Mirror neurons in humans: consisting or confounding evidence?

abstract：:Previous studies suggest that anatomical anomalies [Foundas, A. L., Bollich, A. M., Corey, D. M., Hurley, M., & Heilman, K. M. (2001). Anomalous anatomy of speech-language areas in adults with persistent developmental stuttering. Neurology, 57, 207-215; Foundas, A. L., Corey, D. M., Angeles, V., Bollich, A. M., Crabtr...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Giraud AL,Neumann K,Bachoud-Levi AC,von Gudenberg AW,Euler HA,Lanfermann H,Preibisch C

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compound nouns have multiple meanings in English. The purpose of this study was to explore when children know that compound nouns refer to two objects, one ideally interacting with the other (e.g., "fish shoes" are shoes with fish on them, not next to them). Thirty-five English-speaking three- and four-year-old childr...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Nicoladis E

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Articulatory anticipation of vowel gestures was assessed in an apraxic patient, a dysarthric patient, and three normal speakers. The technique of assessment included perceptual identification of gated speech stimuli. The speech material consisted of /getVte/ utterances with the target vowels /i/, /y/, and /u/. In the ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Ziegler W,von Cramon D

更新日期：1985-09-01 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

authors： Yu H,Gong L,Qiu Y,Zhou X

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) have sentence comprehension difficulty, but it is unclear whether this is due to a deficit in grammatical processing or to an executive resource limitation. To assess grammatical processing in PD while minimizing task-related demands, PD patients and healthy control subjects perf...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Grossman M,Lee C,Morris J,Stern MB,Hurtig HI

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite considerable interest in the linguistic dimensions of right-hemisphere (RH) pragmatic language disorders, the cognitive bases for these are rarely examined. This study investigated two alternative explanations. First, RH pragmatic language disorders may reflect failure of the RH to synthesise incoming and pree...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： McDonald S

更新日期：2000-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mirror neurons, first described in the rostral part of monkey ventral premotor cortex (area F5), discharge both when the animal performs a goal-directed hand action and when it observes another individual performing the same or a similar action. More recently, in the same area mirror neurons responding to the observat...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Buccino G,Binkofski F,Riggio L

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been well established that syntactic representation is independent of semantic representation in Indo-European languages, but it is unclear whether this is the case in Chinese. The present functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study adopted a syntactic priming paradigm to investigate the neural basis of ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Sun Z,Shi Y,Guo P,Yang Y,Zhu Z

更新日期：2021-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Broca's and Wernicke's aphasics' ability to process passive sentences in the absence of semantic cues was investigated in an experiment which varies syntactic complexity and word order. The results indicate that Broca and Wernicke patients use different strategies for sentence comprehension. Wernicke patients use rath...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Friederici AD,Graetz PA

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is twofold. First, to investigate the use of functional categories by two Greek agrammatic aphasics. Second, to discuss the implications of our findings for the characterization of the deficit in agrammatism. The functional categories under investigation were the following: definite and indefinit...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Stavrakaki S,Kouvava S

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroimaging evidence suggests that bilingualism may act as a source of neural plasticity. However, prior work has mostly focused on bilingualism-induced alterations in gray matter volume and white matter tract microstructure, with additional effects related to other neurostructural indices that might have remained un...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Del Maschio N,Fedeli D,Sulpizio S,Abutalebi J

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study addresses the debate between so-called 'structural' and 'processing limitation' accounts of aphasia, i.e., whether language impairments reflect the 'loss' of linguistic knowledge or its representations, or instead reflect a limitation in processing resources. Confrontation-naming task and category-ju...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Lee CL,Hung DL,Tse JK,Lee CY,Tsai JL,Tzeng OJ

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We review features of the spelling errors of dysgraphic patients with "Graphemic Buffer Disorder" (GBD). We argue that the errors made by such patients suggest the breakdown of a system used to generate serial order in the output stages of spelling production, and we develop a model for this system based on an existin...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Glasspool DW,Houghton G

