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Brain imaging and conceptions of the lexicon
Abstract
Neuroimaging plays an increasingly important role in the investigation of all aspects of human cognition, including language. Historically, experimental psychology and neuroimaging relied on very different techniques, as neuroimaging studies required comparisons between different tasks rather than manipulation of conditions within a single task, as is standard in behavioural experiments. However, methodology has advanced in the past decade such that many classic behavioural paradigms can now be employed in studies that measure brain activity. We review the technical foundations of conducting studies on single-trial brain responses, using event-related fMRI and electrophysiological recordings. We focus in particular on studies of picture naming, illustrating how the same techniques that were originally used to define temporal processing stages in reaction time studies can now be applied to brain imaging studies to reveal the neural localization of those stages.
Abstract
Neuroimaging plays an increasingly important role in the investigation of all aspects of human cognition, including language. Historically, experimental psychology and neuroimaging relied on very different techniques, as neuroimaging studies required comparisons between different tasks rather than manipulation of conditions within a single task, as is standard in behavioural experiments. However, methodology has advanced in the past decade such that many classic behavioural paradigms can now be employed in studies that measure brain activity. We review the technical foundations of conducting studies on single-trial brain responses, using event-related fMRI and electrophysiological recordings. We focus in particular on studies of picture naming, illustrating how the same techniques that were originally used to define temporal processing stages in reaction time studies can now be applied to brain imaging studies to reveal the neural localization of those stages.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
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Introduction
- The challenge of embracing complexity 1
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Articles
- Measures of phonological typicality 13
- Assessing language impairment in aphasia 33
- Behavioral profiles 57
- Using a maze task to track lexical and sentence processing 81
- Stimulus norming 93
- Connectionism and the role of morphology in visual word recognition 105
- Towards a localist–connectionist model of word translation 135
- Chinese as a natural experiment 155
- Demythologizing the word frequency effect 171
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Articles
- Lexical knowledge without a lexicon? 197
- Detecting inherent bias in lexical decision experiments with the LD1NN algorithm 231
- A technical introduction to using speakers’ eye movements to study language 249
- Eye movements and morphological processing in reading 279
- Spelling strategies in alphabetic scripts 307
- The EEG/ERP technologies in linguistic research 337
- Formulaic sequences 369
- Fractal and recurrence analysis of psycholinguistic data 395
- Brain imaging and conceptions of the lexicon 431
- Index 459
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
-
Introduction
- The challenge of embracing complexity 1
-
Articles
- Measures of phonological typicality 13
- Assessing language impairment in aphasia 33
- Behavioral profiles 57
- Using a maze task to track lexical and sentence processing 81
- Stimulus norming 93
- Connectionism and the role of morphology in visual word recognition 105
- Towards a localist–connectionist model of word translation 135
- Chinese as a natural experiment 155
- Demythologizing the word frequency effect 171
-
Articles
- Lexical knowledge without a lexicon? 197
- Detecting inherent bias in lexical decision experiments with the LD1NN algorithm 231
- A technical introduction to using speakers’ eye movements to study language 249
- Eye movements and morphological processing in reading 279
- Spelling strategies in alphabetic scripts 307
- The EEG/ERP technologies in linguistic research 337
- Formulaic sequences 369
- Fractal and recurrence analysis of psycholinguistic data 395
- Brain imaging and conceptions of the lexicon 431
- Index 459
