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Agreement attraction in Turkish: the case of genitive attractors Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Utku Türk, Pavel Logačev
Speakers have been shown to find sentences with erroneous agreement acceptable under certain conditions. This so-called agreement attraction effect has also been found in genitive-possessive struct...
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Online reflexive resolution and interference Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Hiroki Fujita, Masaya Yoshida
A reflexive referentially depends on another NP. Long-standing inquiries in sentence processing literature revolve around whether and how forming this coreference relation during online sentence pr...
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Tracking the acquisition and retention of novel word representations: an ERP study Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Samuel R. Armstrong, David A. Copland, Paola Escudero, Anthony J. Angwin
The event-related N400 provides a measure of lexical-semantic processing, indexing the encoding strength of newly learned words. We examined N400 modulations following associative learning of novel...
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Gestures speed up responses to questions Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Marlijn ter Bekke, Linda Drijvers, Judith Holler
Most language use occurs in face-to-face conversation, which involves rapid turn-taking. Seeing communicative bodily signals in addition to hearing speech may facilitate such fast responding. We te...
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Linking cognitive control to language comprehension: proportion congruency effects in syntactic ambiguity resolution Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Nabil Hasshim, Anuenue Kukona
Two experiments investigated the effect of sustained cognitive control engagement on syntactic ambiguity resolution. Participants heard (Experiment 1) or read (Experiment 2) garden path sentences l...
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Effects of social interactions on the neural representation of emotional words in late bilinguals Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Chunlin Liu, Hyeonjeong Jeong, Haining Cui, Jean-Marc Dewaele, Kiyo Okamoto, Yuichi Suzuki, Motoaki Sugiura
This fMRI study explored the relationship between social interactions and neural representations of emotionality in a foreign language (LX). Forty-five late learners of Japanese performed an audito...
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Correction Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-19
Published in Language, Cognition and Neuroscience (Vol. 39, No. 2, 2024)
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The effect of constituent frequency and distractor type on learning novel complex words Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Elisabeth Beyersmann, Jonathan Grainger, Stéphane Dufau, Colas Fournet, Johannes C. Ziegler
The present study explored the role of constituent frequency and distractor type in complex word learning. Skilled readers were trained to associate novel letter strings with one out of two picture...
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Existential negation modulates inhibitory control processes and impacts recognition memory. Evidence from ERP and source localisation data Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Bo Liu, Beixian Gu, Manuel de Vega, Huili Wang, David Beltrán
It has recently been proposed that comprehension of negation reuses the inhibitory control mechanisms. However, this Reusing Inhibition for Negation (RIN) hypothesis has mostly been confirmed with ...
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Event-related potentials and brain oscillations reflect unbalanced allocation of retrieval and integration efforts in sentence comprehension Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Kunyu Xu, Chenlu Ma, Yiming Liu, Jeng-Ren Duann
Empirical studies have found a processing asymmetry between Chinese subject-extracted relative clauses (SRCs) and object-extracted relative clauses (ORCs). Still, there is no consensus on how this ...
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Effects of Shared Attention on joint language production across processing stages Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Giusy Cirillo, Kristof Strijkers, Elin Runnqvist, Cristina Baus
Shared attention across individuals is a crucial component of joint activities, modulating how we perceive relevant information. In this study, we explored shared attention in language production a...
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Cascaded processing develops by five years of age: evidence from adult and child picture naming Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Margaret Kandel, Jesse Snedeker
Although there is compelling evidence for cascading activation in adult lexical planning, there is little research on how and when cascaded processing develops. We use a picture naming task to comp...
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Processing of acoustic and phonological information of lexical tones at pre-attentive and attentive stages Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Yicheng Rong, Yi Weng, Gang Peng
While Mismatch Negativity (MMN) and P300 have been found to correlate with the processing of acoustic and phonological information involved in speech perception, there is controversy surrounding ho...
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The role of co-speech gestures in retrieval and prediction during naturalistic multimodal narrative processing Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Sergio Osorio, Benjamin Straube, Lars Meyer, Yifei He
During daily communication, visual cues such as gestures accompany the speech signal and facilitate semantic processing. However, how gestures impact lexical retrieval and semantic prediction, espe...
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Consolidation improves the learning of new meanings for known words but not necessarily their integration into semantic memory Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Xiaoping Fang, Charles A. Perfetti
Consolidation is essential to integrating novel words into the mental lexicon; however, its role in learning new meanings for known words remains unclear. This old-form-new-meaning learning is very...
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Detection of illicit phrasal movement in Huntington’s disease Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 A. Tovar, S. J. Perry, E. Muñoz, C. Painous, P. Santacruz, J. Ruiz-Idiago, C. Mareca, E. Pomarol-Clotet, W. Hinzen
The role of the basal ganglia has been a longstanding issue in neural language models. Huntington’s disease (HD) shows primary impairment in the striatum and has previously been shown to affect the...
