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The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Volume 72 in this preeminent series, features empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning, to complex learning and problem-solving. Chapters in this new release cover Statistical learning predicts literacy acquisition of a foreign alphabetic and logographic language, An Investigation into Virtual Immersion Mandarin Chinese Writing Instruction with Students with Autism, Child and adult classroom L2 learners: uniqueness and similarities, and implications for cognitive models, Current Trends in Second Sign Language Research: Acquisition, Teaching and Assessment, Language Experiences and Cognitive Control: A Dynamic Perspective, and much more.
Key Features
- Presents the latest information in the highly regarded Psychology of Learning and Motivation series
- Provides an essential reference for researchers and academics in cognitive science
- Contains information relevant to both applied concerns and basic research
Readership
Researchers and students in cognitive psychology
Table of Contents
- Immersion into virtual reality for language learning
- Language experiences and cognitive control: A dynamic perspective
- Studying bilingual learners and users of spoken and signed languages: A neurocognitive approach
- Event-related brain potentials in multilingual language processing: The N’s and P’s
- Neural hemispheric organization in successful adult language learning: Is left always right?
- Foreign language learning motivation: Phonetic chill or Latin lover effect? Does sound structure or social stereotyping drive FLL?
- Lexical processing in child and adult classroom second language learners: Uniqueness and similarities, and implications for cognitive models
- The dynamics of language experience and how it affects language and cognition
- The contribution of statistical learning to language and literacy acquisition
Yu-Ju Lan
Ping Li and Yanping Dong
Katherine J. Midgley, Yazmin E. Medina and Brittany Lee
Brennan R. Payne, Shukhan Ng, Kailen Shantz and Kara D. Federmeier
Zhenghan Qi and Jennifer Legault
Susanne M. Reiterer, Vita Kogan, Annemarie Seither-Preisler and Gašper Pesek
Janet G. van Hell
Zofia Wodniecka, Alba Casado, Patrycja Kałamała, Marta Marecka, Kalinka Timmer and Agata Wolna
Denise H. Wu and Talat Bulut
Product details
- No. of pages: 328
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2020
- Published: May 21, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780128203774
- eBook ISBN: 9780128203781
About the Serial Volume Editors
Kara Federmeier
Kara D. Federmeier received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego. She is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Neuroscience Program at the University of Illinois and a full-time faculty member at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, where she leads the Illinois Language and Literacy Initiative and heads the Cognition and Brain Lab. She is also a Past President of the Society for Psychophysiological Research. Her research examines meaning comprehension and memory using human electrophysiological techniques, in combination with behavioral, eyetracking, and other functional imaging and psychophysiological methods. She has been funded by the National Institute on Aging, the Institute of Education Sciences, and the James S. McDonnell Foundation.
Affiliations and Expertise
Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA
Hsu-Wen Huang
Hsu-Wen Huang is at City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Affiliations and Expertise
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong