Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism

The dynamic relationship between pupil dilation and neural surprise in natural language comprehension

The paper investigates how pupil dilation and neural activity reflect different aspects of predictive processing during language comprehension, finding dissociable responses to lexical surprise and semantic error.

Oscillatory brain activity reflects semantic and phonological activation during sentence planning.

The paper investigates how semantic and phonological distractors affect brain activity during sentence planning using MEG, showing distinct neural responses to each type of interference.

Neural mechanisms of structural inference: an EEG investigation of linguistic phrase structure categorization

The paper investigates neural mechanisms of structural inference in language comprehension using EEG, finding theta power increases in noun phrases compared to verb phrases during noun presentation.

Flexible neural encoding predicts the comprehension of degraded speech

The paper investigates how neural encoding of speech varies with acoustic degradation and language, finding that flexible encoding strategies predict comprehension of degraded speech.

Cross-domain encoding models reveal shared and domain-specific neural representations across language and mathematics

This study uses encoding models to show that language and mathematics share some neural representations but also have distinct cortical organization.

Theta phase and theta-gamma coupling organise the spoken language network

This paper investigates how theta phase and theta-gamma coupling organize neural dynamics during spoken language production, identifying key brain regions and their functional roles.

Stimulus-response correlation analysis dissociates spatiotemporal cortical networks supporting speech production

The paper uses stimulus-response correlation analysis to identify dissociated cortical networks supporting stages of speech production, finding stable spatiotemporal signatures across individuals.

Causal dependencies between frontal and temporal lobe regions underlying word search and retrieval

The paper investigates how lesions in temporal and parietal regions affect neural responses in the left inferior frontal gyrus during word fluency tasks.

Verb-Specific Linking Properties Modulate the N400 Effect: Evidence from Thematic Reversal Anomalies in Malayalam

The paper investigates how verb-specific linking properties affect the N400 effect in thematic reversal anomalies in Malayalam, finding a larger N400 amplitude for object experiencer verbs.

Iconic Sound-Shape Correspondences in Aphasia

The paper compares shape iconicity ratings in people with aphasia to neurologically intact individuals and links these ratings to phonological and semantic processing deficits.

Prior exposure to speech rapidly modulates cortical processing of high-level linguistic structure

The paper shows that prior speech exposure enhances cortical coherence to abstract linguistic units but not to word-level units, indicating intelligibility shapes neural processing of speech.

Aphasia severity mediates the relationship between attention and sentence comprehension

The paper examines how attention subtypes relate to aphasia severity and sentence comprehension in people with aphasia.

Beyond next-word prediction: hierarchical linguistic composition modulates LLM-brain alignment in time

This study examines how hierarchical linguistic composition affects alignment between large language models and human brain activity during language processing, finding that syntax and associative semantics align, while compositional semantics does not.

DECODING HOW THE SOUNDS OF WORDS AND PSEUDOWORDS SIGNIFY SHAPE: AN fMRI STUDY

This study uses fMRI and MVPA to decode neural responses to real words and pseudowords, finding shape associations in both language and visual regions.

Human-like sequential sound-to-meaning transfer drives artificial speech comprehension

This study compares human and artificial speech comprehension by analyzing local sequential phonology-to-semantics transfer mechanisms in both.

Associations between brain structure and both language proficiency and language balance in early bilinguals

This study examines brain structure associations with language proficiency and balance in early bilinguals, finding GMV links to proficiency and balance, but not cortical thickness.

Neurotransmitter circuits of the human language network and their disruption in post-stroke aphasia

This study maps the neurotransmitter architecture of the human language network and identifies neurochemical disruptions in post-stroke aphasia, suggesting potential for personalized pharmacological strategies.

Distinct yet neighboring neural populations encode past, future, and surrounding speech context in the human temporal lobe

The paper shows that distinct neural populations in the human temporal lobe encode speech context from past, future, and surrounding input, with implications for speech comprehension models.

Neural Tracking of Linguistic Predictors in Spontaneous Conversational Speech

This study shows that neural tracking of linguistic features occurs in spontaneous speech using EEG, validating the method on read speech and finding effects at 200, 400, and 600 ms.

Progressive Centro-Parietal ERP Responses During Contextual Integration Across Symbolic Domains

The paper examines ERP responses during contextual integration across symbolic domains and finds progressive, position-related increases in centro-parietal activity, with the strongest increase at the final sequence position.

Neuroanatomical differences between early bilingual and monolingual children

The paper compares neuroanatomical differences between early bilingual and monolingual children using multiple metrics and finds variations influenced by analysis methods and socioeconomic status.

Two Interacting Neural Processes Support Speech Planning during Naturalistic Conversation

The paper investigates neural dynamics during natural conversation, showing that pre-speech neural activity predicts response duration more than one second before articulation.

The time course of co-speech gesture production: An MEG study

This study uses MEG to show that co-speech gestures reduce neural load in language regions before speech articulation, suggesting a linguistic rather than motoric role.

Transformed reactivation of latent working memory enables hierarchical language processing

The paper investigates how the brain maintains and retrieves words during language comprehension, finding that memory is activity-silent and structured, with reactivation in specific brain regions.

Posterior language areas share electrophysiological signatures of word retrieval in context-driven object and action naming

The paper compares neural processing of object and action words using EEG, finding spatial and spectral differences in brain areas involved in word retrieval.

Shared neural computations for syntactic and morphological structures: evidence from Mandarin Chinese

The paper reports shared neural responses to morphological and syntactic structure complexity in Mandarin Chinese, supporting a non-lexicalist view of language comprehension.

Brain signatures of semantic activation for words that do not exist.

This study investigates how novel words activate semantic processing in the brain, finding that words with identifiable morphemes activate similar neural patterns as existing words.

Effects of bimodal divided attention on cortical representations of linguistic context during continuous speech perception in noise

This study investigates how bimodal divided attention affects cortical processing of linguistic context during speech perception in noise, finding reduced sentence-level representation under high cognitive load.

Premotor cortex uses a compositional neural geometry to plan words

The paper shows that premotor cortex uses a compositional neural geometry to plan words by combining phoneme representations, enabling efficient planning of novel sequences.

The language network responds robustly to sentences across diverse tasks

The paper investigates the stability of language network responses across different tasks and compares it to the multiple demand network, finding robust language processing in the language network and task-dependent responses in the MD network.