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The Neural Consequences of Semantic Composition. 语义构成的神经后果。

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Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Pub Date : 2025-09-22 DOI: 10.1162/JOCN.a.108

Heather Bruett, Marc N Coutanche

{"title":"The Neural Consequences of Semantic Composition.","authors":"Heather Bruett, Marc N Coutanche","doi":"10.1162/JOCN.a.108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/JOCN.a.108","url":null,"abstract":"Humans can create completely new concepts through semantic composition. These \"conceptual combinations\" can be created by attributing the features of one concept to another (e.g., a \"lemon flamingo\" might be a yellow flamingo) or drawing on a relationship between concepts (e.g., a \"lemon flamingo\" might consume lemons). We ask how semantic composition modulates the neural representations of underlying concepts. Combining fMRI with multivariate pattern analysis, we interrogate neural patterns for concepts before and after they were subjected to semantic composition. We observe a postcomposition shift in neural patterns underlying weakly constrained concepts in the visual system. The composition of strongly constrained combinations draws on a network of semantic regions that include the right inferior frontal gyrus, left angular gyrus, left lateral anterior temporal lobe, and posterior cingulate cortex. Finally, a subset of the semantic network, in the left parahippocampal gyrus, distinguishes the manner of composition: relational or attributive. These findings reveal that semantic composition has neural consequences for the composed concepts and that the manner of composition affects how the brain's semantic network is deployed.","PeriodicalId":51081,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145202025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Retinotopic Spatial Working Memory Representations Are Not Affected by Task-irrelevant Visual Stimuli. 视网膜异位空间工作记忆表征不受任务无关视觉刺激的影响。

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Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Pub Date : 2025-09-22 DOI: 10.1162/JOCN.a.109

Kelvin Vu-Cheung, Edward F Ester, Thomas C Sprague

{"title":"Retinotopic Spatial Working Memory Representations Are Not Affected by Task-irrelevant Visual Stimuli.","authors":"Kelvin Vu-Cheung, Edward F Ester, Thomas C Sprague","doi":"10.1162/JOCN.a.109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/JOCN.a.109","url":null,"abstract":"Visual working memory (WM) enables the maintenance and manipulation of information no longer accessible in the world. Previous research has identified spatial WM representations in sustained activation patterns in visual, parietal, and frontal cortex, while MEG/EEG studies have additionally supported a role for \"activity-silent\" mechanisms revealed by transient reactivation or amplification of an existing representation by a task-irrelevant \"ping\" stimulus. In natural vision, the delay period between encoding information into WM and its use to guide behavior is rarely \"empty,\" as is the case in many laboratory experiments. Instead, eye movements, movement of the individual, and events in the environment result in visual inputs that may overwrite or impair the fidelity of WM representations, especially in early sensory cortices. Here, we evaluated the extent to which a brief, irrelevant interrupting visual stimulus presented during a spatial WM delay period impaired behavioral performance and retinotopic WM representation fidelity assayed using an inverted encoding model. On each trial, participants (both sexes) viewed two target dots and were immediately postcued to remember the precise spatial position of one dot. On 50% of trials, a brief interrupter stimulus appeared. While we observed strong transient univariate visual responses to the interrupter stimulus, we saw no change in reconstructed neural WM representations due to this interruption, nor a change in behavioral performance on a continuous recall task. This suggests that spatial WM representations can be robust to interference from incoming task-irrelevant visual information, perhaps related to their role in guiding movements.","PeriodicalId":51081,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145202004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Tracking the Unconscious: Neural Evidence for the Retention of Unaware Information in Visual Working Memory. 追踪无意识：视觉工作记忆中无意识信息保留的神经证据。

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Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Pub Date : 2025-09-22 DOI: 10.1162/JOCN.a.100

Filippo Gambarota, Roy Luria, Antonio Maffei, Roberto Dell'Acqua, Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Paola Sessa

{"title":"Tracking the Unconscious: Neural Evidence for the Retention of Unaware Information in Visual Working Memory.","authors":"Filippo Gambarota, Roy Luria, Antonio Maffei, Roberto Dell'Acqua, Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Paola Sessa","doi":"10.1162/JOCN.a.100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/JOCN.a.100","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the retention of visual information in visual working memory (VWM) when individuals are unaware of it, aiming to provide clear-cut evidence for an unconscious VWM effect. To explore the underlying neural mechanisms, we monitored a critical ERP component, specifically the contralateral delay activity (CDA), which reflects VWM maintenance. Participants performed a change detection task in which to-be-memorized Gabor patches were presented at a visibility threshold, determined to assess subjective awareness using the Perceptual Awareness Scale. Participants performed above chance level in the change detection task even when the visibility of the Gabor patches was subthreshold, indicating retention of visual information without conscious awareness. Notably, in a subsample of participants, a reliable CDA amplitude was observed during unaware trials, in which participants performed correctly, compared to trials with incorrect responses. As a proof of concept, this finding indexed short active maintenance of unaware visual information in VWM, which could be used to perform VWM-based tasks. In conclusion, the results of our study support the existence of an active retention of unaware visual information in VWM. These findings challenge the notion of entirely activity-silent working memory by showing that unconscious information is maintained through active neural firing (CDA), potentially transitioning to activity-silent mechanisms in later phases.","PeriodicalId":51081,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145092870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Impact of Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation on Event-related Potentials during a Response Inhibition Task 经皮迷走神经刺激对反应抑制任务中事件相关电位的影响。

