Language, Psychology of
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Sentence Processing
Series: Current Issues in the Psychology of Language
What are the psychological processes involved in comprehending sentences? How do we process the structure of sentences and how do we understand their meaning? Do children, bilinguals and people with language impairments process sentences in the same way as healthy monolingual adults? These are just...
To Be Published June 25th 2013 by Psychology Press
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Twenty-First Century Psycholinguistics
Four Cornerstones
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
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The Equilibrium of Human Syntax
Symmetries in the Brain
Series: Routledge Leading Linguists
This book assembles a collection of papers in two different domains: formal syntax and neurolinguistics. Here Moro provides evidence that the two fields are becoming more and more interconnected and that the new fascinating empirical questions and results in the latter field cannot be obtained...
Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
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Visual Word Recognition Volume 1
Models and Methods, Orthography and Phonology
Series: Current Issues in the Psychology of Language
Word recognition is the component of reading which involves the identification of individual words. Together the two volumes of Visual Word Recognition offer a state-of-the-art overview of contemporary research from leading figures in the field. This first volume outlines established theory, new...
Published June 20th 2012 by Psychology Press
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Visual Word Recognition Volume 2
Meaning and Context, Individuals and Development
Series: Current Issues in the Psychology of Language
Word recognition is the component of reading which involves the identification of individual words. Together the two volumes of Visual Word Recognition offer a state-of-the-art overview of contemporary research from leading figures in the field. This second volume examines how research on word...
Published June 20th 2012 by Psychology Press
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Talking Heads
The Neuroscience of Language
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
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Infant Pathways to Language
Methods, Models, and Research Directions
The recent progress in cognitive neuroscience, and the importance of genetic factors and gene-environment interactions in shaping behavioral functions in early childhood, have both underscored the primacy of early experience and development on brain development and function. The contributors to...
Published October 14th 2008 by Psychology Press





