Title: Higher level language processes in the brain : inference and comprehension processes /
Authors: Schmalhofer, F. 1952-; Perfetti, Charles A.
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Psycholinguistics.; Neurolinguistics; Cognitive neuroscience.; Comprehension.; Linguistics.; Comprehension; Linguistics; Psycholinguistics; Cognition; Comprehension physiology; Psycholinguistics methods; Cognition physiology; Linguistics methods
Abstract: "Higher Level Language Processes in the Brain is a book that explains how behavior research, computational models, and brain imaging results can be unified in the study of human comprehension. The volume illustrates the most comprehensive and newest findings on the topic. Each section of the book nurtures the theoretical and practical integration of behavioral computational, and brain imaging studies along a different avenue, and each is supplementary. Readers with limited background knowledge on the methods are presented with an easy-to-read state-of-the-art exposition that is conceptualized and written from a well-established point of view." "Higher Level Language Processes in the Brain is intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate cognitive science students, as well as researchers and practitioners who seek to learn and apply scientific knowledge about human comprehension to reading analysis."--Jacket.
Contents: Psychological studies of higher language processes : behavioral and empirical approaches / Murray Singer and Jose Leon -- Why are computational models of text comprehension useful? / Susan R. Goldman, Richard M. Golden and Paul van den Broek -- The functional neuroanatomy of text comprehension : what's the story so far? / Evelyn C. Ferstl -- The text mapping and inference rule generation problems in text comprehension : evaluating a memory-based account / Simon Dennis and Walter Kintsch -- Modeling multiple levels of text representation / Stefan L. Frank [and others] -- Neural and behavioral indicators of integration processes across sentence boundaries / Franz Schmalhofer and Charles A. Perfetti -- Retrieval of explicit and implicit text ideas : processing profiles / Murray Singer and Gilbert Remillard -- The neural signatures of causal inferences : a preliminary computational account of brain-imaging and behavioral data / Erik D. Reichle and Robert A. Mason -- Comprehension skill, inference making, and the role of knowledge / Danielle S. McNamara, Manuel de Vega, and Tenaha O'Reilly -- The experiential view of language comprehension : how is negation represented? / Barbara Kaup, Rolf A. Zwaan, and Jana Lüdtke -- Inference generation and cohesion in the construction of situation models : some connections with computational linguistics / Arthur Graesser [and others] -- Multidimensional situation models / David J. Therriault and Mike Rinck -- Sentence and discourse representation in the two cerebral hemispheres / Debra L. Long, Kathleen Baynes, and Chantel Prat -- Hemispheric asymmetry in the processing of negative and positive emotional inferences / Isabelle Tapiero and Virginie Fillon -- Beyond language comprehension : situation models as a form of autobiographical memory / Joseph P. MagIiano, Gabriel A. Radvansky, and David E. Copeland.