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{"title":"The impact of response congruence on speech production: An event-related potentials study","authors":"J.R. Kuipers","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101178","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A puzzling finding in the speech production literature is the facilitation of categorically related distractors in a superordinate level naming task. The context is in this case response congruent, because application of the task instruction to the context would lead to the correct response. This study investigates the time-course of response congruence effects in speech production using event-related potentials (ERPs). Participants overtly named target words that were overlaid on context pictures with either their superordinate category level name or their associated function, while their response times and ERPs were recorded. Behavioural results replicate the facilitating effect of response congruence. The ERP results showed that the N2 was larger for a response incongruent than congruent context, and this effect correlated with the behavioural pattern of results. This key finding suggests that response incongruence is associated with a conflict-monitoring response which drives the behavioural effect. Further, N400 amplitude was not modulated by response congruence, showing that its effect appears confined to the conceptualisation phase. Finally, P3 modulations mirrored those in RTs, but unlike the N2 effect, they did not correlate with RTs. This suggests that, although the facilitating effect of response congruence is confined to the conceptualisation phase of speech production, response incongruent representations may remain active during later processing stages, or that this late effect of response congruence reflects conflict resolve. Implications for models of speech production are discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"69 ","pages":"Article 101178"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0911604423000556/pdfft?md5=79f15e8353a223c3864c504a4ecf9538&pid=1-s2.0-S0911604423000556-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134655127","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":"Contrastive stress in persons with Parkinson's disease who speak Mandarin: Task effect in production and preserved perception","authors":"Xi Chen,&nbsp;Diana Sidtis","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101173","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>Speech in persons with Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by impaired prosody (e.g., monotone, abnormal rate, reduced loudness). Most studies on prosodic abnormalities in PD have been obtained from individuals who speak non-tone languages, where prosodic contrasts do not systematically contribute to lexical meanings. In a tone language such as Mandarin, pitch not only carries affective information but also serves to distinguish lexical meanings. It is not known how well persons with PD, who speak a tone language, convey contrastive stress (specific intonational cues signaling topic and theme) for discourse purposes in production, or how well they perceive these contrasts.</p></div><div><h3>Method</h3><p>Experiment 1 investigated production of contrastive stress by persons with PD who speak Mandarin using two different speech tasks, Elicitation and Repetition. PD participants and healthy controls (HC) produced short sentences with focus in different positions during the two task conditions. As an indirect measurement of the quality of the participants’ production of contrastive stress, healthy listeners served as raters to identify focus positions in the sentences and provide goodness ratings to each produced contrastive stress. Experiment 2 examined perceptual ability, measuring PD participants' identification through listening of contrastive stress on utterances produced by a healthy speaker.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>For the Production Study (Experiment 1), the results revealed significantly poorer performance in the PD than the HC group in Elicitation and Repetition. Consistent with previous studies, a task effect was found; study participants demonstrated better performance in Repetition than in Elicitation. Results for the examination of perceptual ability in Experiment 2 revealed that PD and HC participants were equally successful in perceiving contrastive stress in Mandarin utterances produced by a healthy speaker.</p></div><div><h3>Discussion</h3><p>This study extended previous literature by measuring production and perception of contrastive stress in persons with PD who speak a tone language. Contrastive stress was detected with decreased accuracy in speech produced by persons with PD compared to healthy controls. However, performance was relatively preserved in a repetition condition compared to an elicitation condition. In contrast to the production results, speakers with PD were as successful as HC in perceiving sentential focus, consistent with previous research reporting a discrepancy between production and perception in persons with PD.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"69 ","pages":"Article 101173"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49859179","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 neural correlates of sub-lexical semantics and its integration with the lexical meaning in reading Chinese characters","authors":"Xiangyang Zhang ,&nbsp;Wenqi Cai ,&nbsp;Min Dang ,&nbsp;Rui Zhang ,&nbsp;Xiaojuan Wang ,&nbsp;Jianfeng Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101176","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span><span>The semantic neural routes in contemporary models of visual word recognition<span> are mainly constructed based on lexical-semantic processing. However, the neural bases of processing semantic cues embodied in sub-lexical units are less clear. The current fMRI study takes the ideographic property of Chinese characters (The semantic radical can provide a semantic cue for the character's meaning) to explore the brain mechanisms of sub-lexical </span></span>semantic processing<span> and its interaction with lexical-semantic processing in a lexical decision task. The GLM results and further ROI analysis revealed that the lexical-semantic processing relied on the left posterior Middle </span></span>Temporal Gyrus<span> (pMTG) and Angular Gyrus<span> (AG); the sub-lexical semantic processing relied on the left middle MTG (mMTG) and AG; their integration relied on the left Anterior Temporal Lobe (ATL). It sheds light on investigating the neural circuit of the semantic processing in visual word reading.