Overview
- Provides evidence of brain activity in terms of accurate time resolution
- Focuses on dyslexic as well as regular readers
- Provides evidence from numerous languages
- Provides a detailed review of existing methods in EEG research in written language
- Demonstrates the difference between these methods and other imaging techniques such as fMRI and MAG
Part of the book series: Literacy Studies (LITS, volume 1)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Brain Research in Language addresses important neurological issues involved in reading. The reading process is a highly composite cognitive task, which relies on brain systems that were originally devoted to other functions. The majority of studies in this area have implemented behavioral methodologies, which provide information concerning the entire cognitive sequence at the conclusion of processing only, in the reader’s output. However, these measures cannot specify all of the covert component operations that contribute to reading, nor can they determine the relative processing times required by the individual stages. Furthermore, they cannot determine which processes occur serially, which occur in parallel and which overlap in time (Brandeis & Lehmann, 1994; Johnson, 1995). Recent advancements in the field of neuroscience and cognitive development, however, have added a new dimension with regard to the research into the universal and domain specific aspects of reading with the advent of innovative neurophysiological measurement techniques. The most common are electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). These two methods provide researchers with the opportunity to examine, in-depth, the neural correlates of the reading processing with precise temporal and spatial resolutions, respectively. This book presents data obtained from various studies employing behavioral, electrophysiological and imaging methodologies in different languages focusing on the regular reading process and the dyslexic population.
Educators and researchers within neuroscience, literacy, and special education will benefit from Brain Research in Language.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Brain Research in Language
Editors: Zvia Breznitz
Series Title: Literacy Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-74980-8
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-74979-2Published: 13 December 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-4523-5Published: 23 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-74980-8Published: 22 December 2007
Series ISSN: 2214-000X
Series E-ISSN: 2214-0018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 277
Topics: Neurology, Language Education, Pedagogic Psychology, Cognitive Psychology