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{"title":"Increased interbrain synchronization of the left middle frontal gyrus benefits learning word formation rules in social interaction: An fNIRS hyperscanning study","authors":"Yujing Shen ,&nbsp;Xiyuan Wang ,&nbsp;Mengjie Lv ,&nbsp;John W. Schwieter ,&nbsp;Huanhuan Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2025.101297","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2025.101297","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Communication during interactions affects the acquisition of new knowledge, which can be shared and understood by others. However, the effects of such communication on learning word formation rules have gone relatively underexplored, particularly in the context of social interaction. The current study uses functional near-infrared spectroscopy-based hyperscanning techniques to capture how communication about word formation rules influences word learning. The materials consisted of pseudowords that were either lower or higher on the Perceptual Saliency Hierarchy. Perceptual saliency refers to the way our brains prioritize what we perceive. The hierarchy holds that color is perceived more easily than shape, and shape more easily than texture (i.e., color &gt; shape &gt; texture). Dyads of learners showed increased accuracy of learning word formation rules after communicating about relevant topics, which also elicited increased interbrain synchronization and high representation similarity in the left middle frontal gyrus and right superior frontal gyrus, thereby improving collaborative and coordination skills, particularly when learning difficult word formation rules. In all, these findings suggest that communicating about relevant topics is beneficial to word learning in social interaction.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"77 ","pages":"Article 101297"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145268079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Auditory P300 event-related potential and acoustic features of voice and speech in adolescents at risk for suicide: A pilot study","authors":"Carla Figueroa Saavedra ,&nbsp;Fernando Huenupán Quinán ,&nbsp;Virginia Guillén Cañas ,&nbsp;Pablo Méndez Bustos ,&nbsp;Enzo Alarcón Acuña ,&nbsp;Hernán Emilio Pérez","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2025.101296","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2025.101296","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Suicide remains a leading cause of external mortality, posing a significant yet preventable challenge. This study explores potential associations between suicide risk and neurophysiological (Auditory P300 Event-Related Potential) and acoustic voice and speech parameters in adolescents. The study employed a cross-sectional design. Thirty secondary school students underwent auditory assessment, P300 measurement (PEATS Eclipse EP25), and acoustic analysis of voice and speech. Suicide risk was determined using the Okasha Suicidality Scale and the Beck Depression Inventory. Acoustic analysis was performed using Praat software for phonetic research, a Focusrite Scarlett interface, and a condenser microphone to assess fundamental frequency (F0), jitter, shimmer, and formants (F1, F2, F3). Data were analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics version 26.0 and MATLAB R2022a (MathWorks Inc.) for signal processing and feature extraction, applying both descriptive and inferential statistical methods. Adolescents at risk for suicide exhibited significantly longer P300 latencies in both ears compared to their non-risk peers (p &lt; 0.05), while no significant differences were observed in P300 amplitude. Regarding voice analysis, significant group differences were found in the F1, F2, and F3 formants during the open-ended question task (p &lt; 0.05), suggesting alterations in speech articulation. However, vowel production parameters did not differ notably between groups. Adolescents at risk for suicide demonstrated delayed neurophysiological processing (increased P300 latency) and altered speech articulation during spontaneous speech tasks. These findings highlight the potential of integrating P300 and acoustic analysis of voice and speech as complementary markers in assessing cognitive and emotional functioning in suicide risk detection.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"77 ","pages":"Article 101296"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145268118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Semantic and syntactic language differences associated with the FMR1 premutation genotype","authors":"Laura Friedman ,&nbsp;William Matchin ,&nbsp;Elizabeth Berry-Kravis ,&nbsp;Jessica Klusek","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2025.101287","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2025.101287","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The <em>FMR1</em> premutation genotype occurs in approximately 1 in 150 women and 1 in 470 men. New evidence suggests that the <em>FMR1</em> premutation may be associated with language differences, although the breadth of language challenges, specific domains affected, and potential interface with executive aspects of the phenotype are not fully understood given the lack of targeted studies. The present study compared the language skills of 109 women with the <em>FMR1</em> premutation