Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

What Do We Learn from Neurolinguistics?

  • Chapter
Book cover The Palgrave Handbook of Economics and Language

Abstract

Neurolinguistics is a relatively new and very promising scientific discipline that emerged in the mid-20th century and has been actively developing during the last five decades. Generally speaking, its main scope is to investigate relationships between the human brain and language. This topic is highly relevant from both a theoretical (including philosophical issues) and a practical (including clinical implications and modelling in computer science) point of view. The results of neurolinguistics studies have been published in numerous scientific journals including Neuroscience, Neuropsychology, Neurophysiology, The International Journal of Neurolinguistics, Brain and Language and Brain and Cognition.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD 264.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  • J. Abutalebi and D. Green (2007) ‘Bilingual Language Production: The Neurocognition of Language Representation and Control’, Journal of Neurolinguistics, 20, 242–275.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • O. Adesope, T. Lavin, T. Thompson and C. Ungerleider (2010) ‘A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of the Cognitive Correlates of Bilingualism’, Review of Educational Research, 80, 207–245.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • E. Adi-Japha, J. Berberich-Artzi and A. Libnawi (2010) ‘Cognitive Flexibility in Drawings of Bilingual Children’, Child Development, 81, 1356–1366.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • AHD (2012) The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).

    Google Scholar 

  • E. Ahlsén (2006) Introduction to Neurolinguistics (Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company).

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • M. Arbib (2005) ‘From Monkey-like Action Recognition to Human Language: An Evolutionary Framework for Neurolinguistics’, Brain and Behavioral Sciences, 28, 105–124.

    Google Scholar 

  • A. Ardila (2010) ‘A Proposed Reinterpretation and Reclassification of Aphasic Syndromes’, Aphasiology, 24, 363–394.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • C. Baker (2001) Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (Clevedon: Multilingual Matters).

    Google Scholar 

  • A. Beaton (2004) Dyslexia, Reading, and the Brain (Hove and New York: Psychology Press).

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • R. Berwick, A. Friederici, N. Chomsky and J. Bolhuis (2013) ‘Evolution, Brain, and the Nature of Language’, Trends in Cognitive Science, 17, 89–98.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • E. Bialystok (2009) ‘Bilingualism: The Good, the Bad, and the Indifferent’, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 12, 3–11.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • D. Bishop (2013) ‘Cerebral Asymmetry and Language Development: Cause, Correlate, or Consequence?’, Science, 340, 6138.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • P. Brambilla and A. Marini (eds) (2014) Brain Evolution, Language and Psychopathology in Schizophrenia (New York: Routledge).

    Google Scholar 

  • J. Brauer, A. Anwander and A. Friederici (2013) ‘Neuroanatomical Prerequisites for Language Functions in the Maturing Brain’, Cerebral Cortex, 21, 459–466.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • R. Briellman, M. Saling, A. Connell, A. Waites, D. Abbott and G. Jackson (2004) ‘A High-field Functional MRI Study of Quadrilingual Subjects’, Brain and Language, 89, 531–542.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • T. Brown and T. Jernigan (2012) ‘Brain Development during the Preschool Years’, Neuropsychological Review, 22, 313–333.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • D. Cahana-Amitay and M. Albert (2014) ‘Brain and Language: Evidence for Neural Multifunctionality’, Behavioural Neurology, ID 260381, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/260381

  • D. Caplan (1987) Neurolinguistics and Linguistic Aphasiology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • C. Chen, G. Xue, L. Mei1, C. Chen and Q. Dong (2009) ‘Cultural Neurolinguistics’, Progress in Brain Research, 178, 159–171.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • C. Chiron, I. Jambaque, R. Nabbout, R. Lounes, A. Syrota and O. Dulac (1997) ‘The Right Brain Hemisphere Is Dominant in Human Infants’, Brain, 120, 1057–1065.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • M. Corballis (2014) ‘Left Brain, Right Brain: Facts and Fantasies’, PLOS, Biology, 12, DOI: 10.1371.

    Google Scholar 

  • M. Critchley (1970) Aphasiology and Other Aspects of Language (London: Edward Arnold).

    Google Scholar 

  • B. Crosson (1985) ‘Subcortical Functions in Language: A Working Model’, Brain & Language, 25(2), 257–292.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • J. Cummins (1976) ‘The Influence of Bilingualism on Cognitive Growth: A Synthesis of Research Findings and Explanatory Hypotheses’, Working Papers on Bilingualism, 9, 1–44.

    Google Scholar 

  • J. Cummins (2000) Language, Power, and Pedagogy: Bilingual Children in the Crossfire (Clevedon: Multilingual Matters).

    Google Scholar 

  • F. de Saussure (2011) Course in General Linguistics (New York: Columbia University Press).

    Google Scholar 

  • T. Dijkstra (2001) ‘What We Know about Bilingual Word Recognition: A Review of Studies and Models’, Plenary Address at the International Symposium on Bilingualism, Bristol.

