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Role of the left inferior frontal gyrus in transforming format types of action descriptions between stimuli and representations J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Hiroshi Shibata, Kenji Ogawa
We performed a functional magnetic resonance imaging study to elucidate the process involved in the transformation of the format types of action descriptions between stimuli and representations. We independently manipulated the format types of both stimuli (visual action [Vi] vs. verbal [Ve] stimulus) and internal representations (Vi vs. Ve representation) and set four types of experimental tasks.
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Disintegration at the syntax-semantics interface in prodromal Alzheimer's disease: New evidence from complex sentence anaphora in amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment (aMCI) J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Barbara Lust, Suzanne Flynn, Charles Henderson, James Gair, Janet Cohen Sherman
Although diverse language deficits have been widely observed in prodromal Alzheimer's disease (AD), the underlying nature of such deficits and their explanation remains opaque. Consequently, both clinical applications and brain-language models are not well-defined. In this paper we report results from two experiments which test language production in a group of individuals with amnestic Mild Cognitive
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Can we track the progression of Alzheimer's Disease via lexical-semantic variables in connected speech? J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Marte Mestach, Robert J. Hartsuiker, Aurélie Pistono
Background Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the most common neurodegenerative disorders worldwide and is characterized by problems with cognition and language, especially word-finding difficulties. The present study focuses on lexical-semantic features via five discourse variables reflecting word-finding difficulties, namely indefinite terms, lexical frequency, repetitions, semantic paraphasias,
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Young interpreting trainees’ better adaptation to the flanker conflicting environment: An ERP study J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Hongming Zhao, Xiaocong Chen, Yanping Dong
In the intense debate about the potential benefits of bilingual experience to executive functioning (EF), little research addresses the possibility that the benefits may manifest in the process of adapting to an EF task. In this study, we hypothesize that interpreters, confronted frequently with more intense interference from different languages, may adapt to the interference task more efficiently
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ROSE: A neurocomputational architecture for syntax J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Elliot Murphy
A comprehensive neural model of language must accommodate four components: representations, operations, structures and encoding. Recent intracranial research has begun to map out the feature space associated with syntactic processes, but the field lacks a unified framework that can direct invasive neural analyses. This article proposes a neurocomputational architecture for syntax, termed ROSE (Representation
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The impact of response congruence on speech production: An event-related potentials study J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 J.R. Kuipers
A puzzling finding in the speech production literature is the facilitation of categorically related distractors in a superordinate level naming task. The context is in this case response congruent, because application of the task instruction to the context would lead to the correct response. This study investigates the time-course of response congruence effects in speech production using event-related
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The production of adjectives in narratives by individuals with primary progressive aphasia J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Matthew Walenski, Thomas Sostarics, M. Marsel Mesulam, Cynthia K. Thompson
Adjectives (e.g., hungry) are an important part of language, but have been little studied in individuals with impaired language. Adjectives are used in two different ways in English: attributively, to modify a noun (the hungry dog); or predicatively, after a verb (the dog is hungry). Attributive adjectives have a more complex grammatical structure than predicative adjectives, and may therefore be particularly
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Contrastive stress in persons with Parkinson's disease who speak Mandarin: Task effect in production and preserved perception J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Xi Chen, Diana Sidits
Background Speech in persons with Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by impaired prosody (e.g., monotone, abnormal rate, reduced loudness). Most studies on prosodic abnormalities in PD have been obtained from individuals who speak non-tone languages, where prosodic contrasts do not systematically contribute to lexical meanings. In a tone language such as Mandarin, pitch not only carries affective
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Physiological responses and cognitive behaviours: Measures of heart rate variability index language knowledge J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Dagmar Divjak, Hui Sun, Petar Milin
Over the past decades, focus has been on developing methods that allow tapping into aspects of cognition that are not directly observable. This includes linguistic knowledge and skills which develop largely without awareness and may therefore be difficult or impossible to articulate. Building on the relation between language cognition and the nervous system, we examine whether Heart Rate Variability