to 109 age-, education-, and nonverbal IQ-matched control women, using a series of standardized language repetition tasks to index language abilities within a measurement context that reduces the influence of higher-order executive deficits. Results indicated that, relative to controls, women with the <em>FMR1</em> premutation performed significantly worse on tasks assessing semantic and syntactic, but not phonological, skills. Group differences could not be accounted for by attention or working memory difficulties. This study documents semantic and syntactic language differences associated with the <em>FMR1</em> premutation genotype. Findings may have implications for identifying gene-brain-behavior mechanistic pathways, with more research needed to characterize the clinical impact of language differences associated with this genotype. <em>FMR1</em> may play a role in mediating some aspects of language in the population.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"77 ","pages":"Article 101287"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145050275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Advances in bilingualism as a dynamic process: 30 years of exploration in bilingual mind and brain","authors":"Chanyuan Gu ,&nbsp;Yingying Peng ,&nbsp;Ping Li","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2025.101288","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2025.101288","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Since Grosjean (1992) and other colleagues proposed bilingualism as a dynamic and interactive process, the field has advanced significantly, enabled by both theoretical developments in bilingual studies and technological innovations. This article is focused on bilingualism research as a highly interdisciplinary enterprise along with the impacts that other fields have had to advance it, in the past and for the future. Behavioral and neurocognitive evidence has shown the broad consequences of bilingualism on human behavior and brain architecture beyond cognition. In addition, recent neurocognitive work using cutting-edge data analytics has demonstrated shared and unique neural correlates of bilingual language representation and processing in humans and machines, spanning from lexical processing to discourse comprehension. Furthermore, emerging technologies have been found to enhance second language learning by providing virtual embodied environments that stimulate learning and motivation. We conclude that interdisciplinary approaches have empowered researchers to gain deeper insights into the dynamic and interactive nature of bilingualism, and we call for continued joint efforts in the study of the bilingual mind and brain in this new era of AI and digital technologies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"77 ","pages":"Article 101288"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145050278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Advances in our understanding of bilingual brain organization: A look back and a view forward","authors":"Shanna Kousaie ,&nbsp;Denise Klein","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2025.101289","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2025.101289","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Multilingual and bilingual environments provide natural settings to study the implications of acquiring and developing competence in more than one language. Models of language processing have often focused on monolingual contexts, but researchers who live in countries where bilingualism and multilingualism are the norm, have an opportunity to extend these ideas; the work discussed here focuses on two such linguistic contexts, South Africa and Canada. In 1992, Klein and Doctor took inspiration from English-Afrikaans bilinguals to extend models of monolingual processing to bilingual individuals. Since then, Klein and colleagues have taken advantage of the unique language environment of Quebec, Canada, and the substantial possibilities arising from the burgeoning field of functional neuroimaging to explore how two languages exist in a single cognitive system and what that tells us about neural representations. More recently there has been a burgeoning of research in this field, examining also the implications of bilingual language processing for cognition more generally. Our paper reviews the progress made in the field, from the original findings of Klein and Doctor to key findings and advances that have taken place since then.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"76 ","pages":"Article 101289"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144988214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Attention to L2 morpho-syntactic form across visual and aural modalities and the modulation of working memory: ERP evidence","authors":"Binyuan Zhuang ,&nbsp;Shuting Hu ,&nbsp;Lijuan Liang","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2025.101286","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2025.101286","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The allocation of L2 learners’ attention to meaning and form across visual and aural modalities has been a critical area of research for decades. However, there is ongoing debate about whether L2 learners struggle to attend to both meaning and form simultaneously in the aural modality. This study investigates how L2 learners process