Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism

The human brain represents speech phoneme sequences through dynamic coding that tracks content and elapsed processing time, revealing how it combines phonemes to access the mental lexicon.

The paper investigates how linguistic input influences brain network configuration during language comprehension using fMRI and graph theory.

This study uses fMRI to compare brain activity during paradigmatic and syntagmatic semantic processing by evaluating semantic embeddings derived from linguistic knowledge bases and statistical models.

The paper investigates how multimodal cues like prosody, gestures, and mouth movements affect brain responses during language comprehension, showing their integral role beyond speech alone.

This study compares primary progressive aphasia and post-stroke aphasia using multiple linguistic and cognitive tasks, revealing graded variations rather than categorical boundaries.

The paper shows that the left Middle Temporal Gyrus exhibits a representational asymmetry where verb-patient combinations are represented but verb-agent combinations are not, supporting linguistic theories of event structure.

This study uses TMS to show that the left angular gyrus is causally involved in information buffering and context formation during narrative reading.

The paper investigates how interference and prediction interact during language processing using ERP data, finding that interference effects depend on predictability.

This study investigates how relative language distance affects bilingual brain structure using VBM analysis across three language pairs.

This study investigates how Relative Language Distance affects bilingual language control using fMRI, finding differential ACC responses across groups with varying RLD.

The paper investigates neural dynamics during semantic processing of visual images and sentences, finding common patterns in EEG responses to sequential coherence.

This study investigates how French initial accent (IA) interacts with semantic processing using ERP measurements, finding that IA influences semantic conflict resolution and is processed automatically at the lexical level.

This study examines brain activation during sentence production with different verb structures and lexical status, finding increased activation in language networks for complex structures and known verbs.

This study uses TMS to investigate the role of the left superior parietal lobule in sign language production, finding it monitors discrete linguistic units rather than visual information.

The paper uses neuroimaging and computational modeling to show that semantic relations are represented in the brain as distributed patterns over abstract relations in parietal cortex.

The paper investigates the electrophysiological correlates of syntactic structures by comparing noun phrases (NPs) and verb phrases (VPs) using homophonous phrases and SEEG recordings.

The paper shows that novel words and their syntactic properties are learned through co-occurrence probabilities and represented in language network regions, with left inferior frontal cortex involved in contextual unification.

The paper identifies common multimodal brain networks for listening, production, and reading word-lists using fMRI in right-handers, revealing hemispheric specialization and connectivity patterns.

This study uses MEG to track how the brain processes adjective-noun phrases, finding that adjective representations change during noun processing and are reactivated later.

The paper investigates structural brain differences between bilinguals and monolinguals in children and the elderly using diffusion MRI and network-based statistics, finding that bilingualism may increase neural reserve in ageing.

This study uses EEG and mTRF models to examine how delta and theta neural entrainment contribute to phonological and semantic processing in speech perception, finding distinct roles for each band in different linguistic hierarchies.

This study finds that dual language experience increases neural activation variability in the right middle frontal gyrus during a language processing task compared to monolingual learners.

This study investigates how linguistic associative knowledge is acquired through generalization and integration across learning experiences, identifying brain regions involved in knowledge updating and retrieval.

The paper uses EEG to show hierarchical and asymmetric phonological encoding of vowels, identifying two N1 subcomponents in the auditory cortex.

Encoding models using contextual representations from an LSTM language model improve human fMRI brain response prediction over non-contextual word embeddings in nearly every brain area and map cortical context sensitivity.

The paper compares semantic facilitation in comprehension and interference in production using MEG, showing distinct spatiotemporal patterns in left temporal and insular regions.

The paper uses fMRI and multi-voxel pattern analysis to show shared brain activity patterns between saccadic eye movements and semantic processing of spatial words.

This study investigates brain activity related to verbal memory load for action-related words using fMRI, finding distinct activation patterns in motor and parietal regions.

The paper uses EEG to show that semantic word categories can be decoded from brain activity before the word is presented, supporting predictive coding during sentence processing.