The Psycholinguistics Arena provides professionals, researchers, instructors and students with information on the range of Psycholinguistics books produced by Routledge, Psychology Press, and also by Guilford Press.

Subjects covered by this Arena include: Bilingualism, Language Development, Psychology of Language, Psychology of Writing, and Non-Verbal Communication.

Psycholinguistics News:

Writing Systems Research – A New Journal from Psychology Press

Writing Systems Research – A New Journal from Psychology Press

We are very pleased to announce the arrival of Writing Systems Research, a new journal to Psychology Press in 2012.

Writing Systems Research is concerned with empirical approaches based on the analysis of written data and on experiments. It insists not only on standards of proof appropriate to psychological research in terms of size and rigor, but also on descriptions of language consonant with linguistics — in particular, not assuming the linguistic analysis and the psychological processes appropriate for one writing system, say English, can be used as universal models.

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Psychology of Language, Reading & Writing

Psychology of Language, Reading & Writing

The new Psychology Press brochure of books and journals on the Psychology of Language, Reading & Writing is now available.

This brochure includes new and recent books for researchers and professionals, bestsellers, textbooks for instructors and students, journals, and links to free journal articles.

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Writing: A Mosaic of New Perspectives

Writing: A Mosaic of New Perspectives

This book captures the diversity and richness of writing as it relates to different forms of abilities, skills, competencies, and expertise.

It will be an invaluable resource for researchers interested in language and cognition, and also educators and clinicians.

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Translation of Thought to Written Text While Composing

Translation of Thought to Written Text While Composing

Translation of cognitive representations into written language is one of the most important processes in writing.

This volume provides a long-awaited updated overview of the field for students, theorists, and empirical researchers in cognitive psychology, linguistics, and education, and teachers and clinicians who can use the research in their work.

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Three Free Volumes of the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Three Free Volumes of the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

To mark the run-up and aftermath of the Experimental Psychology Society’s January meeting we have made the most recent THREE VOLUMES (2009-2011) of their Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology free to read in full online until the end of January.

Use the link below to visit the journal’s website and browse all 35 issues of top-quality research and discussion.

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The Psychology of Reading, 2nd Edition

The Psychology of Reading, 2nd Edition

This textbook summarizes the large amount of existing research into the psychology of reading, and puts it into a coherent framework.

The central theme is how readers go about extracting information from the printed page and comprehending the text.

This is essential reading for students and researchers in cognitive psychology and the psychology of reading.

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Past, Present, and Future Contributions of Cognitive Writing Research to Cognitive Psychology

Past, Present, and Future Contributions of Cognitive Writing Research to Cognitive Psychology

This volume tells the story of research on the cognitive processes of writing – including the perspectives of the early pioneers and contemporary contributors, and visions of the future for the field.

It includes the very latest in findings from neuroscience and experimental cognitive psychology, and provides the most comprehensive current overview of this topic.

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Production of Referring Expressions: Call for Papers

Production of Referring Expressions: Call for Papers

Language and Cognitive Processes is currently inviting submissions for a Special Issue entitled Production Of Referring Expressions: Models And Empirical Data.

The Issue’s Guest Editors are keen to receive substantial, original, and unpublished manuscripts on psychologically informed modelling of reference production and experimental tests of these models. If you have a suitable article or idea for an article, we want to see it!

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New Journal to Psychology Press in 2012: Writing Systems Research

New Journal to Psychology Press in 2012: Writing Systems Research

From January 2012 Psychology Press will be publishing Writing Systems Research.

Writing Systems Research is an outstanding journal featuring original empirical or theoretical articles concerned with any issue to do with the analysis, acquisition, development or processing of writing systems in contemporary, historical or fictional use in normal or impaired single or multiple language users.

Subscriptions and new content for the journal will be online soon. Watch this space for news as it arises.

visit the journal’s brand new website and read the Aims & Scope