人脑是如何理解与产出语言的？失语症、失读症等各种语言障碍的症状及其原因是什么？该如何康复？研究语言与人脑之间关系的方法有哪些？……
本书详细介绍了语言和人脑之间关系的基础研究现状，讨论了各种相关理论及其运用问题，并对失语症等临床现象予以描述、分析与解释。本书系统全面，堪称语言的神经心理学百科全书。

Volume 1 Language Processing in the Brain: Basic Science Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments (personal)
Part Ⅰ Language and Hemispheres: From Single-Word Recognition to Discourse
1 Individual Differences in Brain Organization for Language
2 The Perceptual Representation of Speech in the Cerebral Hemispheres
3 Mechanisms of Hemispheric Specialization: Insights from Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Studies
4 Understanding Written Words: Phonological, Lexical, and Contextual Effects in the Cerebral Hemispheres
5 The Organization of Discourse in the Brain: Results from the Item-Priming-in-Recognition Paradigm
Part Ⅱ Computational Modeling of Language
6 Connectionist Modeling of Neuropsychological Deficits in Semantics, Language, and Reading
7 Neural Network Models of Speech Production
8 Word Learning as the Confluence of Memory Mechanisms: Computational and Neural Evidence
Part Ⅲ Neural Correlates of Language Production and Comprehension
9 Neural Correlates of Semantic Processing in Reading Aloud
10 In a Word: ERPs Reveal Important Lexical Variables for Visual Word Processing
11 Hemodynamic Studies of Syntactic Processing
12 The Neurobiology of Structure-Dependency in Natural Language Grammar
13 How Does the Brain Establish Novel Meanings in Language? Abstract Symbol Theories Versus Embodied Theories of Meaning
14 Motor and Nonmotor Language Representations in the Brain
15 What Role Does the Cerebellum Play in Language Processing?
Part Ⅳ Coping with Higher-Level Processing: The Brain Behind Figurative and Creative Language
16 Bilateral Processing and Affect in Creative Language Comprehension
17 Two-Track Mind: Formulaic and Novel Language Support a Dual-Process Model
18 Neuropsychological and Neurophysiological Correlates of Idiom Understanding: How Many Hemispheres are Involved?
19 Cognitive Neuroscience of Creative Language: The Poetic and the Prosaic
20 The Brain behind Nonliteral Language: Insights from Brain Imaging
21 Thinking outside the Left Box: The Role of the Right Hemisphere in Novel Metaphor Comprehension
Part Ⅴ The Multilingual Brain
22 Word Recognition in the Bilingual Brain
23 Vocabulary Learning in Bilingual First-Language Acquisition and Late Second-Language Learning
24 What ERPs Tell Us about Bilingual Language Processing
25 How the Brain Acquires, Processes, and Controls a Second Language
Acknowledgments
Volume 2 Language Processing in the Brain: Clinical Populations
Part I Neuropsychology of Language: Methods and Paradigms
26 Potentials and Paradigms: Event-Related Brain Potentials and Neuropsychology
27 What the Speaking Brain Tells Us about Functional Imaging
28 Uncovering the Neural Substrates of Language: A Voxel-Based Lesion-Symptom Mapping Approach
29 Analytic Methods for Single Subject and Small Sample Aphasia Research: Some Illustrations and a Discussion
30 Verbal Fluency Tasks and the Neuropsychology of Language Seija Pekkala
Part Ⅱ Neuropsychology of Language: Language Loss
31 The Acquisition, Retention, and Loss of Vocabulary in Aphasia, Dementia, and Other Neuropsychological Conditions
32 Computational Neuropsychology of Language: Language Processing and Its Breakdown in Aphasia
33 Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Aphasia Research
34 Longitudinal Study of Recovery from Aphasia: The Case of Lexical Retrieval
35 Multiple Languages in the Adult Brain
36 Clinical Neurolinguistics of Bilingualism
37 Sentence Comprehension in Healthy and Brain-Damaged Populations
38 The Neural Basis for Aging Effects on Language
Part Ⅲ Neuropsychology of Language: Developmental Language Disorders
39 Neuropsychological and Neuroimaging Aspects of Developmental Language Disorders
40 Specific Language Impairment: Processin