Phonological Processes and Brain Mechanisms

by Harry Whitaker (Editor)

Phonological Processes and Brain Mechanisms reviews selective neurolinguistic research relating brain structures to phonology. The studies in the volume report on a number of timely and important topics, such as a neuronal model for processing segmental phonology, the role of the thalamus and basal ganglia in language processing, and oral reading in dyslexia. Increasingly, phonology is considered a cognitive module whose brain correlates may be independently investigated. Given the modular nature of the phonological system and its direct linkage with peripheral components of the nervous system, research on phonology and the brain will undoubtedly flourish in the future. The chapters in this volume give substance to this future.

Hardcover

First published August 17, 1988

About the author

Harry Whitaker retired from the Department of Psychological Science, Northern Michigan University. Harry does research in Cognitive Science, Differential Psychology and Neuropsychology. Current projects: a book on individual differences and revisions to the book Approaches to a History of Western Psychology which is likely to be re-named 'history of psychology and neuroscience'.'