Spivey Michael, McRae Ken, Joanisse Marc (eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Psycholinguistics

Cambridge University Press. New York, NY, USA. 2012. — 760 pages. Includes index. — ISBN: 0521860644; 0521677920.Our ability to speak, write, understand speech, and read is critical to our ability to function in today's society. As such, psycholinguistics, or the study of how humans learn and use language, is a central topic in cognitive science.This comprehensive handbook is a collection of chapters written not by practitioners in the field, who can summarize the work going on around them, but by trailblazers from a wide array of subfields, who have been shaping the field of psycholinguistics over the last decade. Some topics discussed include how children learn language, how average adults understand and produce language, how language is represented in the brain, how brain-damaged individuals perform in terms of their language abilities, and computer-based models of language and meaning. This is required reading for advanced researchers, graduate students, and upper-level undergraduates who are interested in the recent developments and the future of psycholinguistics.Speech Perception
Speech Perception
Neural Bases of Speech Perception – Phonology, Streams, and Auditory Word Forms
Learning the Sounds of Language
Spoken Word Recognition
Current Directions in Research in Spoken Word Recognition
Computational Models of Spoken Word Recognition
Finding the Words: How Young Children Develop Skill in Interpreting Spoken Language
Event-Related Potentials and Magnetic Fields Associated with Spoken Word Recognition
Written Word Recognition
Visual Word Recognition in Skilled Adult Readers
Computational Models of Reading: Connectionist and Dual-Route Approaches
Decoding, Orthographic Learning, and the Development of Visual Word Recognition
How Does the Brain Read Words?
Semantic Memory
The Human Conceptual System
Computational Models of Semantic Memory
Developing Categories and Concepts
morphological processing
Derivational Morphology and Skilled Reading: An Empirical Overview
The Neural Basis of Morphology: A Tale of Two Mechanisms?
Sentence Comprehension
Individual Differences in Sentence Processing
The Neurobiology of Sentence Comprehension
Computational and Corpus Models of Human Sentence Comprehension
Sentence Production
Research in Language Production
Language Production: Computational Models
Language Production: Patient and Imaging Research
Figurative Language
Figurative Language: Normal Adult Cognitive Research
Computational Approaches to Figurative Language
The Development of Figurative Language
Cognitive Neuroscience of Figurative Language
Discourse and Conversation
Spoken Discourse and Its Emergence
Computational Modeling of Discourse and Conversation
Children, Conversation, and Acquisition
The Electrophysiology of Discourse and Conversation
Language and Thought
How the Languages We Speak Shape the Ways We Think: The FAQs
Computational Approaches to Language and Thought
Language and Cognition in Development
Language, Thought, and … Brain?