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Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Pub Date : 2025-09-08 DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_02332

Piaoyi Li;Xiaojiaoyang Li;Ruihua Liu;Huijuan Zhang;Dong Song;Jin Cao

{"title":"Impact of Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation on Event-related Potentials during a Response Inhibition Task","authors":"Piaoyi Li;Xiaojiaoyang Li;Ruihua Liu;Huijuan Zhang;Dong Song;Jin Cao","doi":"10.1162/jocn_a_02332","DOIUrl":"10.1162/jocn_a_02332","url":null,"abstract":"As an emerging neuromodulation technique, transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) has shown promise in enhancing cognitive abilities. The present study used a combination of the go/no-go task and the stop-signal task experimental paradigm to examine the cognitive effects of taVNS on participants' EEG measures. Sixty-one healthy participants were randomly assigned to either the stimulation group or the sham group. Participants in the stimulation group received 100 Hz and 25 Hz stimulation in a counterbalanced order. We compared behavioral and EEG data before and after stimulation, and observed significant effects. The findings revealed that a 100-Hz taVNS significantly reduced participants' N2 latency in the stop trial, indicating potential improvement response inhibition. In addition, we noted a decreasing trend in alpha, theta, and delta band power during response inhibition after receiving a 100-Hz taVNS. These results suggest that a 100-Hz taVNS can enhance participants' response inhibition abilities, indicating its potential as a therapeutic approach for modulating cognitive functions.","PeriodicalId":51081,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience","volume":"37 10","pages":"1703-1716"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143804754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Object Ownership Processing in Peripersonal Space: An Electroencephalographic Study 个人空间客体所有权加工的脑电图研究。

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Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Pub Date : 2025-09-08 DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_02337

Lucie Lenglart;Clemence Roger;Adriana Sampaio;Yann Coello

{"title":"Object Ownership Processing in Peripersonal Space: An Electroencephalographic Study","authors":"Lucie Lenglart;Clemence Roger;Adriana Sampaio;Yann Coello","doi":"10.1162/jocn_a_02337","DOIUrl":"10.1162/jocn_a_02337","url":null,"abstract":"A fundamental aspect of interacting with objects in the environment is the ability to distinguish between objects that can be directly acted upon in the peripersonal space (PPS) and those out of immediate reach in the extrapersonal space (EPS). Performing appropriate actions also requires integrating social conceptual information related to who owns a particular object. While prior research has demonstrated that spatial and social factors influence object processing, how these factors are integrated is not yet fully understood. To address this issue, the present study explored the neurophysiological correlates of object ownership processing when objects were located in either the PPS or EPS. Facing a virtual character, 28 participants estimated the reachability of self-owned or other-owned objects, placed at different distances. The analysis confirmed that self-owned objects are processed faster when located in PPS, and other-owned objects are processed faster when located in EPS. EEG signals analysis revealed that early ERP components, such as the N1 and anterior N2, were modulated solely by objects' spatial location. In contrast, later components, including the P3 and anterior N400, were influenced by object ownership, although depending on object's location in space. These results suggest an early perceptual prioritization of objects in the PPS and a prioritization of objects that engages the self at a postperceptual stage. Overall, the findings provide new insights into how objects are processed depending on their spatial and social properties, and confirm that virtual reality represents a promising tool to probe neural mechanisms supporting perception and action in social contexts.","PeriodicalId":51081,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience","volume":"37 10","pages":"1774-1786"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143812866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Perceptual Decoupling Underlies Internal Shielding Benefit during Switches between External and Internal Attention: Evidence from Early Sensory Event-related Potential Components 感知解耦是内外注意转换过程中内部屏蔽效应的基础：来自早期感觉事件相关电位成分的证据。

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Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Pub Date : 2025-09-08 DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_02329

Sam Verschooren;Luc Vermeylen;Sam Boeve;Gilles Pourtois

{"title":"Perceptual Decoupling Underlies Internal Shielding Benefit during Switches between External and Internal Attention: Evidence from Early Sensory Event-related Potential Components","authors":"Sam Verschooren;Luc Vermeylen;Sam Boeve;Gilles Pourtois","doi":"10.1162/jocn_a_02329","DOIUrl":"10.1162/jocn_a_02329","url":null,"abstract":"People need to often switch attention between external and internal sources of information, that is, external and internal attention, respectively. There has been a recent surge of research interest in this type of attentional flexibility, which has revealed that it is characterized by an asymmetrical cost, being larger for switching toward internal than external attention. This cost asymmetry has been explained in terms of an internal shielding benefit, that is, the maintenance of stable internal attention against external interference. Although it is currently unclear how internal information might be shielded from external input during switches, a likely candidate is perceptual decoupling. In this study, we instructed participants to repeat external or internal attention, or to switch between them from trial to trial, while simultaneously recording 64-channel EEG. At the behavioral level, we replicated the switch cost asymmetry. Our ERP analysis provided evidence for three different processing stages. First, participants prepared more strongly for an upcoming internal than external attentional selection, as reflected in the increased contingent negative variation component. Second, during internal trials, participants moreover showed a blunted sensory response, most notable in the P1 and N1 components, reflecting perceptual decoupling. Finally, we found an increased P2 component when switching toward internal attention compared with repeating it, indicating more stable perceptual decoupling on internal repetition trials, in line with an internal shielding benefit. We integrate these findings here with behavioral accounts of the cost asymmetry and conclude that perceptual decoupling provides a potential mechanism for the internal shielding benefit of attention.","PeriodicalId":51081,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience","volume":"37 10","pages":"1666-1684"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143711954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Neural Signatures of Recollection Are Sensitive to Memory Quality and Specific Event Features 回忆的神经特征对记忆质量和特定事件特征敏感。

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Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Pub Date : 2025-09-08 DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_02335

Natalia Ladyka-Wojcik;Helen Schmidt;Rose A. Cooper;Maureen Ritchey

{"title":"Neural Signatures of Recollection Are Sensitive to Memory Quality and Specific Event Features","authors":"Natalia Ladyka-Wojcik;Helen Schmidt;Rose A. Cooper;Maureen Ritchey","doi":"10.1162/jocn_a_02335","DOIUrl":"10.1162/jocn_a_02335","url":null,"abstract":"Episodic memories reflect a bound representation of multimodal features that can be recollected with varying levels of precision. Recent fMRI investigations have demonstrated that the precision and content of information retrieved from memory engage a network of posterior medial-temporal and parietal regions co-activated with the hippocampus. Yet, comparatively, little is known about how memory content and precision affect common neural signatures of memory captured by EEG, where recollection has been associated with changes in ERP and oscillatory measures of neural activity. Here, we used a multifeature paradigm previously reported [Cooper, R. A., & Ritchey, M. Cortico-hippocampal network connections support the multidimensional quality of episodic memory. eLife, 8, e45591, 2019] with continuous measures of memory, in conjunction with scalp EEG, to characterize the content and quality of information that drives ERP and oscillatory markers of episodic memory. A common signature of memory retrieval in the left posterior regions, called the late positive component, was sensitive to overall memory quality and also to precision of recollection for spatial features. The analysis of oscillatory markers during recollection revealed that alpha/beta desynchronization was modulated by overall memory quality and also by individual features in memory. Importantly, we found evidence of a relationship between these two neural markers of memory retrieval, suggesting that they may represent complementary aspects of the recollection experience. These findings demonstrate how time-sensitive and dynamic processes identified with EEG correspond to overall episodic recollection and also to the retrieval of precise features in memory.","PeriodicalId":51081,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience","volume":"37 10","pages":"1757-1773"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143804757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Activation Pattern of Attentional Templates Affects Dual-target Search 注意模板激活模式对双目标搜索的影响。

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Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Pub Date : 2025-09-08 DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_02342