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The neural correlates of sub-lexical semantics and its integration with the lexical meaning in reading Chinese characters J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-07 Xiangyang Zhang, Wenqi Cai, Min Dang, Rui Zhang, Xiaojuan Wang, Jianfeng Yang
The semantic neural routes in contemporary models of visual word recognition are mainly constructed based on lexical-semantic processing. However, the neural bases of processing semantic cues embodied in sub-lexical units are less clear. The current fMRI study takes the ideographic property of Chinese characters (The semantic radical can provide a semantic cue for the character's meaning) to explore
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Left-hand muscle contractions improve novel metaphor comprehension among adolescents J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-01 Tala Noufi, Maor Zeev-Wolf
For people to understand metaphors that require the creation of associations between remote concepts, both the diffuse spread of activation in semantic networks in the right hemisphere (coarse semantic coding) and the tight and focused spread of activation in the left hemisphere (fine semantic coding) are required. During adolescence, the dynamic between the left and right hemispheres that enables
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Anatomo-functional profile of white matter tracts in relevance to language: A systematic review J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-30 Yasin Kargar, Milad Jalilian
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Evidence of rapid automatic translation in Korean-English bilinguals using masked implicit priming: An ERP study J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Hyoung Sun Kim, Say Young Kim
The present study used a masked implicit priming paradigm to test if L1 to L2 translation occurs automatically and rapidly. Korean-English bilinguals performed a lexical decision task when English L2 targets (e.g., FACE) were translation equivalent to the L1 prime (얼굴 elkwul meaning ‘face’) or had phonological overlap with its translation to varying degrees: moderate (FAKE), minimal (FOOL), or unrelated
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Pupil size shows diminished increases on verbal fluency tasks in patients with behavioral-variant-frontotemporal dementia J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-03 Mohamad El Haj, Dimitrios Kapogiannis, Claire Boutoleau-Bretonnière
While behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) is mainly associated with behavioral, social, cognitive, and emotional impairments, impairments in language can also be observed. We thus assessed whether linguistic processing can be assessed by pupillometry. We invited patients with bvTFD and control participants to perform a verbal fluency task, a category fluency task and, as a control task
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Event related potentials to native speech contrasts predicts word reading abilities in early school-aged children J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Vanessa Harwood, Adrian Garcia-Sierra, Raphael Dias, Emily Jelfs, Alisa Baron
Speech perception skills have been implicated in the development of phoneme-graphene correspondence, yet the exact nature of speech perception and word reading ability remains unknown. We investigate phonological sensitivity to native (English) and nonnative (Spanish) speech syllables within an auditory oddball paradigm using event related potentials (ERPs) collected from lateral temporal electrode
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Functional connectivity during morphosyntactic processing: An fMRI study in balanced Turkish-Persian bilinguals J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Simin Meykadeh, Ali Khadem, Simone Sulpizio, Werner Sommer
Previous research has documented the impact of bilingualism on the functional connectivity (FC) of brain networks responsible for processing of two languages during a resting-state brain activity. However, the BOLD signal modulation during task-evoked neural activity remains unclear. To address this question we focused on language-related differences of fMRI-based FC of bilingual brains during morphosyntactic
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A systematic review of neuroimaging approaches to mapping language in individuals J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Aahana Bajracharya, Jonathan E. Peelle
Although researchers often rely on group-level fMRI results to draw conclusions about the neurobiology of language, doing so without accounting for the complexities of individual brains may reduce the validity of our findings. Furthermore, understanding brain organization in individuals is critically important for both basic science and clinical translation. To assess the state of single-subject language
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Using lexical semantic cues to mitigate interference effects during real-time sentence processing in aphasia J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Niloofar Akhavan, Henrike K. Blumenfeld, Lewis Shapiro, Tracy Love
We examined the auditory sentence processing of neurologically unimpaired listeners and individuals with aphasia on canonical sentence structures in real-time using a visual-world eye-tracking paradigm. The canonical sentence constructions contained multiple noun phrases and an unaccusative verb, the latter of which formed a long-distance dependency link between the unaccusative verb and its single
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The effect of second language immersion and musical experiences on second language speech processing and general auditory processing J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Cuicui Wang, Krystal Flemming, Yanpei Wang, Vesa Putkinen, Mari Tervaniemi, Jessica Lammert, Sha Tao, Marc F. Joanisse
