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8.1 Neurophysiological research in psycholinguistics 8.1 Neurophysiological research in psycholinguistics
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8.2 Behavioral and neurophysiological evidence in psycholinguistic research: lexical class membership and word frequency 8.2 Behavioral and neurophysiological evidence in psycholinguistic research: lexical class membership and word frequency
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8.3 Event-related potentials indicating language processing 8.3 Event-related potentials indicating language processing
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8.3.1 Late language potentials 8.3.1 Late language potentials
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8.3.2 Early language potentials 8.3.2 Early language potentials
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8.3.3 Early and late language potentials and their implications for psycholinguistics 8.3.3 Early and late language potentials and their implications for psycholinguistics
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8.4 The universe of psycholinguistic variables and its neurophysiological reality 8.4 The universe of psycholinguistic variables and its neurophysiological reality
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8.5 What makes speech special? Laterality of neurophysiological activity interpreted as the critical brain feature of language 8.5 What makes speech special? Laterality of neurophysiological activity interpreted as the critical brain feature of language
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8.6 Summary and outlook 8.6 Summary and outlook
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Acknowledgements Acknowledgements
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References References
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8 Word processing in the brain as revealed by neurophysiological imaging
Get accessFriedemann Pulvermüller worked as Programme Leader at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge; recently he accepted the position of Professor of Neuroscience of Language and Pragmatics at the Freie Universität Berlin. He discovered that the brain discriminates early between meaningful words and senseless pseudowords, and between grammatical and semantic word kinds; he also reported early brain activation patterns indicating the meaning of words and sentences. He has published four books and over 200 articles, putting forward the first neurobiological model of language integrating neurobiological principles with linguistic theory and offering mechanistic nerve cell circuits underpinning language in the human brain. Neuroscience insights were brought to fruit by his work in the development of new treatment procedures for patients with post-stroke aphasia.
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Published:18 September 2012
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Abstract
The advent of neuroimaging opened new research perspectives for the psycholinguist as it became possible to look at the neuronal mass activity that underlies language processing. Studies of brain correlates of psycholinguistic processes can complement behavioural results, and in some cases can lead to direct information about the basis of psycholinguistic processes. Even more importantly, the neuroscience move in psycholinguistics made it possible to advance language theorising to the level of the brain. This article discusses neurophysiological imaging with electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography. It examines behavioural and neurophysiological evidence in psycholinguistic research, focusing on lexical class membership and word frequency. The article also considers event-related potentials indicating language processing, early and late language potentials and their implications for psycholinguistics, the universe of psycholinguistic variables and its neurophysiological reality, and laterality of neurophysiological activity interpreted as the critical brain feature of language.
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