Right Hemisphere Language Comprehension: Perspectives From Cognitive NeuroscienceMark Jung Beeman, Christine Chiarello The statement, "The Right Hemisphere (RH) processes language"--while not exactly revolutionary--still provokes vigorous debate. It often elicits the argument that anything the RH does with language is not linguistic but "paralinguistic." The resistance to the notion of RH language processing persists despite the fact that even the earliest observers of Left Hemisphere (LH) language specialization posited some role for the RH in language processing, and evidence attesting to various RH language processes has steadily accrued for more than 30 years. In this volume, chapters pertain to a wide, but by no means, exhaustive set of language comprehension processes for which RH contributions have been demonstrated. The sections are organized around these processes, beginning with initial decoding of written or spoken input, proceeding through semantic processing of single words and sentences, up to comprehension of more complex discourse, as well as problem solving. The chapters assembled here should begin to melt this resistance to evidence of RH language processing. This volume's main goal is to compile evidence about RH language function from a scattered literature. The editorial commentaries concluding each section highlight the relevance of these phenomena for psycholinguistic and neuropsychological theory, and discuss similarities and apparent discrepancies in the findings reported in individual chapters. In the final chapter, common themes that emerge from the enterprise of studying RH language and future challenge for the field are reviewed. Although all chapters focus only on "typical" laterality of right handed people, this work provides a representative sample of the current state of the art in RH language research. Important features include: * a wide range of coverage from speech perception and reading through complex discourse comprehension and problem-solving; * research presented from both empirical and theoretical perspectives; and * commentaries and conclusions integrating findings and theories across sub-domains, and speculating on future directions of the field. |
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... auditory signal as a set of phonemic units, has maintained a rather peculiar status in laterality research. In some respects, the evidence for a unique role of the left hemisphere (LH) is as compelling on the perceptual end as it is on ...
... auditory signal as a set of phonemic units, has maintained a rather peculiar status in laterality research. In some respects, the evidence for a unique role of the left hemisphere (LH) is as compelling on the perceptual end as it is on ...
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... auditory perception (Massaro, 1987; Stevens & Blumstein, 1981). Research in this camp has led to countless ... auditory apparatus is perfectly suited for the complex signal analysis problem created by variability in the speech signal ...
... auditory perception (Massaro, 1987; Stevens & Blumstein, 1981). Research in this camp has led to countless ... auditory apparatus is perfectly suited for the complex signal analysis problem created by variability in the speech signal ...
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... auditory physiology are based on general principles that do not distinguish between the operation of the left and right hemispheres. Nonetheless, there have been some proposals concerning a fundamental asymmetry in the auditory ...
... auditory physiology are based on general principles that do not distinguish between the operation of the left and right hemispheres. Nonetheless, there have been some proposals concerning a fundamental asymmetry in the auditory ...
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... auditory signal. For each module, the specialization is not limited to the speech domain, but rather reflects a generic computational capability. This hypothesis bears some similarity to Previc's theory in that the specialization is ...
... auditory signal. For each module, the specialization is not limited to the speech domain, but rather reflects a generic computational capability. This hypothesis bears some similarity to Previc's theory in that the specialization is ...
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... auditory and speech tasks that draw on these specializations. This distributed model stands in contrast to current views of phoneme perception that assume a common module and pattern of lateralization for all consonantal contrasts. As ...
... auditory and speech tasks that draw on these specializations. This distributed model stands in contrast to current views of phoneme perception that assume a common module and pattern of lateralization for all consonantal contrasts. As ...
Contents
Lexical and SentenceLevel Semantics | 140 |
Discourse Processing and Problem Solving | 254 |
Author Index | 391 |
Subject Index | 405 |
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