Both second language speech processing and general auditory processing are important for second language learning. It remains unclear, however, how second language immersion and musical experience affect second language speech and general auditory processing. Thus, the present study aimed to examine this research question. Native Chinese speakers with intermediate English proficiency (intermediate
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Gender congruency between languages influence second-language comprehension: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-19
In the present study we explore whether gender congruency between languages modulates bilinguals’ access to their second language words presented in isolation. We predicted that accessing L2 words that have a different gender across languages (gender-incongruent) would be more costly and require more effort than accessing same-gender words (gender-congruent) due to language co-activation, even when
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Word class effect on L2 ambiguous word acquisition: Evidence from ERPs J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-12
This study investigated the effect of word class on the acquisition of L2 ambiguous words using electroencephalogram (EEG) technology. We asked Chinese (L1)-English (L2) bilinguals to learn a set of English pseudowords paired with one or two semantically unrelated Chinese meanings, including pseudowords paired with an unambiguous noun meaning (N-unA), pseudowords paired with two noun meanings (NN)
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The effects of second-language age of acquisition on brain structural networks: A DTI study of high-proficient bilinguals J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Ling Zhao, Liu Tu, Meng Zhang, Xiaojin Liu, Ximin Pan, Junjing Wang, Zhi Lu, Meiqi Niu, Shiya Li, Fangyuan Zhou, Qin Wan, Bo Jiang, Ruiwang Huang
An increasing number of publications have focused on using the brain network perspective to study bilingual learning and cognition. However, no study analyzed the effect of second-language age of acquisition (L2 AoA) on topological properties (e.g. rich club organization) of brain white matter (WM) structural networks. In this study, we acquired diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) datasets from early and
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The processing of Which interrogative sentences: A behavioral and ERP study J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Mirko Grimaldi, Marica De Vincenzi, Paolo Lorusso, Francesco Di Russo, Rosalia Di Matteo, Luigi Rizzi, Maria Teresa Guasti
This study investigates the parsing of Italian Wh-questions of the Which-N type. The extraction site could be either the subject or the object noun phrase. The verb following the Which-noun was either a singular or a plural form, immediately disambiguating the Which-N argument role through verb agreement. Reading time on the verb and on the post-verbal noun phrase were significantly shorter for the
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The effects of lexical representation on the dynamic process of phrase comprehension J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Fei Li, Xu Xu
Bridging the knowledge gap between lexical representation and sentence processing, this study investigated the dynamic interplay between word-level features and phrase-level contexts in Chinese phrase comprehension. Classifier-noun phrases with two types of nouns, binding vs. compound, representing strong vs. weak semantic composition between constituent characters of the noun, revealed different temporal
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The influence of temporal information on online processing of counterfactual conditional sentences: Evidence from ERPs on temporal indicators J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Qiaoyun Liao, Lingda Kong, Xiaoming Jiang
This study investigated how temporal information influences online processing of Chinese counterfactual sentences. Participants read four types of counterfactuals for answering comprehension questions. The temporal information of the event described in the conditional (antecedent) and the one in the result clause (consequent) varied. The temporal sequence was defined as chronological for a past event
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Perceptual strength influences lexical decision in Alzheimer's disease J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-02 A. Miceli, E. Wauthia, K. Kandana Arachchige, L. Lefebvre, L. Ris, I. Simoes Loureiro
The multimodal approach where cognition is embodied in language, perceptual, motor, and emotional systems is a widely agreed theoretical framework for conceptual representations. However, the lack of work supporting this view of cognition in healthy and pathological aging stands in stark contrast with the ongoing need to understand the factors that uncover semantic degradation in brain pathologies
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The effect of time on lexical and syntactic processing in aphasia J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Carolyn Baker, Tracy Love
Processing deficits at the lexical level, such as delayed and reduced lexical activation, have been theorized as the source of breakdowns in syntactic operations and thus contribute to sentence comprehension deficits in individuals with aphasia (IWA). In the current study, we investigate the relationship between lexical and syntactic processing in object-relative sentences using eye-tracking while
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Correlation between white matter tract integrity and language impairment after traumatic brain injury J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Yoonhye Na, JeYoung Jung, Hae In Lee, Jae Ik Lee, Sung-Bom Pyun
