Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism

The paper investigates whether the neural basis of language in blind individuals follows a sensitive period by comparing congenitally blind, adult-onset blind, and sighted participants.

This study shows that disrupting the left middle temporal gyrus with cTBS leads to reconfiguration of the lexical network, recruiting prefrontal regions for lexical-semantic processing.

The paper investigates whether forward predictions and prediction errors occur for self-initiated vowels using ERP components, finding N1-suppression for self-initiated speech but not for deviant vowels.

The paper investigates whether sign and speech languages evoke similar conceptual representations using fMRI and RSA, finding partial sharing of semantic representations in specific brain regions.

This study uses fMRI to investigate whether multilinguals use similar prefrontal mechanisms for word retrieval as monolinguals, finding proactive control involves boosting target language lexical activation.

The paper investigates distinct neural responses to fulfilled and violated predictions at different levels of representation during language comprehension, identifying specific ERP components associated with each.

This study identifies neural pathways involved in processing spatial language, showing dorsal visuospatial networks support demonstratives and spatial expressions.

This study uses qMRI and fMRI to find that early second language acquisition enhances microstructural cortical development in bilinguals.

The paper shows that P3 and P600 brain responses share neural patterns, challenging the view of P600 as language-specific and supporting a domain-general interpretation.

The paper identifies a transcallosal fiber system connecting homotopic inferior frontal regions involved in complex linguistic processing using DTI-based probabilistic fiber tracking in healthy volunteers.

This study uses fMRI to show how sentence processing in German is influenced by linguistic context and verb-based expectations, revealing distinct neural networks involved.

This study identifies dynamic neural network states during speech production using electrocorticographic signals from human patients.

This study examines how theta and beta brain oscillations relate to language prediction metrics during auditory narrative comprehension.

The paper investigates whether motor cortex activation is necessary for verb conceptual processing by examining beta oscillation suppression in response to varying verb retrieval difficulty.

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.

The paper identifies brain regions associated with individualized meaning formation during narrative listening by analyzing inter-subject semantic and hemodynamic similarities.

This study examines word error patterns in connected speech and object naming after left hemisphere stroke, finding distinct neural substrates for different types of paraphasias.

The paper investigates how the brain combines fragmented semantic features into complete object representations using machine-learning-based neural decoding.

This study tests whether bilingualism improves executive functions and working memory in young adults, finding no overall advantage but some differences in specific tasks.

The paper investigates whether the LAN effect in morphosyntactic processing is an ERP artifact by analyzing its presence across participants, items, and trials.

The paper investigates neural correlates of speech coherence in older adults using fMRI and computational linguistics, finding reduced prefrontal activation predicts off-topic speech.

The paper investigates neural networks for verb and noun semantics, finding distinct sensitivity patterns in specific brain regions.

This paper finds that age, not sex, explains sex differences in post-stroke aphasia rates through meta-analysis and regression analysis.

The paper creates an atlas of 32 sentence-related brain areas using task-induced activation and resting-state connectivity analysis in healthy right-handers.

The paper identifies a rapid, attention-dependent neural response in the left temporal lobe that reflects the transition from phonetic to lexical processing during continuous speech perception.

The paper investigates language selection errors in bilinguals using ERPs, finding that errors are more frequent when switching from L2 to L1 and that ERN effects are larger when switching to L2, challenging the conflict-based monitoring model.

This review examines the structural connectivity and functional roles of the frontal aslant tract (FAT) in speech, language, and executive function across species and brain hemispheres.

This study uses ERP to examine how working memory load affects neural activity during simultaneous interpreting, finding that N1 amplitude varies with load but not interpretation direction.

The paper uses MEG data to show predictive speech processing through two distinct fronto-motor to auditory pathways at different frequencies.

The paper explores the relationship between phonetic structure and phonological representations using neurophysiological data to propose a model of how acoustic patterns are transformed into neural states.