Abstract：
:Few studies have examined the time course of second language (L2) induced neuroplasticity or how individual differences may be associated with brain changes. The current longitudinal structural magnetic resonance imaging study examined changes in cortical thickness (CT) and gray matter volume (GMV) across two semesters of L2 Spanish classroom learning. Learners' lexical processing was assessed via a language decision task containing English and Spanish words. Our findings indicated that (1) CT increased in the left anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and right middle temporal gyrus (MTG) after L2 learning, (2) CT in the right MTG increased in individuals who were better able to discriminate between native language and L2 words, and (3) CT in the left ACC was correlated with functional connectivity between the ACC and MTG. These findings indicate that L2 lexical development is associated with functional and structural changes in brain regions important for cognitive control and semantic processing.
journal_name
Brain Langjournal_title
Brain and languageauthors
Legault J,Grant A,Fang SY,Li Pdoi
10.1016/j.bandl.2019.104661subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2019-10-01 00:00:00pages
104661eissn
0093-934Xissn
1090-2155pii
S0093-934X(18)30270-0journal_volume
197pub_type
杂志文章abstract：:Prominence is the hierarchical relation among arguments that allows us to understand 'Who did what to whom' in a sentence. The present study aimed to provide evidence about the role of prominence information for the incremental interpretation of arguments in Spanish. We investigated the time course of neural correlate...
journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.bandl.2015.08.001
更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In a study by Milberg, Blumstein, and Dworetzky (1987), normal control subjects and Wernicke's and Broca's aphasics performed a lexical decision task on the third element of auditorily presented triplets of words with either a word or a nonword as target. In three of the four types of word triplets, the first and the ...
journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0093-934x(89)90070-9
更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:White matter tracts connecting areas involved in speech and motor control were examined using diffusion-tensor imaging in a sample of people who stutter (n=29) who were heterogeneous with respect to age, sex, handedness and stuttering severity. The goals were to replicate previous findings in developmental stuttering ...
journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.bandl.2013.05.013
更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Similar to linguistic stimuli, music can also prime the meaning of a subsequent word. However, it is so far unknown what is the brain dynamics underlying the semantic priming effect induced by music, and its relation to language. To elucidate these issues, we compare the brain oscillatory response to visual words that...
journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.bandl.2015.12.001
更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Developmental changes in children's verbal fluency were explored in this study. One hundred and forty children aged from 7 to 16 completed four verbal fluency tasks, each with a different the production criterion (letter, sound, semantic, and free). The age differences were analyzed both in terms of number of words pr...
journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00367-5
更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Does "the motor system" play "a role" in speech perception? If so, where, how, and when? We conducted a systematic review that addresses these questions using both qualitative and quantitative methods. The qualitative review of behavioural, computational modelling, non-human animal, brain damage/disorder, electrical s...
journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章,meta分析,评审
doi：10.1016/j.bandl.2016.10.004
更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Auditory-evoked responses (AERs) were recorded from scalp electrodes placed over the left and right temporal hemisphere regions of 12 preschool children while they listened to a series of velar stop consonants which varied in voice onset time (VOT) and to two-formant tone stimuli with temporal lags comparable to the s...
journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0093-934x(88)90067-3
更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Two experiments assessed masked priming for words presented to the left and right visual fields in a lexical decision task. In both Experiments, the same magnitude and pattern of priming was obtained for visually similar (kiss-KISS) and dissimilar (read-READ) prime-target pairs. These findings provide no support for t...
journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.bandl.2005.03.004
更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Gender assignment relates to a native speaker's knowledge of the structure of the gender system of his/her language, allowing the speaker to select the appropriate gender for each noun. Whereas categorical assignment rules and exceptional gender assignment are well investigated, assignment regularities, i.e., tendenci...
journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00445-0
更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Drai and Grodzinsky have statistically analyzed a large corpus of data on the comprehension of passives by patients with Broca's aphasia. The data come, according to Drai and Grodzinsky, from binary choice tasks. Among the languages that are analyzed are Dutch and German. Drai and Grodzinsky argue that Dutch and Germa...
journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 评论,杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.bandl.2005.06.012
更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In this study we investigate the production of verb inflection in agrammatic aphasia. In a number of recent studies it has been argued that tense inflection is harder to produce for agrammatic individuals than agreement inflection. However, results are still inconclusive, at least for Dutch and German. Here, we report...
journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.bandl.2007.03.001
更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Developmental stuttering is a speech disorder most likely due to a heritable form of developmental dysmyelination impairing the function of the speech-motor system. Speech-induced brain-activation patterns in persons who stutter (PWS) are anomalous in various ways; the consistency of these aberrant patterns is a matte...
journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章,meta分析
doi：10.1016/j.bandl.2014.10.002
更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A case of a Spanish-speaking aphasic patient who produced a great number of semantic paralexias in reading aloud and who showed other symptoms consistent with the diagnosis of deep dyslexia is presented. In this study, (a) the production of semantic paralexias and the features of the deep dyslexia syndrome which have ...
journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1006/brln.1995.1026
更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A 13-year-old left-handed boy with a left fronto-parietal vascular malformation evidenced bilateral symmetrical language representation at intracarotid amytal testing. Surgical resection of the parietal motor and frontal premotor area (sparing classical perisylvian language regions) for seizure control resulted in an ...
journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0093-934x(85)90089-6
更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Listening to white noise may facilitate cognitive performance, including new word learning, for some individuals. This study investigated whether auditory white noise facilitates the learning of novel written words from context in healthy young adults. Sixty-nine participants were required to determine the meaning of ...
journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.bandl.2019.104699
更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:For Chinese compounds, neighbors can share either both orthographic forms and meanings, or orthographic forms only. In this study, central presentation and visual half-field (VF) presentation methods were used in conjunction with ERP measures to investigate how readers solve the sublexical semantic ambiguity of the fi...
journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.bandl.2011.01.003
更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The present study investigates Broca's aphasics' sensitivity to morphological information in an on-line task. German is used as the test language because it is highly inflected. Results from two word monitoring experiments show first that Broca's patients like normal controls are sensitive to the presence of a context...
journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0093-934x(92)90093-t
更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The aim of the present study is to compare the pragmatic ability of right- and left-hemisphere-damaged patients excluding the possible interference of linguistic deficits. To this aim, we study extralinguistic communication, that is communication performed only through gestures. The Cognitive Pragmatics Theory provide...
journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.bandl.2006.01.001
更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A number of recent studies have argued that grammatical illusions can arise in the process of completing linguistic dependencies, such that unlicensed material is temporarily treated as licensed due to the presence of a potential licensor that is semantically appropriate but in a syntactically inappropriate position. ...
journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 临床试验,杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.bandl.2008.10.002
更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Memory for action phrases improves in the listeners when the speaker accompanies them with gestures compared to when the speaker stays still. Since behavioral studies revealed a pivotal role of the listeners' motor system, we aimed to disentangle the role of primary motor and premotor cortices. Participants had to rec...
journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.bandl.2018.03.001
更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The study describes the sulcal and gyral topography, variability, and left-right asymmetry of the parietal operculum. Eighty postmortem hemispheres as well as sagittal magnetic resonance images from 20 health volunteers (40 hemispheres) were evaluated. Four different types of parietal opercular sulcus topography were ...
journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0093-934x(90)90135-4
更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Readers acquire information outside the current eye fixation. Previous research indicates that having only the fixated word available slows reading, but when the next word is visible, reading is almost as fast as when the whole line is seen. Parafoveal-on-foveal effects are interpreted to reflect that the characterist...
journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.bandl.2009.08.004
更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Apraxia of Speech (AOS) is an impairment of motor programming. However, the exact nature of this deficit remains unclear. The present study examined motor programming in AOS in the context of a recent two-stage model [Klapp, S. T. (1995). Motor response programming during simple and choice reaction time: The role of p...
journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.bandl.2008.03.004
更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to assess neural activation as participants learned to segment continuous streams of speech containing syllable sequences varying in their transitional probabilities. Speech streams were presented in four runs, each followed by a behavioral test to measure the exte...
journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.bandl.2012.11.007
更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We present a 2-year verbal and nonverbal follow-up of a crossed aphasic patient. The patient had suffered from widespread ischemic damage in the area of right middle cerebral artery, with a parieto-temporal lesion. Three months postonset he showed classical Wernicke's aphasia associated with oral, limb and constructio...
journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1006/brln.1994.1035
更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The Chinese character is composed of a finite set of strokes whose order in writing follows consensual principles and is learnt through school education. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), this study investigates the neural activity associated with the perception of writing sequences by asking partici...
journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.bandl.2010.11.007
更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The findings of previous investigations into word perception in the upper and the lower visual field (VF) are variable and may have incurred non-perceptual biases caused by the asymmetric distribution of information within a word, an advantage for saccadic eye-movements to targets in the upper VF and the possibility t...
journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 临床试验,杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.bandl.2004.03.002
更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Recent research suggests that there is a processing distinction between consonants and vowels in visual-word recognition. Here we conjointly examine the time course of consonants and vowels in processes of letter identity and letter position assignment. Event related potentials (ERPs) were recorded while participants ...
journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.bandl.2010.09.006
更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In 1906, Pierre Marie triggered a heated controversy and an exchange of articles with Jules Déjerine over the localization of language functions in the human brain. The debate spread internationally. One of the timeliest responses, that appeared in print 1 month after Marie's paper, came from Christofredo Jakob, a Bav...
journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 传,历史文章,杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.bandl.2007.07.124
更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We used fMRI to examine patterns of brain activity associated with component processes of visual word recognition and their relationships to individual differences in reading skill. We manipulated both the judgments adults made on written stimuli and the characteristics of the stimuli. Phonological processing led to a...
journal_title：Brain and language
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.bandl.2011.12.011
更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00
