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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254798703321

Titolo

Neural Mechanisms of Language / / edited by Maria Mody

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Springer US : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

1-4939-7325-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 226 p. 44 illus., 27 illus. in color.)

Collana

Innovations in Cognitive Neuroscience, , 2509-730X

Disciplina

612.82336

Soggetti

Cognitive psychology

Neurosciences

Neuropsychology

Cognitive Psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This important volume brings together significant findings on the neural bases of spoken language –its processing, use, and organization, including its phylogenetic roots. Employing a potent mix of conceptual and neuroimaging-based approaches, contributors delve deeply into specialized structures of the speech system, locating sensory and cognitive mechanisms involved in listening and comprehension, grasping meanings and storing memories. The novel perspectives revise familiar models by tracing linguistic interactions within and between neural systems, homing in on the brain’s semantic network, exploring the neuroscience behind bilingualism and multilingual fluency, and even making a compelling case for a more nuanced participation of the motor system in speech. From these advances, readers have a more three-dimensional picture of the brain—its functional epicenters, its connections, and the whole—as the seat of language in both wellness and disorders. Included in the topics: ·         The interaction between storage and computation in morphosyntactic processing. ·         The role of language in structure-dependent cognition. ·         Multisensory integration in speech processing: neural mechanisms of cross-modal after-effect. ·         A



neurocognitive view of the bilingual brain. ·         Causal modeling: methods and their application to speech and language. ·         A word in the hand: the gestural origins of language. Neural Mechanisms of Language presents a sophisticated mix of detail and creative approaches to understanding brain structure and function, giving neuropsychologists, cognitive neuroscientists, developmental psychologists, cognitive psychologists, and speech/language pathologists new windows onto the research shaping their respective fields.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910437952003321

Autore

Szymkiewicz Adam

Titolo

Modelling water flow in unsaturated porous media : accounting for nonlinear permeability and material heterogeneity / / Adam Szymkiewicz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Heidelberg, : Springer, 2013

ISBN

1-283-91032-2

3-642-23559-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 p.)

Collana

GeoPlanet : earth and planetary sciences, , 2190-5193

Disciplina

551.48

Soggetti

Groundwater flow - Mathematical models

Porous materials - Permeability - Mathematical models

Transport theory - Mathematical models

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Mathematical Models of Flow in Porous Media -- Numerical Solution of Flow Equations -- Computation of Inter-Nodal Permeabilities for Richards Equation -- Upscaling from Darcy Scale to Field Scale -- Flow in Binary Media with Heterogenous Hydraulic Diffusivity -- Flow in Binary Media with Heterogenous Air-Entry Pressure.

Sommario/riassunto

The book focuses on two issues related to mathematical and numerical modelling of flow in unsaturated porous media. In the first part



numerical solution of the governing equations is discussed, with particular emphasis on the spatial discretization of highly nonlinear permeability coefficient. The second part deals with large scale flow in heterogeneous porous media of binary structure. Upscaled models are developed and it is shown that the presence of material heterogeneities may give rise to additional non-equilibrium terms in the governing equations or to hysteresis in the averaged constitutive relationships.