Language Electrified

Principles, Methods, and Future Perspectives of Investigation
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-0716-3262-8
Verlag: Springer US

Buch, Englisch, Band 202, 799 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1709 g

Reihe: Neuromethods

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.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grimaldi, Mirko

Shtyrov, Yury

Brattico, Elvira

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Neurologie, Klinische Neurowissenschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Neurowissenschaften, Kognitionswissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Preface…Preface…Table of Contents…Contributing Authors…
Part I Principles and Tools
1. From Neurons to Language and Speech: An OverviewMirko Grimaldi and Cosimo Iaia
2. How the Brain Works: Perspectives on the Future of Human Neuroscience ResearchRamesh Srinivasan 
3. How Do We Get the Brain to Tell Us about Language Computations and Representations? Designing and Implementing ExperimentsMiika Leminen and Alina Leminen 
4. Software and Resources for Experiments and Data AnalysisLau Møller Andersen

5. Principles of Statistical Analyses: Old and New ToolsFranziska Kretzschmar and Phillip M. Alday 
Part II Technologies and Methods
6. Fundamentals of Electroencephalography and MagnetoencephalographyAntonio 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 MEGAlessandro Tavano, Johanna M. Rimmele, Georgios Michalareas, and David Poeppel
9. Human Intracranial Recordings for Language ResearchWilliam L. Schuerman and Matthew K. Leonard
10. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Speech and Language ResearchAlessandro 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 ProcessingAnton van Boxtel
Part III From Sounds to Syntax
13. Neurocomputational Properties of Speech Sound Perception and ProductionMirko Grimaldi 
14. Neural Correlates of Morphology Computation and RepresentationPhaedra Royle and Karsten Steinhauer 
15. Electrophysiology of Word LearningAlina Leminen, Eino Partanen, and Yury Shtyrov
16. Neural Underpinnings of Semantic ProcessingMilena Rabovsky
17. Sentence Processing: How Words Generate Syntactic Structures in the BrainJordi Martorell, Piermatteo Morucci, Simona Mancini, and Nicola Molinaro
Part IV Beyond Segments
18. Pragmatics ElectrifiedPaolo Canal and Valentina Bambini
19. Electrophysiology of Non-Literal LanguageVicky Tzuyin Lai, Ryan Hubbard, Li-Chuan Ku, and Valeria Pfeifer 
20. Neurological Evidence of the Phonological Nature of TonesAmedeo De Dominicis 
21. Neurophysiological Underpinnings of ProsodySilke Paulmann 
22. Using Facial EMG to Track Emotion during Language Comprehension: Past, Present, and FutureJos J.A. van Berkum, Marijn Struiksma, and Björn ‘t Hart
23. Eye-Tracking Methods in PsycholinguisticsMikhail Pokhoday, Beatriz Bermúdez-Margaretto, Anastasia Malyshevskaya, Petr Kotrelev, Yury Shtyrov, and Andriy Myachykov
24. Neurophysiology of Language and Speech PathologiesLaura Verga, Michael Schwartze, and Sonja A. Kotz 
25. Electrophysiological Correlates of Second Language Acquisition: From Words to SentencesSendy Caffarra and Manuel Carreiras 
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