Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism

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.

This study identifies semantic and executive factors explaining age-related declines in speech coherence using computational analysis of speech samples and cognitive measures.

The paper models the N400 brain response as a change in an implicit probabilistic representation of meaning using a neural network, linking it to implicit learning and language processing.

This study uses fMRI to show that structured sequences in music and language share a common neural code, including Broca's area, challenging domain-specific hypotheses.

This study examines how age-related hearing loss affects auditory-motor speech processing in older adults, finding reduced motor cortex excitability during speech listening in those with hearing loss.

The paper examines how the brain processes phonotactic probabilities in speech using EEG, finding that these probabilities modulate neural responses and support a pre-lexical role in speech perception.

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.

This study investigates effective connectivity in brain regions involved in auditory attenuation during self-generated and temporally predictable speech using EEG and DCM.

The paper examines age-related differences in semantic cognition, finding that older adults show preserved controlled retrieval but impaired semantic selection, suggesting distinct components of semantic processing.

The paper investigates how native language experience influences prediction mechanisms in bilinguals, finding that L1 features shape L2 prediction timing and hierarchy.

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.

This study compares semantic knowledge and control processes in young and older adults, finding that older adults struggle with controlled processing of weak semantic relationships.

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.

This study investigates the temporal dynamics of semantic retrieval using MEG and cTMS, finding distinct roles for anterior and posterior temporal regions in strong and weak association processing.

This study investigates the role of left DLPFC in language processing using tDCS, finding increased reaction times in comprehension and decreased naming latencies in production, with individual variability in response.

The paper uses EEG and computational models to show that semantic dissimilarity in speech correlates with electrophysiological responses during natural speech comprehension.

This study investigates how noise and semantic coherence affect motor cortex excitability during speech listening and finds no modulation by these factors.

The paper investigates how morphometric differences in the anterior temporal lobe correlate with semantic and shape categorization performance in healthy controls.

The paper demonstrates a method to analyze brain responses to continuous speech stimuli using MEG data, showing distinct neural processes for acoustic, lexical, and semantic processing.

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.

This study shows that top-down attention is required for lexical knowledge-based grouping of syllables into words, as evidenced by reduced neural entrainment to words when attention is diverted.

This study uses a meta-analysis of 47 functional neuroimaging studies to examine age-related changes in neural networks supporting semantic cognition, finding a shift from semantic-specific to domain-general resources in older adults.

This study examines agrammatic sentence comprehension by analyzing lesion data from 66 patients, finding that damage to superior temporal and inferior parietal regions, not Broca's area, is most strongly associated with impaired performance on noncanonical sentences.

The paper investigates the role of brain regions in alpha-beta power decreases during context-driven word production, finding that left posterior areas, not frontal areas, are critical for this effect.

The paper reviews the use of probabilistic language models in cognitive neuroscience to explain neurobiological signals and discusses their advantages and limitations.

The paper compares how closely language and domain-general brain networks track linguistic input during story comprehension, finding that language-selective regions show more consistent input tracking than the Multiple Demand network.

The paper shows that neural responses to small narrative changes are amplified through the brain's temporal processing hierarchy, correlating with regions' time-integration capabilities.

The paper identifies frequency-specific directed interactions in the human brain network for language using magnetoencephalography and Granger causality analysis.

This study examines semantic interference in patients with left temporal or frontal lesions, finding that left-temporal patients show increased errors in word production tasks involving related distractors.

The paper links subsecond electrophysiological changes with structural connectivity in language recovery after left-hemisphere stroke.