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Classifiers in Mandarin Chinese: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence regarding their representation and processing Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2021-01-22 Shaoyun Huang; Niels O. Schiller
In Chinese, when objects are named with their quantity, a numeral classifier must be inserted between the quantifier and the noun to produce a grammatically correct quantifier + classifier + noun phrase. In this study, we adopted the picture-word interference paradigm to examine participants’ naming latencies for multiple objects and their electroencephalogram in four conditions by manipulating two
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Masked ERP repetition priming in deaf and hearing readers Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2021-01-21 Karen Emmorey; Phillip J. Holcomb; Katherine J. Midgley
Deaf readers provide unique insights into how the reading circuit is modified by altered linguistic and sensory input. We investigated whether reading-matched deaf and hearing readers (n = 62) exhibit different ERP effects associated with orthographic to phonological mapping (N250) or lexico-semantic processes (N400). In a visual masked priming paradigm, participants performed a go/no-go categorization
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Cross-linguistic semantic preview benefit in Basque-Spanish bilingual readers: Evidence from fixation-related potentials Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2021-01-19 M. Antúnez; S. Mancini; J.A. Hernández-Cabrera; L.J. Hoversten; H.A. Barber; M. Carreiras
During reading, we can process and integrate information from words allocated in the parafoveal region. However, whether we extract and process the meaning of parafoveal words is still under debate. Here, we obtained Fixation-Related Potentials in a Basque-Spanish bilingual sample during a Spanish reading task. By using the boundary paradigm, we presented different parafoveal previews that could be
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Text type attribution modulates pre-stimulus alpha power in sentence reading Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2021-01-18 Stefan Blohm; Matthias Schlesewsky; Winfried Menninghaus; Mathias Scharinger
Prior knowledge and context-specific expectations influence the perception of sensory events, e.g., speech, as well as complex higher-order cognitive operations like text reading. Here, we focused on pre-stimulus neural activity during sentence reading to examine text type-dependent attentional bias in anticipation of written stimuli, capitalizing on the functional relevance of brain oscillations in
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Sequential adaptation effects reveal proactive control in processing spoken sentences: Evidence from event-related potentials Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2021-01-14 Jue Xu; Abdel Rahman; Werner Sommer
How domain-general cognitive control is engaged in language processing remains debated. We address how linguistic processes are monitored and regulated by analyzing the effects of previous-trial sentence correctness on the P600 component of the event-related potential (ERP) in the current-trial. In data from a previous experiment about processing spoken sentences, P600 amplitudes to both correct and
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Individual differences in first-pass fixation duration in reading are related to resting-state functional connectivity Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-12-22 Guangyao Zhang; Binke Yuan; Huimin Hua; Ya Lou; Nan Lin; Xingshan Li
Although there are considerable individual differences in eye movements during text reading, their neural correlates remain unclear. In this study, we investigated the relationship between the first-pass fixation duration (FPFD) in natural reading and resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC) in the brain. We defined the brain regions associated with early visual processing, word identification
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Near native-like stress pattern perception in English-French bilinguals as indexed by the mismatch negativity Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-12-14 Annie C. Gilbert; Claire T. Honda; Natalie A. Phillips; Shari R. Baum
We examined lexical stress processing in English-French bilinguals. Auditory mismatch negativity (MMN) responses were recorded in response to English and French pseudowords, whose primary stress occurred either on a language-consistent “usual” or language-inconsistent “unusual” syllable. In most conditions, the pseudowords elicited two consecutive MMNs, and somewhat surprisingly, these MMNs were not
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Neural tracking of the speech envelope is differentially modulated by attention and language experience Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-12-05 Rachel Reetzke; G. Nike Gnanateja; Bharath Chandrasekaran
The ability to selectively attend to a speech signal amid competing sounds is a significant challenge, especially for listeners trying to comprehend non-native speech. Attention is critical to direct neural processing resources to the most essential information. Here, neural tracking of the speech envelope of an English story narrative and cortical auditory evoked potentials (CAEPs) to non-speech stimuli
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Reliability of single-subject neural activation patterns in speech production tasks Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-12-02 Saul A. Frankford; Alfonso Nieto-Castañón; Jason A. Tourville; Frank H. Guenther