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 3-year-old, right-handed girl developed a conduction-type aphasia following a second generalized seizure in the setting of a developing abscess involving left subcortical and cortical angular gyrus and arcuate fasciculus, and the posterior corpus callosum. The language disorder was fluent, characterized by age appro...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Nass R,Leventhal F,Levine B,Lebron D,Maxfield C,McCaul P,George A,Allen J

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bilingual individuals have been shown to outperform monolinguals on a variety of tasks that measure non-linguistic executive functioning, suggesting that some facets of the bilingual experience give rise to generalized improvements in cognitive performance. The current study investigated the hypothesis that such advan...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Stocco A,Prat CS

更新日期：2014-10-01 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

authors： Friederici AD,Wessels JM,Emmorey K,Bellugi U

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-two patients with focal cerebral lesions and 11 control patients were examined using alternating tasks of learning, generation, and recall of words beginning with "K." The results supported the hypothesis that "recurrent" and "stuck-in-set" varieties of perserveration are related to posterior and anterior left h...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Vilkki J

更新日期：1989-05-01 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

authors： Steinmetz H,Ebeling U,Huang YX,Kahn T

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of neuronal oscillations during language comprehension is not yet well understood. In this paper we review and reinterpret the functional roles of beta- and gamma-band oscillatory activity during language comprehension at the sentence and discourse level. We discuss the evidence in favor of a role for beta an...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Lewis AG,Wang L,Bastiaansen M

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the performance of two aphasic patients in a morphological transformation task. Both patients are Spanish-Catalan bilingual speakers who were diagnosed with agrammatic Broca's aphasia. In the morphological transformation task, the two patients were asked to produce regular and irregular verb forms. The patie...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： de Diego Balaguer R,Costa A,Sebastián-Galles N,Juncadella M,Caramazza A

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about the relationship of reading speed and early visual processes in normal readers. Here we examined the association of the early P1, N170 and late N1 component in visual event-related potentials (ERPs) with silent reading speed and a number of additional cognitive skills in a sample of 52 adult Germ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Korinth SP,Sommer W,Breznitz Z

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional specificity of different brain areas recruited in auditory language processing was investigated by means of event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) while subjects listened to speech input varying in the presence or absence of semantic and syntactic information. There were two sentence...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Friederici AD,Meyer M,von Cramon DY

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies reveal effects of verb type on verb retrieval, mainly in agrammatic aphasic speakers. In the current study, two factors that might play a role in action naming in anomic aphasic speakers were considered: the conceptual factor instrumentality and the lexical factor name relation to a noun. Instrumental ver...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Jonkers R,Bastiaanse R

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Auditory speech comprehension is the result of neural computations that occur in a broad network that includes the temporal lobe auditory cortex and the left inferior frontal cortex. It remains unclear how representations in this network differentially contribute to speech comprehension. Here, we recorded high-density...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Khoshkhoo S,Leonard MK,Mesgarani N,Chang EF

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conversation is multi-modal, involving both talk and gesture. Does understanding depictive gestures engage processes similar to those recruited in the comprehension of drawings or photographs? Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded from neurotypical adults as they viewed spontaneously produced depictive g...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Wu YC,Coulson S

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aphasic patients with restricted memory spans were assessed on their comprehension of syntactically simple sentences varying in numbers of content words and on their comprehension of sentences matched in content words but varying in syntactic complexity. Three different presentation modes were used: unlimited visual p...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Martin RC,Feher E

更新日期：1990-01-01 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：: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：:Cerebellar contributions to language are presently poorly understood, but it has been argued that the cerebellar role in motor learning can be extended to learning in cognitive and linguistic domains. Here, we used fMRI to investigate whether the cerebellum is recruited in mapping novel words onto existing semantic co...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Lesage E,Nailer EL,Miall RC

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been widely recognized and previously reported that electrical fields from facial muscle electromyographic (EMG) activity can contaminate the electroencephalogram (EEG), even when closely spaced, bipolar electrode configurations are used (personal observations). We suspected that EEG signals evoked in response ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Akay M,Daubenspeck JA

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00