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Reading in adolescents with hearing loss: Slower responses despite neural sensitivity to morphosyntax. 听力损失青少年的阅读：尽管神经对形态句法敏感，但反应较慢。

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2026-09-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2026.105831

Julia Straus, Julian Ockelmann, Elena Bolt, Stefan Elmer, Nathalie Giroud

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Divergent neural dynamics of multidimensional semantic access for concrete and abstract words. 具体词和抽象词多维语义获取的发散神经动力学。

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2026-09-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2026.105830

Yunhao Zhang, Shaonan Wang, Chengqing Zong, Nan Lin

{"title":"Divergent neural dynamics of multidimensional semantic access for concrete and abstract words.","authors":"Yunhao Zhang, Shaonan Wang, Chengqing Zong, Nan Lin","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2026.105830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2026.105830","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Semantic comprehension requires accessing multiple dimensions of meaning, yet the temporal dynamics of these dimensions remain unclear. Previous research has predominantly examined the neural dynamics of lexical semantics as a whole, which is equivalent to investigating the average of neural dynamics across various dimensions of semantic processing. Here, we analyzed openly released electrocorticography (ECoG) recordings from 9 participants listening to naturalistic stories and used time-resolved encoding models to decompose neural responses into six semantic dimensions: vision, motor, space, time, socialness, and emotion. When analyzing all words together, nearly all dimensions showed a common response peaking around 350 ms. However, when neural dynamics of multidimensional semantic access were analyzed separately for concrete and abstract words, a dissociation in access latencies emerged: for concrete words, sensorimotor dimensions reached peak activation earlier than non-sensorimotor dimensions; whereas for abstract words, the social dimension peaked at 225 ms, earlier than other dimensions. These findings demonstrate that the brain dynamically prioritizes semantic dimensions depending on concept type.</p>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"281 ","pages":"105830"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148882499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Multilingualism and aging: Country-level patterns may not support individual-level causal claims 使用多种语言和老龄化：国家层面的模式可能不支持个人层面的因果关系。

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2026.105735

Arturo E. Hernandez , My V.H. Nguyen , Ferenc Bunta

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Parallel contributions of socioeconomic status and bilingual experiences on executive function and the brain in young children 社会经济地位和双语经历对幼儿执行功能和大脑的平行贡献。

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2026-03-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2026.105737

Gavkhar Abdurokhmonova , Ellie K. Taylor-Robinette , S. Alexa McDorman , Alexus G. Ramirez , Junaid S. Merchant , John D.E. Gabrieli , Rachel R. Romeo

{"title":"Parallel contributions of socioeconomic status and bilingual experiences on executive function and the brain in young children","authors":"Gavkhar Abdurokhmonova , Ellie K. Taylor-Robinette , S. Alexa McDorman , Alexus G. Ramirez , Junaid S. Merchant , John D.E. Gabrieli , Rachel R. Romeo","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2026.105737","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2026.105737","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Executive functions (EF) are foundational for children’s cognitive, socio-emotional, and academic outcomes, and socioeconomic status (SES) is consistently associated with disparities in children’s EF performance and EF-related brain function. While bilingual children sometimes exhibit an “advantage” on certain EF tasks compared to their monolingual counterparts, it is unknown whether early bilingual experience may buffer the effects of low SES on EF in either brain or behavior. A SES-diverse sample (n = 80) of monolingual and bilingual children (4–6 years old) completed behavioral measures of EF and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) while engaging in a dichotic listening auditory selective attention task. Bilingualism was measured both by subjective parental report of children’s language knowledge, as well as objective annotations of two daylong recordings of children’s naturalistic language exposure. Selective auditory attention (vs. normal binaural speech) elicited activation in canonical attention/EF (posterior cingulate, precuneus, and cuneus) and language (posterior temporal gyrus and inferior frontal gyrus) regions. While there was no evidence of a protective effect of bilingualism, there were independent main effects of both SES and bilingual experience. Specifically, higher SES was associated with better EF performance and greater activation in bilateral precunei, independent of mono/bilingual status. While parent-reported bilingual knowledge was not associated with either brain or behavior independent of SES, children who had more balanced bilingual exposure at home exhibited better EF performance than those with more unbalanced or monolingual exposure in either language. Findings contribute to our understanding of the independent influences of specific experiences on children’s EF development across contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"276 ","pages":"Article 105737"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147373627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The neural time course of self-oriented pointing and labeling in visual processing 视觉加工中自我定向指向和标记的神经时间过程

