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The Bilingual Mind and Brain Book Series 1 Roberto R. Heredia Jeanette Altarriba Anna B. Cieślicka Editors Methods in Bilingual Reading Comprehension Research The Bilingual Mind and Brain Book Series Series Editors Roberto R. Heredia Anna B. Cieślicka More information about this series at h ttp://www.springer.com/series/13841 Roberto R. Heredia (cid:129) Jeanette Altarriba ś Anna B. Cie licka Editors Methods in Bilingual Reading Comprehension Research Editors Roberto R. Heredia Jeanette Altarriba Department of Psychology Department of Psychology and Communication University at Albany Texas A&M International University State University of New York Laredo , TX , USA Albany , NY , USA Anna B. Cieślicka Department of Psychology and Communication Texas A&M International University Laredo , TX , USA The Bilingual Mind and Brain Book Series ISBN 978-1-4939-2992-4 ISBN 978-1-4939-2993-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4939-2993-1 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015949638 Springer New York Heidelberg Dordrecht London © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016 T his work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifi cally the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfi lms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. T he use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specifi c statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. T he publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper S pringer Science+Business Media LLC New York is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) Para mis seres queridos y toda esa gente linda que ha dejado huella en mi cuaderno de memorias Roberto R. Heredia This work is dedicated to all those who inspire the desire to conduct research, those who carry out that research, and those who contemplate and question the workings of the human mind Jeanette Altarriba To my family, friends, colleagues, and students—past, present, and future—who continue to help me become who I am as a person, a teacher, and a researcher Anna B. Cieślicka v The Bilingual Mind and Brain Series W e take great joy and honor in presenting The Bilingual Mind and Brain Series to students, teachers of bilingualism, and the scientifi c community. This book series is intended to advance and contribute to our understanding of the bilingual/ multilingual mind and brain, both as an academic discipline and as a maturing research fi eld. T he Bilingual Mind and Brain Series is interdisciplinary in its scope and examines the bilingual mind/brain from such perspectives as psycho- linguistics, cognitive psychology, cognitive science, and cognitive neuroscience, as well as applied linguistics and pedagogical approaches to second/foreign lan- guage learning. The Bilingual Mind and Brain Series seeks to publish cutting-edge and provoca- tive collective volumes and monographs about how the bilingual mind and brain process, learn, and store information, and it is intended for the growing number of bilingual researchers and practitioners interested in understanding the behavioral aspects and neurobiology of bilingualism, as well as the dynamic character of the bilingual/multilingual/second language learner’s mind. Its purpose is to provide updates of the most current work in the behavioral and neuropsychological research fi elds of bilingualism/multilingualism and second language acquisition. The books in the Bilingual Mind and Brain Series are intended to contribute to the develop- ment and establishment of the Bilingual Cognitive Psychology and Bilingual Cognitive Neuroscience disciplines as subfi elds of Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, as well as to contribute to our understanding of the bilin- gual mind and brain, and ultimately, the human brain. W e are also honored and humbled to present M ethods in Bilingual Reading Comprehension Research as the fi rst volume of the series. This volume, for the fi rst time, provides a much-needed set of methodological tools and perspectives (behav- ioral, connectionist, and brain imaging paradigms) to better understand bilingual viii The Bilingual Mind and Brain Series reading processes. M ethods in Bilingual Reading Comprehension Research is timely, and it is the fi rst book of its kind to present a comprehensive overview of the various psycholinguistic and neurophysiological tasks used to measure bilingual language processing. Roberto R. Heredia Anna B. Cieślicka Pref ace T he presentation of a volume on M ethods in Bilingual Reading Comprehension Research is timely and provides a much-needed set of methodological tools to fur- ther understand reading and sentence processing in bilinguals. Although much has been written on the bilingual’s lexical and conceptual representations—mostly at the word level—much less is known about the ongoing bilingual reading processes and the appropriateness of the experimental tasks, as bilinguals comprehend cross- language and mixed language information at the sentence and connected text levels. Methods in Bilingual Reading Comprehension Research reviews and presents new bilingual and cross-language reading fi ndings from classic behavioral experimental techniques, such as the r apid-serial visual presentation (RSVP) task, the v isual moving window (VMW), the c ross-modal lexical priming (CMLP) task, the e ye- tracking paradigm, and the latest brain-viewing neuropsycholinguistic/neurobio- logical methodologies including e vent-related potentials (ERPs) and f unctional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). This book is written from an empirical/methodological perspective, and it pro- vides readers and undergraduate/graduate students with the opportunity to acquire hands-on experience in the development of basic reading experiments. Each chapter includes a S uggested Student Research Projects section. Selected chapters include detailed procedures on how to design and develop reading experiments using sam- ple scripts from experiment builder software (e.g., E-Prime, PsyScope, OpenSesame). Methods in Bilingual Reading Comprehension Research has been conceived of as an advanced book for both the undergraduate and graduate levels and represents the fi rst such text of its kind to critically examine the contribution of behavioral, brain- viewing, and computational (i.e., computer simulations) approaches to better our understanding of the bilingual’s basic reading processes. To our knowledge, no other published book has addressed these issues directly. It is hoped that this book contributes to the development and establishment of B ilingual Reading as a subfi eld of bilingual sentence processing and will fi ll a signifi cant gap in the literature on bilingual language processing. ix
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