Is "Blank" a suitable neutral prime for event-related potential experiments?

abstract：:Conversational discourse patterns of 11 normal elderly and 11 senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type (SDAT) patients engaged in dyadic interaction with an examiner were examined. Differences in word usage, turn taking, and speech act production were investigated both for the two-subject groups and for the examiner's ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Ripich DN,Vertes D,Whitehouse P,Fulton S,Ekelman B

更新日期：1991-04-01 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：:During reading, we can process and integrate information from words allocated in the parafoveal region. However, whether we extract and process the meaning of parafoveal words is still under debate. Here, we obtained Fixation-Related Potentials in a Basque-Spanish bilingual sample during a Spanish reading task. By usi...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Antúnez M,Mancini S,Hernández-Cabrera JA,Hoversten LJ,Barber HA,Carreiras M

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Gestural communication is a modality considered in the literature as a candidate for determining the ancestral prerequisites of the emergence of human language. As reported in captive chimpanzees and human children, a study in captive baboons revealed that a communicative gesture elicits stronger degree of right-hand ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Meguerditchian A,Vauclair J

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The investigation of specific lexical categories has substantially contributed to advancing our knowledge on how meaning is neurally represented. One sensory domain that has received particularly little attention is olfaction. This study aims to investigate the neural representation of lexical olfaction. In an fMRI ex...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Pomp J,Bestgen AK,Schulze P,Müller CJ,Citron FMM,Suchan B,Kuchinke L

更新日期：2018-04-01 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：:Two systems for classification of morphology of the perisylvian cortical area have been suggested, that of Steinmetz et al. (1990) and that of Witelson and Kigar (1992). This study examines whether the variations in placement of these convolutions in the language cortex are related to diagnosis of dyslexia in a clinic...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Hiemenz JR,Hynd GW

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phonation is a fundamental feature of human communication. Control of phonation in the context of speech-language disturbances has traditionally been considered a characteristic of lesions to subcortical structures and pathways. Evidence suggests however, that cortical lesions may also implicate phonation. We carried ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Vuković M,Sujić R,Petrović-Lazić M,Miller N,Milutinović D,Babac S,Vuković I

更新日期：2012-10-01 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：:The brain activity associated with automatic semantic priming has been extensively studied. Thus far there has been no prior study that directly contrasts the neural mechanisms of semantic and affective priming. The present study employed event-related fMRI to examine the common and distinct neural bases underlying co...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Liu H,Hu Z,Peng D,Yang Y,Li K

更新日期：2010-02-01 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：:The role of spelling-to-sound correspondence rules in oral word reading was investigated by asking patients with Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and normal controls to read aloud pronounceable letter strings that do not happen to be real words. These pseudowords were of two types: those that have orthographically similar "ne...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Friedman RB,Ferguson S,Robinson S,Sunderland T

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five Wernicke's aphasics and five normal control subjects were tested in order to assess several aspects of fundamental frequency (F0) in speech production. The clinical impression of normal prosody in Wernicke's aphasia is correct inasmuch as these patients generally exhibited F0 declination. However, F0 declination ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Danly M,Cooper WE,Shapiro B

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Embodied theories assign experience a crucial role in shaping conceptual representations. Supporting evidence comes mostly from studies on concrete concepts, where e.g., motor expertise facilitated action concept processing. This study examined experience-dependent effects on abstract concept processing. We asked part...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Bechtold L,Bellebaum C,Egan S,Tettamanti M,Ghio M

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of attentional control in lexical ambiguity resolution was examined in two patients with damage to the left inferior frontal gyrus (LIFG) and one control patient with non-LIFG damage. Experiment 1 confirmed that the LIFG patients had attentional control deficits compared to normal controls while the non-LIFG ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Vuong LC,Martin RC

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The question of whether lexical access for proper names is more impaired by ageing than lexical acess for other words is controversial. The aim of the present investigation was to evaluate the effect of age on proper and common name retrieval in long-term memory. The word retrieval paradigm used to achieve this goal c...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Evrard M

