and computer science. This book catalogs findings related to speech and language development, reading and spelling's role in infant speech development, and the present and future advances...

Published February 4th 2013 by Psychology Press

Figurative Language Comprehension

Social and Cultural Influences

Edited by Herbert L. Colston, Albert N. Katz

Figurative language, such as verbal irony, metaphor, hyperbole, idioms, and other forms is an increasingly important subfield within the empirical study of language comprehension and use. Figurative Language Comprehension: Social and Cultural Influences is an edited scholarly book that ties...

Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge

Psycholinguistic Phenomena in Marketing Communications

Edited by Tina M. Lowrey

The field of psycholinguistics and the application of psycholinguistic theory to advertising and marketing communication has become a topic of great prominence in the field of consumer behavior. Psycholinguistic Phenomena in Marketing Communications is the first book to address the growing research...

Published January 10th 2013 by Psychology Press

Imagery and Text

A Dual Coding Theory of Reading and Writing, 2nd Edition

By Mark Sadoski, Allan Paivio

Imagery and Text, Second Edition extends the first edition’s unified theory of cognition in literacy from the perspective of Dual Coding Theory (DCT), one of the most influential and empirically sound theories of cognition ever developed. This theory provides a comprehensive, systematic account of...

Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge

Technology, Literacy, and the Evolution of Society

Implications of the Work of Jack Goody

Edited by David R. Olson, Michael Cole

Inspired by the seminal work of Jack Goody, a historical anthropologist specializing in the study of social structure and change, Technology, Literacy, and the Evolution of Society gathers diverse perspectives of 20 distinguished historians, anthropologists, psychologists, and educators to address...

Published December 4th 2012 by Psychology Press

Semantic Priming

Perspectives from Memory and Word Recognition

By Timothy P. McNamara

Series: Essays in Cognitive Psychology

Semantic priming has been a focus of research in the cognitive sciences for more than thirty years and is commonly used as a tool for investigating other aspects of perception and cognition, such as word recognition, language comprehension, and knowledge representations. Semantic Priming:...

Published August 15th 2012 by Psychology Press

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Semantic Processing

A Special Issue of Language and Cognitive Processes

Edited by Wolfram Hinzen, David Poeppel

Series: Special Issues of Language and Cognitive Processes

The issue presents a selection of approaches to the cognitive neuroscience of semantic processing. The term ‘semantics’ covers a range of approaches: perception-based conceptual structures, the impact of concepts such as animacy on syntactically determined meaning, the unification of incoming...

Published November 15th 2011 by Psychology Press

Biological Foundations of Language Production

A Special Issue of Language and Cognitive Processes

Edited by Michele Miozzo, Brenda Rapp

Series: Special Issues of Language and Cognitive Processes

The ever-expanding repertoire of neurocognitive methods has provided an unprecedented opportunity to investigate language production. The research reported in this volume demonstrates the usefulness of these methods for advancing our understanding of the neural bases of language production. ...

Published October 13th 2011 by Psychology Press

Talking Heads

The Neuroscience of Language

By Gianfranco Denes

The origin, development, and nature of language has been the focus of theoretical debate among philosophers for many centuries. Following the pioneering clinical observations 150 years ago of loss of language following a cerebral lesion, language started to be considered a biological system, that...

Published September 6th 2011 by Psychology Press

Morphology in Language Comprehension, Production and Acquisition

A Special Issue of Language and Cognitive Processes

Edited by Raymond Bertram, Jukka Hyönä, Matti Laine

Series: Special Issues of Language and Cognitive Processes

Does darkness lead to happiness? Is there corn in the corner? These are questions that make - to some extent - semantically sense, but for researchers interested in the role of morphology in word processing they make morphologically sense as well. This Special Issue on Morphological Processing is...

Published June 13th 2011 by Psychology Press

The Language of Metaphors

2nd Edition

By Andrew Goatly

In this ambitious and wide-ranging book, Andrew Goatly looks at how we use metaphor to communicate meaning. Combining insights from functional linguistics and relevance theory, he provides a powerful model for understanding how metaphors work in real communicative situations, how we use them to...

Published May 26th 2011 by Routledge