Miriam Faust is the Rector of Bar Ilan University and head of the Brain and Language Laboratory, Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar Ilan University. She is a member of the editorial board for Brain and Language.

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• Contributors xiiPreface xxviAcknowledgments (personal) xxxivPart 1 Language Processing in the Brain: Basic ScienceSection I Language and Hemispheres: From Single-Word Recognition to Discourse 11 Individual Differences in Brain Organization for Language 3Christine Chiarello, Suzanne E. Welcome, and Christiana M. Leonard2 The Perceptual Representation of Speech in the Cerebral Hemispheres 20Henri Cohen3 Mechanisms of Hemispheric Specialization: Insights from Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Studies 41Michal Lavidor4 Understanding Written Words: Phonological, Lexical, and Contextual Effects in the Cerebral Hemispheres 59Orna Peleg and Zohar Eviatar5 The Organization of Discourse in the Brain: Results from the Item-Priming-in-Recognition Paradigm 77Debra L. Long, Clinton L. Johns, Eunike Jonathan, and Kathleen BaynesSection II Computational Modeling of Language 1016 Connectionist Modeling of Neuropsychological Deficits in Semantics, Language, and Reading 103Christine E. Watson, Blair C. Armstrong, and David C. Plaut7 Neural Network Models of Speech Production 125Matthew Goldrick8 Word Learning as the Confluence of Memory Mechanisms: Computational and Neural Evidence 146Prahlad GuptaSection III Neural Correlates of Language Production and Comprehension 1659 Neural Correlates of Semantic Processing in Reading Aloud 167William W. Graves, Jeffrey R. Binder, Mark S. Seidenberg, and Rutvik H. Desai10 In a Word: ERPs Reveal Important Lexical Variables for Visual Word Processing 184Chia-lin Lee and Kara D. Federmeier11 Hemodynamic Studies of Syntactic Processing 209Peter Indefrey12 The Neurobiology of Structure-Dependency in Natural Language Grammar 229Marco Tettamanti and Daniela Perani13 How Does the Brain Establish Novel Meanings in Language? Abstract Symbol Theories Versus Embodied Theories of Meaning 252Dorothee Chwilla14 Motor and Nonmotor Language Representations in the Brain 276Nira Mashal, Michael Andric, and Steven Small15 What Role Does the Cerebellum Play in Language Processing? 294Kristina A. Kellett, Jennifer L. Stevenson, and Morton Ann GernsbacherSection IV Coping with Higher-Level Processing: The Brain Behind Figurative and Creative Language 31716 Bilateral Processing and Affect in Creative Language Comprehension 319Heather J. Mirous and Mark Beeman17 Two-Track Mind: Formulaic and Novel Language Support a Dual-Process Model 342Diana Van Lancker Sidtis18 Neuropsychological and Neurophysiological Correlates of Idiom Understanding: How Many Hemispheres are Involved? 368Cristina Cacciari and Costanza Papagno19 Cognitive Neuroscience of Creative Language: The Poetic and the Prosaic 386Seana Coulson and Tristan S. Davenport20 The Brain Behind Nonliteral Language: Insights From Brain Imaging 406Alexander Michael Rapp21 Thinking Outside the Left Box: The Role of the Right Hemisphere in Novel Metaphor Comprehension 425Miriam FaustSection V The Multilingual Brain 44922 Word Recognition in the Bilingual Brain 451Ton Dijkstra and Walter J. B. van Heuven23 Vocabulary Learning in Bilingual First-Language