米丽娅姆·福斯特（Miriam Faust）是以色列巴伊兰大学心理系教授，也是国际上语言加工研究领域的重要学者。研究领域主要包括大脑左右半球的语义加工、词汇提取，以及语音加工。

Contents

Volume 1 Language Processing in the Brain: Basic Science

Part I Language and Hemispheres: From Single-Word Recognition to Discourse  1

1 Individual Differences in Brain Organization for Language  3

2 The Perceptual Representation of Speech in the Cerebral Hemispheres  20

3 Mechanisms of Hemispheric Specialization: Insights from Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Studies  41

4 Understanding Written Words: Phonological, Lexical, and Contextual Effects in the Cerebral Hemispheres  59

5 The Organization of Discourse in the Brain: Results from the Item-Priming-in-Recognition Paradigm  77

Part II Computational Modeling of Language  101

6 Connectionist Modeling of Neuropsychological Deficits in Semantics, Language, and Reading 103

7 Neural Network Models of Speech Production  125

8 Word Learning as the Confluence of Memory Mechanisms: Computational and Neural Evidence 146

Part III Neural Correlates of Language Production and Comprehension  165

9 Neural Correlates of Semantic Processing in Reading Aloud  167

10 In a Word: ERPs Reveal Important Lexical Variables for Visual Word Processing  184

11 Hemodynamic Studies of Syntactic Processing  209

12 The Neurobiology of Structure-Dependency in Natural Language Grammar  229

13 How Does the Brain Establish Novel Meanings in Language? Abstract Symbol Theories Versus Embodied Theories of Meaning  252

14 Motor and Nonmotor Language Representations in the Brain  276

15 What Role Does the Cerebellum Play in Language Processing?  294

Part IV Coping with Higher-Level Processing: The Brain Behind Figurative and Creative Language  317

16 Bilateral Processing and Affect in Creative Language Comprehension  319

17 Two-Track Mind: Formulaic and Novel Language Support a Dual-Process Model  342

18 Neuropsychological and Neurophysiological Correlates of Idiom Understanding: How Many Hemispheres are Involved?  368

19 Cognitive Neuroscience of Creative Language: The Poetic and the Prosaic  386

20 The Brain behind Nonliteral Language: Insights from Brain Imaging  406

21 Thinking outside the Left Box: The Role of the Right Hemisphere in Novel Metaphor Comprehension  425

Part V The Multilingual Brain  449

22 Word Recognition in the Bilingual Brain  451

23 Vocabulary Learning in Bilingual First-Language Acquisition and Late Second-Language Learning  472

24 What ERPs Tell Us about Bilingual Language Processing  494

25 How the Brain Acquires, Processes, and Controls a Second Language  516

Acknowledgments  539

Volume 2 Language Processing in the Brain: Clinical Populations

Part I Neuropsychology of Language: Methods and Paradigms  543

26 Potentials and Paradigms: Event-Related Brain Potentials and Neuropsychology  545

27 What the Speaking Brain Tells Us about Functional Imaging  565

28 Uncovering the Neural Substrates of Language: A Voxel-Based Lesion-Symptom Mapping Approach  582

29 Analytic Methods for Single Subject and Small Sample Aphasia Research: Some Illustrations and a Discussion  595

30 Verbal Fluency Tasks and the Neuropsychology of Language  619

Part II Neuropsychology of Language: Language Loss  635

31 The Acquisition, Retention, and Loss of Vocabulary in Aphasia, Dementia, and Other Neuropsychological Conditions  637

32 Computational Neuropsychology of Language: Language Processing and Its Breakdown in Aphasia  661

33 Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Aphasia Research  679

34 Longitudinal Study of Recovery from Aphasia: The Case of Lexical Retrieval  700

35 Multiple Languages in the Adult Brain  720

36 Clinical Neurolinguistics of Bilingualism  738

37 Sentence Comprehension in Healthy and Brain-Damaged Populations  760

38 The Neural Basis for Aging Effects on Language  778

Part III Neuropsychology of Language: Developmental Language Disorders  801

39 Neuropsychological and Neuroimaging Aspects of Developmental Language Disorders  803

40 Specific Language Impairment: Processing Deficits in Linguistic, Cognitive, and Sensory Domains  826

41 The Neurobiology of Specific Language Impairment  847

42 Dyslexia: The Brain Bases of Reading Impairments  868

43 Acquired and Developmental Disorders of Reading and Spelling  892

44 The Role of Anchoring in Auditory and Speech Perception in the General and Dyslexic Populations  921

45 The Neurobiological Basis of Dyslexia: The Magnocellular Theory  938

46 Word Retrieval in Developmental Language Impairments: Application of the Tip-of-the-Tongue Paradigm  963

Acknowledgments  983

Index  985