Alexis Hervais‐Adelman

Decomposing Parts of Speech: Neural Encoding of Semantic and Grammatical Dimensions and Their Combinational Structure

The paper decomposes part-of-speech categories into semantic and grammatical dimensions using MEG data, showing distinct neural responses to these components and their interactions during language comprehension.

Cerebral Encoding of Word Classes is Distributed and Context-Dependent

The paper investigates how word classes like nouns and verbs are encoded in the brain, finding that their neural representation depends on sentence context and varies across modalities.

Linguistic structure and probability are jointly encoded in high gamma power

This study shows high gamma power in intracranial recordings reflects both lexical probability and syntactic structure during speech comprehension, with evidence of interregional communication and modulation by lexical uncertainty.

Auditory cortex anatomy reflects multilingual phonological experience

This study links multilingual phonological experience to cortical thickness in auditory brain regions, showing that more diverse language exposure correlates with thinner second transverse temporal gyrus.

How does literacy affect speech processing? Not by enhancing cortical responses to speech, but by promoting connectivity of acoustic-phonetic and graphomotor cortices.

The paper investigates how literacy affects speech processing in Hindi speakers using Devanagari, finding no change in cortical speech responses but increased connectivity between acoustic-phonetic and graphomotor areas.

Speech sound categorization: The contribution of non-auditory and auditory cortical regions

The paper investigates how the brain categorizes speech sounds by identifying brain regions that represent syllable reports independently of acoustic stimuli.

Resolving the connectome - Spectrally-specific functional connectivity networks and their distinct contributions to behaviour

The paper examines spectrally resolved resting-state connectivity patterns from MEG data to link frequency-specific functional networks to behavioural and demographic traits in healthy participants.

The Noise-Resilient Brain: Resting-State Oscillatory Activity Predicts Words-In-Noise Recognition

The paper shows that resting-state MEG oscillatory power in specific brain regions predicts words-in-noise recognition performance.

Beyond Bilingualism: multilingual experience correlates with caudate volume

This study examines how multilingual experience affects caudate nucleus volume and morphology in 75 multilingual individuals, finding significant correlations with right caudate volume and left caudate enlargement.

Gating by induced α-γ asynchrony in selective attention

This study shows how selective attention modulates cross-frequency coupling in visual cortex by disrupting top-down parietal influences.