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Frequency effects in the auditory grammatical decision task Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-09 Sophie Dufour, Jonathan Mirault, Boris New, Jonathan Grainger
We investigated effects of phrase-frequency and the frequency of content words in two auditory grammatical decision experiments testing grammatically correct 4-word phrases intermixed with ungramma...
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Dyslexics exhibit an orthographic, not a phonological deficit in lexical decision Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Steven G. Luke, Toni Brown, Cole Smith, Adriana Gutierrez, Celeste Tolley, Olivia Ford
Dyslexia is theorised to be caused by phonological deficits, visuo-attentional deficits, or some combination of the two. The present study contrasted phonological and visuo-attentional theories of ...
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Introduction to the special issue: Affective neurolinguistics: understanding the interaction of emotion and language in the brain Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 José A. Hinojosa, Cornelia Herbert, Johanna Kissler
Emotions permeate every aspect of our lives including how we process and use language. Affective neurolinguistics is an emerging field that aims to unify separate research traditions in neurolingui...
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Semantic object processing is modulated by prior scene context Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Alexandra Krugliak, Dejan Draschkow, Melissa L.-H. Võ, Alex Clarke
Objects that are congruent with a scene are recognised more efficiently than objects that are incongruent. Further, semantic integration of incongruent objects elicits a stronger N300/N400 EEG comp...
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Can we separate semantic representations from computations? A commentary on Calzavarini (2023) Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 O. Hauk, F. Magnabosco, R. Law
Published in Language, Cognition and Neuroscience (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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An eye on semantics: a study on the influence of concreteness and predictability on early fixation durations Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Federica Magnabosco, Olaf Hauk
We used eye-tracking during natural reading to study how semantic control and representation mechanisms interact for the successful comprehension of sentences, by manipulating sentence context and ...
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Agreement attraction in comprehension: do active dependencies and distractor position play a role? Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Patrick Sturt, Nayoung Kwon
Across four eye-tracking studies and one self-paced reading study, we test whether attraction in subject-verb agreement is affected by (a) the relative linear positions of target and distractor, an...
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Morphosyntactic predictive processing in adult heritage speakers: effects of cue availability and spoken and written language experience Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Figen Karaca, Susanne Brouwer, Sharon Unsworth, Falk Huettig
We investigated prediction skills of adult heritage speakers and the role of written and spoken language experience on predictive processing. Using visual world eye-tracking, we focused on predicti...
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Meaning creation in novel noun-noun compounds: humans and language models Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Phoebe Chen, David Poeppel, Arianna Zuanazzi
The interpretation of novel noun-noun compounds (NNCs, e.g. “devil salary”) requires the combination of nouns in the absence of syntactic cues, an interesting facet of complex meaning creation. Her...
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Fast structural priming of grammatical decisions during reading Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-02 Colas Fournet, Jonathan Mirault, Mathieu Declerck, Jonathan Grainger
In two grammatical decision experiments, we used fast-priming as a novel method for uncovering the syntactic processes involved in written sentence comprehension while limiting the influence of str...
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Incremental sentence processing is guided by a preference for agents: EEG evidence from Basque Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Arrate Isasi-Isasmendi, Sebastian Sauppe, Caroline Andrews, Itziar Laka, Martin Meyer, Balthasar Bickel
Comprehenders across languages tend to interpret role-ambiguous arguments as the subject or the agent of a sentence during parsing. However, the evidence for such a subject/agent preference rests o...
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The significance of supramodality for embodied cognition: a commentary on Calzavarini (2023) Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Edouard Machery
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Effects of referential structure on pronoun interpretation Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Jina Song, Elsi Kaiser
Pronoun interpretation is guided by various factors. While most previously-investigated factors involve properties occurring before the pronoun, less attention has been paid to properties of the pr...
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Time course of Chinese compound word recognition as revealed by ERP data Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Yuling Wang, Zuowen Li, Minghu Jiang, Fei Long, Yunlong Huang, Xinyi Xu
Previous studies have yielded conflicting results regarding the onset of semantic processing in compound word recognition. This study examined the role of semantics in morphological processing usin...
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Grounding requires multimodal and multilevel representations Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Guy Dove
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The interplay of computational complexity and memory load during quantifier verification Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Heming Strømholt Bremnes, Jakub Szymanik, Giosuè Baggio
Formal analysis of the minimal computational complexity of verification algorithms for natural language quantifiers implies that different classes of quantifiers demand the engagement of different ...
