{"product_id":"neurolinguistics-isbn-9780262543262","title":"Neurolinguistics","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn accessible introduction to the study of language in the brain, covering language processing, language acquisition, literacy, and language disorders.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNeurolinguistics, the study of language in the brain, describes the anatomical structures (networks of neurons in the brain) and physiological processes (ways for these networks to be active) that allow humans to learn and use one or more languages. It draws on neuroscience, linguistics—particularly theoretical linguistics—and other disciplines. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Giosuè Baggio offers an accessible introduction to the fundamentals of neurolinguistics, covering language processing, language acquisition, literacy, and speech and language disorders.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBaggio first surveys the evolution of the field, describing discoveries by Paul Broca, Carl Wernicke, Noam Chomsky, and others. He discusses mapping language in “brain time” and “brain space” and the constraints of neurolinguistic models. Considering language acquisition, he explains that a child is never a “blank slate”: infants and young children are only able to acquire specific aspects of language in specific stages of cognitive development. He addresses the neural consequences of bilingualism; literacy, discussing how forms of visual language in the brain differ from forms of auditory language; aphasia and the need to understand language disorders in behavioral, functional, and neuroanatomical terms; neurogenetics of language; and the neuroethology of language, tracing the origins of the neural and behavioral building blocks of human linguistic communication to the evolution of avian, mammalian, and primate brains.\u003cbr\u003e Series Foreword vii\u003cbr\u003ePreface ix\u003cbr\u003e1 Historical Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e2 Mapping Language in Brain Time 23\u003cbr\u003e3 Mapping Language in Brain Space 43\u003cbr\u003e4 Models of Language in the Brain 61\u003cbr\u003e5 Growth of Language Networks 77\u003cbr\u003e6 Bilingualism and the Brain 91\u003cbr\u003e7 Literacy and the Brain 103\u003cbr\u003e8 Neurology of Language 119\u003cbr\u003e9 Neurogenetics of Language 135\u003cbr\u003e10 Neuroethology of Language 147\u003cbr\u003e11 The Future of Neurolinguistics 159\u003cbr\u003eGlossary 167\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments 175\u003cbr\u003eNotes 177\u003cbr\u003eFurther Readings 199\u003cbr\u003eIndex 201Giosuè Baggio is Professor of Psycholinguistics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway, and the author of \u003ci\u003eMeaning in the Brain\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press).","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305494401253,"sku":"NP9780262543262","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262543262.jpg?v=1767733629","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/neurolinguistics-isbn-9780262543262","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}