    Google Scholar 

  • M. Donald, R. Meuter and S. Ardal (1986) ‘Event-related Brain Potentials in the First and Second Languages of Bilinguals’, Society of Neuroscience Abstracts, 12, 721.

    Google Scholar 

  • F. Fabbro (2013) The Neurolinguistics of Bilingualism: An Introduction (New York: Taylor & Francis Group).

    Google Scholar 

  • M. Friedrichi and A. Friederici (2010) ‘Maturing Brain Mechanisms and Developing Behavioral Language Skills’, Brain & Language, 114, 66–71.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • A. Friederici and S. Gierhan (2013) ‘The Language Network’, Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 23, 250–254.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • L. Gerard and D. Scarborough (1989) ‘Language-specific Lexical Access of Homographs by Bilinguals’, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 15, 305–315.

    Google Scholar 

  • K. Goldstein (1948) Language and Language Disturbances (New York: Grune & Stratton).

    Google Scholar 

  • H. Goodglass and E. Kaplan (1972) The Assessment of Aphasia and Related Disorders (Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger).

    Google Scholar 

  • H. Goodglass and F. Quadfasel (1954) ‘Language Laterality in Left-handed Aphasics’, Brain, 77, 521–548.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • W. Graves, J. Binder, R. Desai and C. Humphries (2014) ‘Anatomy Is Strategy: Skilled Reading Differences Associated with Structural Connectivity Differences in the Reading Network’, Brain and Language, 133, 1–13.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • F. Grosjean (1998) ‘Studying Bilinguals: Methodological and Conceptual Issues’, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1, 131–149.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • H. Head (1926) Aphasia and Kindred Disorders of Speech (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

    Google Scholar 

  • A. Hebb and G. Ojemann (2013) ‘The Thalamus and Language Revisited’, Brain and Language, 126, 99–108.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • B. Hommel, L. Colzato, R. Fischer and L. Christoffels (2011) ‘Bilingualism and Creativity: Benefits in Convergent Thinking Come with Losses in Divergent Thinking’, Frontiers in Psychology, 2, 1–5.

    Google Scholar 

  • J. Iaccino (1993) Left Brain-right Brain Differences: Inquiries, Evidence, and New Approaches (New York: Psychology Press).

    Google Scholar 

  • J. Illes, W. Francis, J. Desmond, J. Gabrieli, G. Glover, R. Poldrack and A. Wagner (1999) ‘Convergent Cortical Representation of Semantic Processing in Bilinguals’, Brain and Language, 70, 347–363.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • J. Ingram (2007) Neurolinguistics: An Introduction to Spoken Language Processing and Disorders (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • J. Jackson (1958/1869) Selected Writings, vol. 2. (New York: Basic Books).

    Google Scholar 

  • R. Jakobson (1971) Studies on Child Language and Aphasia (The Hague: Mouton and Co).

    Google Scholar 

  • K. Jasinska and L. Petitto (2013) ‘How Age of Bilingual Exposure Can Change the Neural Systems for Language in the Developing Brain: A Functional near Infrared Spectroscopy Investigation of Syntactic Processing in Monolingual and Bilingual Children’, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 6, 87–101.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • M. Johnson and G. Ojemann (2000) ‘The Role of the Human Thalamus in Language and Memory: Evidence from Electrophysiological Studies’, Brain and Cognition, 42, 218–230.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • A. Kharkhurin (2010) ‘Bilingual Verbal and Nonverbal Creative Behavior’, International Journal of Bilingualism, 14, 211–226.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • A. Kharkhurin (2012) Multilingualism and Creativity (Bristol: Multilingual Materials).

    Google Scholar 

  • J. Kroll, P. Dussias, C. Bogulski and J. Valdes-Kroff (2012) ‘Juggling Two Languages in One Mind: What Bilinguals Tell Us about Language Processing and its Consequences for Cognition’, The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 56, 229–262.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • P. Kuhl (2010) ‘Brain Mechanisms in Early Language Acquisition’, Neuron, 67, 713–727.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • M. Leikin (2008) ‘Syntactic Processing in Two Languages by Native and Bilingual Adult Readers: An ERP Study’, Journal of Neurolinguistics, 21, 349–373.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • M. Leikin (2013) ‘The Effect of Bilingualism on Creativity: Developmental and Educational Perspectives’, International Journal of Bilingualism, 6, 1–17.

    Google Scholar 

  • M. Leikin and E. Ritvas (2012) ‘Syntactic Processing in Three Languages by Native and Bilingual Adult Readers: An ERP Study’, in M. Leikin, M. Schwartz and Y. Tobin (eds) Current Issues in Bilingualism (pp. 241–262) (New York: Springer Publishers).

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • M. Leikin, M. Schwartz and Y. Tobin (2012) ‘Current Issues in Bilingualism: A Complex Approach to a Multidimensional Phenomenon’, in M. Leikin, M. Schwartz and Y. Tobin (eds) Current Issues in Bilingualism (pp. 1–20) (New York: Springer Publishers).

