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{"title":"Role of the left inferior frontal gyrus in transforming format types of action descriptions between stimuli and representations","authors":"Hiroshi Shibata ,&nbsp;Kenji Ogawa","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2024.101191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2024.101191","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We performed a functional magnetic resonance imaging study to elucidate the process involved in the transformation of the format types of action descriptions between stimuli and representations. We independently manipulated the format types of both stimuli (visual action [Vi] vs. verbal [Ve] stimulus) and internal representations (Vi vs. Ve representation) and set four types of experimental tasks. Each participant was required to generate a Vi or Ve representation after being presented with a Vi or Ve stimulus, according to each task. Increased activity in the left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) (Brodmann areas 44 and 45) was found in the transformation contrast: ([Vi stimulus and Ve representation] + [Ve stimulus and Vi representation]) &gt; ([Vi stimulus and Vi representation] + [Ve stimulus and Ve representation]). This result suggests that the left IFG is involved with the transformation process and has the function of generating an internal representation in a format different from that of externally presented stimuli.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 101191"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139743205","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":"Neurodynamics of selected language processes involved in word reading: An EEG study with French dyslexic adults","authors":"Aikaterini Premeti ,&nbsp;Maria Pia Bucci ,&nbsp;Karin Heidlmayr ,&nbsp;Pierre Vigneron ,&nbsp;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":"71 ","pages":"Article 101201"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","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}

{"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 ,&nbsp;Suzanne Flynn ,&nbsp;Charles Henderson ,&nbsp;James Gair ,&nbsp;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":"70 ","pages":"Article 101190"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","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}

{"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":"70 ","pages":"Article 101180"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","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}

{"title":"Can we track the progression of Alzheimer's Disease via lexical-semantic variables in connected speech?","authors":"Marte Mestach,&nbsp;Robert J. Hartsuiker,&nbsp;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":"70 ","pages":"Article 101189"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","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}

{"title":"Young interpreting trainees’ better adaptation to the flanker conflicting environment: An ERP study","authors":"Hongming Zhao ,&nbsp;Xiaocong Chen ,&nbsp;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":"70 ","pages":"Article 101181"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","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}

{"title":"The production of adjectives in narratives by individuals with primary progressive aphasia","authors":"Matthew Walenski ,&nbsp;Thomas Sostarics ,&nbsp;M. Marsel Mesulam ,&nbsp;Cynthia K. Thompson","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101179","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Adjectives (e.g., <em>hungry</em>) are an important part of language, but have been little studied in individuals with impaired language. Adjectives are used in two different ways in English: <em>attributively</em>, to modify a noun (<em>the hungry dog</em>); or <em>predicatively</em>, after a verb (<em>the dog is hungry</em>). Attributive adjectives have a more complex grammatical structure than predicative adjectives, and may therefore be particularly prone to disruption in individuals with grammatical impairments. We investigated adjective production in three subtypes of primary progressive aphasia (PPA: agrammatic, semantic, logopenic), as well as in agrammatic stroke aphasia and a group of healthy control participants. Participants produced narratives based on picture books, and we coded every adjective they produced for its syntactic structure. Compared to healthy controls, the two agrammatic groups, but not the other two patient groups, produced significantly fewer attributive adjectives per sentence. All four patient groups were similar to controls for their rate of predicative adjective production. In addition, we found a significant correlation in the agrammatic PPA participants between their rate of producing attributive adjectives and impaired production of sentences with complex syntactic structure (subject cleft sentences like <em>It was the boy that chased the girl</em>); no such correlation was found for predicative adjectives. Irrespective of structure, we examined the lexical characteristics of the adjectives that were produced, including length, frequency, semantic diversity and neighborhood density. Overall, the lexical characteristics of the produced adjectives were largely consistent with the language profile of each group. In sum, the results suggest that attributive adjectives present a particular challenge for individuals with agrammatic language production, and add a new dimension to the description of agrammatism. Our results further suggest that attributive adjectives may be a fruitful target for improved treatment and recovery of agrammatic language.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"69 ","pages":"Article 101179"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92073569","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":"Event related potentials to native speech contrasts predicts word reading abilities in early school-aged children","authors":"Vanessa Harwood ,&nbsp;Adrian Garcia-Sierra ,&nbsp;Raphael Dias ,&nbsp;Emily Jelfs ,&nbsp;Alisa Baron","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101161","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101161","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Speech perception skills have been implicated in the development of phoneme-graphene correspondence, yet the exact nature of speech perception and word reading ability remains unknown. We investigate phonological sensitivity to native (English) and nonnative (Spanish) speech syllables within an auditory oddball paradigm using event related potentials (ERPs) collected from lateral temporal electrode sites in 33 monolingual English-speaking children aged 6–8 years (N = 33). We further explore the relationship between ERPs to English word reading abilities for this group. Results revealed that language stimuli (English, Spanish), ERP condition (standard, deviant), and hemisphere (left, right) all influenced the lateral N1 component. ERPs recorded from deviant English stimuli were significantly more negative within the left hemisphere compared to all other recorded ERPs. Mean amplitude differences within the N1 in left lateral electrode sites recorded in response to English phoneme contrasts significantly predicted English word reading abilities within this sample. Results indicate that speech perception of native contrasts recorded in left temporal electrode sites for the N1 component are linked to English word reading abilities in early school-aged children.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"69 ","pages":"Article 101161"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10512698/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41162488","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}

