The cognitive neuroscience of second language acquisition
By: Marianne Gullberg and Peter Indefrey, editors
Contributors: Gullberg, Marianne; Indefrey, Peter; Language Learning-Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Series: The Language Learning-Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics cognitive neuroscience series
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781405155427
Subjects: Cognitive neuroscience -- Congresses; Second language acquisition -- Congresses; Education, Bilingual -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: "Result of a conference held at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, in September 2005"--Foreword

Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Table of contents: title: Age and second language acquisition and processing : a selective overview / David Birdsong; title: L2 acquisition, age, and generativist reasoning : commentary on Birdsong / Peter Coopmans; title: Development of the human cortex and the concept of "critical" or "sensitive" periods / H.B.M. Uylings; title: What we cannot learn from neuroanatomy about language learning and language processing : commentary on Uylings / Peter Hagoort; title: Convergence, degeneracy, and control / David W. Green, Jenny Crinion, and Cathy J. Price; title: The plastic bilingual brain : synaptic pruning or growth? Commentary on Green et al. / Kees de Bot; title: Executive control in bilingual language processing / A. Rodriguez-Fornells, R. de Diego Balaguer, and T.F. Münte; title: On language and the brain, or on (psycho)linguists and neuroscientists? Commentary on Rodriguez-Fornells et al. / Ton Dijkstra and Walter Van Heuven; title: Novice learners, longitudinal designs, and event-related potentials : a means for exploring the neurocognition of second language processing / Lee Osterhout ... [et al.]; title: Strategies for longitudinal neurophysiology : commentary on Osterhout et al. / Doug Davidson; title: L2 in a nutshell : the investigation of second language processing in the miniature language model / Jutta L. Mueller; title: Cracking the nutshell differently : commentary on Mueller / Monique J.A. Lamers; title: A meta-analysis of hemodynamic studies on first and second language processing : which suggested differences can we trust and what do they mean? / Peter Indefrey; title: When does the neurological basis of first and second language processing differ? Commentary on Indefrey / Laurie A. Stowe; title: Summing up : some themes in the cognitive neuroscience of second language acquisition / John H. Schumann