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Consonant intelligibility in individuals with Parkinson's disease in noise: Pre-specified secondary outcome variables from a randomized control trial (RCT) comparing two intensive speech treatments (LSVT LOUD vs. LSVT ARTIC)

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Journal of Neurolinguistics Pub Date : 2025-03-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2025.101251

Geralyn Schulz , Angela Halpern , Jennifer Speilman , Lorraine Ramig , Ira Panzer , Alan Sharpley , Katherine Freeman

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ND250 as a prediction error signal in orthographic processing: Evidence from comparing ERPs to handwritten and printed words

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Journal of Neurolinguistics Pub Date : 2025-03-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2025.101249

Hongli Liu , Jiayi Zhang , Feng Gu

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tDCS over the left auditory cortex enhances working memory of nonsense auditory syllables: The role of stimulation montages

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Journal of Neurolinguistics Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2025.101250

Rongjuan Zhu , Xiaoliang Ma , Xiaoqing Liu , Xuqun You

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Does sounding ‘Gay’ or ‘Straight’ affect how we understand language? Sentence comprehension is regulated by the speaker's perceived sexual orientation

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Journal of Neurolinguistics Pub Date : 2025-02-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2025.101248

Simone Sulpizio , Fabio Fasoli , Gaia Lapomarda , Francesco Vespignani

{"title":"Does sounding ‘Gay’ or ‘Straight’ affect how we understand language? Sentence comprehension is regulated by the speaker's perceived sexual orientation","authors":"Simone Sulpizio , Fabio Fasoli , Gaia Lapomarda , Francesco Vespignani","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2025.101248","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2025.101248","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Social interactions are shaped by the way individuals communicate. Listeners form impressions based on how someone sounds, and the message conveyed can be interpreted differently depending on who the speaker is. We investigated on-line sentence processing focusing on the role of the speaker's gay- vs. heterosexual-sounding voice in the construction of meaning. Event-related brain potentials were recorded while participants listened to two gay- and two heterosexual-sounding male speakers uttering stereotypical sentences. We manipulated whether the sentences referred to professions stereotypically congruent or incongruent with the speakers' perceived sexual orientation. Results showed that the interplay between the speaker's voice and message content influenced sentence processing early after an incongruent stereotype was presented. The interaction was maximal at frontal sites, with a larger negativity for stereotypically-congruent than for stereotypically-incongruent professions when uttered by gay-sounding speakers. These results suggest that the perception of the speaker as gay- or straight-sounding is quickly used by listeners to build the message meaning. The inconsistency between vocal and linguistic information modulates a frontal negativity, potentially indicating control processes during sentence comprehension put in place to deal with the inconsistency.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 101248"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143471419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The relationship between monitoring, control, conscious awareness and attention in language production

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Journal of Neurolinguistics Pub Date : 2025-02-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2025.101247

Nazbanou Nozari

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The missing link between response selection and execution in language production

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Journal of Neurolinguistics Pub Date : 2025-01-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2025.101246

Svetlana Pinet

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The neural mechanisms of bilinguals’ creativity: A neuroimaging study

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Journal of Neurolinguistics Pub Date : 2025-01-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2025.101245

Yilong Yang , Yadan Li , Jinyan Gu

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Transient crossed aphasia associated with the right SMA syndrome following the resection of oligodendroglioma: A case report

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Journal of Neurolinguistics Pub Date : 2025-01-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2024.101244

Petr Krupa , Jaroslav Adamkov , Vendula Lednova , Petra Kasparova , Tomas Cesak

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The right sound at the right time: Cerebellar and ventral striatal involvement in imitating pitch and timing

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Journal of Neurolinguistics Pub Date : 2024-12-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2024.101243

M. Belyk , S.A. Kotz

{"title":"The right sound at the right time: Cerebellar and ventral striatal involvement in imitating pitch and timing","authors":"M. Belyk , S.A. Kotz","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2024.101243","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2024.101243","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Acting on the world requires the right action at the right time. This is perhaps most easily seen in music where the meaning of a piece is encoded explicitly by both the pitches of musical notes and their duration. We used these features to operationalise the production of desired qualia of movements as note pitches as compared to movement timing as note durations. Participants listened to and imitated simple melodies as accurately as possible while lying in an ultra-high field 7T MRI scanner. Melodies consisted of either a series of different pitches of equal duration or a single pitch repeated at different durations. Both tasks engaged a broad motor network similar to speech and other complex dynamic movements. However, imitation for timing preferentially activated the ventral striatum of the basal ganglia while imitation for pitch preferentially activated lobule VI of the cerebellum and temporal lobe auditory association areas. These findings are consistent with the role of the basal ganglia in sound sequence learning and with the role of the cerebellum in refining movement based on sensory feedback. Imitating melodies provides a simple but effective framework for manipulating the qualities and timings of sound production by the speech-motor system, even when no words are spoken.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 101243"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143177071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Investigation of long- and short-term adaptations of the bilingual language system to different language environments: Evidence from the ERPs

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Journal of Neurolinguistics Pub Date : 2024-12-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2024.101242

Alba Casado , Jonas Walther , Agata Wolna , Jakub Szewczyk , Antonella Sorace , Zofia Wodniecka

{"title":"Investigation of long- and short-term adaptations of the bilingual language system to different language environments: Evidence from the ERPs","authors":"Alba Casado , Jonas Walther , Agata Wolna , Jakub Szewczyk , Antonella Sorace , Zofia Wodniecka","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2024.101242","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2024.101242","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Does a long-term stay in a foreign language country affect word retrieval in our native language? And if so, are the effects reversible? The present study explored the neural correlates of single-word production in the native language and their dynamics due to two types of changes in the language environment: long-term immersion in a foreign language (L2) environment and short-term reimmersion in a native language (L1) environment. We tested Polish-English migrants living in the UK (L2 environment) for an average of ten years and Polish-English controls living in Poland (L1 environment). All participants performed an L1 picture-naming task while we recorded their electrophysiological responses. The migrants were tested before and after visiting the L1 environment, while the controls were tested twice in their L1 environment. Our focus was on two event-related components previously associated with the ease of lexical access: P2 and N300. We found no modulations related to N300, but some in the P2 time window, although their distribution was more frontal than previously reported. There was no main effect of the long-term immersion in the L2 environment, suggesting that the effectiveness of producing words in L1 was similar across the two groups. However, the short-term change in the language environment modulated the early positivity in migrants: smaller frontal positivity was reported in response to picture naming after the short reimmersion in the L1 environment than during the L2 immersion. These results indicate that the short-term changes in the language environment induce modulations in the neural response, which may reflect higher proactive control applied in L1 production during L2 immersion and its reduction after short-term L1 immersion.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 101242"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143177070","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}

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