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Bilingual language control adapts to language switching training: More ERP evidence from late unbalanced bilinguals J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Chunyan Kang, Fengyang Ma, Shuhua Li, Taomei Guo
The present study examines the influence of language switching training on language control in bilingual language production. A group of late unbalanced Chinese-English bilinguals took an eight-day language switching training, during which they named pictures in the language indicated by a simultaneously presented visual cue. Before and after training, event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded
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Language deficits in GRIN2A mutations and Landau–Kleffner syndrome as neural dysrhythmias J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Antonio Benítez-Burraco, Koji Hoshi, Elliot Murphy
We review epilepsy-related aphasias in connection with GRIN2A mutations, focusing on acquired childhood epileptic aphasias such as Landau-Kleffner syndrome (LKS). The spontaneous speech of children with LKS exhibits syntactically simplified utterances, severe word finding difficulties, and severe phonological paraphasias. Characterizing LKS as a neural dysrhythmia, we review how EEG abnormalities typically
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Generalized additive mixed modeling of EEG supports dual-route accounts of morphosyntax in suggesting no word frequency effects on processing of regular grammatical forms J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 David Abugaber, Irene Finestrat, Alicia Luque, Kara Morgan-Short
Single-route models of morphosyntax posit that inflected word processing involves associative memory-based storage, whereas dual-route models propose rule-governed composition as an alternative to storage-based mechanisms. We test these accounts via their divergent predictions on whether word frequency affects processing of regular morphosyntactic inflections (as in the single-route model) or not (dual-route
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Inter-individual variability in morphological processing: An ERP study on German plurals J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Laura Anna Ciaccio, Audrey Bürki, Harald Clahsen
Previous studies on the neuro-cognition of language have provided a strong case for systematic inter-individual variability in event-related potentials (ERPs) evoked during language processing. In the present study, we aimed at extending this evidence to the processing of morphologically complex words. We focused on German plural forms and tested two types of morphological violations: overapplications
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Higher or lower? The relative morality in Chinese metaphorically associated with vertical space J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Ying Li, Weijuan Tian, Bingjie Liu, Siyi Zhao, Yue Wang
Previous research found a metaphorical association between morality and vertical dimension, showing a corresponding relationship of “moral-up, immoral-down”. The present study further explored the relativity of Chinese morality metaphors on a vertical dimension by both behavioral experiments and the event-related potential (ERP) technique. Experiment 1 investigated how Chinese moral words being displayed
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Priming creativity: On how a divergent thinking task modulates lexico-semantic processing J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Xin Wang, Katarzyna Jankowiak, Bing Mei
Little is known on how a task promoting divergent thinking processes modulates brain responses to sentences of different semantic complexity (i.e., novel metaphoric, literal, and anomalous sentences). In the present ERP study, we examined the processing of the three sentence types in two groups of participants: one performing an alternate uses task (AUT) between individual experimental blocks (i.e
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Resource sharedness between language and music processing: An ERP study J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Degao Li, Xing Wang, Yi Li, Dangui Song, Wenling Ma
Two experiments were conducted on a cohort of Chinese native speakers using the Event-Related Potential (ERP) technique in the interference paradigm, with acceptable or unacceptable Chinese sentences and chord sequences ending with in- or out-of-key chords as the stimuli. In Experiment 1, the acceptable sentences ending with number-word-classifier-noun collocations became semantically and syntactically
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Better early than late for a filler: An fMRI study on the filler-gap order in language J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-17 Ting-wu Lee, Shiao-hui Chan
The neural substrates of syntactic movements have been heavily investigated; however, little attention was paid to the fact that there was a cross-linguistic preference for filler-before-gap (filler-first) to gap-before-filler (gap-first) structures in subject-verb-object (SVO) languages. This fMRI study aimed to explore whether there was a cognitive basis for such a preference. Different filler-gap
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Frontotemporal effective connectivity revealed a language-general syntactic network for Mandarin Chinese J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Luyao Chen, Chenyang Gao, Zhongshan Li, Emiliano Zaccarella, Angela D. Friederici, Liping Feng
Human language is proposed to be hierarchically constructed according to syntactic information. Studies on languages with overt morphosyntactic markers (e.g., German) have found a key frontotemporal syntactic network that includes Broca's area (Brodmann Area, BA 44/45) and the posterior temporal cortex (pTC). Whether this syntactic network is language-general is still unspecified. Mandarin Chinese
