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Language Development and Neurological Theory
- 1st Edition - May 10, 2014
- Editors: Sidney J. Segalowitz, Frederic A. Gruber
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 0 6 7 5 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 2 0 1 8 - 5
Language Development and Neurological Theory presents a neuropsychological theory of language development. The discussions are organized around the following themes: cerebral… Read more
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Request a sales quoteLanguage Development and Neurological Theory presents a neuropsychological theory of language development. The discussions are organized around the following themes: cerebral specialization for language in normal and brain-damaged individuals; development of cerebral dominance; and speech perception. Much emphasis is placed on the issue of cerebral specialization, or lateralization. Comprised of 20 chapters, this volume begins with a review of some of the methods used to correlate neurophysiological and behavioral functions, as well as some of the issues involved in trying to unite the empirical science of neuropsychology and the rationalist science of linguistics. The next chapter deals with lateralization for speech sounds shown by young infants and possible factors in the sound signal responsible for the differentiation. Subsequent chapters focus on asymmetries in young children during continuous verbal-nonvisual and visual-nonverbal story tasks; the effects of multi-language elementary school program on the degree of lateralization for language; intramodal and cross-modal pattern perception in stroke patients with lateralized lesions; and visual half-field asymmetries in deaf and hearing children. Several hypotheses as to why language is lateralized to the left hemisphere rather than to the right are also examined. This book is addressed to researchers and students of the neuropsychology of language, whether they call themselves psychologists, neuropsychologists, neurologists, or linguists.
List of Contributors
Preface
Part I Cerebral Specialization for Language in Normals
1 Some Issues and Methods in the Neuropsychology of Language
Correlating Neurophysiological and Psychological Functions
Tying Empirical Bonds with Linguistics
References
2 Infant Cerebral Asymmetry
Experiment 1
Experiment 2
Experiment 3
References
3 Bilateral Alpha Rhythm in Children During Listening and Looking
Method
Results
Discussion
References
4 Multiple Language Experience and the Development of Cerebral Dominance
Method and Procedure
Results and Discussion
Results: Study 2
References
5 Visual Field and Cerebral Hemisphere Preferences in Bilinguals
Method
Results and Discussion
References
6 Hemispheric Asymmetry in Processing of Dichotically Presented Speech and Nonspeech Stimuli by Infants
Procedure
Stimulus Materials
Subjects and Design
Discussion
References
7 Acoustic Problems in Dichotic Listening Tasks
Control of Acoustic Variables
Nonacoustic Factors
Stimulus Variables
Summary
References
Part II Cerebral Specialization for Language in Brain-Damaged Patients
What Is It That Is Lateralized?
References
8 Hemispheric Equipotentiality and Language Acquisition
The Equipotentiality Hypothesis
Language Functions After Early Lateralized Cerebral Damage
Intelligence, Language, and Early Lesion Laterality
Language Acquisition in Only a Right or a Left Hemisphere: A Test Case for Equipotentiality
References
9 Language Deficits and Cross-Modal Sensory Perception
Theories of Cross-Modal Perceptual Learning
Cross-Modal Theory and Neurological Development
Cross-Modal Perception and Language Deficits in Children
Cross-Modal Perception and Language Deficits in Adults
Language Deficits and Supramodal Functions
Cross-Modal Perception and Supramodal Skills: An Investigation
References
10 Electroencephalographic Testing of Cerebral Specialization in Normal and Congenitally Deaf Children: A Preliminary Report
Method
Results
Discussion
References
11 Dichotic Listening of Callosal Agenesis and Turner's Syndrome Patients
Study 1: Patients with Neurological Lesions
Study 2: Cases of Sex Chromosome Anomaly
Conclusions
References
12 A Long-Term Study of Dichotic Speech Perception and Receptive Language Skills in a Child with Acquired Aphasia
The Case History
Hearing, Language, and Dichotic Listening Tests
Discussion
References
13 An External View of Neuropsy chology and Its Working Milieu
The Infant and Experimental Observation
Individual Differences in Brain Organization
Test-Retest Reliability with Normals Versus Brain-Damaged Patients
Interpreting Results of Surgery
Interpreting EEGs
Examples of False Diagnoses
References
Part III The Development of Cerebral Dominance
Why Is Language Lateralized to the Left?
References
14 Does Cerebral Dominance Develop?
Left-Handedness
Ontogenetic Changes in Lateralization
Asymmetries in Infants
References
15 The Development of Lateralization of Language Functions and Its Relation to Cognitive and Linguistic Development: A Review and Some Theoretical Speculations
A Brief History
The Restitution of Language in the Right Hemisphere Following Left-Hemisphere Damage
The Nature of Right-Hemisphere Language
Some Speculation on the Causes of Dysphasia following Early Right-Sided Damage
The Process of Lateralization of Language to the Left Hemisphere and Its Relation to Normal Cognitive Development
Summary
References
16 Early Hemisphere Specialization and Interhemispheric Plasticity: An Empirical and Theoretical Review
Outline of Chapter
Methods of Studying Hemisphere Specialization in Children
Early Specialization of the Left Hemisphere for Speech and Language
Role of the Right Hemisphere in the Early Mediation of Speech and Language
Early Hemisphere Equipotentiality and Internemisphere Transfer of Speech and Language
Early Specialization of the Right Hemisphere for Spatial-Holistic Processing
A Possible Theory of Early Cerebral Organization Involving Lateralization of Function at Birth Coexistent with Interhemisphere Plasticity
References
17 Manual Specialization in Infancy: Implications for Lateralization of Brain Function
Development of Lateralization of Manual Behavior
Implications for Hemispheric Specialization
Conclusions
Appendix
References
Part IV Speech Perception
Speech Perception and Language Models
References
18 Invariant Features and Feature Detectors: Some Developmental Implications
Motor Theories of Speech Perception
The Invariant Features of Speech
Features and Feature Detectors
Developmental Implications
Implications of Invariance for Neurological Theories of Speech Perception
References
19 The Identification of Four Vowels by Children 21/2 to 3 Years Chronological Age as an Indicator of Perceptual Processing
Experimental Method
Stimulus Presentation
Results
Discussion
References
20 The Development of Speech Timing
General Aspects of Speech Development
The Development of Temporal Coordination in Consonant Production
Some Contextual Rules of Syllable Timing
Rules for Sentence Timing
Concluding Remarks
References
Subject Index
- No. of pages: 392
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: May 10, 2014
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9781483206752
- eBook ISBN: 9781483220185