Speech neuroimaging research targeting individual speakers could help elucidate differences that may be crucial to understanding speech disorders. However, this research necessitates reliable brain activation across multiple speech production sessions. In the present study, we evaluated the reliability of speech-related brain activity measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging data from twenty
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Brain activity predicts future learning success in intensive second language listening training Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-11-30 Mayumi Kajiura; Hyeonjeong Jeong; Natasha Y.S. Kawata; Shaoyun Yu; Toru Kinoshita; Ryuta Kawashima; Motoaki Sugiura
This study explores neural mechanisms underlying how prior knowledge gained from pre-listening transcript reading helps comprehend fast-rate speech in a second language (L2) and applies to L2 learning. Top-down predictive processing by prior knowledge may play an important role in L2 speech comprehension and improving listening skill. By manipulating the pre-listening transcript effect (pre-listening
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Neural mechanisms of language learning from social contexts Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-11-18 Hyeonjeong Jeong; Ping Li; Wataru Suzuki; Motoaki Sugiura; Ryuta Kawashima
Humans learn languages in real-life situations by integrating multiple signals, including linguistic forms, their meanings, and the actions and intentions of speakers. However, little is known about the neural bases underlying the social learning of a second language (L2) in adults. In this study, 36 adults were asked to learn two sets of L2 spoken words through translation versus simulated social
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Signatures of brain plasticity supporting language recovery after perinatal arterial ischemic stroke Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-10-23 Clément François; Alfredo Garcia-Alix; Laura Bosch; Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells
Brain imaging methods such as functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) have already been used to decipher the functional and structural brain changes occurring during normal language development. However, little is known about the differentiation of the language network after an early lesion. While in adults, stroke over the left hemisphere generally induces post-stroke
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Understanding particularized and generalized conversational implicatures: Is theory-of-mind necessary? Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-10-20 Wangshu Feng; Hongbo Yu; Xiaolin Zhou
A speaker’s intended meaning can be inferred from an utterance with or without reference to its context for particularized implicature (PI) and/or generalized implicature (GI). Although previous studies have separately revealed the neural correlates of PI and GI comprehension, it remains controversial whether they share theory-of-mind (ToM) related inferential processes. Here we address this issue
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The effect of Subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation on verb and noun naming in Turkish-Speaking Parkinson’s disease patients Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-10-22 Ece Bayram; Rezzak Yilmaz; Yuqi Qiu; Omer Eray Yalap; Ozgur Aydin; Hacer Iclal Ergenc; Muhittin Cenk Akbostanci
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is associated with an action language deficit. Subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation (STN DBS) deteriorates verbal fluency, but may improve verb naming more than nouns in PD. We investigated effects of grammatical class (verb vs noun), action content (action vs non-action) of words and unilateral, bilateral or no stimulation on naming. Nouns were named more accurately
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Dynamic EEG analysis during language comprehension reveals interactive cascades between perceptual processing and sentential expectations Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-10-18 McCall E. Sarrett; Bob McMurray; Efthymia C. Kapnoula
Understanding spoken language requires analysis of the rapidly unfolding speech signal at multiple levels: acoustic, phonological, and semantic. However, there is not yet a comprehensive picture of how these levels relate. We recorded electroencephalography (EEG) while listeners (N = 31) heard sentences in which we manipulated acoustic ambiguity (e.g., a bees/peas continuum) and sentential expectations
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Thinking outside the box: The brain-bilingualism relationship in the light of early neurobiological variability Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-10-17 Nicola Del Maschio; Simone Sulpizio; Jubin Abutalebi
Bilingualism represents a distinctive way to investigate the interplay between brain and behaviour, and an elegant model to study the role of environmental factors in shaping this relationship. Past neuroimaging research has mainly focused on how bilingualism influences brain structure, and how eventually the brain accommodates a second language. In this paper, we discuss a more recent contribution
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Measuring the influence of phonological neighborhood on visual word recognition with the N400: Evidence for semantic scaffolding Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-10-15 Mark Yates; John Shelley-Tremblay; Donald Lee Knapp
Research in visual word recognition has shown that phonological neighborhood density facilitates visual word recognition. The current research was designed to determine the electrophysiological effect of phonological neighborhood density (PND). In two experiments, participants made lexical decisions to words varying on phonological neighborhood while Event-related Potentials (ERPs) were recorded. Behaviorally
