The psychology of learning and motivation. Volume sixty eight : current topics in language / edited by Kara D. Federmeier, Department of Psychology, Program in Neuroscience, and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois Champaign, IL, United States, Duane G. Watson, Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Federmeier, Kara D., editor.

Watson, Duane G., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Learning, Psychology of.

Motivation (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (404 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Academic Press, 2018.

Summary:

Language, Volume 68, the latest release in the Psychology of Learning and Motivation, features empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning, to complex learning and problem-solving. Each chapter thoughtfully integrates the writings of leading contributors, with this volume presenting the latest on Perceptual Learning for Native and Non-Native Speech, Common representations of serial order in language and memory, Neurocomputational Emergentism as a framework for language development, Syntactic adaptation, Neural indices of structured sentence representation: state-of-the-art, A review of familial sinistrality and language, Monitoring and control in language production, and more.- Presents the latest information in the highly regarded Psychology of Learning and Motivation series- Provides an essential reference for researchers and academics in cognitive science- Contains information relevant to both applied concerns and basic research

Contents:

Front Cover

The Psychology of Learning and Motivation

SERIES EDITOR

Current Topics in Language

Copyright

Contents

CONTRIBUTORS

One - Perceptual Learning for Native and Non-native Speech

1. PERCEPTUAL FLEXIBILITY OF NATIVE PHONOLOGICAL CATEGORIES

2. ACQUISITION OF NOVEL PHONOLOGICAL CATEGORIES

3. ADAPTATION TO FOREIGN ACCENTED SPEECH

4. CONCLUSIONS AND SPECULATION

REFERENCES

FURTHER READING

Two - A Common Representation of Serial Position in Language and Memory

1. POSITION REPRESENTATION SCHEMES

2. A GENERAL METHOD FOR CONTRASTING SCHEMES

3. EXPERIMENTAL FINDINGS

4. DISCUSSION

Three - Neurocomputational Emergentism as a Framework for Language Development

1. LOCALIZATION OF FUNCTION

2. THE SENSORIMOTOR HYPOTHESIS

3. VARIABILITY OF LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

3.1 Flexibility in Reading and Cognition

3.2 The Basal Ganglia

4. NEUROEMERGENTISM: DYNAMIC INTERACTIONS ACROSS SYSTEMS

5. CONCLUSION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Four - Syntactic Adaptation

1. INTRODUCTION

2. EVIDENCE FOR SYNTACTIC ADAPTATION IN COMPREHENSION

2.1 Fine et al. (2013)

2.2 Hallmarks of Syntactic Adaptation

3. MECHANISMS UNDERLYING SYNTACTIC ADAPTATION

3.1 Activation of Syntactic Structures

3.2 Error-Based Learning Models

3.3 Belief-Updating Models

4. EVIDENCE FOR SYNTACTIC ADAPTATION?

4.1 Other Structures Tested and Techniques Used

4.2 Adaptation Is Not Always Observed

4.3 Decreases in Ambiguity Effects

4.3.1 Ambiguity Effects do Not Always Decrease Over the Course of the Study

4.3.2 Methodological Issues

4.4 Differences Between Exposure Groups

4.5 Reversal Effects

4.6 Syntactic Effects?

4.6.1 Adaptation May Not Be to the Syntactic Structure Intended

4.6.2 Adaptation May Not Be Syntactic.

4.7 Adaptation as Linking Contextual Cues and Syntactic Properties

5. WHAT IS THE RELATION BETWEEN ADAPTATION AND LEARNING?

5.1 Differences in Adaptation inside and outside the Lab

5.2 Learning From Exposure May Not Be Driven by a Unitary Mechanism

5.3 The Way Forward: Factors Driving Adaptation

5.4 What Determines Syntactic Adaptation?

5.4.1 What Is Deviant?

5.4.2 Goals and Social Function

5.5 What Determines Generalization?

5.5.1 Variation

5.5.2 Similarity

5.6 What Memory Systems Are Involved?

6. CONCLUDING REMARKS

Five - Neural Indices of Structured Sentence Representation: State of the Art

1. LINGUISTIC AND NON-LINGUISTIC RELATIONS

2. NEURAL CORRELATES OF LINGUISTIC RELATIONS: THREE CANDIDATES

2.1 Instantiating Local Linguistic Relations

2.2 Classic Conceptions of Syntactic Working Memory

2.3 Broader Conceptions of Syntactic Memory

3. CONCLUSION

Six - Familial Sinistrality and Language Processing

2. LANGUAGE-RELATED PROCESSING AS A FUNCTION OF FAMILIAL SINISTRALITY

2.1 Familial Sinistrality and Language Lateralization

2.2 Familial Sinistrality and Language Processing

3. THEORIES OF FAMILIAL SINISTRALITY AND LANGUAGE

3.1 The Relational/Holistic Model

3.2 The Declarative/Procedural Model

3.3 Commonalities Between the Views

4. NEW CONSIDERATIONS FOR FAMILIAL SINISTRALITY AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING

4.1 Right Hemisphere Capability for Language

4.2 Bi-hemispheric Syntactic Processing

4.3 Bi-lateralization of Language

4.3.1 Inter-hemispheric Transmission Time Delay

4.3.2 Inter-hemispheric Inhibition

4.3.3 Right Hemisphere Compensation

4.3.4 Future Directions

4.4 Sensitivity to Syntactic Information

5. CONCLUSIONS

REFERENCES.

