abstract：:Neuroimaging studies suggest greater involvement of the left parietal lobe in sign language compared to speech production. This stronger activation might be linked to the specific demands of sign encoding and proprioceptive monitoring. In Experiment 1 we investigate hemispheric lateralization during sign and speech ge...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Gutierrez-Sigut E,Daws R,Payne H,Blott J,Marshall C,MacSweeney M

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

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

authors： Gattei CA,Tabullo Á,París L,Wainselboim AJ

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During speech perception, listeners compensate for phonological rules of their language. For instance, English place assimilation causes green boat to be typically pronounced as greem boat; English listeners, however, perceptually compensate for this rule and retrieve the intended sound (n). Previous research using EE...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Sun Y,Giavazzi M,Adda-Decker M,Barbosa LS,Kouider S,Bachoud-Lévi AC,Jacquemot C,Peperkamp S

更新日期：2015-10-01 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：BACKGROUND:Asymmetric degeneration of dopaminergic neurons, are characteristic for Parkinson's disease (PD). Despite the lateralized representation of language, the correlation of asymmetric degeneration of nigrostriatal networks in PD with language performance has scarcely been examined. OBJECTIVE/HYPOTHESIS:The late...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Batens K,De Letter M,Raedt R,Duyck W,Vanhoutte S,Van Roost D,Santens P

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bilinguals require a high degree of cognitive control to select the language intended for speaking and inhibit the unintended. Previous neuroimaging studies have not teased apart brain regions for generating the intention to use a given language, and those for speaking in that language. Separating these two phases can...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Reverberi C,Kuhlen A,Abutalebi J,Greulich RS,Costa A,Seyed-Allaei S,Haynes JD

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stuttering is associated with atypical structural and functional connectivity in sensorimotor brain areas, in particular premotor, motor, and auditory regions. It remains unknown, however, which specific mechanisms of speech planning and execution are affected by these neurological abnormalities. To investigate pre-mo...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Daliri A,Max L

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted an Activation Likelihood Estimation (ALE) meta-analysis to identify brain regions that are recruited by linguistic stimuli requiring relatively demanding semantic or syntactic processing. We included 54 functional MRI studies that explicitly varied the semantic or syntactic processing load, while holding ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Rodd JM,Vitello S,Woollams AM,Adank P

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraoperative direct electrical stimulation (DES) is increasingly used in patients operated on for tumours in eloquent areas. Although a positive impact of DES on postoperative linguistic outcome is generally advocated, information about the neurolinguistic methods applied in awake surgery is scarce. We developed for...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： De Witte E,Satoer D,Robert E,Colle H,Verheyen S,Visch-Brink E,Mariën P

更新日期：2015-01-01 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

authors： Budde KS,Barron DS,Fox PT

更新日期：2014-12-01 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：:How far can acquired knowledge such as orthographic knowledge affect pre-existing abilities such as speech perception? This controversial issue was addressed by investigating the automaticity of the influence of orthographic knowledge on speech processing. Many studies demonstrated this influence in active, lexico-sem...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Pattamadilok C,Morais J,Colin C,Kolinsky R

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An ERP study investigated the processing of mass nouns used to convey 'portions' vs. 'sorts' interpretations in Icelandic. The sorts interpretation requires semantic Coercion to a count noun; the portions interpretation entails extra syntactic processing. Compared to a Neutral condition, Coercion escaped the expected ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Whelpton M,Trotter D,Beck TG,Anderson C,Maling J,Durvasula K,Beretta A

更新日期：2014-09-01 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：:The goal of the present research was to provide direct evidence for the cross-language interaction of phonologies at the sub-lexical level by using the masked onset priming paradigm. More specifically, we investigated whether there is a cross-language masked onset priming effect (MOPE) with L2 (English) primes and L1 ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Jouravlev O,Lupker SJ,Jared D

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lexical access during speech comprehension comprises numerous computations, including activation, competition, and selection. The spatio-temporal profile of these processes involves neural activity in peri-auditory cortices at least as early as 200 ms after stimulation. Their oscillatory dynamics are less well underst...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Brennan J,Lignos C,Embick D,Roberts TP

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the hypothesis that early bilinguals and monolinguals use different brain areas when performing nonlinguistic executive control tasks. For this, we explored brain activity of early bilinguals and monolinguals during a manual stop-signal paradigm. Behaviorally, bilinguals and monolinguals did not show signifi...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Rodríguez-Pujadas A,Sanjuán A,Fuentes P,Ventura-Campos N,Barrós-Loscertales A,Ávila C

更新日期：2014-05-01 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：: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

authors： Connally EL,Ward D,Howell P,Watkins KE

更新日期：2014-04-01 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：:Skilled visual word recognition is thought to rely upon a particular region within the left fusiform gyrus, the visual word form area (VWFA). We investigated whether an individual (AA1) with pure alexia resulting from acquired damage to the VWFA territory could learn an alphabetic "FaceFont" orthography, in which face...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Moore MW,Brendel PC,Fiez JA

更新日期：2014-02-01 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 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：:All current models of spoken word recognition propose that sound-based representations of spoken words compete with, or inhibit, one another during recognition. In addition, certain models propose that higher probability sublexical units facilitate recognition under certain circumstances. Two experiments were conducte...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Hunter CR

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebellar mutism occurs in about 25% of children following posterior fossa tumor surgery. It is usually accompanied by other neurological and behavioral disturbances. Mutism is transient in nature lasting several days to months and is frequently followed by dysarthria. In addition, impairment of language and other ne...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Küper M,Timmann D

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Explicit associative-semantic processing of words and pictures activates a distributed set of brain areas that has been replicated across a wide range of studies. We applied graph analysis to examine the structure of this network. We determined how the left ventral occipitotemporal transition zone (vOT) was connected ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Vandenberghe R,Wang Y,Nelissen N,Vandenbulcke M,Dhollander T,Sunaert S,Dupont P

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to examine the association between aphasia severity and neurocognitive function, disease duration and temporoparietal atrophy in 21 individuals with the logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia (lvPPA). We found significant correlations between aphasia severity and degree of neuro...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Machulda MM,Whitwell JL,Duffy JR,Strand EA,Dean PM,Senjem ML,Jack CR Jr,Josephs KA

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：:Practice of language tasks results in improved performance and BOLD signal changes. We distinguish changes correlated with repeated exposure to a picture naming task, from changes associated with naming specific items trained during practice. Task practice affected trained and untrained items, yielding left-sided BOLD...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Basso G,Magon S,Reggiani F,Capasso R,Monittola G,Yang FJ,Miceli G

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Japan, verbal fluency tasks are commonly utilized as a standard paradigm for neuropsychological testing of cognitive and linguistic abilities. The Japanese "letter fluency task" is a mora/letter fluency task based on the phonological and orthographical characteristics of the Japanese language. Whether there are sim...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Dan H,Dan I,Sano T,Kyutoku Y,Oguro K,Yokota H,Tsuzuki D,Watanabe E

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neural processing of auditory information engages pathways that begin initially at the cochlea and that eventually reach forebrain structures. At these higher levels, the computations necessary for extracting auditory source and identity information rely on the neuroanatomical connections between the thalamus and ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Lee CC

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of fronto-striatal regions in processing different language rules such as semantic and (grapho) phonological ones is still under debate. We have recently developed a lexical analog of the Wisconsin card sorting task which measures set-shifting abilities where the visual rules color, number, shape were replace...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Simard F,Monetta L,Nagano-Saito A,Monchi O

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have demonstrated that non-demented Parkinson's disease (PD) patients have a specific impairment of verb production compared with noun generation. One interpretation of this deficit suggested the influence of striato-frontal dysfunction on action-related verb processing. The aim of our study was to in...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Péran P,Nemmi F,Méligne D,Cardebat D,Peppe A,Rascol O,Caltagirone C,Demonet JF,Sabatini U

更新日期：2013-06-01 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：:Circuitry in ventral occipital-temporal cortex is essential for seeing words. We analyze the circuitry within a specific ventral-occipital region, the visual word form area (VWFA). The VWFA is immediately adjacent to the retinotopically organized VO-1 and VO-2 visual field maps and lies medial and inferior to visual f...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Yeatman JD,Rauschecker AM,Wandell BA

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The encoding of letter position is a key aspect in all recently proposed models of visual-word recognition. We analyzed the impact of lexical frequency on letter position assignment by examining the temporal dynamics of lexical activation induced by pseudowords extracted from words of different frequencies. For each w...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Vergara-Martínez M,Perea M,Gómez P,Swaab TY

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent experiments showed that the perception of vowel length by German listeners exhibits the characteristics of categorical perception. The present study sought to find the neural activity reflecting categorical vowel length and the short-long boundary by examining the processing of non-contrastive durations and cat...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Tomaschek F,Truckenbrodt H,Hertrich I

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：: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：:The immediate and long-term neural correlates of linguistic processing deficits reported following paediatric and adolescent traumatic brain injury (TBI) are poorly understood. Therefore, the current research investigated event-related potentials (ERPs) elicited during a semantic picture-word priming experiment in two...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Knuepffer C,Murdoch BE,Lloyd D,Lewis FM,Hinchliffe FJ

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00