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Electrical brain activity and facial electromyography responses to irony in dysphoric and non-dysphoric participants Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-10-10 Xueqiao Li; Janne Pesonen; Elina Haimi; Huili Wang; Piia Astikainen
We studied irony comprehension and emotional reactions to irony in dysphoric and control participants. Electroencephalography (EEG) and facial electromyography (EMG) were measured when spoken conversations were presented with pictures that provided either congruent (non-ironic) or incongruent (ironic) contexts. In a separate session, participants evaluated the congruency and valence of the stimuli
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Heterogeneity in abstract verbs: An ERP study Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-10-08 Emiko J. Muraki; Filomeno Cortese; Andrea B. Protzner; Penny M. Pexman
It has been well documented that different types of nouns and action verbs are associated with behavioral and neural differences. In contrast, abstract verbs (e.g., think, dissolve) are often treated as a homogeneous category. We compared event-related potentials recorded during a syntactic classification task of four verb types; 1) abstract mental, 2) abstract emotional, 3) abstract nonbodily, and
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Neuronavigated rTMS inhibition of right pars triangularis anterior in stuttering: Differential effects on reading and speaking Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-09-23 Oyku Tezel-Bayraktaroglu; Zubeyir Bayraktaroglu; Asli Demirtas-Tatlidede; Tamer Demiralp; A. Emre Oge
Functional neuroimaging studies show an overactivation of speech and language related homologous areas of the right hemisphere in persons who stutter. In this study, we inhibited Broca’s homologues using 1 Hz repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) and assessed its effects on stuttering severity. The investigated cortical areas included pars opercularis (BA44), anterior and posterior pars
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Negation as conflict: Conflict adaptation following negating vertical spatial words. Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-09-20 Carolin Dudschig,Barbara Kaup
In this study, we investigated whether the processing of negated directional terms such as “not up” or “not down” poses a conflict for participants and results in similar processing adjustments as non-linguistic conflicts do (Dudschig & Kaup, 2019). In each trial, participants read one of the following four phrases “now up”, “not up”, “now down” or “not down” and responded with a button press on a
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Distinct mechanisms drive hemispheric lateralization of object recognition in the visual word form and fusiform face areas. Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-09-15 Nádia Canário,Lília Jorge,Miguel Castelo-Branco
The Visual Word Form Area (VWFA) and the Fusiform Face Area (FFA) represent classical examples of functional lateralization. The known hypothesis that lateralization of the VWFA and FFA are related remains controversial. We hypothesized that lateralization is independent and might be associated with lateralized high-level top-down mechanisms. For the VWFA this could emerge from left-lateralized language
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Behavioral and neurological effects of tDCS on speech motor recovery: A single-subject intervention study. Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-09-06 Adam Buchwald,Nicolette Khosa,Stacey Rimikis,E Susan Duncan
This paper reports a feasibility study designed to evaluate the behavioral and neurological effects of using transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in conjunction with speech motor learning treatment for individuals with acquired speech impairment subsequent to stroke. Most of the research using tDCS to enhance treatment outcomes in stroke recovery has focused on either limb motor control or
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Reading proficiency influences the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation: Evidence from selective modulation of dorsal and ventral pathways of reading in bilinguals. Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-09-02 Sagarika Bhattacharjee,Rajan Kashyap,Beth Ann O'Brien,Michael McCloskey,Kenichi Oishi,John E Desmond,Brenda Rapp,S H Annabel Chen
Introduction tDCS can modulate reading which is processed by lexical (ventral) and sub-lexical (dorsal) pathways. Previous research indicates that pathway recruitment in bilinguals depends on a script's orthographic depth and a reader's proficiency with it. The effect of tDCS on each reading pathway has not been investigated in bilinguals. We stimulated the left dorsal and ventral pathways separately
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Lexical-semantic search related to side of onset and putamen volume in Parkinson's disease. Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-08-17 Daymond Wagner,Paul J Eslinger,Nicholas W Sterling,Guangwei Du,Eun-Young Lee,Martin Styner,Mechelle M Lewis,Xuemei Huang
Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by dopaminergic cell loss and reduced striatal volume. Prior studies have demonstrated striatal involvement in access to lexical-semantic knowledge and damage to this structure may be evident in the lexical properties of responses. Semantic fluency task responses from early stage, non-demented PD participants with right (PD-R) or left (PD-L) lateralizing symptoms
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The role of left vs. right superior temporal gyrus in speech perception: An fMRI-guided TMS study. Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-08-12 Aurora I Ramos Nuñez,Qiuhai Yue,Siavash Pasalar,Randi C Martin
