Katrien Segaert

Older Adults Show Preserved Neural Signatures of Audiovisual Integration but Altered Links to Speech Comprehension

The paper investigates age-related changes in audiovisual integration during speech comprehension using MEG and finds preserved neural mechanisms but altered behavioral links in older adults.

Augmenting Speech Comprehension using Rapid Frequency Tagging

This study shows that modulating visual stimuli with task-relevant speech improves speech comprehension in adverse conditions by enhancing audiovisual interaction.

Explaining tip-of-the-tongue experiences in older adults: The role of brain-based and cardiorespiratory fitness factors

This study investigates how brain health and cardiorespiratory fitness influence age-related word-finding failures in older adults using neuroimaging and fitness data.

Brain-to-brain coupling forecasts future joint action outcomes

This study shows that brain-to-brain coupling patterns during a time-estimation task can predict success or failure in joint action based on post-feedback theta power correlations.

Functional neural architecture of cognitive control mediates the relationship between individual differences in bilingual experience and behaviour

The paper examines how individual differences in bilingual experience affect neural mechanisms of cognitive control and behavioral outcomes using EEG data from 239 participants.

Minimal phrase composition revealed by intracranial recordings

This paper uses intracranial recordings to show that the posterior superior temporal sulcus encodes both lexical and phrase structure in minimal phrases, with distinct timing and spatial patterns.

Modulation in Alpha Band Activity Reflects Syntax Composition: An MEG Study of Minimal Syntactic Binding

This study uses MEG to show that alpha band activity in left-lateralized language regions modulates during syntactic binding, reflecting neural mechanisms of syntax composition.

How the healthy ageing brain supports semantic binding during language comprehension

This study examines age-related differences in brain oscillatory activity during semantic binding and lexical retrieval using EEG in young and older adults.

Structural priming is supported by different components of non-declarative memory: Evidence from priming across the lifespan

This study shows that short-term and long-term structural priming are supported by different non-declarative memory components, with age-related changes observed in long-term priming and conceptual memory.

Healthy ageing and sentence production: Disrupted lexical access in the context of intact syntactic planning

This study examines age-related differences in syntactic planning and lexical retrieval during sentence production, finding preserved syntactic facilitation but disrupted lexical access in older adults.

Dissociable effects of prediction and integration during language comprehension: Evidence from a large-scale study using brain potentials

The paper investigates how word predictability and sentence plausibility affect the N400 brain response during language comprehension using a large-scale study.

Laminar Specific fMRI Reveals Directed Interactions in Distributed Networks During Language Processing

This study demonstrates that laminar fMRI can reveal directed connectivity in whole-brain networks during language processing by identifying top-down signal contributions in language-critical regions.

Evidence against preserved syntactic comprehension in healthy aging

This study finds age-related decline in syntactic comprehension in healthy aging, with slower and less accurate error detection in older adults, especially when semantic information is absent.

Memory encoding of syntactic information involves domain-general attentional resources. Evidence from dual-task studies

The paper investigates whether domain-general or language-specific attention is used during syntactic processing by examining syntactic priming in a dual-task paradigm with motion-object tracking.

Higher physical fitness levels are associated with less language decline in healthy ageing

The paper examines the relationship between aerobic fitness and language decline in healthy older adults, finding that higher fitness levels are associated with fewer tip-of-the-tongue states.

Limits on prediction in language comprehension: A multi-lab failure to replicate evidence for probabilistic pre-activation of phonology

This paper reports a multi-lab failure to replicate the original finding of probabilistic phonological pre-activation in language comprehension, showing no significant article-N400 cloze effect but a significant noun-N400 effect.

Changes in alpha activity reveal that social opinion modulates attention allocation during face processing

Binding language: Structuring sentences through precisely timed oscillatory mechanisms

The paper investigates neural processes involved in syntactic binding using EEG, finding distinct alpha and beta power changes associated with expectation and processing of syntactic binding.