Acquisition and Late Second-Language Learning 472Annette M. B. de Groot24 What ERPs Tell us About Bilingual Language Processing 494Judith F. Kroll, Taomei Guo, and Maya Misra25 How the Brain Acquires, Processes, and Controls a Second Language 516Jubin Abutalebi and Pasquale Anthony Della RosaPart 2 Language Processing in the Brain: Clinical PopulationsSection I Neuropsychology of Language: Methods and Paradigms 53926 Potentials and Paradigms: Event-Related Brain Potentials and Neuropsychology 541Marta Kutas, Michael Kiang, and Kim Sweeney27 What the Speaking Brain Tells us About Functional Imaging 561John J. Sidtis28 Uncovering the Neural Substrates of Language: A Voxel-Based Lesion–Symptom Mapping Approach 578Juliana V. Baldo, Stephen M. Wilson, and Nina F. Dronkers29 Analytic Methods for Single Subject and Small Sample Aphasia Research: Some Illustrations and a Discussion 591Hiram Brownell, Ken J. Hoyte, Tepring Piquado, and Arthur Wingfield30 Verbal Fluency Tasks and the Neuropsychology of Language 615Seija PekkalaSection II Neuropsychology of Language: Language Loss 63131 The Acquisition, Retention, and Loss of Vocabulary in Aphasia, Dementia, and Other Neuropsychological Conditions 633Andrew W. Ellis32 Computational Neuropsychology of Language: Language Processing and its Breakdown in Aphasia 657Stephen R. Welbourne33 Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Aphasia Research 675Margaret A. Naeser, Paula I. Martin, Michael Ho, Ethan Treglia, Elina Kaplan, Errol H. Baker, and Alvaro Pascual-Leone34 Longitudinal Study of Recovery from Aphasia: The Case of Lexical Retrieval 696Patricia Marinaro Fitzpatrick, Loraine K. Obler, Avron Spiro III, and Lisa Tabor Connor35 Multiple Languages in the Adult Brain 716Mira Goral36 Clinical Neurolinguistics of Bilingualism 734Andrea Marini, Cosimo Urgesi, and Franco Fabbro37 Sentence Comprehension in Healthy and Brain-Damaged Populations 756Sonja A. Kotz, Kathrin Rothermich, and Maren Schmidt-Kassow38 The Neural Basis for Aging Effects on Language 774Deborah M. Burke and Elizabeth R. GrahamSection III Neuropsychology of Language: Developmental Language Disorders 79739 Neuropsychological and Neuroimaging Aspects of Developmental Language Disorders 799Margaret Semrud-Clikeman and Jesse Bledsoe40 Specific Language Impairment: Processing Deficits in Linguistic, Cognitive, and Sensory Domains 822Laurence B. Leonard and Christine Weber-Fox41 The Neurobiology of Specific Language Impairment 843Richard G. Schwartz and Valerie L. Shafer42 Dyslexia: The Brain Bases of Reading Impairments 864Ioulia Kovelman, Joanna A. Christodoulou, and John D. E. Gabrieli43 Acquired and Developmental Disorders of Reading and Spelling 888Max Coltheart and Saskia Kohnen44 The Role of Anchoring in Auditory and Speech Perception in the General and Dyslexic Populations 917Karen Banai and Merav Ahissar45 The Neurobiological Basis of Dyslexia: The Magnocellular Theory 934John Stein46 Word Retrieval in Developmental Language Impairments: Application of the Tip-of-the-Tongue Paradigm 959Katy Borodkin and Miriam FaustAcknowledgments 979Index 983

Miriam Faust is the Rector of Bar Ilan University and head of the Brain and Language Laboratory, Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar Ilan University. She is a member of the editorial board for Brain and Language.