</span></span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"69 ","pages":"Article 101176"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49859181","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":"Pupil size shows diminished increases on verbal fluency tasks in patients with behavioral-variant-frontotemporal dementia","authors":"Mohamad El Haj ,&nbsp;Dimitrios Kapogiannis ,&nbsp;Claire Boutoleau-Bretonnière","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101164","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"69 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49859177","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":"Left-hand muscle contractions improve novel metaphor comprehension among adolescents","authors":"Tala Noufi ,&nbsp;Maor Zeev-Wolf","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101174","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>For people to understand metaphors that require the creation of associations between remote concepts, both the diffuse spread of activation in semantic networks in the right hemisphere<span> (coarse semantic coding) and the tight and focused spread of activation in the left hemisphere (fine semantic coding) are required. During adolescence, the dynamic between the left and right hemispheres that enables the processing of metaphors is not yet established. Thus, the present study aimed to (1) test whether left-hand muscle contractions that activate the right hemisphere's sensory-motor regions can boost metaphor comprehension in adolescents; (2) compare conventional and novel metaphor processing (with no muscle contractions) in adolescents and adults. For the first goal, 83 adolescents between the ages of 14–16 squeezed a rubber ball with either their right hands, left hands, or not at all (control group) while presented with two-word expressions of four types: literal expressions, conventional metaphors, novel metaphors, and unrelated expressions. Results showed that left-hand muscle contractions led to more accurate processing of literal expressions and conventional and novel metaphors. However, the over-activation of the right hemisphere led to a decreased ability to process unrelated expressions. For the second goal, the adolescent control group was compared with an adult group of participants. Results revealed that despite a general disadvantage in language processing (including conventional metaphors), adolescents were more accurate in processing novel metaphors. Our findings suggest that adolescents' left lateralization for language is not yet established, resulting in over-reliance on coarse semantic coding. In addition, our results demonstrate the effectiveness of a simple, non-invasive technique for enhancing metaphor comprehension in adolescents. This technique may especially benefit adolescents who struggle with metaphor comprehension, such as adolescents with autistic spectrum disorders or with poor social skills.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"69 ","pages":"Article 101174"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49859180","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":"Anatomo-functional profile of white matter tracts in relevance to language: A systematic review","authors":"Yasin Kargar ,&nbsp;Milad Jalilian","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101175","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>The way the brain does process language is an issue that has vexed the cognitive neuroscience of language for decades. Concurring with the Hickok and Poeppel's dual-stream network, we aimed to undertake a </span>systematic review<span><span> of the language-related functions of white matter tracts, comprising the dorsal and ventral language streams. Recent findings conform to an account in which ILF, IFOF, </span>UF<span><span><span>, ECF, a branch of the MLF, and a short segment of the </span>SLF<span><span> constitutes the ventral stream. The bulk of the SLF together with the AF form the dorsal language stream. The most anterior part of the dorsal pathway is also home to the FAT. We propose a fine-grained profile of each white matter fiber and the role in language processing. A better grasp of the architecture of language networks provides neuroclinicians and neurosurgeons precise pre/intraoperative instructions and a valuable avenue to better diagnose </span>language impairments, and plan </span></span>treatments.</span></span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"69 ","pages":"Article 101175"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49859183","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":"Perceptual strength influences lexical decision in Alzheimer's disease","authors":"A. Miceli ,&nbsp;E. Wauthia ,&nbsp;K. Kandana Arachchige ,&nbsp;L. Lefebvre ,&nbsp;L. Ris ,&nbsp;I. Simoes Loureiro","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101144","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"68 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49898878","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":"A systematic review of neuroimaging approaches to mapping language in individuals","authors":"Aahana Bajracharya ,&nbsp;Jonathan E. Peelle","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101163","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101163","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>Although researchers often rely on group-level fMRI results to draw conclusions about the neurobiology of language, doing so without accounting for the complexities