Methods in Bilingual Reading Comprehension Research

Roberto R. Heredia is a professor of psychology at Texas A&M International University (TAMIU); his research interests include Lexical access, bilingual lexical processes, lexical ambiguity, figurative language processes, sentence processing, second-language acquisition, word recognition, memory and information processing. He is a former Chair of the Behavioral Sciences department at TAMIU. He is a Series Coeditor for The Bilingual Mind and Brain Book Series, published by Springer.Jeanette Altarriba is a professor of psychology at State University of New York, (SUNY) Albany as well as the Director of the Cognition and Language Laboratory at SUNY-Albany. Her research interests include psychology of language, psycholinguistics, second language acquisition, bilingualism, knowledge representation, eye movements and reading, concept and category formation and cognition and emotion.Anna B. Cieślicka is an assistant professor of psychology at Texas A&M International University (TAMIU); her research focuses on the psycholinguistics of second language acquisition. She is a Series Coeditor for The Bilingual Mind and Brain Book Series, published by Springer.

• Preface: Marcel A. Just Patricia A. Carpenter Chapter 1: Reading paradigms and bilingual language processing: Empiricism and theory (Jeanette Altarriba, SUNY-Albany; Anna B. Cieślicka, Texas A&M International University [TAMIU]; Roberto R. Heredia, TAMIU). Chapter 2 Context effects in bilingual sentence processing: Task specificity (Debra Jared, University of Western Ontario, Canada). Chapter 3: Off-line versus on-line psycholinguistic techniques: Which is which? (Tracy Love, San Diego State University) Chapter 4: Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP): What is so rapid about RSVP? (Jeanette Altarriba, SUNY-Albany) Chapter 5: The reading visual moving window. (Roberto R. Heredia, TAMIU) Chapter 6: Priming and on-line multiple language activation. (Anna. B. Cieślicka, TAMIU) Chapter 7: The Maze: A reading integration task. (Ken Forster, University of Arizona) Chapter 8: Eye-movements and bilingual reading comprehension. (Debra Titone, McGill University, Canada) Chapter 9: Connectionist models and bilingual reading comprehension. (Jonathan Grainger, Université d'Aix-Marseille, France) Chapter 10: Behavioral vs. neurological psycholinguistic techniques: Different DV same ask. (Jyotsna Vaid, Texas A&M University) Chapter 11: Event Related Potentials (ERPs) and bilingual reading (Eva M. Moreno, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain). Chapter 12: fMRI and bilingual sentence comprehension (Kerrie E. Elston-Gütter, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive andBrain Sciences, Germany)