Effects of formant proximity and stimulus prototypicality on the neural discrimination of vowels: Evidence from the auditory frequency-following response.

abstract：:Ten subjects viewed a stream of meaningless background images in which English words occasionally appeared. A subject indicated detection of a word by lifting the index finger of the preferred hand. He received payment based on his performance. A computer program degraded half of the word images, removing a fraction o...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Rudell AP,Hua J

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A within-subjects study of the affective characteristics of voice was carried out in patients undergoing a Wada Test (WT). All patients became densely aphasic after the left-sided WT and lost the ability to impart affect into speech after the right-sided WT. The affective changes in voice induced by the Wada test were...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Ross ED,Edmondson JA,Seibert GB,Homan RW

更新日期：1988-01-01 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

authors： Cutica I,Bucciarelli M,Bara BG

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We applied near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and electrocorticography (ECoG) recordings during cortical stimulation to a temporal lobe epilepsy patient who underwent subdural electrode implantation. Using NIRS, changes in blood concentrations of oxyhemoglobin (HbO(2)) and deoxyhemoglobin (HbR) during cortical stimulat...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Sato Y,Oishi M,Fukuda M,Fujii Y

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How polysyllabic English words are analyzed in silent reading was examined in three experiments by comparing lexical decision responses to words physically split on the screen. The gap was compatible either with the Maximal Onset Principle or the Maximal Coda Principle. The former corresponds to the spoken syllable (e...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Taft M

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Published 100 years ago, Freud's monograph on aphasia, Zur Auffassung der Aphasien, is an incisive analysis of the so-called diagram-makers, those aphasiologists who would reduce brain and language to simple schemes of circumscribed cortical centers linked by unidirectional subcortical pathways. Chief architects of th...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Henderson VW

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of experimental paradigms has yielded surprisingly fine-grained evidence about the kinds of syntactic information to which agrammatic aphasics are sensitive. This paper contrasts three accounts of agrammatism which draw quite different conclusions about the implications of this disorder for normal function: ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Linebarger MC

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we tested the multiple-loci hypothesis of age-of-acquisition effects in both spoken and handwritten object naming using Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) and spatiotemporal segmentation analysis. Participants had to say aloud or write down picture names that varied on frequency trajectory (age-of-acquisition). Earl...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Perret C,Bonin P,Laganaro M

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much remains to be learned about the neural architecture underlying word meaning. Fully distributed models of semantic memory predict that the sound of a barking dog will conjointly engage a network of distributed sensorimotor spokes. An alternative framework holds that modality-specific features additionally converge...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Reilly J,Garcia A,Binney RJ

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article evaluates two theoretical accounts of how sarcasm is understood; the traditional model, which asserts that listeners derive a counterfactual inference from the sarcastic comment, and relevance theory, which asserts that listeners recognize sarcasm as a scornful echo of a previous assertion. Evidence from ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： McDonald S

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A speculative neuronal model for vowel normalization and representation is offered. The neurophysiological basis for the premise is the "combination-sensitive" neuron recently documented in the auditory cortex of the mustached bat (N. Suga, W. E. O'Neill, K. Kujirai, and T. Manabe, 1983, Journal of Neurophysiology, 49...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Sussman HM

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated whether the neural correlates for auditory feedback control of vocal pitch can be shaped by tone language experience. Event-related potentials (P2/N1) were recorded from adult native speakers of Mandarin and Cantonese who heard their voice auditory feedback shifted in pitch by -50, -100,...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Chen Z,Liu P,Wang EQ,Larson CR,Huang D,Liu H

更新日期：2012-04-01 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

authors： Darker IT,Jordan TR

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the human brain, areas 44 and 45 constitute Broca's region, the ventrolateral frontal region critical for language production. The homologues of these areas in the macaque monkey brain have been established by direct cytoarchitectonic comparison with the human brain. The cortical areas that project monosynaptically...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Frey S,Mackey S,Petrides M

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The basal ganglia (BG) have long been associated with cognitive control, and it is widely accepted that they also subserve an indirect, control role in language. Nevertheless, it cannot be completely ruled out that the BG may be involved in language in some domain-specific manner. The present study aimed to investigat...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Chan SH,Ryan L,Bever TG

