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The role of executive control ability in second language metaphor comprehension: Evidence from ERPs and sLORETA 执行控制能力在第二语言隐喻理解中的作用：来自 ERP 和 sLORETA 的证据

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Journal of Neurolinguistics Pub Date : 2024-05-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2024.101211

Jiaqi Zhu , Hongjun Chen , Fengyu Cong , Jianjun Ma

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Contextual modulation of the neural network underlying the processing of compositional nontransparent meaning 构成性非透明意义处理神经网络的语境调节

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Journal of Neurolinguistics Pub Date : 2024-05-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2024.101202

Yao-Ying Lai

{"title":"Contextual modulation of the neural network underlying the processing of compositional nontransparent meaning","authors":"Yao-Ying Lai","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2024.101202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2024.101202","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examines the neurocognitive mechanisms supporting the processing of sentences involving compositional nontransparent meaning, investigating if the neural correlates are modulated by clausal and extra-clausal prior context. We probe through sentences like “<em>The player jumped for 5 s.</em>“, which engenders an iterative meaning (multiple jumping actions) that is morphosyntactically-unsupported yet obtained at the compositional level ([verb + adverbial]). We hypothesize that the non-transparent meaning is computed by comprehenders’ contextual evaluation, which would be more effortful without guiding cues yet could be facilitated by the presence of biasing information in context. This predicts that the comprehension of nontransparent sentences is contextually modulated, eliciting greater cost than their transparent counterparts—particularly when they are processed in a neutral context than in an iterative-biasing context. The reported fMRI experiment showed that computing nontransparent meaning preferentially recruited the left inferior frontal gyrus (L.IFG), the left middle temporal regions, and the right IFG, in contrast to the transparent counterpart. Crucially, the left frontal activation subserving nontransparent sentences was attenuated in a biasing context, as compared to a neutral context. The context effect was corroborated by the results of iterativity judgments that showed differential iterative vs. non-iterative interpretations for the nontransparent sentences as cued by the clausal and extra-clausal context. While the influence of clausal context has been demonstrated, this study provides novel evidence showing that compositional meaning computation is modulated by prior context in addition. The findings reveal a left-lateralized frontal-temporal network for compositional nontransparent meaning that is subject to contextual modulation beyond morphosyntactic computation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140910348","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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Neurodynamics of selected language processes involved in word reading: An EEG study with French dyslexic adults 单词阅读所涉及的特定语言过程的神经动力学：针对法国成人阅读障碍者的脑电图研究

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Journal of Neurolinguistics Pub Date : 2024-04-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2024.101201

Aikaterini Premeti , Maria Pia Bucci , Karin Heidlmayr , Pierre Vigneron , Frédéric Isel

{"title":"Neurodynamics of selected language processes involved in word reading: An EEG study with French dyslexic adults","authors":"Aikaterini Premeti , Maria Pia Bucci , Karin Heidlmayr , Pierre Vigneron , Frédéric Isel","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2024.101201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2024.101201","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This event-related potential (ERP) study aimed to examine at which point in the stream of four cognitive processes of word reading impairment occurs in dyslexic adults. Fourteen French native dyslexic speakers and eighteen matched controls performed a delayed phonological lexical decision task that consisted in deciding whether visual stimuli sounded like French words. Three hundred stimuli equally distributed among five experimental conditions (60 concrete French words, 60 pseudo-homophones, 60 pseudowords, 60 consonant and 60 symbol strings) were presented. Critically, two language processes involving phonological information, namely grapheme-to-phoneme conversion (N320) and memory retrieval of phonological information (Late Positive Complex) were impaired in dyslexics compared to controls. Moreover, lexical access (N400) was significantly modulated by six predictive variables assumed to be reliable markers of dyslexia. In contrast, and unexpectedly, the early processes of visual expertise for print (N170) appeared to operate in the same way in the two groups of participants. The locus of dyslexia is probably to be found primarily in some aspects of phonological processing during word reading. These findings support a clinical neurophysiology model postulating that at least two phonological processes during reading might be impaired in dyslexics, namely grapheme-to-phoneme conversion, and memory retrieval of phonological information.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0911604424000113/pdfft?md5=2654b50afede9b85925d7369471e80f7&pid=1-s2.0-S0911604424000113-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140343768","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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A study of ERPs acquired during handwritten and printed Chinese character processing in a lexical decision task 在词汇决策任务中手写和印刷汉字处理过程中获得的 ERPs 研究

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Journal of Neurolinguistics Pub Date : 2024-04-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2024.101200

Wenhui Li , Zhongqing Jiang , Yihan Xu , Tingting Yu , Xuan Ning , Ying Liu , Chan Li

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Musical pitch processing predicts reading development in Chinese school-age children 音乐音高处理预测中国学龄儿童的阅读发展

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Journal of Neurolinguistics Pub Date : 2024-03-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2024.101199

Shiting Yang , Lirong Tang , Li Liu , Qi Dong , George K. Georgiou , Yun Nan

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Role of the left inferior frontal gyrus in transforming format types of action descriptions between stimuli and representations 左额叶下回在转换刺激和表象之间的动作描述格式类型中的作用

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Journal of Neurolinguistics Pub Date : 2024-02-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2024.101191

Hiroshi Shibata , Kenji Ogawa

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Disintegration at the syntax-semantics interface in prodromal Alzheimer's disease: New evidence from complex sentence anaphora in amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment (aMCI) 前驱阿尔茨海默病中句法-语义界面的解体：无记忆力轻度认知障碍（aMCI）中复杂句子拟合的新证据

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Journal of Neurolinguistics Pub Date : 2023-12-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101190

Barbara Lust , Suzanne Flynn , Charles Henderson , James Gair , Janet Cohen Sherman

