Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism

Distinct and Common Neural Coding of Semantic and Non-semantic Control Demands

The paper examines neural coding of semantic and non-semantic control demands using fMRI and finds distinct and common patterns in semantic and multiple-demand networks.

An Investigation of Neural Mechanisms Underlying Verb Morphology Deficits in Aphasia

This study investigates whether verb morphology deficits in aphasia occur at the single word or sentence level and examines neuroplastic changes following a morphosemantic intervention.

Frontal language areas do not emerge in the absence of temporal language areas: A case study of an individual born without a left temporal lobe

The paper investigates whether frontal language areas develop without temporal language areas by studying an individual born without a left temporal lobe, finding that frontal language areas do not emerge in its absence.

Cortical Representations of Concrete and Abstract Concepts in Language Combine Visual and Linguistic Representations

The paper shows that cortical regions near visual systems combine visual and linguistic information for concepts, while language regions use mostly linguistic information, with concrete concepts containing more visual information.

Predicting the N400 ERP component using the Sentence Gestalt model trained on a large scale corpus

This study uses a Sentence Gestalt model trained on a large corpus to predict N400 ERP amplitudes during naturalistic sentence processing, supporting the semantic prediction error hypothesis.

Bilingual speakers' enhanced monitoring can slow them down

This study finds that bilinguals show different patterns of conflict monitoring and attention allocation during a cognitive task, leading to slower responses due to enhanced monitoring.

Neural correlates of semantic number: A cross-linguistic investigation

The paper investigates neural correlates of semantic number across three languages, finding common activation patterns for plural vs. singular nouns.

Salience-weighted agreement feature hierarchy modulates language comprehension.

The paper investigates how salience-weighted agreement features modulate language comprehension through ERP analysis of Arabic subject-verb agreement violations.

Phonological and temporal regularities lead to differential ERP effects in self- and externally generated speech

The paper examines ERP responses to self- and externally generated speech with varying phonotactic probability and syllable stress, finding unexpected N1 amplitude effects and P2 amplitude effects related to stress.

Linguistic processing of task-irrelevant speech at a Cocktail Party

This study shows that task-irrelevant speech with coherent structure still activates neural regions involved in linguistic processing, indicating selective attention does not fully block such processing.

Neural signatures of predictive language processing in Parkinson's disease with and without mild cognitive impairment

The paper investigates neural signatures of predictive language processing in Parkinson's disease patients with and without mild cognitive impairment using ERP measurements.

Speech perception under the tent: A domain-general predictive role for the cerebellum

The paper investigates the cerebellum's role in speech perception, finding it supports domain-general predictive mechanisms through distinct connectivity patterns and reduced cortical activation when active.

GPT-2's activations predict the degree of semantic comprehension in the human brain

Across 101 listeners, how well GPT-2 layer-8 activations predict fMRI responses to spoken stories tracks story comprehension, with a correlation of R = 0.50 across subject-story pairs.

The neural bases of resilient cognitive systems: Evidence of variable neuro-displacement in the semantic system.

This study investigates neurocomputational mechanisms of cognitive resilience by examining semantic network dynamics under task difficulty manipulations, finding increased functional connectivity linked to better performance.

Convergence of modality invariance and attention selectivity in the cortical semantic circuit

This study examines modality invariance and attention selectivity in the human brain using fMRI, finding that perisylvian regions show both properties and that semantic features are more strongly associated with these phenomena than phonemic features.

Stimulus-independent neural coding of event semantics: Evidence from cross-sentence fMRI decoding

The paper shows that neural representations of event semantics generalize across sentence structures, while visual areas do not, suggesting semantic systems prioritize conceptual meaning over surface features.

The neural bases of program comprehension: a coordinate-based fMRI meta-analysis

This study identifies brain regions consistently activated during program comprehension using a meta-analysis of fMRI studies.

No fruits without color: Cross-modal priming and EEG reveal different roles for different features across semantic categories

The paper investigates how color and orientation features affect semantic processing of fruits, vegetables, and tools using behavioral and neural measures, finding color is critical for natural categories.

Reduced listener-speaker neural coupling underlies speech understanding difficulty in older adults

This study shows that older adults have reduced neural coupling with speakers during speech comprehension, which correlates with poorer speech understanding.

Rapid neural encoding of the contrast between native and nonnative speech in the alpha band

This study shows the human brain distinguishes native and nonnative speech within 100 ms using alpha band phase coherence, achieving 90% decoding accuracy.

EEG Resting-State and Event-Related Potentials as Markers of Learning Success in Older Adults Following Second Language Training: A Pilot Study

This study uses resting-state EEG and ERP to predict and assess second language learning success in older adults, finding that beta1 oscillations and N400 components correlate with proficiency and cognitive processing.

Identifying Brain Regions Related to Word Prediction During Listening to Japanese Speech by Combining a LSTM Language Model and MEG

Language networks in aphasia and health: a 1000 participant Activation Likelihood Estimate analysis

This study uses Activation Likelihood Estimation to analyze language network activation in post-stroke aphasia and healthy controls, finding that pre-existing regions are less consistently activated in aphasia, with increased activation in right hemisphere executive regions.

Convergence of Heteromodal Lexical Retrieval in the Lateral Prefrontal Cortex

This study uses lesion-symptom mapping in patients with aphasia to show that visual and auditory lexical retrieval tasks share overlapping neural systems in the left lateral prefrontal cortex.

Representational pattern similarity of electrical brain activity reveals rapid and specific prediction during language comprehension

The paper uses RSA on EEG data to show that brain activity patterns pre-activate upcoming words during language comprehension, with timing and strength modulated by context and expectancy.

Neural representation of words within phrases: Temporal evolution of color-adjectives and object-nouns during simple composition

The paper investigates how word representations evolve during phrase composition using decoding techniques and MEG data, finding asymmetries between nouns and adjectives.

Dissociable electrophysiological measures of natural language processing reveal differences in comprehension strategy in healthy ageing

The paper examines how older and younger adults process speech using electrophysiological measures, finding that older adults show reduced semantic pre-activation during language comprehension.

Incremental language comprehension difficulty predicts activity in the language network but not the multiple demand network

The paper examines the relationship between comprehension difficulty and neural activity in the multiple demand and core language networks during story listening, finding no link in the multiple demand network but a link in the core language network.

Event-Related Potentials in an Associative Word Pair Learning Paradigm

The paper examines how unintentional learning of semantically unrelated word pairs affects event-related brain potentials, showing increased N400 amplitude when a new word follows an old word.

From acoustic to linguistic analysis of temporal speech structure: acousto-linguistic transformation during speech perception using speech quilts.

The paper investigates how acoustic and linguistic processing of speech temporal structure differs in native and foreign languages using fMRI and speech quilts.