Katharine Aveni, Ken McRae, Arielle Borovsky, Benjamin Katz, Angela Roberts
{"title":"Action and Event-Based Lexical-Semantic Processing in Parkinson's Disease.","authors":"Katharine Aveni, Ken McRae, Arielle Borovsky, Benjamin Katz, Angela Roberts","doi":"10.1080/23273798.2025.2580970","DOIUrl":"10.1080/23273798.2025.2580970","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We tested the hypothesis that Parkinson's disease (PD) impairs verbs' event structures and/or sensory-motor semantic features, as suggested by theories of grounded cognition. Nineteen participants with PD and 16 age-matched Controls produced verbs and used a Likert scale to rate verbs' event-based association with instruments (e.g., <i>fork- eating</i> versus <i>bathing</i>) and locations (e.g., <i>airport- waiting</i> versus <i>singing</i>). When producing instrument-related verbs, PD participants responded slower and had a lower proportion of relevant responses than Controls. Yet PD participants showed a relatively intact ability to produce location-related verbs and to rate instrument- and location-related verbs. Greater motor disease primarily impacted instrument-related verb production. 4/19 PD participants had mild cognitive impairment (per Movement Disorders Society criteria), which affected both instrument- and location-related verb production and ratings. Overall, results were consistent with 'weak' grounded cognition theories that propose that sensory-motor simulation may enrich action-semantic processing but is not strictly necessary for action-semantic processing.</p>","PeriodicalId":48782,"journal":{"name":"Language Cognition and Neuroscience","volume":"41 1","pages":"2-26"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12923080/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147272590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Isabel Orenes, Enrique García-Marco, Manuel de Vega, Adolfo M García
{"title":"See what I mean? Reading visual verbs modulates ocular dynamics.","authors":"Isabel Orenes, Enrique García-Marco, Manuel de Vega, Adolfo M García","doi":"10.1080/23273798.2025.2529333","DOIUrl":"10.1080/23273798.2025.2529333","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Embodiment research shows that body movements can be influenced by action verbs. Yet, by analogy, can peripheral perceptual systems be modulated during processing of sensory words? Here we tackle this question by targeting ocular dynamics during reading of visual verbs. In an eye-tracking experiment, participants read sentences word by word, all with the same structure: verb + article + noun + adjective. Half contained visual verbs (e.g., <i>see the ripe cherry</i>); the other half contained non-visual sensory verbs (e.g., <i>smell the pleasant cinnamon</i>). We compared the pupil size as well as the number and duration of fixations for each sentential item between conditions. Relative to the non-visual condition, the visual condition involved reduced pupil dilation on the verbs, nouns, and adjectives, there being no effects on the number and duration of fixations. These findings indicate that ocular dynamics are modulated by sight-related meanings, informing accounts of peripheral language embodiment.</p>","PeriodicalId":48782,"journal":{"name":"Language Cognition and Neuroscience","volume":"40 10","pages":"1281-1290"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13054644/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147640084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Timecourse of bottom-up and top-down language processing during a picture-based semantic priming task.","authors":"McCall E Sarrett, Bob McMurray","doi":"10.1080/23273798.2024.2409136","DOIUrl":"10.1080/23273798.2024.2409136","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Understanding spoken language requires rapid analysis of incoming information at multiple levels. Information at lower levels (e.g. acoustic/phonetic) cascades forward to affect processing at higher levels (e.g. lexical/semantic), and higher-level information may feed back to influence lower-level processing. Most studies have sought to examine a single stage of processing in isolation. Consequently, there is a poor understanding of how different stages relate temporally. In the present study, we characterise multiple stages of linguistic processing simultaneously as they unfold. Listeners (N=30) completed a priming task while we collected their EEG, where a picture (e.g. of a <i>peach</i>) biased them to expect a target word from a minimal pair (e.g. <i>beach/peach</i>). We examine the processes of perceptual gradiency, semantic integration, and top-down feedback, to yield a more complete understanding of how these processes relate in time. Then, we discuss how the results from simplified priming paradigms may compare to more naturalistic settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":48782,"journal":{"name":"Language Cognition and Neuroscience","volume":"40 1","pages":"122-144"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12040426/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144017855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kayla Keyue Chen, Ingrid M. Johansen, Wing-Yee Chow
