Language Electrified: Principles, Methods, and Future Perspectives of Investigation

Grimaldi, Mirko, Brattico, Elvira, Shtyrov, Yury

  • 出版商: Humana Press
  • 出版日期: 2024-08-04
  • 售價: $9,520
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$9,044
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 799
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 1071632655
  • ISBN-13: 9781071632659
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Language, as a system we use to communicate, represents the brain's biologically perfected machinery for converting thoughts (ideas, concepts, and reflections of both the outside world and our inner feelings) into words and sentences. Crucially, this process occurs in real time. How hundreds of billions of neurons within the dark of the skull control language and speech remains, in some respects, a mystery. To track such neural dynamics in time, we need to exploit physiological tools capable of following temporal patterns of neural activity on a fine-grain time scale. In parallel, it is necessary to begin to provide a real interdisciplinary academic background for scholars wishing to embark on this field of study. Unlike many similar efforts, this book has been conceived as a hands-on tool offering the reader the possibility to progressively acquire principles, techniques, and methods necessary to pursue interdisciplinary research in a fascinating field intersecting linguistic andneuroscience. It focuses on neurophysiological methods and applications useful to track the high speed and rapid temporal dynamics of neural activity involved in language and speech. The chapters in this book are organized into four parts. Part One discusses neural principles and tools for an effective approach to the field of investigation. Part Two looks at the issues and perspectives concerned with the use of a range of neurophysiological technologies to investigate the neural computations of language and speech processes. Part Three focuses on an in-depth exploration of the neural processes associated with the main types of linguistic information, ranging from phonemes and prosody to syntax, pragmatics, and figurative language. Lastly, Part Five explores the phenomena that goes beyond the segments of basic linguistic units. In the Neuromethods series style, chapters include the kind of detail and key advice from the specialists needed to get successful results in your laboratory
Cutting-edge and thorough, Language Electrified: Principles, Methods, and Future Perspectives of Investigation is a valuable resource that offers the necessary tool-box for all researchers and scientists interested in the challenging field of the neurophysiology of language and speech.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

語言作為我們用來溝通的系統,代表了大腦生物學上完善的機制,將思想(想法、概念以及對外部世界和內心感受的反思)轉換為單詞和句子。關鍵在於,這一過程是即時發生的。數百億個神經元在顱骨的黑暗中如何控制語言和言語,在某些方面仍然是一個謎。為了追蹤這種神經動態,我們需要利用生理工具,能夠在細微的時間尺度上跟蹤神經活動的時間模式。同時,對於希望進入這一研究領域的學者來說,開始提供真正的跨學科學術背景是必要的。與許多類似的努力不同,本書被設計為一個實用工具,為讀者提供逐步獲取原則、技術和方法的可能性,以便在這一迷人的交叉領域進行跨學科研究,該領域交織了語言學和神經科學。它專注於神經生理學方法和應用,這些方法和應用對於追蹤與語言和言語相關的神經活動的高速和快速時間動態非常有用。本書的章節分為四個部分。第一部分討論了有效研究領域的神經原則和工具。第二部分探討了使用一系列神經生理技術來研究語言和言語過程的神經計算所涉及的問題和視角。第三部分深入探討了與主要類型的語言信息相關的神經過程,涵蓋了從音素和韻律到句法、語用和比喻語言的範疇。最後,第五部分探討了超越基本語言單位片段的現象。在《Neuromethods》系列的風格中,章節包括了專家所需的詳細信息和關鍵建議,以便在您的實驗室中獲得成功的結果。前沿且全面的《Language Electrified: Principles, Methods, and Future Perspectives of Investigation》是一本寶貴的資源,為所有對語言和言語的神經生理學這一挑戰性領域感興趣的研究者和科學家提供了必要的工具箱。