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• Contributors xiiPreface xxviAcknowledgments (personal) xxxivPart 1 Language Processing in the Brain: Basic ScienceSection I Language and Hemispheres: From Single-Word Recognition to Discourse 11 Individual Differences in Brain Organization for Language 3Christine Chiarello, Suzanne E. Welcome, and Christiana M. Leonard2 The Perceptual Representation of Speech in the Cerebral Hemispheres 20Henri Cohen3 Mechanisms of Hemispheric Specialization: Insights from Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Studies 41Michal Lavidor4 Understanding Written Words: Phonological, Lexical, and Contextual Effects in the Cerebral Hemispheres 59Orna Peleg and Zohar Eviatar5 The Organization of Discourse in the Brain: Results from the Item-Priming-in-Recognition Paradigm 77Debra L. Long, Clinton L. Johns, Eunike Jonathan, and Kathleen BaynesSection II Computational Modeling of Language 1016 Connectionist Modeling of Neuropsychological Deficits in Semantics, Language, and Reading 103Christine E. Watson, Blair C. Armstrong, and David C. Plaut7 Neural Network Models of Speech Production 125Matthew Goldrick8 Word Learning as the Confluence of Memory Mechanisms: Computational and Neural Evidence 146Prahlad GuptaSection III Neural Correlates of Language Production and Comprehension 1659 Neural Correlates of Semantic Processing in Reading Aloud 167William W. Graves, Jeffrey R. Binder, Mark S. Seidenberg, and Rutvik H. Desai10 In a Word: ERPs Reveal Important Lexical Variables for Visual Word Processing 184Chia-lin Lee and Kara D. Federmeier11 Hemodynamic Studies of Syntactic Processing 209Peter Indefrey12 The Neurobiology of Structure-Dependency in Natural Language Grammar 229Marco Tettamanti and Daniela Perani13 How Does the Brain Establish Novel Meanings in Language? Abstract Symbol Theories Versus Embodied Theories of Meaning 252Dorothee Chwilla14 Motor and Nonmotor Language Representations in the Brain 276Nira Mashal, Michael Andric, and Steven Small15 What Role Does the Cerebellum Play in Language Processing? 294Kristina A. Kellett, Jennifer L. Stevenson, and Morton Ann GernsbacherSection IV Coping with Higher-Level Processing: The Brain Behind Figurative and Creative Language 31716 Bilateral Processing and Affect in Creative Language Comprehension 319Heather J. Mirous and Mark Beeman17 Two-Track Mind: Formulaic and Novel Language Support a Dual-Process Model 342Diana Van Lancker Sidtis18 Neuropsychological and Neurophysiological Correlates of Idiom Understanding: How Many Hemispheres are Involved? 368Cristina Cacciari and Costanza Papagno19 Cognitive Neuroscience of Creative Language: The Poetic and the Prosaic 386Seana Coulson and Tristan S. Davenport20 The Brain Behind Nonliteral Language: Insights From Brain Imaging 406Alexander Michael Rapp21 Thinking Outside the Left Box: The Role of the Right Hemisphere in Novel Metaphor Comprehension 425Miriam FaustSection V The Multilingual Brain 44922 Word Recognition in the Bilingual Brain 451Ton Dijkstra and Walter J. B. van Heuven23 Vocabulary Learning in Bilingual First-Language Acquisition and Late Second-Language Learning 472Annette M. B. de Groot24 What ERPs Tell us About Bilingual Language Processing 494Judith F. Kroll, Taomei Guo, and Maya Misra25 How the Brain Acquires, Processes, and Controls a Second Language 516Jubin Abutalebi and Pasquale Anthony Della RosaPart 2 Language Processing in the Brain: Clinical PopulationsSection I Neuropsychology of Language: Methods and Paradigms 53926 Potentials and Paradigms: Event-Related Brain Potentials and Neuropsychology 541Marta Kutas, Michael Kiang, and Kim Sweeney27 What the Speaking Brain Tells us About Functional Imaging 561John J. Sidtis28 Uncovering the Neural Substrates of Language: A Voxel-Based Lesion–Symptom Mapping Approach 578Juliana V. Baldo, Stephen M. Wilson, and Nina F. Dronkers29 Analytic Methods for Single Subject and Small Sample Aphasia Research: Some Illustrations and a Discussion 591Hiram Brownell, Ken J. Hoyte, Tepring Piquado, and Arthur Wingfield30 Verbal Fluency Tasks and the Neuropsychology of Language 615Seija PekkalaSection II Neuropsychology of Language: Language Loss 63131 The Acquisition, Retention, and