{"title":"Revising noun predictions based on English measure phrases: evidence from visual-world eye-tracking","authors":"Kayla Keyue Chen, Ingrid M. Johansen, Wing-Yee Chow","doi":"10.1080/23273798.2024.2399111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2024.2399111","url":null,"abstract":"Can comprehenders use unexpected incoming information to revise their existing predictions on the fly? A recent study in Mandarin Chinese found that, upon hearing a prediction-inconsistent nominal ...","PeriodicalId":48782,"journal":{"name":"Language Cognition and Neuroscience","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142251471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Role of prosody and word order in identifying focus: evidence from pupillometry","authors":"Natsumi Funasaki, Masataka Yano","doi":"10.1080/23273798.2024.2396962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2024.2396962","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigated the role of prosody and word order in identifying the focus of sentences in Japanese. Native Japanese speakers listened to sentences with different types of word order (subj...","PeriodicalId":48782,"journal":{"name":"Language Cognition and Neuroscience","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142203749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xiaodong Xu, Cailing Ji, Taohui Li, Martin J. Pickering
{"title":"The prediction of segmental and tonal information in Mandarin Chinese: an eye-tracking investigation","authors":"Xiaodong Xu, Cailing Ji, Taohui Li, Martin J. Pickering","doi":"10.1080/23273798.2024.2395549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2024.2395549","url":null,"abstract":"There is controversy about the extent to which people predict phonology during comprehension. In three visual-world experiments, we ask whether it occurs in Mandarin, a tonal language. Participants...","PeriodicalId":48782,"journal":{"name":"Language Cognition and Neuroscience","volume":"116 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142251469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Details in hand: how does gesturing relate to autobiographical memory?","authors":"Naziye Güneş Acar, Tilbe Göksun, Ali İ. Tekcan","doi":"10.1080/23273798.2024.2385029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2024.2385029","url":null,"abstract":"Gestures are an integral and inseparable component of speech and people frequently use gestures when retelling their autobiographical memories. This study investigates whether gestures are associat...","PeriodicalId":48782,"journal":{"name":"Language Cognition and Neuroscience","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142203750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ruqi Chen, Linjieqiong Huang, Manuel Perea, Xingshan Li
{"title":"The role of semantic information in Chinese word segmentation","authors":"Ruqi Chen, Linjieqiong Huang, Manuel Perea, Xingshan Li","doi":"10.1080/23273798.2024.2390003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2024.2390003","url":null,"abstract":"Word segmentation is crucial for reading in Chinese, where the absence of explicit word boundaries poses a distinct challenge. Previous studies in Chinese have examined how lexical and sub-lexical ...","PeriodicalId":48782,"journal":{"name":"Language Cognition and Neuroscience","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142203751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Patterns of language","authors":"Olaf Hauk, Alex Clarke","doi":"10.1080/23273798.2024.2388329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2024.2388329","url":null,"abstract":"Neuroimaging studies have increasingly leveraged the information in multivariate patterns of brain activity, transitioning from voxel-by-voxel activation comparisons to multi-voxel pattern analysis...","PeriodicalId":48782,"journal":{"name":"Language Cognition and Neuroscience","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142203752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How do linguistic illusions arise? Rational inference and good-enough processing as competing latent processes within individuals","authors":"Dario Paape","doi":"10.1080/23273798.2024.2387226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2024.2387226","url":null,"abstract":"Non-literal interpretations of implausible sentences such as The mother gave the candle the daughter have been taken as evidence for a rational error-correction mechanism that reconstructs the inte...","PeriodicalId":48782,"journal":{"name":"Language Cognition and Neuroscience","volume":"56 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141940409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}