Psycholinguistics 101 (The Psych 101 Series) - Softcover

H. Wind Cowles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826115616 ISBN 13: 9780826115614

Publisher: Springer Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

<p>By understanding the processes that underlie language ability, we can help develop more effective ways to teach people to read and make the books they read easier to understand. Language also offers a window onto human cognition more generally - research into signed languages has shed light onto how the brain processes and represents information. ""Psycholinguistics 101"" serves as a comprehensive introduction to the basic issues in psycholinguistic research, including its history and the methodologies typically employed in research. The book covers four topics that currently dominate the field. These include information flow, language representation, language in the real world, and sign language.</p>

About this title

From the Back Cover:

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"""[This book] opens a window into the process of psycholinguistics, pulling together classic and cutting-edge research from a number of different areas to provide an engaging and insightful introduction to the study of language processing. Psycholinguistics 101 is sure to hook students with its enthusiasm as it provides a clear introduction to the modern research in this field."""Maria Polinsky, PhD
Harvard University

• How is language represented in the brain?
• How do we understand ambiguous language?
• How carefully do we really listen to speakers?
• How is sign language similar to and different from spoken language?
• How does having expertise in multiple languages work?

Answering these questions and more, "Psycholinguistics 101" provides an introduction to how language is stored and processed by mind and brain. The study of psycholinguistics incorporates interdisciplinary research from psychology, linguistics, computer science, neuroscience, and cognitive science. By understanding the processes that underlie language ability, we can help develop more effective ways to teach languages and understand differences in reading abilities.

This book introduces the reader to the basic issues in psycholinguistic research, including its history and the methodologies typically employed in these studies. Key topics discussed include information flow, language representation, and sign language. "

About the Author:

<b>Wind Cowlesm, PhD,</b> received her doctorate in Cognitive Science and Linguistics in 2003 at one of the premier centers of psycholinguistic research, the University of California, San Diego, and was a research fellow at the University of Sussex with Professor Alan Garnham. Her training and experience in psychology, linguistics, cognitive science and neuroscience makes her part of a new wave of researchers approaching psycholinguistic research from multiple perspectives and methods. Her main research focus is on the roles that discourse and information structures play in the written comprehension and spoken production of sentences. Her research applies multiple research techniques, including eye-tracking and event-related brain potentials, to questions about the ways in which people make reference and build structure in language.

About this edition

• Publisher: Springer Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0826115616
• ISBN 13: 9780826115614
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180