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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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Within- and cross-modal translation priming: An event-related potential investigation with Chinese-English bilinguals

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Journal of Neurolinguistics Pub Date : 2024-12-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2024.101241

Er-Hu Zhang , Jing Qin

{"title":"Within- and cross-modal translation priming: An event-related potential investigation with Chinese-English bilinguals","authors":"Er-Hu Zhang , Jing Qin","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2024.101241","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2024.101241","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The present study used event-related potentials (ERPs) to investigate and compare the temporal dynamics of cross-linguistic lexical-semantic activation during English written and spoken word recognition in unbalanced Chinese (L1)-English (L2) bilinguals. Participants were tested in a L1-L2 translation recognition task, where L1 words were visually presented and L2 words were visually or auditorily presented. The ERP results revealed that, relative to the non-translation equivalents, the translation equivalents elicited a more negative N200 amplitude (100–300 ms, i.e., N200 enhancement effect) regardless of modalities. Furthermore, the ERP translation priming effects (i.e., less negative or more positive ERP waveforms) were observed in the 300-600-ms time period for within-modal presentation and 400-1000-ms time period for cross-modal presentation. The early N200 enhancement effects reflected a cross-linguistic whole-word orthographic activation during L2 written and spoken word processing and demonstrated a bidirectional interactive link between the L1 and L2 lexical representations, which was not modulated by the change of processing modality. The late ERP priming effects reflected the cross-linguistic lexical-semantic activation and integration processes at later stages. Additionally, the lexical-semantic link of within-modal L1-L2 word pairs was more robust than that of cross-modal pairs, as reflected by larger ERP priming effects in the typical N400 time period (300–500 ms). In contrast, bilinguals might need additional cognitive resources to integrate the lexical-semantic information of cross-modal word pairs, as reflected by larger ERP priming effects in the LPC time period (600–900 ms).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 101241"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143177069","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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Journal of Neurolinguistics Pub Date : 2024-11-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2024.101234

Yi Lin , Kevin B. Paterson , Lijing Chen

{"title":"Dissimilarity between discourse characters influences the processing of contrastive focus: An ERP study","authors":"Yi Lin , Kevin B. Paterson , Lijing Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2024.101234","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2024.101234","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The present study used event-related potentials to investigate effects of the similarity or dissimilarity of discourse referents on the processing of contrastive focus during Chinese reading. Participants first read a background story. They then were presented with a series of two-clause sentences using a RSVP paradigm. The first clause of each sentence included the names of two characters from the background story, who were either similar or dissimilar in terms of social category (which was specified in terms of age and gender). The second clause referred to one of these characters by name, using the Chinese focus particle “shi” to focus on this name or not. The results show that focused names elicit a larger P300 than non-focused names. Furthermore, discourse-final words elicited a larger P300 when the focused character was dissimilar rather than similar to the other character, with no effect in the non-focus condition. These findings replicate prior findings showing that the P300 is sensitive to the processing of contrastive focus during reading. The findings also show that the processing of contrastive focus is sensitive to similarity/dissimilarity between discourse referents, and that how this information is used may depend on the pragmatic implicatures associated with contrastive focus.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 101234"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142743601","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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Neural mechanisms of dynamic syntactic and semantic processing in Chinese garden-path sentence comprehension: An ERP study 汉语园路句理解中动态句法和语义处理的神经机制：ERP研究

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Journal of Neurolinguistics Pub Date : 2024-11-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2024.101233

