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Edna Andrews

Edna Andrews

Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Distinguished Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Slavic & Eurasian Studies
eda@duke.edu
Box 90259, Durham, NC 27708-0259
321B Languages Bldg, Durham, NC

Selected Publications

Semiosis and embodied cognition: The relevance of Peircean semiotics to cognitive neuroscience

Journal Article Sign Systems Studies · January 1, 2024 Valentina Cuccio and Vittorio Gallese stimulated renewed interest in semiotic contributions to the cognitive neurosciences by bringing C. S. Peirce and his theory of signs to elucidate important notions that provide the foundation for understanding embodie ... Full text Cite

Resting-state functional connectivity in lifelong musicians.

Journal Article Psychoradiology · January 2023 BackgroundIt has been postulated that musicianship can lead to enhanced brain and cognitive reserve, but the neural mechanisms of this effect have been poorly understood. Lifelong professional musicianship in conjunction with novel brain imaging t ... Full text Cite

Effects of Lifelong Musicianship on White Matter Integrity and Cognitive Brain Reserve.

Journal Article Brain Sci · January 6, 2021 There is a significant body of research that has identified specific, high-end cognitive demand activities and lifestyles that may play a role in building cognitive brain reserve, including volume changes in gray matter and white matter, increased structur ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cognitive Neuroscience and Multilingualism

Chapter · January 1, 2019 This chapter presents some of the major findings of two types of imaging (hemodynamic and electrophysiological) in the context of the study of multilingualism. One of the issues with the study of bilingualism and the brain is the lack of empirically valid ... Full text Cite

The importance of Lotmanian semiotics to sign theory and the cognitive neurosciences

Journal Article Sign Systems Studies · January 1, 2015 The following paper is based on a presentation given as the Juri Lotman Lecture at the University of Tartu conference "Creative Continuity: 50 years of Sign Systems Studies", on December 5th, 2014. The focus of the current analysis is to bring to light imp ... Full text Cite

Development and Assessment of the Effectiveness of an Undergraduate General Education Foreign Language Requirement

Journal Article Foreign Language Annals · December 1, 2014 This article describes a faculty-led, multiyear process of formulating learning objectives and assessing the effectiveness of a foreign language requirement for all College of Arts and Sciences undergraduates at a research university. Three interrelated re ... Full text Open Access Cite

Neuroscience and multilingualism

Book · January 1, 2014 How are languages represented in the human brain? Ideas from neuroscience have increasingly been applied to the study of language, exploring the neural processes involved in acquisition, maintenance and loss of language and languages, and the interaction b ... Cite

Multilingualism and fMRI: Longitudinal Study of Second Language Acquisition.

Journal Article Brain Sci · May 28, 2013 BOLD fMRI is often used for the study of human language. However, there are still very few attempts to conduct longitudinal fMRI studies in the study of language acquisition by measuring auditory comprehension and reading. The following paper is the first ... Full text Link to item Cite

Markedness

Chapter · September 18, 2012 The concept of markedness is often used to formulate the solution to problems that arise in the morphology and/or semantics of tense, aspect, and mood, and is especially prominent in certain fields, one of which is Slavic linguistics. This is perhaps not s ... Full text Cite

Language and brain: Recasting meaning in the definition of human language

Journal Article Semiotica · April 1, 2011 The purpose of this paper is to articulate the central issues and controversies that currently dominate the study of the relationship between language and brain and, as a result, we will attempt to fundamentally redefine the way language is viewed by the n ... Full text Cite

Speech and Sung Phoneme Perception

Journal Article · 2011 Cite

Russian Translation: Theory and practice

Other Russian Translation: Theory and practice · January 1, 2009 Russian Translation: Theory and Practice is a comprehensive practical course in translation for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Russian. The course aims to provide intensive exposure with a view to mastering translation from Russian int ... Full text Cite

Zamyatin and the circle of colors

Journal Article · 2006 Cite

H.M.’s Language Skills: Clues About Language and the Medial Temporal Lobe

Journal Article Journal of Memory and Language · 2005 Cite

Neurolinguistic perspectives on Second Language Acquisition

Journal Article Language (Journal of the Linguistic Society of America) · 2005 Cite

Medial Temporal Lobes and Languages: The Case of HM,

Journal Article Journal of Memory and Language · 2005 Cite

Language and the medial temporal lobe: Evidence from H.M.'s spontaneous discourse

Journal Article Journal of Memory and Language · January 1, 2005 Previous researchers have found it challenging to disentangle the memory and language capabilities of the famous amnesic patient H.M. Here, we present an original linguistic analysis of H.M. based on empirical data drawing upon novel spoken discourse with ... Full text Cite

Conversations with lotman: Cultural semiotics in language, literature, and cognition

Book · January 1, 2003 Conversations with Lotman is a critical analysis of Russian cultural historian and theoretician Jurij Lotman’s central contributions to the study of semiotics, including his writings on the "semiotics of culture" and the "semiotics of artistic space," and ... Cite

Peterburg Axmatovoj i Bloka

Journal Article · 2003 Cite

Memory, Language and Brain

Journal Article Prague School Linguistics · 2003 Cite

Zamjatinkskij Puskin

Journal Article Russkaja Literatura, Journal of the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Puskinskij Dom · 2003 Cite

Russian Derivational Morphology and Shifting Reference

Journal Article Townsend Memorial Volume · 2002 Cite

The Tartu school at the end of the twentieth century

Journal Article Semiotica · December 1, 2000 Cite

Jakobson between East and West: 1915-1939

Journal Article SEEJ (The Slavic and East European Journal) · 2000 Cite

The Memory of Language in the Language of Memory

Journal Article The Peirce Seminar Papers (An Annual of Semiotic Analysis) · 1999 Cite

The Jakobsonian Legacy in Contemporary Poetics

Journal Article Semiotica · 1999 Cite

Lotman's communication act and semiosis

Journal Article Semiotica · January 1, 1999 Full text Cite

The shift of ’shame’ in Slavic

Journal Article IJSLP · 1996 Cite

Osobennosti razvitija russkoj leksiki v novejsij period (na materiale gazet)

Journal Article The Slavic and East European Journal · 1995 Cite

Evaluation in ELT by Cyril Weir & Jon Robers

Journal Article American Speech · 1995 Cite

The Port-Royal Grammar

Journal Article SECOL Review · 1994 Cite

Contemporary Morphology

Journal Article Studies in Second Language Acquisition · 1992 Cite

’Vzaimosvjaz’ tvorcestva Bulgakova i Zamjatina

Journal Article Vestnik SPBU · January 1992 Cite

Markedness Theory by Ed Batistella

Journal Article American Speech · 1991 Cite

Pierce’s emotional interpretant: A key to bilingualism

Journal Article International Review of Applied Linguistics (IRAL) · August 1990 Cite

Cognitive Science

Journal Article SECOL Review · 1990 Cite

Peirce's emotional interpretant: A key to bilingualism

Journal Article IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching · January 1, 1990 Full text Cite

The prefixes DE- and UN- in modern American English

Journal Article American Speech · 1986 Cite

A Semantic Analysis of the Russian Prepositions/Preverbs O(-) and OB(-)

Journal Article The Slavic and East European Journal · 1984 Full text Cite