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • P. Li, J. Legault and K. Litcofsky (2014) ‘Neuroplasticity as a Function of Second Language Learning: Anatomical Changes in the Human Brain’, Cortex, 58, 301–324.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • J. Locke (1997) ‘A Theory of Neurolinguistic Development’, Brain and Language, 58, 265–326.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • J. L. Locke and B. Bogin (2006). ‘Language and Life History: A New Perspective on the Development and Evolution of Human Language’, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29, 259–279.

    Google Scholar 

  • A. Luria (1947) Traumatic Aphasia (Moscow: AMN USSR).

    Google Scholar 

  • A. Luria (1948) Restoration of Brain Functions after Trauma (Moscow: AMN USSR).

    Google Scholar 

  • A. Luria (1966) Higher Cortical Functions in Man (New York: Basic Books).

    Google Scholar 

  • A. Luria (1976) Basic Problems of Neurolinguistics (The Hague: Mouton Publishers).

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • E. Malaia and R. Wilbur (2010) ‘Sign Languages: Contribution to Neurolinguistics from Cross-Modal Research’, Lingua, 120, 2704–2706.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • V. Marian, M. Spivey and J. Hirsch (2003) ‘Shared and Separate Systems in Bilingual Language Processing: Converging Evidence from Eye Tracking and Brain Imaging’, Brain and Language, 86, 70–82.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • J. Meisel (2008) ‘Child Second Language Acquisition or Successive First Language Acquisition?’, in B. Haznedar and E. Gavruseva (eds) Current Trends in Child Second Language Acquisition (pp. 55–80) (Amsterdam: Benjamins).

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • S. Montrul (2009) ‘What Can Early Bilinguals Tell Us?’, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 31, 225–257.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • A. Nergis (2011) ‘To What Extent Does Neurolinguistics Embody EFL Teaching Methods?’, Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences, 15, 143–147.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • M. Paradis (2004) A Neurolinguistic Theory of Bilingualism (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company).

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • M. Paradis and M. Goldblum (1989) ‘Selective Crossed Aphasia in a Trilingual Aphasic Patient Followed by Reciprocal Antagonism’, Brain and Language, 36, 62–75.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • D. Poeppel and G. Hickok (2004) ‘Towards a New Functional Anatomy of Language’, Cognition, 92, 1–12.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • C. J. Price (2010). ‘The Anatomy Of Language: A Review of 100 fMRI Studies Published in 2009’, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1191(1), 62–88.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • L. Ricciardelli (1992) ‘Bilingualism and Cognitive Development: A Review of Past and Recent Findings’, Journal of Creative Behavior, 26, 242–254.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • G. Sampson (1985) Writing Systems: A Linguistic Introduction (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press).

    Google Scholar 

  • M. Sarfarazi and E. Sedgwick (1996) ‘Event Related Potentials (ERP) as a Function of Language Processing in Bilinguals’, Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 99, 347.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • D. Simonton (2008) ‘Bilingualism and Creativity’, in J. Altarriba and R. Heredia (eds) An Introduction to Bilingualism: Principles and Processes (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum).

    Google Scholar 

  • I. Tattersall (2010) ‘Human Evolution and Cognition’, Theory in Biosciences, 129, 193–201.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • M. Ullman (2001) ‘The Neural Basis of Lexicon and Grammar in First and Second Language: The Declarative/Procedural Model’, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 4, 105–122.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • D. Van Lancker Sidtis (2006) ‘Does Functional Neuroimaging Solve the Questions of Neurolinguistics?’, Brain and Language, 98, 276–290.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • L. Vygotsky (2012) Thought and Language (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).

    Google Scholar 

  • I. Wartenburger, H. Heekeren, J. Abutalebi, S. Cappa, A. Villringer and D. Perani (2003) ‘Early Setting of Grammatical Processing in the Bilingual Brain’, Neuron, 37, 159–170.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • H. A. Whitaker (1971) On the Representation of Language in the Human Brain (Edmonton: Linguistic Research).

    Google Scholar 

  • H. Whitaker and H. A. Whitaker (eds) (1976) Studies in Neurolinguistics: Vol. 1 (Perspectives in Neurolinguistics and Psycholinguistics) (New York: Academic Press).

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Authors
  1. Mark Leikin
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Brussels, Belgium

    Victor Ginsburgh (Honorary Professor of Economics) (Honorary Professor of Economics)

  2. Southern Methodist University, Dallas, USA

    Shlomo Weber (Robert H. and Nancy Dedman Trustee Professor of Economics, Leading Scientist) (Robert H. and Nancy Dedman Trustee Professor of Economics, Leading Scientist)

  3. Center for Study of Diversity and Social Interactions, New Economic School, Moscow, Russia

    Shlomo Weber (Robert H. and Nancy Dedman Trustee Professor of Economics, Leading Scientist) (Robert H. and Nancy Dedman Trustee Professor of Economics, Leading Scientist)

Copyright information

© 2016 Mark Leikin

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Leikin, M. (2016). What Do We Learn from Neurolinguistics?. In: Ginsburgh, V., Weber, S. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Economics and Language. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-32505-1_5

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation