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：:Models of speaking distinguish producing meaning, words and syntax as three different linguistic components of speaking. Nevertheless, little is known about the brain's integrated neuronal infrastructure for speech production. We investigated semantic, lexical and syntactic aspects of speaking using fMRI. In a picture...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Menenti L,Segaert K,Hagoort P

更新日期：2012-08-01 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：:The effect of gender on the N1-P2 auditory complex was examined while listening and speaking with altered auditory feedback. Fifteen normal hearing adult males and 15 females participated. N1-P2 components were evoked while listening to self-produced nonaltered and frequency shifted /a/ tokens and during production of...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Swink S,Stuart A

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since Aristotle, people have believed that metaphors and similes express the same type of figurative meaning, despite the fact that they are expressed with different sentence patterns. In contrast, recent psycholinguistic models have suggested that metaphors and similes may promote different comprehension processes. I...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Shibata M,Toyomura A,Motoyama H,Itoh H,Kawabata Y,Abe J

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of the neural basis of syntactic processing has greatly benefited from neuroimaging techniques. Research on syntactic processing in bilinguals has used a variety of techniques, including mainly functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and event-related potentials (ERP). This paper reports on a functional...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Scherer LC,Fonseca RP,Amiri M,Adrover-Roig D,Marcotte K,Giroux F,Senhadji N,Benali H,Lesage F,Ansaldo AI

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relatively few studies have analyzed the mechanisms underlying the cognitive changes that affect language in the elderly, and fewer have done so for narrative discourse. The goal of this study was to explore the neurofunctional changes associated with aging for different components of narrative discourse. Functional n...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Scherer LC,Fonseca RP,Giroux F,Senhadji N,Marcotte K,Tomitch LM,Benali H,Lesage F,Ska B,Joanette Y

更新日期：2012-05-01 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：: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

authors： Welcome SE,Joanisse MF

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes the case of a global alexic patient with a severe reading deficit affecting words, letters and Arabic numbers, following a left posterior lesion. The patient (VA) could not match spoken letters to their graphic form. A preserved ability to recognize shape and canonical orientation of letters indic...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Volpato C,Bencini G,Meneghello F,Piron L,Semenza C

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Spanish, objects and events at subject position constrain the selection of different forms of the auxiliary verb "to be": locative predicates about objects require "estar en", while those relating to events require "ser en", both translatable as "to be in". Subjective ratings showed that while the "object+ser+en" i...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Leone-Fernandez B,Molinaro N,Carreiras M,Barber HA

更新日期：2012-02-01 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：: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：:We used Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) to assess whether reading literal, non-literal (i.e., metaphorical, idiomatic) and fictive motion sentences modulates the activity of the motor system. Sentences were divided into three segments visually presented one at a time: the noun phrase, the verb and the final pa...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Cacciari C,Bolognini N,Senna I,Pellicciari MC,Miniussi C,Papagno C

更新日期：2011-12-01 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：: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：:Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we neuroimaged deaf adults as they performed two linguistic tasks with sentences in American Sign Language, grammatical judgment and phonemic-hand judgment. Participants' age-onset of sign language acquisition ranged from birth to 14 years; length of sign language ex...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Mayberry RI,Chen JK,Witcher P,Klein D

更新日期：2011-10-01 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

authors： Vergara-Martínez M,Perea M,Marín A,Carreiras M

更新日期：2011-09-01 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

authors： Huang HW,Lee CY,Tsai JL,Tzeng OJ

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using event-related potentials (ERPs), we investigated the N400 (an ERP component that occurs in response to meaningful stimuli) in children aged 8-10 years old and examined relationships between the N400 and individual differences in listening comprehension, word recognition and non-word decoding. Moreover, we tested...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Henderson LM,Baseler HA,Clarke PJ,Watson S,Snowling MJ

更新日期：2011-05-01 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：:High-density ERPs were recorded in eight adults with persistent developmental stuttering (PERS) and eight matched normally fluent (CONT) control volunteers while participants either repeatedly uttered the vowel 'ah' or listened to their own previously recorded vocalizations. The fronto-central N1 auditory wave was red...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Liotti M,Ingham JC,Takai O,Paskos DK,Perez R,Ingham RJ