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Different encoding of legal and illegal speech sequences: beyond phonetic planning? Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Anne-Lise Jouen, Cécile Fougeron, Marina Laganaro
Transforming linguistic codes into articulated speech is thought to rely on different phonetic (motor speech) encoding/planning processes for practiced sequences and for unpracticed/uncommon speech...
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Moving thoughts: emotion concepts from the perspective of context dependent embodied simulation Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-23 Piotr Winkielman, Joshua D. Davis, Seana Coulson
This review article presents our perspective on psychological and physiological mechanisms underlying concepts from the domain of affect, emotion, and motivation. We suggest that these concepts are...
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Illusions of plausibility in adjuncts and co-ordination Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-22 Ian Cunnings, Patrick Sturt
Illusions of grammaticality, where ungrammatical sentences are misperceived as grammatical (e.g. The key to the cabinets were rusty), have been widely studied during language comprehension. Such gr...
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Exploring the nature of morphological regularity: an fMRI study on Russian Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Natalia Slioussar, Alexander Korotkov, Denis Cherednichenko, Tatiana Chernigovskaya, Maxim Kireev
This paper explores the nature of the differences in the processing of morphologically regular and irregular forms in the brain. Verbs cannot be simply divided into regular and irregular in Russian...
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How the brain processes emotional meaning of indirect reply: evidence from EEG Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-16 Xinyu Guo, Xiaoqing Li, Yufang Yang
People often express their message and emotions through indirect utterances. How the intended meaning of indirect utterances is comprehended remains not completely clear. We investigated how the em...
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Experientially-grounded and distributional semantic vectors uncover dissociable representations of semantic with conceptual categories Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Francesca Carota, Hamed Nili, Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, Friedemann Pulvermüller
ABSTRACT Neuronal populations code similar concepts by similar activity patterns across the human brain's semantic networks. However, it is unclear to what extent such meaning-to-symbol mapping reflects distributional statistics, or experiential information grounded in sensorimotor and emotional knowledge. We asked whether integrating distributional and experiential data better distinguished conceptual
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Transforming the neuroscience of language: estimating pattern-to-pattern transformations of brain activity Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 O. Hauk, R. L. Jackson, S. Rahimi
ABSTRACT The cognitive neuroscience of language aims at revealing how linguistic information is represented and manipulated in the brain to enable communication and meaningful behaviour. An important aspect of the underlying brain processes is the integration and transformation of information across multiple brain systems. In order to understand these processes, a detailed characterisation of brain
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Stimulus repetition and sample size considerations in item-level representational similarity analysis Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Stephen Mazurchuk, Lisa L. Conant, Jia-Qing Tong, Jeffrey R. Binder, Leonardo Fernandino
ABSTRACT In studies using representational similarity analysis (RSA) of fMRI data, the reliability of the neural representational dissimilarity matrix (RDM) is a limiting factor in the ability to detect neural correlates of a model. A common strategy for boosting neural RDM reliability is to employ repeated presentations of the stimulus set across imaging runs or sessions. However, little is known
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Neural mechanisms of event visibility in sign languages Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Julia Krebs, Ronnie B. Wilbur, Dietmar Roehm, Evie Malaia
In unrelated sign languages event structure is reflected in the dynamic form of verbs, and hearing non-signers are known to be able to recognise these visual event structures. This study assessed t...
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Impaired morphological processing: insights from multiple sclerosis Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-25 Sami Boudelaa, Said Boujraf, Faouzi Belahcen, Mohamed Ben Zagmout, Ausaf Farooqui
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a neurological disease characterised by damage affecting large bundles of white matter fibres. Morphological segmentation of complex words (e.g. walked) into stems (walk)...
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Individual differences in the auditory processing of morpho-phonological and semantic cues Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-24 Julia Schwarz, Mirjana Bozic, Brechtje Post
Morpho-phonological patterns and semantic density influence the processing of spoken complex words and contribute to the dissociation between regularly and irregularly inflected forms. However, it ...
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Rapid prediction of verbs based on pronoun interpretation is modulated by individual differences in pronoun processing Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Jeffrey J. Green
How quickly can pronoun interpretation affect the prediction of a following verb? Readers were presented with implicit causality contexts in which a specific pronoun and following verb were predict...
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Long-term sport experience influences general action-related lexical semantic processing: ERP evidence Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Ruohan Chang, Jinfeng Ding
This study aimed to investigate whether long-term domain-specific sport experience influences general action-related lexical semantic processing. Wushu (martial arts) athletes and non-athletes were...
