Foundations of Bilingual Memory

Roberto R. Heredia is a professor of psychology at Texas A&M International University (TAMIU). His research interests include bilingual lexical access and ambiguity resolution, figurative language processes, sentence processing, eye-movements and reading, word recognition, and the neuropsychology of bilingualism. He is a former Chair of the Department of Behavioral Sciences at TAMIU, and director and founder of TAMIU's Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory. He is presently Director of the Graduate Retention Enhancement at TAMIU (GREAT) Program. Jeanette Altarriba is a professor of psychology and Vice Provost and Dean for Undergraduate Education at the University at Albany, State University of New York, as well as the Director of the Cognition and Language Laboratory at SUNY-Albany. Her research interests include the psychology of language, psycholinguistics, second language acquisition, bilingualism, knowledge representation, eye movements and reading, concept and category formation, and cognition and emotion in both monolingual and bilingual speakers.

As a follow up to the 2008 publication, An introduction to bilingualism: Principles and processes, the editors, Roberto R. Heredia and Jeanette Altarriba, have published this volume, which focuses more on the theoretical issues of bilingual memory and provides a broad panorama of the major research areas of bilingual storage, encoding, and retrieval. With contributions by 20 leading scholars from across the globe, this publication constitutes an up-to-date and welcome addition to the field of bilingualism and should be of interest to graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and scholars engaged in this area...[Foundations of Billingual Memory] is a very timely volume that provides us with theoretical issues concerning bilingual memory and language processing; it will move us to further our understanding of memory and language processing in the bilingual domain. An introduction to bilingualism: Principles and processes, the editors, Roberto R. Heredia and Jeanette Altarriba, have published this volume, which focuses more on the theoretical issues of bilingual memory and provides a broad panorama of the major research areas of bilingual storage, encoding, and retrieval. With contributions by 20 leading scholars from across the globe, this publication constitutes an up-to-date and welcome addition to the field of bilingualism and should be of interest to graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and scholars engaged in this area...[Foundations of Billingual Memory] is a very timely volume that provides us with theoretical issues concerning bilingual memory and language processing; it will move us to further our understanding of memory and language processing in the bilingual domain.

• Section I. Bilingual Models.- The Classic Bilingual Memory View: How Everything Started.- Bilingual Memory Models.- Bilingual Dual Coding Theory.- Connectionist Models of Bilingual Memory.- Models of Lexical Access and Bilingualism.- Section II. Episodic, Semantic, and Working Memory.- Episodic Memory.- Semantic Memory.- Explicit vs. Implicit Memory.- Emotion and Memory.- False Memories.- Working Memory.- Section III. The Neuroscience of Bilingual Memory.- The Neuroscience of Bilingual Memory.- Hemispheric Differences and Memory Storage.