John W. Schwieter (Ontario Wilfrid Laurier University), Julia Festman

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Bilingualism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers an introduction to the bilingual brain. It is a useful resource for researchers and students, bringing together various theories and research approaches in the cognitive neuroscience of bilingualism and a state-of-the-art overview of empirical findings on this topic from various perspectives.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Fundamentals of Neuroscience in Psychology
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 229mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 412g
• ISBN-13: 9781316647790
• ISBN-10: 131664779X
• Artikelnr.: 68271675

Autorenporträt

John W. Schwieter is Professor of Spanish and Linguistics, cross-appointed in psychology, and Director of Bilingualism Matters @ Laurier and the Language Acquisition, Multilingualism, and Cognition Laboratory at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Linguistics at McMaster University, Canada, and is Executive Editor of Bilingual Processing and Acquisition (2016), Editor-in-Chief of Ampersand, and Co-Editor of Cambridge Elements in Second Language Acquisition (2019).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Theories and methods in the cognitive neuroscience of bilingualism: an introduction
2. Neural representations and language processing in the bilingual brain
3. Bilingualism, language development, and brain plasticity
4. Aphasia and the bilingual brain
5. Cross-linguistic effects of bilingualism
6. Bilingual lexical and conceptual memory
7. Cognitive and neurocognitive effects of bilingualism
8. Conclusion.