{"title":"Evidence of rapid automatic translation in Korean-English bilinguals using masked implicit priming: An ERP study","authors":"Hyoung Sun Kim ,&nbsp;Say Young Kim","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101172","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>The present study used a masked implicit priming paradigm to test if L1 to L2 translation occurs automatically and rapidly. Korean-English bilinguals performed a lexical decision task when English L2 targets (e.g., FACE) were translation equivalent to the L1 prime (얼굴 </span><em>elkwul</em> meaning ‘face’) or had phonological overlap with its translation to varying degrees: moderate (<em>FAKE</em>), minimal (<em>FOOL</em>), or unrelated. The translation equivalent targets resulted in N250 and N400 attenuation, reflecting facilitation in sublexical and lexical mapping of the target words, respectively. Crucially, target words which were phonologically related to the implicitly activated translation equivalent (<em>face</em><span>–FAKE/FOOL) also demonstrated N250/N400 modulation in the absence of semantic overlap. Additionally, the pattern of effects obtained against the unrelated condition differed between the implicitly related primes, with greater phonological overlap resulting in increased negativity, while minimal overlap led to attenuation. These findings suggest translation via direct lexical association occurring automatically at earlier stages of visual word recognition prior to lexical selection in bilinguals.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"69 ","pages":"Article 101172"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49859178","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":"Physiological responses and cognitive behaviours: Measures of heart rate variability index language knowledge","authors":"Dagmar Divjak ,&nbsp;Hui Sun ,&nbsp;Petar Milin","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101177","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Over the past decades, focus has been on developing methods that allow tapping into aspects of cognition that are not directly observable. This includes linguistic knowledge and skills which develop largely without awareness and may therefore be difficult or impossible to articulate. Building on the relation between language cognition and the nervous system, we examine whether Heart Rate Variability (HRV), a cardiovascular measure that indexes Autonomic Nervous System activity, can be used to assess implicit language knowledge. We test the potential of HRV to detect whether individuals possess grammatical knowledge and explore how sensitive the cardiovascular response is.</p><p>41 healthy, British English-speaking adults listened to 40 English speech samples, half of which contained grammatical errors. Thought Technology's 5-channel ProComp 5 encoder tracked heart rate via a BVP-Flex/Pro sensor attached to the middle finger of the non-dominant hand, at a rate of 2048 samples per second. A Generalised Additive Mixed Effects Model confirmed a cardiovascular response to grammatical violations: there is a statistically significant reduction in HRV as indexed by NN50 in response to stimuli that contain errors. The cardiovascular response reflects the extent of the linguistic violations, and NN50 decreases linearly with an increase in the number of errors, up to a certain level, after which HRV remains constant.</p><p>This observation brings into focus a new dimension of the intricate relationship between physiology and cognition. Being able to use a highly portable and non-intrusive technique with language stimuli also creates exciting possibilities for assessing the language knowledge of individuals from a range of populations in their natural environment and in authentic communicative situations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"69 ","pages":"Article 101177"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49859182","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}