Psycholinguistics Arena

Perspectives on Agrammatism

• Edited by Roelien Bastiaanse, and Cynthia K. Thompson.

Published April 2012

Agrammatic aphasia (agrammatism), resulting from brain damage to regions of the brain involved in language processing, affects grammatical aspects of language. Therefore, research examining language breakdown (and recovery) patterns in agrammatism is of great interest and importance to linguists,…
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From Mental Imagery to Spatial Cognition and Language

Essays in Honour of Michel Denis

• Edited by Valérie Gyselinck, and Francesca Pazzaglia.

Published March 2012

The nature of mental images and their relation to language has caused controversy amongst psychologists for years, and the so-called "imagery debate" is still unresolved. However, fresh light is being shed on this argument using recent findings in neuroscience and the development of behavioural…
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Translation of Thought to Written Text While Composing

Advancing Theory, Knowledge, Research Methods, Tools, and Applications

• Edited by Michel Fayol, M. Denis Alamargot and Virginia Berninger.

Published February 2012

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. The contributors discuss each of the commonly used research methods for studying translation; theorize about the…
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The Cognitive Neuroscience of Semantic Processing

A Special Issue of Language and Cognitive Processes

• Edited by Wolfram Hinzen, and David Poeppel.

Published November 2011

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…
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Biological Foundations of Language Production

A Special Issue of Language and Cognitive Processes

• Edited by Michele Miozzo, and Brenda Rapp.

Published October 2011

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. …
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Talking Heads

The Neuroscience of Language

• By Gianfranco Denes.
• Translated by Philippa Venturelli Smith.

Published September 2011

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…
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Jokes and the Linguistic Mind

• By Debra Aarons.

Published August 2011

Through the lens of cognitive science, Jokes and the Linguistic Mind investigates jokes that play on some aspect of the structure and function of language. In so doing, Debra Aarons shows that these “linguistic jokes” can evoke our tacit knowledge of the language we use. Analyzing…
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The Tip of the Tongue State

• By Alan S. Brown.

Published July 2011

This book brings together the body of empirical findings and theoretical interpretations of the tip of the tongue (TOT) experience – when a well-known or familiar word cannot immediately be recalled. Although research has been published on TOTs for over a century, the experience retains its…
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Morphology in Language Comprehension, Production and Acquisition

A Special Issue of Language and Cognitive Processes

• Edited by Raymond Bertram, Jukka Hyönä and Matti Laine.

Published June 2011

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…
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The Language of Metaphors

• By Andrew Goatly.

Published May 2011

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…
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