morpho-syntactic form across these modalities when asked to read or listen for comprehension, and examines the modulatory role of working memory (WM). Thirty-four Chinese L2 learners of English with intermediate-high L2 proficiency completed story listening and reading comprehension tasks while ERP data was recorded, time-locked to the onset of the progressive marker “-<em>ing</em>”. Participants were unaware of 40 correct and 40 omitted uses of the marker. They also completed tasks assessing executive, phonological, and visuospatial WM. Linear mixed-effects models revealed that: (1) In the visual modality, syntactic violations elicited larger anterior negativity (AN) than correct forms within 300–500 ms and 500–800 ms, while in the aural modality, syntactic violations did not induce significant changes in ERP deflections compared with correct forms in the same time windows; (2) A significant interaction between Syntactic Correctness, executive WM and visuospatial WM was found only in the visual modality within 300–500ms. While Participants with high executive WM showed early ERP responses to syntactic violations, participants with low executive WM showed similar patterns only when their visuospatial WM was high. These findings suggest that L2 learners could attend to form in the visual modality, whereas such sensitivity may be less observable in the aural modality under the present experimental conditions. Moreover, visuospatial WM and executive WM interactively influence the early detection of morpho-syntactic features in the visual input.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"76 ","pages":"Article 101286"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144902346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From movements to words: action monitoring in the medial frontal cortex along a caudal to rostral prediction error gradient","authors":"Lydia Dorokhova ,&nbsp;Shen Shiqing ,&nbsp;Peirolo Morgane ,&nbsp;Anton Jean-Luc ,&nbsp;Nazarian Bruno ,&nbsp;Sein Julien ,&nbsp;Chanoine Valérie ,&nbsp;Belin Pascal ,&nbsp;Kep Kee Loh ,&nbsp;Runnqvist Elin","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2025.101284","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2025.101284","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Speech error monitoring recruits the medial frontal cortex (MFC) region in the human brain. Error monitoring-related activity in the MFC has been interpreted both in terms of conflict monitoring and feedback-driven control, but as similar regions of the MFC are implicated in various levels of behavioral control ranging from basic motor movement control to high-level cognitive control functions, a more comprehensive account is needed. Moreover, as speech errors and other actions that involve varying control demands engage a widespread yet partially overlapping set of regions of the MFC, such an account should ideally explain the anatomical distribution of error-related functional activations within the MFC. Here we wanted to assess the hypothesis that the MFC has a similar role in the evaluation of action outcomes for motor and mental actions, operating along a rostral-caudal gradient of higher-lower degree of cognitive control demands involving prediction errors from both sensory and epistemic sources. To this end, we conducted an individual-specific annotation of task-fMRI BOLD activation peaks related to overt speech error monitoring (i.e. that involve the largest degree of cognitive control demands, Study I and II), tongue movement monitoring (i.e. that involve an intermediate degree of cognitive control demands) and tongue movement (i.e. that involve the lowest degree of cognitive control demands, Study II) in the MFC region. Results revealed overlapping clusters across the three contrasts across the MFC, but importantly both the number of peaks and their relative position along the rostral caudal axis were consistent with a hierarchical rostral caudal processing gradient in the MFC. While tongue movement showed more caudal activation in the MFC, overt speech error monitoring showed more rostral activation, and tongue movement monitoring patterned in between. Furthermore, the combined results of both studies suggested that activation peaks were located more dorsally for participants that had a paracingulate gyrus, replicating a previously documented effect for movement and further supporting a common functional role of the MFC across very distinct actions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"76 ","pages":"Article 101284"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144893237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Brain interactions underlying speech monitoring in language production","authors":"Yusheng Y.S.Wang ,&nbsp;Katherine D. Andrade ,&nbsp;Elizabeth J. Anderson ,&nbsp;Leena Kansal ,&nbsp;Carrie McDonald ,&nbsp;Sharona Ben-Haim ,&nbsp;Jerry Shih ,&nbsp;Ashkan Ashrafi ,&nbsp;Stephanie K. Riès","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2025.101285","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2025.101285","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates functional connectivity patterns between brain regions supporting speech monitoring in seven participants with epilepsy undergoing stereotactic electroencephalographic (SEEG) monitoring and participating in a picture-word interference (PWI) task. Using graph signal processing (GSP) techniques, we found that three brain regions previously associated with speech monitoring processes, namely the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), superior temporal gyrus (STG), and insula, functionally interact with each other and other regions around vocal onset and that these connections are more probable in errors than correct trials. Furthermore, the timing of their involvement in functional connectivity metrics indicates that they play distinct yet complementary roles in inner and outer speech monitoring. Specifically, the ACC maintains constant connectivity patterns before and after vocal onset, suggesting a continuous role in proactive and reactive speech monitoring. The STG shows stronger connectivity after vocal onset, consistent with its role in processing auditory feedback and external monitoring. Conversely, the insula exhibits stronger connectivity before vocal onset than after, suggesting that it plays a role in articulatory planning and inner speech monitoring. Our results align with the conflict-based account of speech monitoring in language production and suggest that inner and outer speech monitoring are supported by dynamic interactions between key brain regions of a network.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"76 ","pages":"Article 101285"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144757120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A γ operational workspace for syntax in L1 and L2 processing: evidence from recursive re-representations of wh-fillers in French","authors":"Laurent Dekydtspotter ,&nbsp;A. Kate Miller ,&nbsp;Mike Iverson ,&nbsp;Jih-ho Cha ,&nbsp;Jane A. Gilbert ,&nbsp;Jae Hyun Ahn ,&nbsp;Kent Meinert ,&nbsp;Ludan Yang ,&nbsp;Hongyu Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2025.101281","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2025.101281","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Recent theoretical proposals identify cortical gamma (γ) oscillations as signaling a mechanistic γ operational workspace (e.g., Murphy, 2024). Following the hypothesis that first (L1) and second (L2) languages involve shared neurofunctional mechanisms (Green &amp; Abutalebi, 2008), we document cortical γ oscillatory dynamics in processing <em>wh</em>-filler-gap dependencies across a clause edge such as ‘<em>Which decision regarding/about him did Paul say that Lydie had rejected without hesitation?’</em> in L1 and L2 French using electroencephalography. We manipulated <em>wh</em>-filler grammatical specifications with modifiers (Mods) vs. lexically specified complements (Comps) and with pronouns marked for antecedent gender or not. We used cluster-based non-parametric permutation tests (Oostenveld et al., 2011) in an analysis window covering ‘said that’ in two bins: 30–100Hz (broadband γ) and 30–50Hz (low γ). Event-related power differences (ERPDs) showed greater power for Comps than Mods and for antecedent-gender-specified than gender-unspecified Comps across L1 and L2. Narrowband/low-γ effects started in advance of bridge verb access and were maintained after verb access into the subordinator. These significant effects were echoed by broadband-γ ERPDs timed with the verb and subordinator, suggesting output activity in object creation. Two bursts of between-group ERPDs in low and broadband γ, respectively, reflected the (lack of) antecedent-gender specification of pronouns in anaphora relations. Hence, these patterns of oscillatory dynamics suggest that similarities and differences between L1 and L2 are accounted for by a γ-implemented operational workspace (Murphy, 2024) that enables the creation of structural and referential chain objects (Dekydtspotter et al., 2024).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"76 ","pages":"Article 101281"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144663407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Some complications with neurolinguistic research on unaccusativity","authors":"David Kemmerer","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2025.101283","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2025.101283","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Two classes of intransitive verbs involve different syntactic-semantic linking patterns. Unergative verbs follow the canonical pattern because the subject noun-phrase (NP) expresses the actor of the described event (e.g., <em>The boy ran</em>), whereas unaccusative verbs have a noncanonical pattern because the subject NP expresses the undergoer of the described event (e.g., <em>The boy fell</em>). Many neurolinguistic studies suggest that, compared to unergative verbs, unaccusative ones are harder to process. After summarizing this literature, I point out two complications with it. First, a large proportion of the researchers unjustifiably assume a Chomskyan analysis of unaccusative verbs whereby the NP linked with the undergoer role is an underlying direct object that must be moved to the subject position. Second, most of the studies ignore several important aspects of unaccusativity, including problems with putative syntactic diagnostics and extensive crosslinguistic diversity that is nonetheless semantically constrained.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"76 ","pages":"Article 101283"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144632483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}