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2026-03-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2026.105724

Spencer D. Kelly, Dylan Vlasak, Binghui Tang

{"title":"The neural time course of self-oriented pointing and labeling in visual processing","authors":"Spencer D. Kelly, Dylan Vlasak, Binghui Tang","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2026.105724","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2026.105724","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Pointing and labeling are traditionally seen as communicative behaviors; the present study examines their neurocognitive consequences when produced for oneself. Twenty-four participants completed a priming task in which they encoded a color prime in three within-subjects conditions: point, label, and point & label. Following each prime, participants judged whether a target object belonged to the same (congruent) or different (incongruent) color category. Target-locked ERPs showed effects of congruence and encoding conditions spanning early and later processing stages. At early latencies, pointing elicited a more positive posterior P1 than labeling, while the combined point & label condition was intermediate and did not differ reliably from either unimodal condition, consistent with a non-additive interaction at early perceptual-attentional stages. At later latencies, pointing alone elicited a larger posterior P2 and smaller central-parietal late negativity (300–500 ms) than labeling alone, and the combined condition diverged from pointing while closely paralleling labeling. Together, these results indicate that pointing and labeling for oneself exert distinct, non-additive influences on downstream object processing, with early processing showing graded interaction and later perceptual and conceptual processing increasingly influenced by labeling.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"276 ","pages":"Article 105724"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147387356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Neural substrates of speech disorders in Parkinson’s disease: A narrative review of the evidence from task-based and resting-state fMRI studies 帕金森病言语障碍的神经基础：基于任务和静息状态fMRI研究证据的叙述性回顾

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2026.105720

Nicolas Castillo-Triana , Carlos Juri , Pamela Gonzalez-Mendez , Rodrigo F. Cadiz , Marcelo E. Andia

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Distinct individual difference patterns in reading and non-verbal reasoning networks of children 儿童阅读和非语言推理网络的显著个体差异模式

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2026.105718

Jie Chen , Xiaoxia Feng , Xiujie Yang , Ningxin Zhao , Jia Zhang , Xiangrong Tang , Chan Tang , Yue Yang , Li Liu , Xiangzhi Meng , Guosheng Ding

{"title":"Distinct individual difference patterns in reading and non-verbal reasoning networks of children","authors":"Jie Chen , Xiaoxia Feng , Xiujie Yang , Ningxin Zhao , Jia Zhang , Xiangrong Tang , Chan Tang , Yue Yang , Li Liu , Xiangzhi Meng , Guosheng Ding","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2026.105718","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2026.105718","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Reading ability, a key aspect of verbal skills, is acquired primarily through educational and linguistic experience, whereas non-verbal reasoning is more relevant in problem-solving scenarios that do not depend on language. Both of these two abilities exhibit significant individual differences; however, it remains unclear whether the neural patterns underlying reading and non-verbal reasoning are common or distinct in terms of individual difference. This study utilized resting-state fMRI data from 66 children aged 8.7 to 12.5 years and applied inter-subject representational similarity analysis (IS-RSA) to evaluate three behavioral models—nearest neighbour, convergence, and divergence—in order to determine which model best characterizes the neural patterns underlying individual differences in reading and non-verbal reasoning. Results showed that children with higher reading abilities had greater neural similarity in the reading network (supporting the convergence model), while those with better non-verbal reasoning abilities displayed more neural variability in the non-verbal reasoning network (supporting the divergence model). These findings suggest that cognitive abilities with distinct characteristics (i.e., verbal and non-verbal) may influence their corresponding neural patterns in different ways, leading to distinct patterns of individual differences.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"274 ","pages":"Article 105718"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146078502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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ERP markers of gender retrieval during noun production: Evidence for early processing and masculine-feminine asymmetries 名词产生过程中性别检索的ERP标记：早期加工和男女不对称的证据

