TheCognitiveNeuroscienceofBilingualismpresentsanintroductiontotheneuralbasesandcognitiveprocessesofthebilingualbrain.Itcoversfoundationalknowledgerequiredforstudyintheareaofbilingualism,includingprominenttheoriesandresearchmethodologies,andthestateofresearchinrelevantfieldsofpsycholinguistics,cognitivepsychology,andneuroscience.Majortopicsincludebilingualdevelopmentandbrainplasticity;aphasiaandthebilingualbrain;cross-linguisticeffectsofbilingualism;bilinguallexicalandconceptualmemory;andcognitiveandneurocognitiveeffectsofbilingualism.Thisbookrepresentsthefirstofitskindtobringtogetherthevariouspsychologicalandtheoreticalissuesofbilingualismwithrespecttolanguageprocessingandrepresentation,whileprovidinginsightintothe’reality’ofthebilingualbrain.