Debate continues regarding the necessary role of right superior temporal gyrus (STG) regions in sublexical speech perception given the bilateral STG activation often observed in fMRI studies. To evaluate the causal roles, TMS pulses were delivered to inhibit and disrupt neuronal activity at the left and right STG regions during a nonword discrimination task based on peak activations from a blocked
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EEG signatures of elementary composition: Disentangling genuine composition and expectancy processes. Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-08-04 Emilia Fló,Álvaro Cabana,Juan C Valle-Lisboa
We adapted Bemis & Pylkkänen’s (2011) paradigm to study elementary composition in Spanish using electroencephalography, to determine if EEG is sensitive enough to detect a composition-related activity and analyze whether the expectancy of participants to compose contributes to this signal. We found relevant activity at the expected channels and times, and a putative composition-related activity before
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Thalamus is a common locus of reading, arithmetic, and IQ: Analysis of local intrinsic functional properties. Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-07-29 Maki S Koyama,Peter J Molfese,Michael P Milham,W Einar Mencl,Kenneth R Pugh
Neuroimaging studies of basic achievement skills – reading and arithmetic – often control for the effect of IQ to identify unique neural correlates of each skill. This may underestimate possible effects of common factors between achievement and IQ measures on neuroimaging results. Here, we simultaneously examined achievement (reading and arithmetic) and IQ measures in young adults, aiming to identify
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Noninvasive neurostimulation of left ventral motor cortex enhances sensorimotor adaptation in speech production. Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-07-29 Terri L Scott,Laura Haenchen,Ayoub Daliri,Julia Chartove,Frank H Guenther,Tyler K Perrachione
Sensorimotor adaptation—enduring changes to motor commands due to sensory feedback—allows speakers to match their articulations to intended speech acoustics. How the brain integrates auditory feedback to modify speech motor commands and what limits the degree of these modifications remain unknown. Here, we investigated the role of speech motor cortex in modifying stored speech motor plans. In a within-subjects
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Cerebellar contributions to rapid semantic processing in reading. Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-07-17 Anila M D'Mello,Tracy M Centanni,John D E Gabrieli,Joanna A Christodoulou
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Phonetic discrimination mediates the relationship between auditory brainstem response stability and syntactic performance. Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-07-16 Lisa Tecoulesco,Erika Skoe,Letitia R Naigles
Syntactic, lexical, and phonological/phonetic knowledge are vital aspects of macro level language ability. Prior research has predominantly focused on environmental or cortical sources of individual differences in these areas; however, a growing literature suggests an auditory brainstem contribution to language performance in both typically developing (TD) populations and children with autism spectrum
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Functional linguistic specificity of the left frontal aslant tract for spontaneous speech fluency: Evidence from intraoperative language mapping. Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-07-13 Olga Dragoy,Andrey Zyryanov,Oleg Bronov,Elizaveta Gordeyeva,Natalya Gronskaya,Oksana Kryuchkova,Evgenij Klyuev,Dmitry Kopachev,Igor Medyanik,Lidiya Mishnyakova,Nikita Pedyash,Igor Pronin,Andrey Reutov,Andrey Sitnikov,Ekaterina Stupina,Konstantin Yashin,Valeriya Zhirnova,Andrey Zuev
The left frontal aslant tract (FAT) has been proposed to be relevant for language, and specifically for spontaneous speech fluency. However, there is missing causal evidence that stimulation of the FAT affects spontaneous speech, and not language production in general. We present a series of 12 neurosurgical cases with awake language mapping of the cortex near the left FAT. Tasks for language mapping
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Effects of age and left hemisphere lesions on audiovisual integration of speech. Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Kelly Michaelis,Laura C Erickson,Mackenzie E Fama,Laura M Skipper-Kallal,Shihui Xing,Elizabeth H Lacey,Zainab Anbari,Gina Norato,Josef P Rauschecker,Peter E Turkeltaub
Neuroimaging studies have implicated left temporal lobe regions in audiovisual integration of speech and inferior parietal regions in temporal binding of incoming signals. However, it remains unclear which regions are necessary for audiovisual integration, especially when the auditory and visual signals are offset in time. Aging also influences integration, but the nature of this influence is unresolved
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ERP indexes of number attraction and word order during correct verb agreement production. Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-06-23 Mikel Santesteban,Adam Zawiszewski,Anna Hatzidaki
Successful subject-verb agreement production requires retrieving the verbal forms that agree with the features of the subject head noun and not of other nouns in the sentence. We investigate, for the first time, the electrophysiological indexes of number attraction and word order during agreement production. Twenty-four Basque native speakers were tested while producing auxiliary verbs during sentence
