Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism

No tiger in plastic tiger: Local linguistic context alters the neural representations of individual words

The paper investigates how local linguistic context affects neural representations of words, finding that phrase-level animacy is decoded early and persists, challenging theories of basic-to-derived meaning shifts.

Brain Mechanisms of Lexicality in Bilingual Emotion Processing

This study uses fMRI to compare how native speakers and L2 learners process emotional prosody in real words vs. pseudowords, finding distinct brain activation patterns based on lexicality.

Changes in Neural Dynamics of Brain Activity and Connectivity Independently Predict Post-Stroke Aphasia Recovery

The paper identifies phase-specific neural predictors of post-stroke aphasia recovery using task-related activity and connectivity, highlighting multiple-demand and inferior frontal regions as potential targets.

Structural connectivity of auditory-linguistic brain networks predicts success in speech categorization and listening in noise

The paper links individual differences in speech categorization and listening in noise to neuroanatomical properties of auditory-linguistic brain networks.

Spatiotemporal dynamics of lexical and morphosyntactic planning during language production revealed by magnetoencephalography

This study uses MEG to examine the spatiotemporal dynamics of lexical and morphosyntactic planning during language production, revealing distinct neural patterns for different lexical categories and processes.

Content-Sensitive Linguistic Representations in the Human Multiple-Demand Network

This study shows that the multiple-demand network encodes content-sensitive linguistic representations during naturalistic comprehension, independent of cognitive demand.

AI-like parallelogram geometry of word relations in the human neocortex

The paper shows that semantic relations like queen-king and woman-man form parallelogram geometry in the human neocortex, similar to language AI, suggesting a shared organizational principle.

Neural tracking of surprisal and semantic distance in naturalistic movie viewing

The paper examines how the brain processes surprisal and semantic distance during naturalistic movie viewing using fMRI, finding distinct neural responses in specific brain regions.

Conversation in fMRI: DMN Activates During Live Mentalizing

The paper investigates neural activity during conversational production and comprehension, finding that the default mode network is preferentially active during comprehension, especially in longer conversations.

Semantic ambiguity dissociates the roles of word meaning and co-occurrence statistics in sentence processing

The paper investigates how semantic ambiguity affects next-word prediction in humans, showing that processing costs are linked to word meaning rather than co-occurrence statistics, especially under ambiguity.

Time-frequency EEG markers of word boundaries in speech production

This study identifies EEG time-frequency markers distinguishing word-boundary from within-word syllable transitions during speech production.

Beyond dual hubs: Task and aging shape taxonomic and thematic semantic relationships in the human brain

This study investigates how task and aging affect semantic processing in the brain, finding that both TPC and ATL respond preferentially to thematic relationships and that aging leads to shifts in semantic control and processing.

Deep-layer cortical tracking abruptly collapses in the absence of language comprehension

The paper tracks cortical computations during speech processing using a language model and MEG, finding comprehension sustains alignment in deep layers while acoustic processing remains unchanged without comprehension.

Social Experience and Motivated Cognition Shape the Representation of Concepts: A Behavioural and Functional Neuroimaging Study

This study investigates how social experience and motivation influence semantic concept processing using behavioral and fMRI data, finding distinct neural patterns for social concepts and their independence from motivation.

Repeated listening induces exposure-specific cortical tracking of intelligible continuous speech

The paper shows that repeated exposure to intelligible speech enhances cortical tracking of sublexical features, with prediction performance decreasing as temporal distance between exposures increases.

The Brain Encodes Pure Logic Beyond Natural Language And At The Boundaries With Mathematics

The paper investigates how the brain processes pure logic by comparing neural activity during logic, language, and arithmetic tasks, finding distinct brain circuits for logic.

When Grammatical Gender Shapes Gender Stereotypes: Neural Evidence for Cross-Linguistic Modulation in Spanish-English Bilinguals

The paper shows that grammatical gender in a bilingual's first language influences gender-stereotype processing in a second language, as evidenced by ERP modulations in Spanish-English bilinguals.

Shared and distinct temporal representations of Chinese words across imaged, silent, and overt speech

The paper investigates how neural representations of Chinese words differ across imagined, silent, and overt speech, finding shared and distinct temporal dynamics and representational geometries.

The integration of prosody and semantics in non-literal speech: A voxel-wise encoding model approach using large language models

This study uses voxel-wise encoding models to identify brain regions integrating prosody and semantics during non-literal speech comprehension, finding left IFGorb involvement when context is considered.

Electrophysiological indices of hierarchical speech processing differentially reflect the comprehension of speech in noise

The paper examines how EEG indices of speech processing features correlate with speech comprehension in noise, finding that both low- and high-level features influence behavior depending on noise levels.

Behavioral and brain responses to language reflect different levels of linguistic representation

The paper compares behavioral and neural responses to language, finding that neural data capture more detailed linguistic information than behavioral measures.

Resolving the Abstract-Concrete Paradox in the Angular Gyrus: A Multimethod Investigation

This paper investigates the role of the angular gyrus in semantic processing by integrating multiple methods, showing that its engagement depends on cognitive factors like memory and mental state.

Proficiency-Dependent Reorganisation of Language and Control Networks during Second Language Processing: An fMRI Study of Korean-English Bilinguals

This study uses fMRI to show that second language proficiency in Korean-English bilinguals is associated with task-specific shifts in neural networks during language processing.

Brain-Language Alignment During Naturalistic Reading and Its Disruption by Mind-Wandering

The paper shows brain-language alignment during naturalistic reading is detectable in EEG and reduced during mind-wandering, with contextual embeddings performing better than static ones.

Attention or prediction? Characterizing the top-down influence of predictive context on speech encoding

This study investigates whether predictive context or attentional gain drives early auditory encoding of words in natural speech, finding that word surprisal has a stronger influence than contextual uncertainty.

Auditory Speech Processing Efficiency: Functional Connectivity Graph Theory Analysis of Lexical Processing Effort

This study examines differences in linguistic processing effort and efficiency using functional connectivity measures from prefrontal cortex hemodynamic responses during an auditory working memory task with varying word frequencies.

Low-frequency neural responses synchronize to distinct structural rather than lexical features during sentence comprehension

The paper investigates neural synchronization during sentence comprehension and finds that it is driven by structural rather than lexical features, with distinct frequency and phase dimensions for structural processing.

Distinct neural processes link speech planning and execution

This paper identifies distinct neural mechanisms for speech planning and execution using intracranial recordings.

Challenging the right-hemisphere assumption in post-stroke pragmatics: largely comparable impairment profiles across lesion sides

This study challenges the assumption that right-hemisphere damage causes pragmatic deficits after stroke, showing comparable impairment profiles across lesion sides in most tasks.

Invariant Neural Representation of Parts of Speech in the Human Brain

The paper identifies a localized, invariant neural representation of parts of speech in the human brain using invasive recordings from epilepsy patients.