of individual brains may reduce the validity of our findings. Furthermore, understanding brain organization in individuals is critically important for both </span>basic science<span><span> and clinical translation. To assess the state of single-subject language localization in the functional neuroimaging literature, we carried out a </span>systematic review of studies published through April 2020. Out of 977 papers identified through our search, 121 met our inclusion criteria for reporting single-subject fMRI results (fMRI studies of language in adults that report task-based single-subject statistics). Of these, 20 papers reported using a single-subject test-retest analysis to assess reliability. Thus, we found that a relatively modest number of papers reporting single-subject results quantified single-subject reliability. These varied substantially in acquisition parameters, task design, and reliability measures, creating significant challenges for making comparisons across studies. Future endeavors to optimize the localization of language networks in individuals will benefit from the standardization and broader reporting of reliability metrics for different tasks and acquisition parameters.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"68 ","pages":"Article 101163"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10449384/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10100825","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":"The processing of Which interrogative sentences: A behavioral and ERP study","authors":"Mirko Grimaldi ,&nbsp;Marica De Vincenzi ,&nbsp;Paolo Lorusso ,&nbsp;Francesco Di Russo ,&nbsp;Rosalia Di Matteo ,&nbsp;Luigi Rizzi ,&nbsp;Maria Teresa Guasti","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101154","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study investigates the parsing of Italian <em>Wh</em>-questions of the <em>Which-N</em> type. The extraction site could be either the subject or the object noun phrase. The verb following the <em>Which</em>-noun was either a singular or a plural form, immediately disambiguating the <em>Which-N</em> argument role through verb agreement. Reading time on the verb and on the post-verbal noun phrase were significantly shorter for the subject <em>Wh</em>-question than for the object <em>Wh</em>-question. Multi-channel ERP data showed increased P600 amplitudes for the object questions in response to the critical word on the left temporal lobe in the superior temporal gyrus. These findings are in line with the Minimal Chain Principle (De Vincenzi, 1991a) and provide further evidence for the hypothesis that the amplitude and duration of the P600 involve multi-dimensional processes controlling operations such as prediction, retrieval, revising, and structure-building operations needed for assembly (and disassembly) of syntactic relations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"68 ","pages":"Article 101154"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49855994","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":"Functional connectivity during morphosyntactic processing: An fMRI study in balanced Turkish-Persian bilinguals","authors":"Simin Meykadeh ,&nbsp;Ali Khadem ,&nbsp;Simone Sulpizio ,&nbsp;Werner Sommer","doi":"10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101162","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>Previous research has documented the impact of bilingualism on the functional connectivity (FC) of brain networks responsible for processing of two languages during a resting-state brain activity. However, the BOLD signal modulation during task-evoked neural activity remains unclear. To address this question we focused on language-related differences of fMRI-based FC of bilingual brains during </span>morphosyntactic processing<span> in L1 and L2 among balanced L1-Turkish-L2-Persian bilinguals who had learnt L2 at age 7. The task required grammaticality judgements to alternating L1-L2 sentences. In our previous study on the present dataset, we had demonstrated changes in BOLD activation in the Pars opercularis<span> (PO), posterior Superior Temporal Gyrus<span> (pSTG), Planum Temporale<span> (PT), and Supplementary Motor Area (SMA), associated with auditory morphosyntactic processing. In the present reanalysis of these data we focused on FC within and between the language network and the control network. Regions of interest were based on the syntax- and control-specific regions activated by the task. Our findings confirm the FC between the syntax-specific regions PO and pSTG within the language network. The FC between these areas in the processing of morphosyntax turned to be quite similar for L1 and L2, reflecting the high competences of our balanced bilinguals in both languages. In the control network, direct FCs were found in two key areas of the PT and SMA (i.e. left PT to right PT and left PT to left SMA), supporting the view that these areas subserve control operations when bilinguals perceive and process spoken language. Remarkably, inter- and intra-hemispheric connectivities in the control network were indistinguishable for L1 and L2. Regarding intra-network results, although increased FCs were observed in L1 for the left PO-PT neurocircuit and in L2 for the pSTG-PT neurocircuit, none of them significantly interacted with grammaticality. Overall, these results suggest that being balanced bilingual with age of acquisition at 7 years appears to be associated with similarities of FC between syntax processing-related and input- and output-related brain networks. Considering that previous resting state studies had not found evidence for the above-mentioned connections in bilinguals, the present results indicate the importance of task-driven reconfigurations on functional connections between brain networks.</span></span></span></span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":50118,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neurolinguistics","volume":"68 ","pages":"Article 101162"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49855990","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}