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The neural bases of argumentative reasoning. Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-06-23 Jérôme Prado,Jessica Léone,Justine Epinat-Duclos,Emmanuel Trouche,Hugo Mercier
Most reasoning tasks used in behavioral and neuroimaging studies are abstract, triggering slow, effortful processes. By contrast, most of everyday life reasoning is fast and effortless, as when we exchange arguments in conversation. Recent behavioral studies have shown that reasoning tasks with the same underlying logic can be solved much more easily if they are embedded in an argumentative context
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Auditory event-related potentials index faster processing of natural speech but not synthetic speech over nonspeech analogs in children. Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-06-18 Allison Whitten,Alexandra P Key,Antje S Mefferd,James W Bodfish
Given the crucial role of speech sounds in human language, it may be beneficial for speech to be supported by more efficient auditory and attentional neural processing mechanisms compared to nonspeech sounds. However, previous event-related potential (ERP) studies have found either no differences or slower auditory processing of speech than nonspeech, as well as inconsistent attentional processing
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Earlier age of second language learning induces more robust speech encoding in the auditory brainstem in adults, independent of amount of language exposure during early childhood. Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-06-11 Nathalie Giroud,Shari R Baum,Annie C Gilbert,Natalie A Phillips,Vincent Gracco
Learning a second language (L2) at a young age is a driving factor of functional neuroplasticity in the auditory brainstem. To date, it remains unclear whether these effects remain stable until adulthood and to what degree the amount of exposure to the L2 in early childhood might affect their outcome. We compared three groups of adult English-French bilinguals in their ability to categorize English
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Pre-treatment graph measures of a functional semantic network are associated with naming therapy outcomes in chronic aphasia. Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-06-05 Jeffrey P Johnson,Erin L Meier,Yue Pan,Swathi Kiran
Naming treatment outcomes in post-stroke aphasia are variable and the factors underlying this variability are incompletely understood. In this study, 26 patients with chronic aphasia completed a semantic judgment fMRI task before receiving up to 12 weeks of naming treatment. Global (i.e., network-wide) and local (i.e., regional) graph theoretic measures of pre-treatment functional connectivity were
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Recruiting the right hemisphere: Sex differences in inter-hemispheric communication during semantic verbal fluency. Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-06-02 Andrea Scheuringer,Ti-Anni Harris,Belinda Pletzer
Sex differences in cognitive functions are heavily debated. Recent work suggests that sex differences do stem from different processing strategies utilized by men and women. While these processing strategies are likely reflected in different brain networks, so far the link between brain networks and processing strategies remains speculative. In the present study we seek for the first time to link sex
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Procedural and declarative memory brain systems in developmental language disorder (DLD) Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Joanna C. Lee; Peggy C. Nopoulos; J. Bruce Tomblin
The aim of the current study was to examine microstructural differences in white matter relevant to procedural and declarative memory between adolescents/young adults with and without Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). The findings showed atypical age-related changes in white matter structures in the corticostriatal system, in the corticocerebellar system, and
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Articulation lost in space. The effects of local orobuccal anesthesia on articulation and intelligibility of phonemes. Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-05-20 Miet De Letter,Yana Criel,Andreas Lind,Robert Hartsuiker,Patrick Santens
Motor speech requires numerous neural computations including feedforward and feedback control mechanisms. A reduction of auditory or somatosensory feedback may be implicated in disorders of speech, as predicted by various models of speech control. In this paper the effects of reduced somatosensory feedback on articulation and intelligibility of individual phonemes was evaluated by using topical anesthesia
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A domain-general perspective on the role of the basal ganglia in language and music: Benefits of music therapy for the treatment of aphasia. Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-05-19 Edward Ruoyang Shi,Qing Zhang
In addition to cortical lesions, mounting evidence on the links between language and the subcortical regions suggests that subcortical lesions may also lead to the emergence of aphasic symptoms. In this paper, by emphasizing the domain-general function of the basal ganglia in both language and music, we highlight that rhythm processing, the function of temporal prediction, motor programming and execution
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Growing Random Forests reveals that exposure and proficiency best account for individual variability in L2 (and L1) brain potentials for syntax and semantics. Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-05-01 Lauren A Fromont,Phaedra Royle,Karsten Steinhauer