Yulian Xu, Xianjun Huang

{"title":"Neural mechanisms of dynamic syntactic and semantic processing in Chinese garden-path sentence comprehension: An ERP study","authors":"Yulian Xu, Xianjun Huang","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2024.101233","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2024.101233","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this study, the neural mechanisms of dynamic syntactic and semantic processing in Chinese garden-path sentence comprehension were investigated using electrophysiological and behavioral measures. Two groups of garden-path sentences were designed, with the ambiguity of multiple word categories in Group 1 and classifier-noun agreements in Group 2. Besides the ambiguous condition, there were also control and semantic violation conditions. Participants made plausibility judgment of each sentence. The ERPs elicited by the last three critical word regions in each sentence were examined continuously to uncover the time course of the revision process clearly. Relative to the control sentence, the ambiguous sentences of both groups elicited the smallest N400 before and on the disambiguating region, but the largest P600 at the disambiguation position, indicating that the sentences were misparsed and/or misinterpreted initially, and revised efficiently when the input cannot be integrated into the syntactic structure constructed. No significant N400 difference was observed between the ambiguous and the control condition on the disambiguating regions, indicating that semantic processing proceeded even no appropriate syntactic structures were built for the incomplete sentences. Therefore, without morphosyntactic constraints in Chinese, semantic processing is generally prior to the syntactic one, which will be revised only when semantic integration fails.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 101233"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142573354","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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Comprehension-based language switching in experienced and newly learned languages: Evidence from induced brain oscillations 经验语言和新学语言中基于理解的语言转换：来自诱导大脑振荡的证据

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Journal of Neurolinguistics Pub Date : 2024-10-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2024.101232

Lu Jiao , John W. Schwieter , Cong Liu

{"title":"Comprehension-based language switching in experienced and newly learned languages: Evidence from induced brain oscillations","authors":"Lu Jiao , John W. Schwieter , Cong Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2024.101232","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2024.101232","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>When speaking and listening, bilinguals have the ability to seamlessly switch between their two languages using complex control processes. In the present study, we use electroencephalography (EEG) and time-frequency representation (TFR) analyses to investigate comprehension-based switching between experienced and newly learned languages. Bilinguals performed an auditory picture-word matching task in two experienced languages (Chinese and English) and in two newly learned languages (German and Japanese). The behavioral results revealed asymmetrical switch costs when switching between experienced languages, with larger costs in Chinese than in English, but no costs between the two newly learned languages. The results of the TFR analyses found that for the experienced languages, switch trials induced a power decrease in delta and theta bands, while for the two newly learned languages, switch trials led to a power decrease in the theta and alpha bands. The findings underscore the dynamic nature of language control and provide evidence for the Dynamic Restructuring Model.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 101232"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142528027","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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An ERP-based comparison of gender representations elicited by generic masculine role nouns and the German gender star form 基于ERP的通用男性角色名词和德语性别星形所引发的性别表征比较

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Journal of Neurolinguistics Pub Date : 2024-10-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2024.101231

Sarah Glim, Anita Körner, Ralf Rummer

{"title":"An ERP-based comparison of gender representations elicited by generic masculine role nouns and the German gender star form","authors":"Sarah Glim, Anita Körner, Ralf Rummer","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2024.101231","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2024.101231","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>There is an ongoing debate about the linguistic gender forms that should be used to elicit fair mental representations of all genders. While most languages with grammatical gender traditionally use the masculine form to refer to people in a gender-independent way, numerous empirical studies have demonstrated that this form leads to a male bias in mental representations. In German, the so-called gender star form has been proposed as an alternative to the masculine form, aimed at better representing persons with nonmale gender identities. To provide empirical data on this claim, we compared the neural processing mechanisms elicited by the gender star form with those elicited by the generically intended masculine form during reference resolution. Participants in the present ERP study read sentence pairs in which a group of people was introduced with a role noun in one of the two gender forms and then revealed to be partly comprised of men or women. Following the masculine form, anaphoric references to women (vs. men) resulted in an increased ERP amplitude in the P600 range. In contrast, following the gender star form, the P600 amplitude was increased for references to men (vs. women), albeit in a slightly different spatio-temporal range. The present data thus indicate that the gender star form and the generically intended masculine form impose partially different demands on the syntactic operations performed by the brain during reference resolution but that, in the end, neither form elicits gender-balanced mental representations of men and women in German.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 101231"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142427313","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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