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We hypothesized that chimpanzees could learn to produce attention-getting (AG) sounds via positive reinforcement. We conducted a vocal assessment in 76 captive chimpanzees for their use of AG sounds to acquire the attention of an otherwise inattentive human. Fourteen individuals that did not produce AG sounds during t...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Russell JL,McIntyre JM,Hopkins WD,Taglialatela JP

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In dichotic listening tasks, the (dominant) right ear's superiority in processing verbal stimuli has been attributed to its direct anatomic connection with the left dominant hemisphere. The role played by extralinguistic factors, such as attention and functional tuning of the associated cortical structures, has not be...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Bhatnager SC,Andy OJ,Korabic EW,Tikofsky RS,Saxena VK,Hellman RS,Collier BD,Krohn LD

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positron Emission Tomography (PET) was used to determine regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) when eight normal right-handed males read and made acceptability judgments about sentences. rCBF was greater in Broca's area (particularly in the pars opercularis) when subjects judged the semantic plausibility of syntacticall...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Stromswold K,Caplan D,Alpert N,Rauch S

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four reading-related, information-processing tasks were administered to right-handed blind readers of braille who differed in level of reading skill and in preference for using the right hand or the left hand when required to read text with just one hand. The tasks were letter identification, same-different matching o...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Wilkinson JM,Carr TH

更新日期：1987-09-01 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：:According to the semantic hub hypothesis, a supramodal semantic hub is equally needed to deal with verbal and extraverbal "surface" representations. Damage to the supramodal hub is thought to underlie the crossmodal impairment observed in selective semantic deficits. In the present paper, we provide evidence supportin...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Zannino GD,Perri R,Monaco M,Caltagirone C,Luzzi S,Carlesimo GA

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the possibility of enhancing natural language comprehension through the application of anodal tDCS (a-tDCS) over the left inferior frontal gyrus, a key region for verbal short-term memory and language comprehension. We designed a between subjects sham- and task-controlled study. During tDCS stimulation, part...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Giustolisi B,Vergallito A,Cecchetto C,Varoli E,Romero Lauro LJ

更新日期：2018-01-01 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

authors： Trojano L,Balbi P,Russo G,Elefante R

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies demonstrating a right hemisphere lateralization of musical, tonal, and intonational stimuli had suggested that in aphasic tone language speakers, the tonal phonemes might be subject to a lesser degree of deficit than consonantal phonemes. Using a word repetition task, this research demonstrates that l...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Packard JL

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linguistic analysis suggests that numeral classifiers carry quantity information. However, previous neuroimaging studies have shown that classifiers did not elicit higher activation in the intraparietal sulcus (IPS), associated with representation of numerical magnitude, than tool nouns did. This study aimed to contro...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Her OS,Chen YC,Yen NS

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates the role of the temporal lobes in levels-of-processing tasks (phonetic and semantic encoding) according to the nature of recall tasks (free and cued recall). These tasks were administered to 48 patients with unilateral temporal epilepsy (right "RTLE"=24; left "LTLE"=24) and a normal group (n=24...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Lespinet-Najib V,N'Kaoua B,Sauzéon H,Bresson C,Rougier A,Claverie B

更新日期：2004-04-01 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：:Aphasic and nonaphasic listeners' comprehension of main ideas and details within coherent and noncoherent narrative discourse was examined. Coherent paragraphs contained one topic to which all sentences in the paragraph related. Noncoherent paragraphs contained a change in topic with every third or fourth sentence. Ea...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Wegner ML,Brookshire RH,Nicholas LE

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The word virus is not normally considered polymorphemic, yet it is clearly both semantically and orthographically related to the word viral. Thus, the subunit vir takes on the role of a bound morpheme. In contrast, the words future and futile also share a subunit (fut), but are semantically unrelated. The reported exp...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Taft M,Kougious P

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00