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Foundations of Bilingual Memory

  • Book stresses a memory perspective, focusing on encoding, storage, and retrieval, as related to bilingual processes

  • Book prepares teachers to teach the bilingual individual, while understanding the bilingual mind

  • Discusses the latest theories and empirical methods used in the study of bilingual memory

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. Introduction: Bilingual Models

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Introduction: Bilingual Memory Representation

      • Jeanette Altarriba, Roberto R. Heredia
      Pages 3-10
    3. Bilingual Memory Storage: Compound-Coordinate and Derivatives

      • Roberto R. Heredia, Anna B. CieÅ›licka
      Pages 11-39
    4. Bilingual Dual Coding Theory and Memory

      • Allan Paivio
      Pages 41-62
    5. Connectionist Bilingual Representation

      • Ping Li, Xiaowei Zhao
      Pages 63-84
    6. Models of Lexical Access and Bilingualism

      • Dana M. Basnight-Brown
      Pages 85-107
  3. Episodic, Semantic, and Working Memory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109
    2. Bilingual Episodic Memory: How Speaking Two Languages Influences Remembering

      • Scott R. Schroeder, Viorica Marian
      Pages 111-132
    3. Bilingual Semantic Memory: A New Hypothesis

      • Marc Brysbaert, Eef Ameel, Gert Storms
      Pages 133-146
    4. The Revised Hierarchical Model: Explicit and Implicit Memory

      • Xiaoping Pu, Chi-Shing Tse
      Pages 147-184
    5. Emotion, Memory, and Bilingualism

      • Jeanette Altarriba
      Pages 185-203
    6. False Memories in Bilingual Speakers

      • Donald F. Graves, Jeanette Altarriba
      Pages 205-221
    7. Working Memory

      • Alfredo Ardila
      Pages 223-234
  4. The Neuroscience of Bilingual Memory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235
    2. Qualitative Differences In Native And Nonnative Semantic Processing as Revealed by ERPs

      • Cheryl Frenck-Mestre, Elisa Sneed German, Alice Foucart
      Pages 237-255
    3. Hemispheric Differences: The Bilingual Brain

      • Vaishali Jahagirdar
      Pages 257-282
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 283-297

About this book

Foundations of Bilingual Memory provides a valuable update to the field of bilingual memory and offers a new psychological perspective on how the bilingual mind encodes, stores, and retrieves information. This volume emphasizes theoretical issues, such as classic memory approaches, Compound-Coordinate Bilingualism, Bilingual Dual Coding Theory, and Working Memory, about which relatively little has been written in the bilingual domain. Also covered are:

• The neuropsychology of bilingual memory

• Applied issues (such as false memories and bilingualism, emotion and memory)

• Empirical findings in support of the uniqueness of the different memory systems of the bilingual individual

• Connectionist models of bilingualism

The volume represents the first book of its kind, in stressing a memory perspective with regards to bilingual speakers. It can serve as an advanced text for both undergraduate and graduate level students and it will be of great interest to the growing number of bilingual teachers and university classes interested in understanding the bilingual mind, as well as in preparing teachers to work with the bilingual individual.

Reviews

As a follow up to the 2008 publication, An introduction to bilingualism: Principles and processes, the editors, Roberto R. Heredia and Jeanette Altarriba, have published this volume, which focuses more on the theoretical issues of bilingual memory and provides a broad panorama of the major research areas of bilingual storage, encoding, and retrieval. With contributions by 20 leading scholars from across the globe, this publication constitutes an up-to-date and welcome addition to the field of bilingualism and should be of interest to graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and scholars engaged in this area...[Foundations of Billingual Memory] is a very timely volume that provides us with theoretical issues concerning bilingual memory and language processing; it will move us to further our understanding of memory and language processing in the bilingual domain.

An introduction to bilingualism: Principles and processes, the editors, Roberto R. Heredia and Jeanette Altarriba, have published this volume, which focuses more on the theoretical issues of bilingual memory and provides a broad panorama of the major research areas of bilingual storage, encoding, and retrieval. With contributions by 20 leading scholars from across the globe, this publication constitutes an up-to-date and welcome addition to the field of bilingualism and should be of interest to graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and scholars engaged in this area...[Foundations of Billingual Memory] is a very timely volume that provides us with theoretical issues concerning bilingual memory and language processing; it will move us to further our understanding of memory and language processing in the bilingual domain.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychology and Communication, Texas A&M International University, Laredo Texas, USA

    Roberto R. Heredia

  • Department of Psychology, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany New York, USA

    Jeanette Altarriba

About the editors

Roberto R. Heredia is a professor of psychology at Texas A&M International University (TAMIU). His research interests include bilingual lexical access and ambiguity resolution, figurative language processes, sentence processing, eye-movements and reading, word recognition, and the neuropsychology of bilingualism. He is a former Chair of the Department of Behavioral Sciences at TAMIU, and director and founder of TAMIU's Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory. He is presently Director of the Graduate Retention Enhancement at TAMIU (GREAT) Program. Jeanette Altarriba is a professor of psychology and Vice Provost and Dean for Undergraduate Education at the University at Albany, State University of New York, as well as the Director of the Cognition and Language Laboratory at SUNY-Albany. Her research interests include the psychology of language, psycholinguistics, second language acquisition, bilingualism, knowledge representation, eye movements and reading, concept and category formation, and cognition and emotion in both monolingual and bilingual speakers.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Foundations of Bilingual Memory

  • Editors: Roberto R. Heredia, Jeanette Altarriba

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9218-4

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-9217-7Published: 22 November 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-1700-6Published: 13 September 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-9218-4Published: 22 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 297

  • Topics: Cognitive Psychology, Linguistics, general

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eBook USD 39.99
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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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