Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism

Frequency-specific brain dynamics related to prediction during language comprehension

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

Efforful verb recollection drives beta suppression in mesial frontal regions involved in action initiation.

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.

The Semantics of Adjective Noun Phrases in the Human Brain

This study uses MEG to track how the brain processes adjective-noun phrases, finding that adjective representations change during noun processing and are reactivated later.

Evidence against preserved syntactic comprehension in healthy aging

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.

Inferior parietal lobule and early visual areas support elicitation of individualized meanings during narrative listening

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

Neuroanatomical Correlates In Bilinguals: The Case Of Children And Elderly

The paper investigates structural brain differences between bilinguals and monolinguals in children and the elderly using diffusion MRI and network-based statistics, finding that bilingualism may increase neural reserve in ageing.

Neural organization of speech production: A lesion-based study of error patterns in connected speech

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.

Reconstructing meaning from bits of information

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

Delta and theta neural entrainment during phonological and semantic processing in speech perception

This study uses EEG and mTRF models to examine how delta and theta neural entrainment contribute to phonological and semantic processing in speech perception, finding distinct roles for each band in different linguistic hierarchies.

Neural and linguistic differences explain priming and interference during naming

The impact of bilingualism on executive functions and working memory in young adults.

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

Is the LAN effect in morphosyntactic processing an ERP artifact?

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

Reductions in prefrontal activation predict off-topic utterances during speech production

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

A double dissociation in sensitivity to verb and noun semantics across cortical networks.

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

Dual language experience enhances neural activation variability during an fMRI reading and language task

This study finds that dual language experience increases neural activation variability in the right middle frontal gyrus during a language processing task compared to monolingual learners.

Sex differences in post-stroke aphasia rates are caused by age. A meta-analysis and database query

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

Neural dynamics of accumulating and updating linguistic knowledge structures

This study investigates how linguistic associative knowledge is acquired through generalization and integration across learning experiences, identifying brain regions involved in knowledge updating and retrieval.

A SENtence Supramodal Areas AtlaS (SENSAAS) based on multiple task-induced activation mapping and graph analysis of intrinsic connectivity in 144 healthy right-handers

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

All in thirty milliseconds: EEG evidence of hierarchical and asymmetric phonological encoding of vowels

The paper uses EEG to show hierarchical and asymmetric phonological encoding of vowels, identifying two N1 subcomponents in the auditory cortex.

Transformation from auditory to linguistic representations across auditory cortex is rapid and attention dependent for continuous speech

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.

Monitoring of language selection errors in switching: Not all about conflict

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.

Incorporating Context into Language Encoding Models for fMRI

Encoding models using contextual representations from an LSTM language model improve human fMRI brain response prediction over non-contextual word embeddings in nearly every brain area and map cortical context sensitivity.

The frontal aslant tract (FAT) and its role in speech, language and executive function

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.

Lexical Access in Comprehension vs. Production: Spatiotemporal Localization of Semantic Facilitation and Interference

The paper compares semantic facilitation in comprehension and interference in production using MEG, showing distinct spatiotemporal patterns in left temporal and insular regions.

Testing the Efforts Model of Simultaneous Interpreting: An ERP Study

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.

Predictive entrainment of natural speech through two fronto-motor top-down channels

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

Cross-decoding reveals shared brain activity patterns between saccadic eye-movements and semantic processing of implicitly spatial words

The paper uses fMRI and multi-voxel pattern analysis to show shared brain activity patterns between saccadic eye movements and semantic processing of spatial words.

Brain correlates of action word memory

This study investigates brain activity related to verbal memory load for action-related words using fMRI, finding distinct activation patterns in motor and parietal regions.

The Phonetics-Phonology Relationship in the Neurobiology of Language

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.

Memory encoding of syntactic information involves domain-general attentional resources. Evidence from dual-task studies

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.