Haomin Lian;Sen Liu;Hua Chen;Zuomin Wang;Xiaowei Che

{"title":"Activation Pattern of Attentional Templates Affects Dual-target Search","authors":"Haomin Lian;Sen Liu;Hua Chen;Zuomin Wang;Xiaowei Che","doi":"10.1162/jocn_a_02342","DOIUrl":"10.1162/jocn_a_02342","url":null,"abstract":"Neural activation of the target representation (template) facilitates attentional guidance, allowing humans to effectively perform visual search. However, visual search is not always very effective, especially when searching for multiple templates. The reduced search efficiency under dual-target compared with single-target searches is known as the dual-target cost and might be caused by decreased precision, increased resource consumption, or the switch cost between activated templates. The activation of templates and the underlying mechanism of multitarget visual search were explored in this study. In Experiments 1 and 2, participants searched for one or two targets under different precision requirements or memory loads, respectively. The results showed that the precision requirement, rather than resource consumption, influenced the dual-target cost. The impact mechanism of precision requirement was explored in Experiment 3 by measuring ERPs reflecting attentional selection and memory matching. The sustained posterior contralateral negativity, which reflects memory matching, was smaller in the dual-target search compared with the single-target search, especially under the low-precision requirement. The activation patterns of templates during the dual-target search were investigated in Experiment 4 using EEG decoding. Under the low-precision requirement, the matched template was activated subsequent to the unmatched template, whereas under the high-precision requirement, there was an overlap in the activation periods of the two templates during the template matching stage. These findings demonstrate that increasing the precision requirement of working memory keeps the activation of the template and promotes template matching. The dual-target cost might be attributed to the inappropriate template activation, which consequently hinders accurate matching with potential objects.","PeriodicalId":51081,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience","volume":"37 10","pages":"1825-1841"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144057032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Transient and Sustained Neuromagnetic Representation of Consonance and Dissonance in Harmonic Sequences 谐波序列中和谐与不和谐的短暂与持续神经磁表征。

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Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Pub Date : 2025-09-08 DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_02333

Judith Maria Schwienbacher;André Rupp;Martin Andermann

{"title":"Transient and Sustained Neuromagnetic Representation of Consonance and Dissonance in Harmonic Sequences","authors":"Judith Maria Schwienbacher;André Rupp;Martin Andermann","doi":"10.1162/jocn_a_02333","DOIUrl":"10.1162/jocn_a_02333","url":null,"abstract":"The perception of musical consonance/dissonance (C/D) relies on basic properties of the auditory system, and prior investigations have shown that C/D sounds elicit strongly divergent neurophysiological activity in human auditory cortex. However, studies are missing that assess transient (P1, N1, P2) and sustained cortical C/D representations within a harmonic context, together with the corresponding patterns of neural adaptation. The present magnetoencephalography experiment applied spatio-temporal source analysis to study the early transient and sustained neuromagnetic processing of C/D at the start and within brief harmonic sequences. A total of n = 40 adult listeners (among them numerous amateur musicians) participated in the experiment; the harmonic sequences comprised different blends of C/D dyads with balanced probabilities, in an effort to access simple C/D relations and neural adaptation at an early stage of the processing hierarchy. Consistent with earlier findings, the transient cortical activity was found to reflect vertical (i.e., absolute) C/D aspects in response to the sequence's first dyad, but it mirrored more horizontal aspects (i.e., C/D relations) at the subsequent dyad transitions; moreover, the neuromagnetic responses (particularly, the N1 and P2 waves) exhibited adaptation with different time constants, parts of which pertained to C/D-associated processing. Surprisingly, only few observations appeared to be influenced by the listener's musical expertise, likely due to the high overall level of musicality in our sample. In summary, our data indicate that early neuromagnetic activity reflects not only vertical, but also horizontal, aspects of C/D perception, together with corresponding adaptive mechanisms.","PeriodicalId":51081,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience","volume":"37 10","pages":"1735-1756"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143804759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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An Emergentist Account of Language in the Brain—Seeking Neural Synergies Behind Human Uniqueness 大脑中语言的新兴论--寻找人类独特性背后的神经协同作用。

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Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Pub Date : 2025-09-08 DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_02331

Nicolas Bourguignon;Salvatore Lo Bue

{"title":"An Emergentist Account of Language in the Brain—Seeking Neural Synergies Behind Human Uniqueness","authors":"Nicolas Bourguignon;Salvatore Lo Bue","doi":"10.1162/jocn_a_02331","DOIUrl":"10.1162/jocn_a_02331","url":null,"abstract":"Cognitive neuroscience has become increasingly open to views of human cognitive faculties as emergent properties—as higher-level products of synergies between brain structures handling qualitatively different functions. This new perspective mitigates claims that cognitive abilities are tied to localized, domain-specific brain systems. In this changing landscape, the neurobiology of language has lagged behind, with virtually no mature theory apt to guide an exploration of language as an emergent function of the human brain. Combining evidence that linguistic processing is distributed across neurocognitive systems supporting (among others) semantic cognition, executive functions, and articulatory-motor control with recent advances in studying neural synergies, we propose a model of language as a deeply synergistic phenomenon that is both decoupled from its lower-level constituents and capable of exerting downward causal powers over them, accounting for its key role in human adaptive behavior. In considering the implications it has in our understanding of the place of language within the broader infrastructure of human behavior, this novel perspective aims to move the neurobiology of language forward in a new era of the cognitive neuroscience.","PeriodicalId":51081,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience","volume":"37 10","pages":"1717-1734"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143804753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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