Overview
- Presents a comprehensive overview of the various psycholinguistic and neurophysiological tasks used to measure bilingual language processing
- Combines major findings from classical behavioral cognitive methodologies and newly developing neuropsycholinguistics methodologies such as fMRI
- Includes review questions and suggested student research projects at the conclusion of each chapter to enhance student comprehension
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: The Bilingual Mind and Brain Book Series (BMBBS, volume 1)
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Keywords
- Electrophysiology of the Bilingual Brain
- On-line Multiple Language Activation
- bilingual reading processing
- bilingual sentence processing
- cognition and bilingual reading
- cognitive experiments in bilingualism
- fMRI and language comprehension
- psycholinguistic methodologies in bilingualism
- psychology of bilingual reading
- rapid serial visual presentation
- reading integration in bilingual speaker
Table of contents (12 chapters)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Methods in Bilingual Reading Comprehension Research
Editors: Roberto R. Heredia, Jeanette Altarriba, Anna B. Cieślicka
Series Title: The Bilingual Mind and Brain Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2993-1
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-2992-4Published: 17 October 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-4992-2Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-2993-1Published: 17 October 2015
Series ISSN: 2945-5952
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5960
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 383
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 24 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cognitive Psychology, Psycholinguistics