Seven - How Special Is Language Production? Perspectives From Monitoring and Control

1. THE SPECIAL PLACE OF LANGUAGE

1.1 Functional Taxonomy of Cognitive Processes: Where Is Language?

1.2 What Is a Module?

1.2.1 Fast and Mandatory Processing, With Limited Central Access to Mental Representations

1.2.2 Informational Encapsulation

1.2.3 Domain-Specificity

1.3 Language Production in Fodor's Taxonomy

1.4 Summary and a Way Forward

2. LANGUAGE PRODUCTION AND THE NEED FOR CONTROL

2.1 Control at the Level of Word Production

2.2 Control Beyond Single Word Production

3. ASSESSING THE NEED FOR CONTROL: THE PRIMARY JOB OF A MONITORING SYSTEM

3.1 Production-External Monitoring

3.2 Semi-Production-External Monitoring

3.3 Production-Internal Monitoring

3.4 Monitoring as Decision Making

4. DOMAIN-GENERALITY OF MONITORING AND CONTROL IN LANGUAGE PRODUCTION

4.1 Domain-Generality of Computations

4.2 Domain Generality of Neural Underpinning

4.3 Domain Generality of Functional Adjustment in Control

5. CONCLUSION: HOW SPECIAL IS LANGUAGE PRODUCTION?

Eight - Alternatives and Inferences in the Communication of Meaning

1. TWO TYPES OF ALTERNATIVES

2. WHEN NOTHING SAYS SOMETHING: ROLES OF ALTERNATIVE FORMS

3. INTONATIONAL PHONOLOGY: ROLE OF ALTERNATIVE MEANINGS

4. COREFERENCE: COMBINING EXPECTATIONS FOR MEANINGS AND FORMS

5. INFERENCES BASED ON ALTERNATIVE FORMS AND MEANINGS: A BAYESIAN APPROACH

6. WHERE NEXT?

Nine - Reading Ahead by Hedging Our Bets on Seeing the Future: Eye Tracking and Electrophysiology Evidence for Para ...

1. THE READING SPEED PARADOX

2. HEDGING OUR BETS: COORDINATING EYE MOVEMENTS AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING

3. SEEING THE FUTURE: OBTAINING PARAFOVEAL PREVIEW OF UPCOMING WORDS.

4. READING AHEAD: USING PARAFOVEAL PREVIEW TO INITIATE WORD RECOGNITION

4.1 Traditional Accounts of Parafoveal Preview: Trans-saccadic Integration

4.2 Another Account of Parafoveal Preview: Forced Fixations

4.3 A Hybrid Account of Parafoveal Preview Effects

5. PRIOR DEBATES ABOUT PARAFOVEAL PROCESSING: SERIAL VERSUS PARALLEL LEXICAL PROCESSING

5.1 Semantic Preview Benefit

5.2 Parafoveal-on-Foveal Effects

6. EVIDENCE FOR PARAFOVEAL PROCESSING FROM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY STUDIES

6.1 Tests of the Assumptions of Saccadic Control Models of Reading With ERPs

6.2 RSVP With Flanker Paradigm

6.3 Fixation Related Potentials (FRPs) Paradigm

7. MODELING PARAFOVEAL PREVIEW EFFECTS

7.1 Modeling Forced Fixations

7.2 Modeling Trans-saccadic Integration

8. SUMMARY

Ten - Individual Differences in the Real-Time Neural Dynamics of Language Comprehension

2. LANGUAGE-RELATED ERP COMPONENTS

3. SOME QUANTITATIVE INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

4. QUALITATIVE INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN NON-NATIVE AND BILINGUAL MORPHOSYNTACTIC PROCESSING

5. MONOLINGUAL MORPHOSYNTACTIC, SEMANTIC, AND THEMATIC PROCESSING AND SOME PSYCHOLINGUISTIC CONUNDRUMS

6. HIGHER-ORDER INFERENCING AND MULTI-MODAL COMMUNICATION

7. CONCLUSIONS AND CHALLENGES FOR THE FUTURE

Eleven - He Gave My Nose a Kick or He Kicked My Nose? Argument Structure Alternations and Event Construal

1. THE LINKING STRUCTURES BETWEEN GRAMMAR AND EVENT CONSTRUAL

2. CASE STUDY I: GRAMMAR AND EVENT ROLES, AND WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THEY DON'T ALIGN

3. CASE STUDY II: FROM GRAMMAR TO TIME

4. LOOSE ENDS: PROCESSING, REFERENCE, AND ACQUISITION

5. CONCLUSION: LINGUISTICS IS WORTH YOUR WHILE

Twelve - The Role of Discourse Context in Reference Production and Comprehension: Insights From the Lexical Differe ...

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 Context and Referential Design

1.2 Overspecification in the Current Context

1.3 Discourse History Supports Overspecification

2. LEXICAL DIFFERENTIATION IN PRODUCTION

2.1 Lexical Differentiation

2.2 Is Lexical Differentiation a Listener-Driven Process?

2.3 Does Repetition of Entrainment Trials Modulate Lexical Differentiation?

2.4 Is the Latency Between Two Referents Crucial to Elicit Lexical Differentiation?

3. THE SOURCE OF LEXICAL DIFFERENTIATION

3.1 Pre-emption by Similar Form

3.2 Memory for Past Referents

3.3 The Role of Relevant Context

4. LEXICAL DIFFERENTIATION IN COMPREHENSION

4.1 Lexical Differentiation While Tracking Eye-Movements

4.2 Lexical Differentiation While Measuring Brain Electrical Activity

5. FUTURE DIRECTIONS

5.1 Prosodic Differentiation

5.2 Differentiation in Aging

6. CONCLUSION

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 30, 2018).

ISBN:

0-12-815093-9

0-12-815086-6