Late second language (L2) learners report difficulties in specific linguistic areas such as syntactic processing, presumably because brain plasticity declines with age (following the critical period hypothesis). While there is also evidence that L2 learners can achieve native-like online-processing with sufficient proficiency (following the convergence hypothesis), considering multiple mediating factors
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Neuroanatomical correlates of phonologic errors in logopenic progressive aphasia. Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-05-01 Diana Petroi,Joseph R Duffy,Andrew Borgert,Edythe A Strand,Mary M Machulda,Matthew L Senjem,Clifford R Jack,Keith A Josephs,Jennifer L Whitwell
While phonologic errors may be one of the salient features of the logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia (lvPPA), sparse data are available on their neuroimaging correlates. The purpose of this study was to identify brain regions associated with different types of phonologic errors across several tasks for participants with lvPPA. Correlational analyses between phonologic errors across tasks
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Cognitive control regions are recruited in bilinguals' silent reading of mixed-language paragraphs. Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-05-01 Alena Stasenko,Chelsea Hays,Christina E Wierenga,Tamar H Gollan
When switching languages, bilinguals recruit a language control network that overlaps with brain regions known to support general cognitive control, but it is unclear whether these same regions are recruited in passive comprehension of language switches. Using fMRI with a blocked design, 24 Spanish-English bilinguals silently read 36 paragraphs in which the default language was Spanish or English,
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Mind the stimulation site: Enhancing and diminishing sentence comprehension with anodal tDCS. Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-05-01 Alessandra Vergallito,Erica Varoli,Beatrice Giustolisi,Carlo Cecchetto,Lilia Del Mauro,Leonor J Romero Lauro
In a previous sham-controlled study, we showed the feasibility of increasing language comprehension in healthy participants by applying anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (atDCS) over the left inferior frontal gyrus (LIFG). In the present work, we present a follow-up experiment targeting with atDCS the left inferior parietal cortex (LIPC) while participants performed the same auditory comprehension
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Language and motor processing in reading and typing: Insights from beta-frequency band power modulations. Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-05-01 Michele Scaltritti,Caterina Suitner,Francesca Peressotti
Power modulations of the EEG activity within the beta-frequency band were investigated across silent-reading and copy-typing tasks featuring emotionally negative and neutral words in order to clarify the interplay between language and motor processing. In reading, a single desynchronization surfaced 200-600 ms after target presentation, with a stronger power-decrease in lower beta frequencies for neutral
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Neuromodulation of cursing in American English: A combined tDCS and pupillometry study. Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-04-24 Jamie Reilly,Bonnie Zuckerman,Alexandra Kelly,Maurice Flurie,Sagar Rao
Many neurological disorders are associated with excessive and/or uncontrolled cursing. The right prefrontal cortex has long been implicated in a diverse range of cognitive processes that underlie the propensity for cursing, including non-propositional language representation, emotion regulation, theory of mind, and affective arousal. Neurogenic cursing often poses significant negative social consequences
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Set focus and anaphoric reference: An ERP study. Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-04-23 Fredrik Heinat,Eva Klingvall
This article reports the results from an ERP study on the processing of anaphoric reference to quantifying expressions in Swedish (e.g. Many students attended the lecture and that they were present was noted). Negative quantifiers (e.g. few) differ from positive quantifiers (e.g. many), in allowing anaphoric expressions to target either the ref(erence) set (‘students attending the lecture’) or the
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Stronger right hemisphere functional connectivity supports executive aspects of language in older adults. Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-04-11 Victoria H Gertel,Haoyun Zhang,Michele T Diaz
Healthy older adults commonly report increased difficulties with language production. This could reflect decline in the language network, or age-related declines in other cognitive abilities that support language production, such as executive function. To examine this possibility, we conducted a whole-brain resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC) analysis in older and younger adults using two
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Corrigendum to "Prosodic and phonetic subtypes of primary progressive apraxia of speech" [Brain Lang. 184 (2018) 54-65]. Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Rene L Utianski,Joseph R Duffy,Heather M Clark,Edythe A Strand,Hugo Botha,Christopher G Schwarz,Mary M Machulda,Matthew L Senjem,Anthony J Spychalla,Clifford R Jack,Ronald C Petersen,Val J Lowe,Jennifer L Whitwell,Keith A Josephs
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Effects of prosody on the cognitive and neural resources supporting sentence comprehension: A behavioral and lesion-symptom mapping study. Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Arianna N LaCroix,Nicole Blumenstein,McKayla Tully,Leslie C Baxter,Corianne Rogalsky