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105700

A.R. Sá-Leite , I. Padrón , I. Fraga , D. Pinal , C. Pinto , M. Comesaña

{"title":"ERP markers of gender retrieval during noun production: Evidence for early processing and masculine-feminine asymmetries","authors":"A.R. Sá-Leite , I. Padrón , I. Fraga , D. Pinal , C. Pinto , M. Comesaña","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105700","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105700","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>It remains unclear whether agreement contexts are essential for grammatical gender selection during lexical access to nouns. Studies using the picture-word interference (PWI) paradigm address this by asking participants to name pictures with bare nouns while ignoring distractor words and by examining the gender congruency effect (GCE: faster responses for gender-congruent target-distractor pairs). However, results are inconsistent. We propose that the paradigm masks early lexical effects, leading to erratic response time findings; therefore, we combined the PWI task with EEG. Response times showed no GCE, but ERPs revealed it for masculine nouns, with larger early (80–190 ms) and mid-latency (N400) amplitudes in the incongruent condition. A main gender effect (slower responses and larger P600 for feminine nouns) suggested a higher cognitive demand for the feminine. These results indicate early gender retrieval without agreement for gender transparent nouns, challenging the PWI’s suitability for detecting behavioral early gender effects.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"274 ","pages":"Article 105700"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145845652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Word definition as indicator of metalinguistic awareness in multilingual children 词语定义作为多语儿童元语言意识的指标

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105703

Ulrike Jessner

{"title":"Word definition as indicator of metalinguistic awareness in multilingual children","authors":"Ulrike Jessner","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105703","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105703","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>One of the first papers to link metalinguistic awareness with third language learning was written by Jacqueline Thomas and published in the book “Cognitive processing by bilinguals”. This article investigates how the phenomenon of metalinguistic awareness has been conceptualised over the last 30 years of research and aims at demonstrating the relationship and significance of metalinguistic awareness to (early) multiple language learning. Word definition and its suitability for assessing both linguistic proficiency and metalinguistic awareness in multilingual children will be discussed as a fairly unknown approach in multilingualism research. The current study was carried out as part of a longitudinal large-scale study in the trilingual educational context of Ladin primary schools in South Tyrol, the northernmost province of Italy. According to the Ladin parithetical educational system pupils are taught in the three official languages German, Italian and the oldest language Ladin, a neo Latin, Rhaeto-Romance language. The results of the study indicate that not only did children aged eight and nine in the Ladin primary schools outperform the control group from a monolingually oriented German speaking school (with little exposure to Italian) in terms of formal and non-formal definitions but they also performed better with regard to their understanding of concrete and abstract terms, thereby falsifying Piaget’s assumption that the correct use of abstract concepts would not be possible before middle-school age.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"274 ","pages":"Article 105703"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146078501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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How language familiarity facilitates speaker identification: behavioral and multivariate EEG evidence 语言熟悉度如何促进说话人识别：行为和多变量脑电图证据。

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2026.105716

Mengxia Yu , Yihong Luo , Yanli Mo , Xiaogang Wu , Jiaqi Pan , Ce Mo

{"title":"How language familiarity facilitates speaker identification: behavioral and multivariate EEG evidence","authors":"Mengxia Yu , Yihong Luo , Yanli Mo , Xiaogang Wu , Jiaqi Pan , Ce Mo","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2026.105716","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2026.105716","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Listeners identify voices more accurately in their native language than in an unfamiliar foreign language, a well-established phenomenon known as the <em>language-familiarity effect</em> (LFE). While the LFE highlights the integration of linguistic and paralinguistic information during speech perception, the underlying cognitive and neural mechanisms remain poorly understood. We conducted two experiments combining behavioral measures (Experiment 1) and electroencephalography (EEG, Experiment 2) to investigate what specific information was extracted more effectively from native-language speech to support the LFE. After voice learning with Mandarin and German speech, native Mandarin speakers with no prior exposure to German were tested on voice identification performance with the trained words, untrained words in the trained language, words in the untrained language and reversed speech. Behaviorally, a robust LFE was observed, with higher identification accuracy after Mandarin voice learning than after German voice learning across all linguistically meaningful conditions (trained words, untrained words, and untrained language) but not for the reversed speech. Critically, a time-resolved multivariate decoding analysis of the EEG data showed that the LFE occurred earlier when participants were tested in the trained language. These findings indicated that familiar language enhances voice identification by facilitating the extraction of both language-specific and language-general acoustic–phonetic features during voice learning. Our findings advanced our understanding of speech perception by elucidating how language familiarity influences speaker identification.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"274 ","pages":"Article 105716"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146055054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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