Loss of Vocabulary in Aphasia, Dementia, and Other Neuropsychological Conditions 633Andrew W. Ellis32 Computational Neuropsychology of Language: Language Processing and its Breakdown in Aphasia 657Stephen R. Welbourne33 Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Aphasia Research 675Margaret A. Naeser, Paula I. Martin, Michael Ho, Ethan Treglia, Elina Kaplan, Errol H. Baker, and Alvaro Pascual-Leone34 Longitudinal Study of Recovery from Aphasia: The Case of Lexical Retrieval 696Patricia Marinaro Fitzpatrick, Loraine K. Obler, Avron Spiro III, and Lisa Tabor Connor35 Multiple Languages in the Adult Brain 716Mira Goral36 Clinical Neurolinguistics of Bilingualism 734Andrea Marini, Cosimo Urgesi, and Franco Fabbro37 Sentence Comprehension in Healthy and Brain-Damaged Populations 756Sonja A. Kotz, Kathrin Rothermich, and Maren Schmidt-Kassow38 The Neural Basis for Aging Effects on Language 774Deborah M. Burke and Elizabeth R. GrahamSection III Neuropsychology of Language: Developmental Language Disorders 79739 Neuropsychological and Neuroimaging Aspects of Developmental Language Disorders 799Margaret Semrud-Clikeman and Jesse Bledsoe40 Specific Language Impairment: Processing Deficits in Linguistic, Cognitive, and Sensory Domains 822Laurence B. Leonard and Christine Weber-Fox41 The Neurobiology of Specific Language Impairment 843Richard G. Schwartz and Valerie L. Shafer42 Dyslexia: The Brain Bases of Reading Impairments 864Ioulia Kovelman, Joanna A. Christodoulou, and John D. E. Gabrieli43 Acquired and Developmental Disorders of Reading and Spelling 888Max Coltheart and Saskia Kohnen44 The Role of Anchoring in Auditory and Speech Perception in the General and Dyslexic Populations 917Karen Banai and Merav Ahissar45 The Neurobiological Basis of Dyslexia: The Magnocellular Theory 934John Stein46 Word Retrieval in Developmental Language Impairments: Application of the Tip-of-the-Tongue Paradigm 959Katy Borodkin and Miriam FaustAcknowledgments 979Index 983

Miriam Faust is the Rector of Bar Ilan University and head of the Brain and Language Laboratory, Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar Ilan University. She is a member of the editorial board for Brain and Language.

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• Contributors xiiPreface xxviAcknowledgments (personal) xxxivPart 1 Language Processing in the Brain: Basic ScienceSection I Language and Hemispheres: From Single-Word Recognition to Discourse 11 Individual Differences in Brain Organization for Language 3Christine Chiarello, Suzanne E. Welcome, and Christiana M. Leonard2 The Perceptual Representation of Speech in the Cerebral Hemispheres 20Henri Cohen3 Mechanisms of Hemispheric Specialization: Insights from Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Studies 41Michal Lavidor4 Understanding Written Words: Phonological, Lexical, and Contextual Effects in the Cerebral Hemispheres 59Orna Peleg and Zohar Eviatar5 The Organization of Discourse in the Brain: Results from the Item-Priming-in-Recognition Paradigm 77Debra L. Long, Clinton L. Johns, Eunike Jonathan, and Kathleen BaynesSection II Computational Modeling of Language 1016 Connectionist Modeling of Neuropsychological Deficits in Semantics, Language, and Reading 103Christine E. Watson, Blair C. Armstrong, and David C. Plaut7 Neural Network Models of Speech Production 125Matthew Goldrick8 Word Learning as the Confluence of Memory Mechanisms: Computational and Neural Evidence 146Prahlad GuptaSection III Neural Correlates of Language Production and Comprehension 1659 Neural Correlates of Semantic Processing in Reading Aloud 167William W. Graves, Jeffrey R. Binder, Mark S. Seidenberg, and Rutvik H. Desai10 In a Word: ERPs Reveal Important Lexical Variables for Visual Word Processing 184Chia-lin Lee and Kara D. Federmeier11 Hemodynamic Studies of Syntactic Processing 209Peter Indefrey12 The Neurobiology of Structure-Dependency in Natural Language Grammar 229Marco Tettamanti and Daniela Perani13 How Does the Brain Establish Novel Meanings in Language? Abstract Symbol Theories Versus Embodied Theories of Meaning 252Dorothee Chwilla14 Motor and Nonmotor Language Representations in the Brain 276Nira Mashal, Michael Andric, and Steven Small15 What Role Does the Cerebellum Play in Language Processing? 