Non-canonical sentence comprehension impairments are well-documented in aphasia. Studies of neurotypical controls indicate that prosody can aid comprehension by facilitating attention towards critical pitch inflections and phrase boundaries. However, no studies have examined how prosody may engage specific cognitive and neural resources during non-canonical sentence comprehension in persons with left
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Spatiotemporal dynamics of predictive brain mechanisms during speech processing: an MEG study. Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Zhaowei Liu,Su Shu,Lingxi Lu,Jianqiao Ge,Jia-Hong Gao
Rapid and efficient speech processing benefits from the prediction derived from prior expectations based on the identification of individual words. It is known that speech processing is carried out within a distributed frontotemporal network. However, the spatiotemporal causal dynamics of predictive brain mechanisms in sound-to-meaning mapping within this network remain unclear. Using magnetoencephalography
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Altered efficiency of white matter connections for language function in children with language disorder. Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Min-Hee Lee,Nolan B O'Hara,Michael E Behen,Jeong-Won Jeong
To characterize structural white matter substrates associated with language functions in children with language disorders (LD), a psychometry-driven diffusion tractography network was investigated with canonical correlation analysis (CCA), which can reliably predict expressive and receptive language scores from the nodal efficiency (NE) of the obtained network. The CCA found that the NE values of six
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Neural dynamics of speech and non-speech motor planning. Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-04-01 M Lancheros,A-L Jouen,M Laganaro
As the speech apparatus is also involved in producing non-speech movements, understanding whether speech and non-speech planning are controlled by the same brain mechanisms is central to the comprehension of motor speech planning. A crucial issue is whether a specialized motor planning/control system is dedicated to speech or if the motor planning/control system is shared across oromotor behaviors
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Earlier second language acquisition is associated with greater neural pattern dissimilarity between the first and second languages. Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Jian Ou,Wenlong Li,Yang Yang,Nizhuan Wang,Min Xu
It is controversial as to how age of acquisition (AoA) and proficiency level of the second language influence the similarities and differences between the first (L1) and the second (L2) language brain networks. In this functional MRI study, we used representational similarity analysis to quantify the degree of neural similarity between L1 and L2 during sentence comprehension tasks in 26 adult Chinese-English
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Co-activation of the L2 during L1 auditory processing: An ERP cross-modal priming study. Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Susan C Bobb,Katie Von Holzen,Julien Mayor,Nivedita Mani,Manuel Carreiras
Several studies have shown that unbalanced bilinguals activate both of their languages simultaneously during L2 processing; however, evidence for L2 activation while participants are tested exclusively in their L1 has been more tenuous. Here, we investigate whether bilingual participants implicitly activate the label for a picture in their two languages, and whether labels activated in L2 can prime
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The role of semantics and repair processes in article-noun gender disagreement in Italian: An ERP study. Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-03-31 Srđan Popov,Gabriele Miceli,Branislava Ćurčić-Blake,Roelien Bastiaanse
In this sentence reading study, we used event-related potentials (ERPs) to investigate the processing mechanism of article-noun gender disagreement in two kinds of nouns in Italian. The first are nouns with syntactic gender (il trenoM ‘train’; la sediaF ‘chair’) for which the processing and repair of gender disagreement entails only one repair option, namely for the article (morphosyntactic repair)
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Multisession transcranial direct current stimulation facilitates verbal learning and memory consolidation in young and older adults Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-03-19 Garon Perceval, Andrew K. Martin, David A. Copland, Matti Laine, Marcus Meinzer
This study investigated effects of multisession transcranial direct-current stimulation on learning and maintenance of novel memory content and scrutinised effects of baseline cognitive status and the role of multi-session tDCS on overnight memory consolidation. In a prospective, randomized, double-blind, parallel-group, sham-tDCS controlled design, 101 healthy young and older adults completed a five-day
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The right visual field advantage for word processing is stronger in older adults Brain Lang. (IF 2.339) Pub Date : 2020-03-19 Ine Van der Cruyssen, Robin Gerrits, Guy Vingerhoets
The human brain is functionally asymmetric. Producing and understanding language, for instance, engages the left hemisphere to a larger extent than the right in most people. Recent research showed that lateralization for auditory word processing increases with age. The present study extends these findings to the visual domain. We measured lateralization for visual word processing with the visual half