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{"title":"The influence of temporal information on online processing of counterfactual conditional sentences: Evidence from ERPs on temporal indicators","authors":"Qiaoyun Liao , Lingda Kong , Xiaoming Jiang","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101143","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"68 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49855996","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":"Resource sharedness between language and music processing: An ERP study","authors":"Degao Li , Xing Wang , Yi Li , Dangui Song , Wenling Ma","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101136","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"67 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49899196","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":"Generalized additive mixed modeling of EEG supports dual-route accounts of morphosyntax in suggesting no word frequency effects on processing of regular grammatical forms","authors":"David Abugaber , Irene Finestrat , Alicia Luque , Kara Morgan-Short","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101137","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"67 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49899198","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 left inferior frontal gyrus and the resolution of unimodal vs. cross-modal interference in speech production: A transcranial direct current stimulation study","authors":"E. Ward ,&nbsp;H.S. Gauvin ,&nbsp;K.L. McMahon ,&nbsp;M. Meinzer ,&nbsp;G.I. de Zubicaray","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2022.101097","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2022.101097","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>Most neurobiological models of spoken word production propose that multiple lexical candidates are activated in left posterior temporal cortex during word retrieval. Some accounts also propose a role for the left inferior frontal gyrus (LIFG) in selecting the correct word from among these candidates. Evidence for both proposals has come from the picture-word interference (PWI) paradigm, in which participants name pictures (e.g., RABBIT) while ignoring a distractor word. Categorically related distractors (e.g., </span><em>horse</em>-RABBIT) slow naming latencies compared to unrelated words (e.g., <em>violin</em>-RABBIT), an effect known as semantic interference, whereas congruent distractors (e.g., <em>rabbit</em><span>-RABBIT) facilitate naming, but the precise conditions in which these effects occur remain a matter of debate. Although the neuroimaging evidence for left temporal cortex engagement in this paradigm is robust, the evidence for LIFG involvement is more equivocal, particularly for semantic interference. A key factor distinguishing LIFG involvement in neuroimaging studies is </span><em>distractor modality</em><span>, i.e., activity is more consistently reported for auditory distractors. We therefore applied online anodal transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (atDCS) to LIFG and left posterior temporal cortex in a three-way, cross-over, sham-controlled PWI paradigm involving either written (Experiment 1) or auditory (Experiment 2) distractors. Surprisingly, compared to sham, atDCS over posterior temporal cortex significantly slowed the congruent facilitation effect with written distractors, but did not modulate the semantic interference effect, while atDCS to LIFG did not significantly influence either effect. We also failed to observe any significant modulatory effects of atDCS with auditory distractors. The present results only partially support left temporal lobe engagement during PWI and provide no evidence for LIFG involvement. We recommend future PWI studies systematically investigate different electrode montages in tDCS protocols.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"64 ","pages":"Article 101097"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"54648523","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":"Temporal dynamics of form and meaning in morphologically complex word processing: An ERP study on Korean inflected verbs","authors":"Joonwoo Kim ,&nbsp;Jinwon Kang ,&nbsp;Jeahong Kim ,&nbsp;Kichun Nam","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2022.101098","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2022.101098","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>The word stem is distinguished as the core component in verb inflections that envelopes essential semantic and syntactic properties, playing a central role in word processing. In the present study, in order to find the role of form and meaning during the visual recognition of morphologically complex words, the effect of the stem length of inflected Korean verbs was examined in an event-related potential (ERP) lexical decision experiment. Additionally, a potential modulation of whole-word frequency in morphological effect was investigated in order to locate the temporal locus of sublexical (i.e., morphological) and lexico-semantic processing. Behavioral results showed that lexical decision times were faster for targets with shorter stem length compared to targets with identical word length but longer stem length. A significant interaction between the whole-word frequency and stem length was also found, in which stem length effect was not significant in words with high frequency. The ERP data revealed corollary results; the frequency effect emerged as early as </span>N100<span>, followed by significant modulations of N250, N400, and P600 components. The stem length effect was demonstrated in latency ranges N250, N400, and N400. In the N400 component, the interaction of two factors was revealed in which stem length effect shown only in the medium- and low-word frequency levels, but not in the high-frequency level. Taken together, the present data provide evidence for simultaneous activation of morphological and lexico-semantic information in early visual word processing after scanning the whole-form of a word. The results are discussed in terms of the current models of morphologically complex word processing.