This book provides a comprehensive and concise introduction of experiments on contemporary issues of language processing and the brain. It covers a wide range of neurolinguistic and neuroscience topics, including but not limited to word recognition, reading acquisition and dyslexia (in typically developed children, foreign language learners, and deaf people), comprehension of sentences and fictional narratives, the interplay of language processing/acquisition with other cognitive domains, and aging of language comprehension and Chinese reading.
This book showcases the significance of empirical studies on language and cognitive processing, particularly those emerging from the Taiwan research community, to illuminate the intricate nature of the language faculty enabled by the sophisticated computations of the brain. This book informs readers of crucial issues in the neurolinguistic literature and advances in neuroimaging technology and provides perspectives inspired by evolution and neuroscience.
Exploring Chinese reading development: Framework, instructional systems,
and cognitive factors.- Neural signatures for the statistical learning of
Chinese language processing.- A visual account of acquisition of Chinese
reading by the Deaf in Taiwan.- Shared book reading, predictive brain signal
and language in infants.- Evidence of eye movements for the role of
contextual predictability in Chinese word recognition during the reading of
sentences.- The foreign language effect beyond language.- Reciprocal
relationship between statistical learning and language processing.-
Sophisticated neuroimaging methods to study the brain circuit for language
comprehension.- Using naturalistic brain imaging to investigate fictional
narrative comprehension.- Empower second language learning by technology:
From the perspective of cognitive neuroscience.- Language comprehension,
Chinese reading, and the aging brain.- ERP evidence for the modulation of
semantic transparency on the recollection of two-character Chinese words.- On
the applications of information theoretic approaches to study language and
motor control.- Human judgment biases: From behavior to neural
implementations.
Professor Denise Wu received doctoral and post-doctoral training from Rice University and the University of Pennsylvania (United States of America) respectively, in the discipline of cognitive neuroscience and neuropsychology, with a focus on neurolinguistics. She is currently a professor at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience in National Central University in Taiwan and has been serving as the director of the Joint Research Centre for Language and Human Complexity at the University System of Taiwan since 2014. Professor Wu has extensive expertise in employing converging methods, including behavioral, neuropsychological (patient-based), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and neurophysiological (event-related potential and magnetoencephalography) experiments, to elucidate the neuronal mechanisms underlying human cognition in general and linguistic faculties in specific.