{"title":"Disintegration at the syntax-semantics interface in prodromal Alzheimer's disease: New evidence from complex sentence anaphora in amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment (aMCI)","authors":"Barbara Lust , Suzanne Flynn , Charles Henderson , James Gair , Janet Cohen Sherman","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101190","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101190","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>Although diverse language deficits have been widely observed in prodromal Alzheimer's disease (AD), the underlying nature of such deficits and their explanation remains opaque. Consequently, both clinical applications and brain-language models are not well-defined. In this paper we report results from two experiments which test language production in a group of individuals with amnestic </span>Mild Cognitive Impairment<span> (aMCI) in contrast to healthy aging<span><span> and healthy young. The experiments apply factorial designs informed by linguistic analysis to test two forms of complex sentences involving anaphora (relations between pronouns and their antecedents). Results show that aMCI individuals differentiate forms of anaphora depending on sentence structure, with selective impairment of sentences which involve </span>construal with reference to context (anaphoric coreference). We argue that aMCI individuals maintain core structural knowledge while evidencing deficiency in syntax-semantics integration, thus locating the source of the deficit in the language-thought interface of the Language Faculty.</span></span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139065344","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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Can we track the progression of Alzheimer's Disease via lexical-semantic variables in connected speech? 我们能否通过连贯语音中的词汇-语义变量来跟踪阿尔茨海默病的进展？

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Journal of Neurolinguistics Pub Date : 2023-12-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101189

Marte Mestach, Robert J. Hartsuiker, Aurélie Pistono

{"title":"Can we track the progression of Alzheimer's Disease via lexical-semantic variables in connected speech?","authors":"Marte Mestach, Robert J. Hartsuiker, Aurélie Pistono","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101189","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p><span>Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the most common </span>neurodegenerative disorders<span><span> worldwide and is characterized by problems with cognition and language, especially word-finding difficulties. The present study focuses on lexical-semantic features via five discourse variables reflecting word-finding difficulties, namely indefinite terms, lexical frequency, repetitions, semantic paraphasias, and use of pronouns. Our aim is twofold: testing whether these variables can discriminate </span>healthy aging from AD, but also mild from moderate AD.</span></p></div><div><h3>Method</h3><p>105 participants were examined from the existing Pitt corpus (available on DementiaBank), which includes the Cookie Theft Picture Description task. 40 participants were healthy controls, 25 were mild AD participants, and 40 moderate AD participants.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>The moderate AD group differed significantly from healthy controls in terms of indefinite terms, repetitions, semantic paraphasias, and pronouns. For the latter variable, mild AD patients also differed significantly from healthy controls. However, none of the variables could differentiate mild from moderate AD.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>Four out of five discourse variables could discriminate healthy aging from moderate AD, while only one could discriminate mild AD patients. This is therefore questioning current literature on connected-speech measures in AD and calling for further research on the variables that could better distinguish mild to moderate AD.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138582011","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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Young interpreting trainees’ better adaptation to the flanker conflicting environment: An ERP study 年轻口译学员更好地适应侧翼冲突环境：ERP研究

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Journal of Neurolinguistics Pub Date : 2023-12-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101181

Hongming Zhao , Xiaocong Chen , Yanping Dong

{"title":"Young interpreting trainees’ better adaptation to the flanker conflicting environment: An ERP study","authors":"Hongming Zhao , Xiaocong Chen , Yanping Dong","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101181","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101181","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In the intense debate about the potential benefits of bilingual experience to executive functioning (EF), little research addresses the possibility that the benefits may manifest in the process of adapting to an EF task. In this study, we hypothesize that interpreters, confronted frequently with more intense interference from different languages, may adapt to the interference task more efficiently. With the event-related potential (ERP) technique, this study examined whether participants with interpreting experience may adapt to the conflicting environment of a Flanker task more efficiently than non-interpreter bilinguals with the progression of the task (i.e., from the first to the second half trials). Our results showed that the interpreter group showed better conflict resolution (i.e., a lower error rate) despite being less active in early attentional processing (i.e., less negative overall N1 and N2 amplitudes). Second, both groups showed an adaptation effect in the second half trials compared with the first half, as reflected by less negative overall N2 amplitude and more positive overall P3 amplitude. More importantly, only the interpreter group showed an additional benefit in adaptation, as reflected by an earlier overall P3 peak latency in the second half trials. Taken together, the results offered some support for an interpreter advantage in the dynamics of adapting to the Flanker task, which could provide new insight into the effect of bilingual experience on non-verbal interference control.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138553081","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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ROSE: A neurocomputational architecture for syntax 罗斯:语法的神经计算架构

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Journal of Neurolinguistics Pub Date : 2023-11-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101180

Elliot Murphy

{"title":"ROSE: A neurocomputational architecture for syntax","authors":"Elliot Murphy","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101180","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A comprehensive neural model of language must accommodate four components: representations, operations, structures and encoding. Recent intracranial research has begun to map out the feature space associated with syntactic processes, but the field lacks a unified framework that can direct invasive neural analyses. This article proposes a neurocomputational architecture for syntax, termed ROSE (Representation, Operation, Structure, Encoding). Under ROSE, the basic data structures of syntax are atomic features, types of mental representations (R), and are coded at the single-unit and ensemble level. Operations (O) transforming these units into manipulable objects accessible to subsequent structure-building levels are coded via high frequency broadband γ activity. Low frequency synchronization and cross-frequency coupling code for recursive structural inferences (S). Distinct forms of low frequency coupling encode these structures onto distinct workspaces (E). Causally connecting R to O is spike-phase/LFP coupling; connecting O to S is phase-amplitude coupling; connecting S to E are frontotemporal traveling oscillations. ROSE is reliant on neurophysiologically plausible mechanisms and provides an anatomically precise and falsifiable grounding for natural language syntax.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138335252","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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