294Kristina A. Kellett, Jennifer L. Stevenson, and Morton Ann GernsbacherSection IV Coping with Higher-Level Processing: The Brain Behind Figurative and Creative Language 31716 Bilateral Processing and Affect in Creative Language Comprehension 319Heather J. Mirous and Mark Beeman17 Two-Track Mind: Formulaic and Novel Language Support a Dual-Process Model 342Diana Van Lancker Sidtis18 Neuropsychological and Neurophysiological Correlates of Idiom Understanding: How Many Hemispheres are Involved? 368Cristina Cacciari and Costanza Papagno19 Cognitive Neuroscience of Creative Language: The Poetic and the Prosaic 386Seana Coulson and Tristan S. Davenport20 The Brain Behind Nonliteral Language: Insights From Brain Imaging 406Alexander Michael Rapp21 Thinking Outside the Left Box: The Role of the Right Hemisphere in Novel Metaphor Comprehension 425Miriam FaustSection V The Multilingual Brain 44922 Word Recognition in the Bilingual Brain 451Ton Dijkstra and Walter J. B. van Heuven23 Vocabulary Learning in Bilingual First-Language Acquisition and Late Second-Language Learning 472Annette M. B. de Groot24 What ERPs Tell us About Bilingual Language Processing 494Judith F. Kroll, Taomei Guo, and Maya Misra25 How the Brain Acquires, Processes, and Controls a Second Language 516Jubin Abutalebi and Pasquale Anthony Della RosaPart 2 Language Processing in the Brain: Clinical PopulationsSection I Neuropsychology of Language: Methods and Paradigms 53926 Potentials and Paradigms: Event-Related Brain Potentials and Neuropsychology 541Marta Kutas, Michael Kiang, and Kim Sweeney27 What the Speaking Brain Tells us About Functional Imaging 561John J. Sidtis28 Uncovering the Neural Substrates of Language: A Voxel-Based Lesion–Symptom Mapping Approach 578Juliana V. Baldo, Stephen M. Wilson, and Nina F. Dronkers29 Analytic Methods for Single Subject and Small Sample Aphasia Research: Some Illustrations and a Discussion 591Hiram Brownell, Ken J. Hoyte, Tepring Piquado, and Arthur Wingfield30 Verbal Fluency Tasks and the Neuropsychology of Language 615Seija PekkalaSection II Neuropsychology of Language: Language Loss 63131 The Acquisition, Retention, and Loss of Vocabulary in Aphasia, Dementia, and Other Neuropsychological Conditions 633Andrew W. Ellis32 Computational Neuropsychology of Language: Language Processing and its Breakdown in Aphasia 657Stephen R. Welbourne33 Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Aphasia Research 675Margaret A. Naeser, Paula I. Martin, Michael Ho, Ethan Treglia, Elina Kaplan, Errol H. Baker, and Alvaro Pascual-Leone34 Longitudinal Study of Recovery from Aphasia: The Case of Lexical Retrieval 696Patricia Marinaro Fitzpatrick, Loraine K. Obler, Avron Spiro III, and Lisa Tabor Connor35 Multiple Languages in the Adult Brain 716Mira Goral36 Clinical Neurolinguistics of Bilingualism 734Andrea Marini, Cosimo Urgesi, and Franco Fabbro37 Sentence Comprehension in Healthy and Brain-Damaged Populations 756Sonja A. Kotz, Kathrin Rothermich, and Maren Schmidt-Kassow38 The Neural Basis for Aging Effects on Language 774Deborah M. Burke and Elizabeth R. GrahamSection III Neuropsychology of Language: Developmental Language Disorders 79739 Neuropsychological and Neuroimaging Aspects of Developmental Language Disorders 799Margaret Semrud-Clikeman and Jesse Bledsoe40 Specific Language Impairment: Processing Deficits in Linguistic, Cognitive, and Sensory Domains 822Laurence B. Leonard and Christine Weber-Fox41 The Neurobiology of Specific Language Impairment 843Richard G. Schwartz and Valerie L. Shafer42 Dyslexia: The Brain Bases of Reading Impairments 864Ioulia Kovelman, Joanna A. Christodoulou, and John D. E. Gabrieli43 Acquired and Developmental Disorders of Reading and Spelling 888Max Coltheart and Saskia Kohnen44 The Role of Anchoring in Auditory and Speech Perception in the General and Dyslexic Populations 917Karen Banai and Merav Ahissar45 The Neurobiological Basis of Dyslexia: The Magnocellular Theory 934John Stein46 Word Retrieval in Developmental Language Impairments: Application of the Tip-of-the-Tongue Paradigm 959Katy Borodkin and Miriam FaustAcknowledgments 979Index 983