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A note on transmodality Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-18 Stefano F. Cappa
Published in Language, Cognition and Neuroscience (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Trials and tribulations when attempting to decode semantic representations from MEG responses to written text Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Gayane Ghazaryan, Marijn van Vliet, Aino Saranpää, Lotta Lammi, Tiina Lindh-Knuutila, Annika Hultén, Sasa Kivisaari, Riitta Salmelin
ABSTRACT Several studies have been published which show that it is possible to decode semantic representations directly from brain responses. This has been repeatedly successful when the stimuli used were pictures of objects. However, there is a distinct scarcity of studies decoding responses to orthographic stimuli, particularly those employing time-sensitive imaging methods. We use examples from
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Better together: integrating multivariate with univariate methods, and MEG with EEG to study language comprehension Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Lin Wang, Gina R. Kuperberg
ABSTRACT We used MEG and EEG to examine the effects of Plausibility (anomalous vs. plausible) and Animacy (animate vs. inanimate) on activity to incoming words during language comprehension. We conducted univariate event-related and multivariate spatial similarity analyses on both datasets. The univariate and multivariate results converged in their time course and sensitivity to Plausibility. However
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Effects of unilateral anteromedial temporal lobe resections on event-related potentials when reading negative and neutral words Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-11 Johanna Kissler, Malena Mielke, Lea Marie Reisch, Sebastian Schindler, Christian G. Bien
We investigated effects of unilateral left (lTLR, N = 15) or right (rTLR, N = 19) anteromedial temporal lobe resections comprising amygdala and temporal pole on event-related potentials (ERPs) duri...
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Does linear position matter for morphological processing? Evidence from a Tagalog masked priming experiment Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Dave Kenneth Tayao Cayado, Samantha Wray, Linnaea Stockall
This study investigated morphological decomposition of Tagalog infixed, prefixed, and suffixed words using the masked priming paradigm. We directly compared morphological priming of infixed, n...
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Planning multiple dependencies in sentence production Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Shota Momma, Masaya Yoshida
One of the defining properties of human language is the abundance of potentially unbounded dependencies between elements in a sentence. And yet, how speakers formulate dependencies in sentence prod...
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The supramodality “spillover” from neuroscience to cognitive sciences: a commentary on Calzavarini (2023) Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Emiliano Ricciardi, Pietro Pietrini
ABSTRACT This is a commentary on Calzavarini (Citation2023), Rethinking Modality-Specificity in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Concrete Word Meaning: A Position Paper 10.1080/23273798.2023.2173789.
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Modulation of working memory capacity on predictive processing during language comprehension Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Jinfeng Ding, Yuping Zhang, Panpan Liang, Xiaoqing Li
Ample evidence has shown facilitations of context-based prediction on language comprehension. However, the influential effect of working memory capacity on this predictive processing remains debate...
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Auditory processing of interlingual homophones: an fNIRS investigation Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-20 Murat Can Mutlu, Reşit Canbeyli, Hale Saybaşılı
To examine the neural dynamics of interlingual homophone (ILHP) word processing, we created a word list consisting of Turkish control and Turkish/English ILHP words and asked native Turkish speaker...
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Not clear what properties are found or should be: a commentary on Calzavarini (2023) Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Ziyi Xiong, Haoyang Chen, Yanchao Bi
ABSTRACT This is a commentary on Calzavarini (2023 Calzavarini, F. (2023). Rethinking modality-specificity in the cognitive neuroscience of concrete word meaning: A position paper. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2023.2173789[Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]), Rethinking Modality-Specificity in the Cognitive Neuroscience of
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Grounded cognition can be multimodal all the way down Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Anna M. Borghi, Claudia Mazzuca, Angelo Mattia Gervasi, Francesco Mannella, Luca Tummolini
ABSTRACT In his position paper, Calzavarini (2023 Calzavarini, F. (2023). Rethinking modality-specificity in the cognitive neuroscience of concrete word meaning: a position paper. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2023.2173789[Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) argues that recent studies in multisensory research challenge the
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Supramodality does not specify the nature of conceptual representations Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Alex Martin
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When does speech planning rely on motor routines? ERP comparison of speech and non-speech from childhood to adulthood Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-13 M. Lancheros, T. Atanasova, M. Laganaro
Speech is an extensively overlearned oromotor behaviour that becomes more automatised over the years due to the storage of their motor routines. To determine when this storage occurs in development...
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Distinguishing modality-specificity at the representational and input level: a commentary on Calzavarini (2023) Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Markus Kiefer, Philipp Kuhnke, Gesa Hartwigsen
Published in Language, Cognition and Neuroscience (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Modality-specificity is not a necessary condition for grounded semantic cognition: commentary on Calzavarini (2023) Lang. Cogn. Neurosci. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Jamie Reilly, Jonathan E. Peelle
Published in Language, Cognition and Neuroscience (Ahead of Print, 2023)