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"64 ","pages":"Article 101098"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"54648535","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":"Verb production and comprehension in primary progressive aphasia","authors":"Haiyan Wang ,&nbsp;Matthew Walenski ,&nbsp;Kaitlyn Litcofsky ,&nbsp;Jennifer E. Mack ,&nbsp;M. Marsel Mesulam ,&nbsp;Cynthia K. Thompson","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2022.101099","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2022.101099","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Studies of word class processing have found verb retrieval impairments in individuals with primary progressive aphasia (Bak et al., 2001; Cappa et al., 1998; Cotelli et al., 2006; Hillis, Heidler-Gary, et al., 2006; Hillis, Oh, &amp; Ken, 2004; Marcotte et al., 2014; Rhee, Antiquena, &amp; Grossman, 2001; Silveri &amp; Ciccarelli, 2007; Thompson, Lukic, et al., 2012) associated primarily with the agrammatic variant. However, fewer studies have focused on verb comprehension, with inconsistent results. Because verbs are critical to both production and comprehension of clauses and sentences, we investigated verb processing across domains in agrammatic, logopenic, and semantic PPA and a group of age-matched healthy controls. Participants completed a confrontation naming task for verb production and an eye-tracking word-picture matching task for online verb comprehension. All PPA groups showed impaired verb production and comprehension relative to healthy controls. Most notably, the PPA-S group performed more poorly than the other two PPA variants in both domains. Overall, the results indicate that semantic deficits in the PPA-S extend beyond object knowledge to verbs as well, adding to our knowledge concerning the nature of the language deficits in the three variants of primary progressive aphasia.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"64 ","pages":"Article 101099"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"54648549","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":"Pragmatic inferences: Neuroimaging of ad-hoc implicatures","authors":"Shiri Hornick ,&nbsp;Einat Shetreet","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2022.101090","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2022.101090","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span><span><span>During conversation, comprehenders often make pragmatic inferences, or implicatures<span>. Our study concerns ad-hoc implicatures, which are quantity-based implicatures. For example, the sentence “I walked Lassie”, where the addressee knows that the speaker has 2 dogs, signals to the addressee that the speaker wanted to convey an enriched meaning (i.e., she walked Lassie, but not the other dog). On some accounts, it is assumed that these implicatures are derived similarly to the well-studied scalar implicatures. Yet, ad-hoc implicatures received little attention. In the current study, we used fMRI to further uncover the mechanisms that support pragmatic inferences, and specifically ad-hoc implicatures. In our judgment task, we first presented a context picture with several objects, then the target sentence (sans picture) which referred to either the subset (implicature condition) or the whole set of objects (no-implicature condition), and finally asked participants to judge whether a final picture matched the target sentence. Comparing the implicature and no-implicature conditions, we observed activations in the rostrolateral </span></span>prefrontal cortex, which we linked to inference generation, and in the right </span>inferior parietal lobule, which we linked to </span>theory of mind<span> or attention shift. We also performed an ROI analysis, examining activations related to ad-hoc implicatures in regions previously linked to scalar implicatures and to other types of context-based implicatures, showing overlaps and dissimilarities in both cases. Thus, our results are not completely in line with theories that argue for one type of processing in the derivation of pragmatic inferences.