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This textbook offers a cutting edge introduction to psycholinguistics, exploring the cognitive processes underlying language acquisition and use. 
  • Provides a step-by-step tour through language acquisition, production, and comprehension, from the word level to sentences and dialogue
  • Incorporates both theory and data, including in-depth descriptions of the experimental evidence behind theories
  • Incorporates a comprehensive review of research in bilingual language processing, sign language, reading, and the neurological basis of language production and comprehension
  • Approaches the subject from a range of perspectives, including psychology, linguistics, philosophy, computer science, neurology, and neurophysiology
  • Includes a full program of resources for instructors and students, including review exercises, a test bank, and lecture slides.
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The past 15 years have witnessed an increasing interest in the comparative study of language and music as cognitive systems. Language and music are uniquely human traits, so it is not surprising that this interest spans practically all branches of cognitive science, including psychology, computer science, linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, and education. Underlying the study of language and music is the assumption that the comparison of these two domains can shed light on the structural and functional properties of each, while also serving as a test case for theories of how the mind and, ultimately, the brain work. This book presents an interdisciplinary study of language and music, bringing together a team of leading specialists across these fields. The volume is structured around four core areas in which the study of music and language has been particularly fruitful: (i) structural comparisons, (ii) evolution, (iii) learning and processing, and (iv) neuroscience. As such it provides a snapshot of the different research strands that have focused on language and music, identifying current trends and methodologies that have been (or could be) applied to the study of both domains, and outlining future research directions. This volume is valuable in promoting the investigation of language and music by fostering interdisciplinary discussion and collaboration.
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In this book, Dr. Hawkins argues that major patterns of variation across languages are structured by general principles of efficiency in language use and communication. Evidence for these comes from languages permitting structural options from which selections are made in performance, e.g. between competing word orders and between relative clauses with a resumptive pronoun versus a gap. The preferences and patterns of performance within languages are reflected, he shows, in the fixed conventions and variation patterns across grammars, leading to a 'Performance-Grammar Correspondence Hypothesis'.
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1. A Brief History of Cognitive Neuroscience
2. Structure and Function of the Nervous System
3. Methods of Cognitive Neuroscience
4. Hemispheric Specialization
5. Sensation and Perception
6. Object Recognition
7. Attention
8. Control of Action
9. Memory
10. Emotion
11. Language
12. Cognitive Control
13. Social Cognition
14. Consciousness, Free Will, and the Law
1. A Brief History of Cognitive Neuroscience
2. Structure and Function of the Nervous System
3. Methods of Cognitive Neuroscience
4. Hemispheric Specialization
5. Sensation and Perception
6. Object Recognition
7. Attention
8. Control of Action
9. Memory
10. Emotion
11. Language
12. Cognitive Control
13. Social Cognition
14. Consciousness, Free Will, and the Law