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experience-dependent enhancement of neural encoding of pitch in the auditory brainstem has been observed for only specific portions of native pitch contours exhibiting high rates of pitch acceleration, irrespective of speech or nonspeech contexts. This experiment allows us to determine whether this language-dependent ...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Krishnan A,Gandour JT,Smalt CJ,Bidelman GM

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children with congenital left hemisphere damage due to perinatal stroke are capable of acquiring relatively normal language functions despite experiencing a cortical insult that in adults often leads to devastating lifetime disabilities. Although this observed phenomenon is accepted, its neurobiological mechanisms are...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Fair DA,Choi AH,Dosenbach YB,Coalson RS,Miezin FM,Petersen SE,Schlaggar BL

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have identified several brain regions that appear to be involved in the acquisition of novel word forms. Standard word-by-word presentation is often used although exposure to a new language normally occurs in a natural, real world situation. In the current experiment we investigated naturalistic langu...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Veroude K,Norris DG,Shumskaya E,Gullberg M,Indefrey P

更新日期：2010-04-01 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：:Broca's area is classically associated with speech production. Recently, Broca's area has also been implicated in speech perception and non-linguistic information processing. With respect to the latter function, Broca's area is considered to be a central area in a network constituting the human mirror system, which ma...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Kotz SA,D'Ausilio A,Raettig T,Begliomini C,Craighero L,Fabbri-Destro M,Zingales C,Haggard P,Fadiga L

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has often been suggested that the role of Broca's region in sentence comprehension can be explained with reference to general cognitive mechanisms (e.g. working memory, cognitive control). However, the (language-related) basis for such proposals is often restricted to findings on English. Here, we argue that an ext...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Bornkessel-Schlesewsky I,Schlesewsky M,von Cramon DY

更新日期：2009-12-01 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

authors： Simola J,Holmqvist K,Lindgren M

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been known that lesions in the left inferior frontal gyrus (L. IFG) do not always cause Broca's aphasia, casting doubt upon the specificity of this region. We have previously devised a picture-sentence matching task for a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study, and observed that both pars triangular...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Kinno R,Muragaki Y,Hori T,Maruyama T,Kawamura M,Sakai KL

更新日期：2009-08-01 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 present study investigated the brain mechanisms involved during young children's receptive familiarization with new words, and whether the dynamics of these mechanisms are related to the child's productive vocabulary size. To this end, we recorded event-related potentials (ERPs) from 20-month-old children in a pse...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Torkildsen Jv,Friis Hansen H,Svangstu JM,Smith L,Simonsen HG,Moen I,Lindgren M

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The widely known discovery of mirror neurons in macaques shows that premotor and parietal cortical areas are not only involved in executing one's own movement, but are also active when observing the action of others. The goal of this essay is to critically evaluate the substance of functional magnetic resonance imagin...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Turella L,Pierno AC,Tubaldi F,Castiello U

更新日期：2009-01-01 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

authors： Xiang M,Dillon B,Phillips C

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bulk of the research on the neural organization of metaphor comprehension has focused on nominal metaphors and the metaphoric relationships between word pairs. By contrast, little work has been conducted on predicate metaphors using verbs of motion such as "The man fell under her spell." We examined predicate meta...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Chen E,Widick P,Chatterjee A

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to examine the communicative abilities of traumatic brain injury patients (TBI). We wish to provide a complete assessment of their communicative ability/disability using a new experimental protocol, the Assessment Battery of Communication, (ABaCo) comprising five scales--linguistic, ex...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Angeleri R,Bosco FM,Zettin M,Sacco K,Colle L,Bara BG

更新日期：2008-12-01 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

authors： Maas E,Robin DA,Wright DL,Ballard KJ

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allen [Allen, M. D. (2005). The preservation of verb subcategory knowledge in a spoken language comprehension deficit. Brain and Language, 95, 255-264] presents evidence from a single patient, WBN, to motivate a theory of lexical processing and representation in which syntactic information may be encoded and retrieved...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Allen MD,Owens TE

更新日期：2008-07-01 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

authors： Tsapkini K,Vivas AB,Triarhou LC

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a simple prime-target visual rhyming paradigm, pairs of words, nonwords, and single letters elicited similar event-related potential (ERP) rhyming effects in young adults. Within each condition, primes elicited contingent negative variation (CNV) while nonrhyming targets elicited more negative waveforms than rhymin...

journal_title：Brain and language

authors： Coch D,Hart T,Mitra P

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00