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Second language age of acquisition effects in a word naming task: A regression analysis of ERP data J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-02
In the present study, Chinese–English bilinguals were asked to name English words in a delayed word naming task while recording the ERP data. We explored the interactions between age of acquisition (AoA) of second language (L2) words and other variables to examine the origins of L2 AoA effects. The results showed significant L2 AoA effects on N400 and LPC, with larger N400 and smaller LPC for later-acquired
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Rethinking motor region role in verb processing: Insights from a neurolinguistic study of noun-verb dissociation in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Edoardo Nicolò Aiello, Debora Pain, Marcello Gallucci, Sarah Feroldi, Lucilla Guidotti, Gabriele Mora, Claudio Luzzatti
Motor regions atrophy has been traditionally assumed to account for selective deficits of verb (V) vs. noun (N) processing in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients via action semantic impairment (Embodied Cognition Theory, ECT). Nonetheless, accounts pertaining to both motor region sensitivity to the morpho-phonological structure of Vs and executive functioning (EF) contribution (task difficulty)
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Corrigendum to “The beauty of language structure: A single-case fMRI study of palindrome creation” [Journal of Neurolinguistics 63 (2022) 101086] J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-11-22 Patricia León-Cabrera, Antoni Guillamon, David Cucurell, Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells
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Neurophysiologic Patterns of Semantic Processing of Accented Speech J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Ilse Wambacq, Iyad Ghanim, Samantha Greenfield, Janet Koehnke, Joan Besing, Caitlin Chauvette, Caitlin Yesis
Perceiving and comprehending speech depends on the intelligibility of the speech signal. Frequently, communication occurs with adverse listening conditions including background noise or reverberation which compromise the intelligibility of the speech signal. Studies focused on the effects of these extrinsic degrading factors on the perception of a message after it has been produced. Fewer studies,
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A systematic review: Idiom comprehension in aphasia: The effects of stimuli and task type J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Anastasia Lada, Philippe Paquier, Christina Manouilidou, Stefanie Keulen
Introduction Idioms differ from other forms of figurative language because of their semantic dimensions of familiarity (frequency of encounter), ambiguity (possibility to have a literal interpretation), decomposability (possibility of the idiom's words to assist in its figurative interpretation) and transparency (possibility to deduce the original metaphorical motivation of an idiomatic phrase from
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Word picture verification performance reveals auditory comprehension deficits in primary progressive aphasia J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Samuel Suh, Elizabeth DeLuque, Catherine Kelly, Xander Lee, Rachel Fabian Mace, Kristina Ruch, Massoud Sharif, Melissa D. Stockbridge, Emilia Vitti, Donna C. Tippett
Word/picture verification has been found to be a sensitive measure of lexical-semantic abilities in post-stroke aphasia and reveals information about disruptions in semantic and phonological processing. Exploration of the nature of auditory comprehension deficits using word/picture verification has not been replicated in primary progressive aphasia (PPA). We tested 108 individuals with PPA [logopenic
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Agrammatism in a usage-based theory of grammatical status: Impaired combinatorics, compensatory prioritization, or both? J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Kasper Boye, Roelien Bastiaanse, Peter Harder, Silvia Martínez-Ferreiro
This paper proposes an understanding of agrammatism from the perspective of a recent usage-based theory of grammatical status, the ProGram theory (Boye and Harder, 2012). According to this theory, grammatical elements have two central properties: they are by convention discursively secondary (i.e. attentional background) and dependent on combination with a host item. The paper first surveys studies
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Visual similarity with L1 facilitates the neural specialization for scripts of L2 J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-10-17 Manni Feng, Longfei An, Peng Wang, Ye Zhang
The neural mechanism underlying the acquisition of scripts of a second language (L2) is an open issue. The aim of the present study is to investigate the neural specialization for L2 scripts by focusing on the influence of overall visual similarity between first language (L1) and L2. EEG signals were recorded in native Chinese Han readers at the first and ninth months of learning Korean as L2 when
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Prediction of semantic features is modulated by global prediction reliability: Evidence from the N400 effect J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Wenjia Zhang, Jie Dong, Xu Duan, Yi Zhang, Xuefei Gao, Anna Zhen, Jie Zhang, Hao Yan
Lexical predictability has been shown to be modulated by the global context, but it is unclear whether the global context has a similar modulating effect on the prediction of semantic features. Event-related potentials (ERP) should be helpful in addressing this question, as the N400 effect is sensitive to both lexical predictability and the prediction of semantic features during sentence comprehension
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Noncombinatorial grammar: A challenge for memory research on second language acquisition and bilingualism J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-10-12 Stefano Rastelli
