Exempel på neurolinguistics

• Neurolinguistics than conveying distinct propositions or concepts in their own right.

• The book consists of 12 chapters, each dealing with a major topic in neurolinguistics.

• By this measure, the tutorials on methods in neurolinguistics get a mixed rating.

• For example, concreteness is an important variable both in neurolinguistics and psycholinguistics.

• No reference is made, however, to psychology, psycholinguistics or neurolinguistics.

• As the definition indicates, the book addresses neurolinguistics in a simple, nontechnical manner.

• In modern times, neurolinguistics has tried to investigate this relationship more objectively and scientifically.

• The book starts out with three theme-setting prologues and a brief history of the field of neurolinguistics.

• It brings together researchers from psychology, general linguistics, psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics.

• The first chapter provides the readers with a broad outline of neurolinguistics, briefly addressing issues such as history, localization, and connectionism in brain studies.

• Disciplines in which the contributing studies are based include social anthropology, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, conversation analysis, intercultural communication studies, cognitive linguistics, translation studies, neurolinguistics, neuropsychology, and social psychology.

• The domains were: bilingual language competence, perception and production, bilingual language acquisition in children and adults, neurolinguistics of bilingualism in normal and brain-damaged subjects, and non-linguistic cognitive processes in bilinguals.

• Grodzinsky has probably done as much as anyone to put syntax center stage in neurolinguistics.

• Current inquiries place these topics in a dynamic and sprawling multidisciplinary context manifested through investigations of linguistic acquisition, cognitive development, genetics, neurocortical processes, cognitive neurolinguistics, behavioral phenotypes, and language intervention.

• The ten essays that form the body of the volume include contributions within the areas of grammar and pragmatics of child language, neurolinguistics and aphasia, and theoretical syntax.