Table Of ContentThe 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
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Roberto R. Heredia (cid:129) Jeanette Altarriba
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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