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the neural basis of human speech control, extensive research has been done using a variety of methodologies in a range of experimental models. Nevertheless, several critical questions about learned vocal motor control still remain open. One of them is the mechanism(s) by which neurotransmitters, such as ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Simonyan K,Horwitz B,Jarvis ED

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual emotionally charged stimuli have been shown to elicit early electrophysiological responses (e.g., Ihssen, Heim, & Keil, 2007; Schupp, Junghöfer, Weike, & Hamm, 2003; Stolarova, Keil, & Moratti, 2006). We presented isolated words to listeners, and observed, using generalized additive modeling, oscillations in th...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Kryuchkova T,Tucker BV,Wurm LH,Baayen RH

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article argues in favor of the hypothesis that computational complexity determines order of acquisition of functional categories by normal children and patterns of impairment vs. relative preservation of these categories in children with Specific Language Impairment. Complexity is defined in terms of the properti...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Jakubowicz C,Nash L

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under the hypothesis that the mass/count distinction in English is marked by a monovalent lexical feature, this article investigates whether features, lexical or morphosyntactic, play a role in simple lexical decision. Research findings have yet to settle how many features are accessed during lexical decision and to w...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Gillon B,Kehayia E,Taler V

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present paper addresses the question of the functional lateralization of the ability to perceive the tonal distinctions in tone languages. Dichotic listening experiments and investigations of the brain-damaged population have indicated that the left hemisphere is more active than the right in the perception of ton...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Moen I

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior research on the neural bases of syntactic comprehension suggests that activation in the left inferior frontal gyrus (lIFG) correlates with the processing of word order variations. However, there are inconsistencies with respect to the specific subregion within the IFG that is implicated by these findings: the pa...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Bornkessel-Schlesewsky I,Grewe T,Schlesewsky M

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report an experiment that evaluates whether BLANK or an unrelated prime is a more suitable baseline for assessing priming for an ERP study. Sixteen subjects performed a lexical decision task with a 1 s prime-target stimulus onset asynchrony. Increased amplitude for the N400 was observed for targets in the unrelated...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Dien J,Franklin MS,May CJ

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurophysiological and neuroanatomical foundations of developmental language disorder (DLD) are still a matter of dispute. A main argument is that children with DLD show atypical anatomical asymmetries of speech-relevant brain areas, which possibly affect efficient language processing. In contrast to previous anat...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Jäncke L,Siegenthaler T,Preis S,Steinmetz H

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is substantial neural evidence for the role of morphology (word-internal structure) in visual word recognition. We extend this work to auditory word recognition, drawing on recent evidence that phoneme prediction is central to this process. In a magnetoencephalography (MEG) study, we crossed morphological comple...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Ettinger A,Linzen T,Marantz A

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A tachistoscopic study investigated hemispheric specialization among monolingual and fluent French-English bilingual adults for speeded rhyme and syntactic category matching. A right visual field superiority was obtained for both types of verbal judgments. This effect was more pronounced in late bilinguals than in ear...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Vaid J

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the effects of morphological complexity on aphasic speakers with lexical-phonological output deficits. Subjects were two fluent and two nonfluent aphasic speakers who repeated morphologically simple words at the same level of accuracy and whose errors were virtually all phonological in nature. They...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Kohn SE,Melvold J

更新日期：2000-07-01 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

authors： Karuza EA,Newport EL,Aslin RN,Starling SJ,Tivarus ME,Bavelier D

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An event-related potential (ERP) probe was used to examine various models of ambiguous sentence processing. ERPs to light flashes were recorded during and immediately after auditorily presented ambiguous and unambiguous target sentences. Each target sentence was preceded by either a relevant or a neutral context sente...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Erwin RJ

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three simulation experiments were conducted to determine the basis of the high predictive accuracy (98%) of temporal processing variables for the identification of language impairment obtained by Tallal, Stark, and Mellits (1985). In the first two experiments, the stepwise discriminant analysis using a set of 160 arra...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Zhang X,Tomblin JB

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kussmaul's model of language functions is presented, together with antecedent models that have influenced his conception of linguistic processes. The particular interest in this model lies in the fact that it anticipates the modern approach to diagram-making. In contrast to most of his contemporaries, Kussmaul underst...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Jarema G

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00