Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism

Cortical processing of reference in language revealed by computational models

This study uses fMRI and MEG to identify neural activity patterns during pronoun processing and evaluates symbolic and deep learning models to understand referential processing mechanisms.

Comparing short and long batteries to assess deficits and their neural bases in stroke aphasia

The paper compares short and long language batteries for stroke aphasia, develops a data-reduced version, and identifies neural correlates of language deficits.

Co-existence of prediction and error signals in electrophysiological responses to natural speech

This study examines predictive coding in speech comprehension using EEG data from audiobook listening, showing prediction and error signals co-exist in electrophysiological responses to natural speech.

Cortical network underlying speech production during delayed auditory feedback

The paper identifies neural markers in auditory cortex and dorsal precentral gyrus during delayed auditory feedback, showing their role in speech error detection and correction.

Structural priming is supported by different components of non-declarative memory: Evidence from priming across the lifespan

This study shows that short-term and long-term structural priming are supported by different non-declarative memory components, with age-related changes observed in long-term priming and conceptual memory.

Integrating When and What Information in the Left Parietal Lobe Allows Language Rule Generalization

The paper shows that after statistical learning, goal-directed attention in the left parietal lobe enables rule generalization in language learning.

Linguistic structure and meaning organize neural oscillations into a content-specific hierarchy

The paper investigates how neural oscillations reflect linguistic content beyond acoustic and rhythmic features during speech comprehension.

Semantic richness and density effects on language production: Electrophysiological and behavioral evidence

The paper investigates how semantic richness and density affect language production through behavioral and electrophysiological measures, finding facilitatory and inhibitory effects respectively.

Individual Differences in Peripheral Hearing and Cognition Reveal Sentence Processing Differences in Healthy Older Adults

This study examines how individual differences in hearing and cognition affect sentence processing in older adults, finding distinct roles for hearing thresholds, working memory, and individual alpha frequency in predicting neural responses to grammatical structures.

Commonalities in alpha and beta neural desynchronizations during prediction in language comprehension and production

The paper shows that alpha and beta desynchronizations occur during prediction in both language comprehension and production tasks, indicating shared neural mechanisms.

The Neural Correlates of Semantic Control Revisited

This paper revisits semantic control using improved analysis and additional data, finding a left-focused network without parietal involvement.

Interpretable multi-timescale models for predicting fMRI responses to continuous natural speech

This paper develops interpretable multi-timescale models to predict fMRI responses to natural speech, revealing how different brain regions encode information at varying temporal scales.

Age-related differences in auditory cortex activity during spoken word recognition

This study compares brain activity during spoken word recognition in young and older adults using fMRI, finding similar patterns but reduced auditory cortex activity in older adults.

Neural modelling of the semantic predictability gain under challenging listening conditions

The paper investigates how neural networks adapt to speech predictability and intelligibility, showing increased activation in semantic regions and changes in effective connectivity during challenging listening conditions.

Neural correlates of temporal presentness in theprecuneus: a crosslinguistic fMRI study based on speech stimuli

This study identifies the precuneus as a key brain region involved in time perception, showing it activates more strongly for present tense sentences across three languages with different tense systems.

Cognitive resilience in bilinguals and its potentiality in dealing with cognitive load

This study finds bilinguals show less performance decline under high cognitive load compared to monolinguals, supporting the bilingual advantage in demanding tasks.

Rapid cortical plasticity induced by active associative learning of novel words in human adults

This study investigates rapid cortical plasticity in human adults during active associative learning of novel words, finding immediate changes in cortical responses to meaningful pseudowords.

Multilingual picture naming test for mapping eloquent areas during awake surgeries

The paper introduces MULTIMAP, a multilingual picture naming test for language mapping during awake brain surgery, addressing cross-linguistic variability in existing tests.

The language network is recruited but not required for non-verbal event semantics

The study shows that the language network is involved but not essential for processing non-verbal event semantics using fMRI and aphasia patient comparisons.

Strategic and non-strategic semantic expectations hierarchically modulate neural processing

The paper investigates hierarchical semantic expectations in language comprehension using EEG, finding early ERP effects reflecting local prediction errors and later signals related to global context and conscious access.

Color naming and categorization depend on distinct functional brain networks

This study identifies distinct brain networks associated with color naming and categorization using fMRI and behavioral data.

Hippocampus plays a role in speech feedback processing

This study investigates the role of the hippocampus in speech production by analyzing fMRI data, finding that impaired speech feedback reduces hippocampal activity and increases coupling with auditory cortex.

Can computers understand words like humans do? Comparable semantic representation in neural and computer systems

This study compares semantic representations in neural and computational systems using EEG and finds significant correlations between model outputs and early semantic processing.

Lateralised cerebral processing of abstract linguistic structure in clear and degraded speech

This study shows that brain activity tracking linguistic structures in speech changes with speech intelligibility, with higher-level structures being left-lateralized.

Analysis of continuous neuronal activity evoked by natural speech with computational corpus linguistics methods

The paper combines natural speech and MEG to create a corpus of speech-evoked neuronal activity using computational corpus linguistics methods.

Interactive mapping of language and memory with the GE2REC protocol

The paper introduces a new protocol called GE2REC to interactively map language and memory networks using MRI in healthy participants, showing robust activation of relevant brain regions.

Delta-band Cortical Tracking of Acoustic and Linguistic Features in Natural Spoken Narratives

This study shows delta-band cortical activity tracks word rhythm during natural speech comprehension, but not the acoustic envelope, and this tracking diminishes when attention is diverted.

Automatic Integration of Gender Information during Phrase Processing: ERP Evidence

The paper investigates how extralinguistic gender cues affect neural sentence processing using ERP data from Russian pronoun-verb phrases.

The small and efficient language network of polyglots and hyper-polyglots

This study compares language network efficiency between polyglots and controls using fMRI, finding polyglots use fewer neural resources for language processing.

Understanding requires tracking: noise and knowledge interact in bilingual comprehension

The paper investigates how noise and linguistic knowledge affect bilingual speech comprehension, finding that noise impairs neural tracking of speech structure in second languages.