Research on second language acquisition has greatly benefitted from the declarative procedural model (DPM). The DPM proposes that declarative and procedural memory support – respectively – the acquisition of the L2 lexicon and L2 grammar. However, over the years, the meaning of ‘grammar’ and ‘lexicon’ within the DPM has changed, perhaps as a result of the changes occurred in linguistic theory. In particular
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Familiar language in treatment-resistant depression: Effects of deep brain stimulation of the subcallosal cingulate J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-10-01 Kelly A. Bridges, Helen Mayberg, Diana Van Lancker Sidtis, John J. Sidtis
Communication, specifically the elements crucial for typical social interaction, can be significantly affected in psychiatric illness, especially depression. Of specific importance to conversational competence are familiar expressions (prefabricated expressions known to the language community) including formulaic expressions (conversational speech formulas and idioms; these are high in nuance) and
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Register switching involving lexical-semantic processing in Russian: An ERP study J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-09-22 Anna Yurchenko, Vardan Arutiunian, Natalia Maas Shitova, Mira Bergelson, Olga Dragoy
During a conversation, we are able to switch between different registers, which affects linguistic characteristics of the discourse. However, little is known about the influence of these changes on language processing. In the present study, we investigated the electrophysiological effect of register switching, reflected in vocabulary use (standard vs. non-standard vocabulary, e.g., slang). We analysed
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Precuneus stimulation alters abstract verbal memory encoding J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-09-07 Jing Yan, Wenjuan Li, Tingting Zhang, Qian Zhang, Junjun Zhang, Zhenlan Jin, Ling Li
The present study investigated the role of the precuneus in memory encoding of abstract and concrete words, with the combination of functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and continuous Theta Burst Stimulation (cTBS) techniques. The memory encoding process was scanned in the fMRI to detect the regions of interest for the difference in memory formation of these two types of words. The real and
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Action-speech and gesture-speech integration in younger and older adults: An event-related potential study J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-08-18 Kim Ouwehand, Jacqueline de Nooijer, Tamara van Gog, Fred Paas
In daily communication, speech is enriched with co-speech gestures, providing a visual context for the linguistic message. It has been shown that older adults are less sensitive to incongruencies between context (e.g., a sentence) and target (e.g., a final sentence word). This is evidenced by a smaller and delayed N400 (in)congruency effect that reflects the difference between the N400 component in
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Verb production and comprehension in primary progressive aphasia J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-07-16 Haiyan Wang, Matthew Walenski, Kaitlyn Litcofsky, Jennifer E. Mack, M. Marsel Mesulam, Cynthia K. Thompson
Studies of word class processing have found verb retrieval impairments in individuals with primary progressive aphasia (Bak et al., 2001; Cappa et al., 1998; Cotelli et al., 2006; Hillis, Heidler-Gary, et al., 2006; Hillis, Oh, & Ken, 2004; Marcotte et al., 2014; Rhee, Antiquena, & Grossman, 2001; Silveri & Ciccarelli, 2007; Thompson, Lukic, et al., 2012) associated primarily with the agrammatic variant
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Temporal dynamics of form and meaning in morphologically complex word processing: An ERP study on Korean inflected verbs J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-06-18 Joonwoo Kim, Jinwon Kang, Jeahong Kim, Kichun Nam
The word stem is distinguished as the core component in verb inflections that envelopes essential semantic and syntactic properties, playing a central role in word processing. In the present study, in order to find the role of form and meaning during the visual recognition of morphologically complex words, the effect of the stem length of inflected Korean verbs was examined in an event-related potential
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Pragmatic inferences: Neuroimaging of ad-hoc implicatures J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-06-15 Shiri Hornick, Einat Shetreet
During conversation, comprehenders often make pragmatic inferences, or implicatures. Our study concerns ad-hoc implicatures, which are quantity-based implicatures. For example, the sentence “I walked Lassie”, where the addressee knows that the speaker has 2 dogs, signals to the addressee that the speaker wanted to convey an enriched meaning (i.e., she walked Lassie, but not the other dog). On some
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The left inferior frontal gyrus and the resolution of unimodal vs. cross-modal interference in speech production: A transcranial direct current stimulation study J. Neurolinguistics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-06-10 E. Ward, H.S. Gauvin, K.L. McMahon, M. Meinzer, G.I. de Zubicaray
Most neurobiological models of spoken word production propose that multiple lexical candidates are activated in left posterior temporal cortex during word retrieval. Some accounts also propose a role for the left inferior frontal gyrus (LIFG) in selecting the correct word from among these candidates. Evidence for both proposals has come from the picture-word interference (PWI) paradigm, in which participants