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"64 ","pages":"Article 101090"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"54648506","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":"Do subsyllabic units play a role in Mandarin spoken word recognition? Evidence from phonotactic processing","authors":"Chiung-Yu Chang,&nbsp;Feng-fan Hsieh","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2022.101089","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2022.101089","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study investigates the roles of Mandarin subsyllabic units in spoken word recognition by examining the neural processing of two phonotactic anomalies: (1) segmental gaps, which contain a non-existing combination of segments (e.g., *[ki1]); and (2) tonal gaps, which refer to a nonword comprised of possible segment combinations with an incongruous tone (e.g., *[tau2]; cf. [tau1] “knife”). Event-related potentials were recorded while participants performed an auditory lexical decision task. The response to segmental gaps differed from the other stimuli types in the amplitudes and scalp distributions of several components, including the P350, the N400, and the late positive complex. The P350 effect occurred around 370 ms before the entire syllable was revealed, indicating that lexical processing is not based solely on syllable representations. Furthermore, the overall differences between segmental and tonal gaps suggest that tones and vowels are dissociable. These results thus provide converging evidence for the view that Mandarin syllables are processed incrementally through phonemes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"64 ","pages":"Article 101089"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0911604422000331/pdfft?md5=1aa9ba506adfcf0043668ac85c9d0d18&pid=1-s2.0-S0911604422000331-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46278293","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":"Action-speech and gesture-speech integration in younger and older adults: An event-related potential study","authors":"Kim Ouwehand ,&nbsp;Jacqueline de Nooijer ,&nbsp;Tamara van Gog ,&nbsp;Fred Paas","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2022.101100","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2022.101100","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In daily communication, speech is enriched with co-speech gestures, providing a visual context for the linguistic message. It has been shown that older adults are less sensitive to incongruencies between context (e.g., a sentence) and target (e.g., a final sentence word). This is evidenced by a smaller and delayed N400 (in)congruency effect that reflects the difference between the N400 component in response to congruent versus incongruent targets. The present study investigated whether the effect of age on the N400 effect in sentence-final word integration would also arise for verb-gesture/action integration. Assuming that gestures have a tight connection to language these would provide a higher contextual constraint for the action phrase than the literal actions (i.e., an action performed on an object can be understood in isolation, without the action phrase). EEG was recorded from a sample of younger and older participants, while they watched audio-visual stimuli of a human actor performing an action or pantomime gesture while hearing a congruent or incongruent action phrase. Results showed that the N400 (in)congruency effect was less widespread in the older than the younger adults. It seemed that older adults, but not younger adults were less sensitive to the gestural than the action (object) information when processing an action phrase.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"64 ","pages":"Article 101100"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0911604422000446/pdfft?md5=747dcd5b690ceb547585dfa07586bb73&pid=1-s2.0-S0911604422000446-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41767781","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":"Frequency-based foveal load modulates semantic parafoveal-on-foveal effects","authors":"M. Antúnez ,&nbsp;P.J. López-Pérez ,&nbsp;J. Dampuré ,&nbsp;H.A. Barber","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2022.101071","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2022.101071","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>During reading, we can process words allocated to the parafoveal visual region. Our ability to extract parafoveal information is determined by the availability of attentional resources, and by how these are distributed among words in the visual field. According to the foveal load hypothesis, a greater difficulty in processing the foveal word would result in less attentional resources being allocated to the parafoveal word, thereby hindering its processing. However, contradictory results have raised questions about which foveal load manipulations may affect the processing of parafoveal words at different levels. We explored whether the semantic processing of parafoveal words can be modulated by variations in a frequency-based foveal load. When participants read word triads, modulations in the N400 component indicated that, while parafoveal words were semantically processed when foveal load was low, their meaning could not be accessed if the foveal word was more difficult to process. Therefore, a frequency-based foveal load modulates semantic parafoveal processing and a semantic preview manipulation may be a suitable baseline to test the foveal load hypothesis.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"63 ","pages":"Article 101071"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S091160442200015X/pdfft?md5=46ee206588818d87e83210b0b8f404c3&pid=1-s2.0-S091160442200015X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49193243","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}