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Daytime naps consolidate Cantonese tone learning through promoting cross-talker perception: The role of prior knowledge

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2025-03-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105568

Quentin Zhen Qin , Ruofan Wu , Caicai Zhang

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Abstract sentence meanings are grounded in the sensory-motor regions in a context-dependent fashion

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2025-03-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105567

Le Li , Jiaman Tang , Xinyi Chen , Liyu Xiang , Marcus Taft , Xiaoxia Feng

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The neurobiology of sentence production: A narrative review and meta-analysis

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2025-02-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105549

Jeremy D. Yeaton

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The mediation role of reading-related endophenotypes in the gene-to-reading pathway

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2025-02-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105552

Alexandra Remon , Sara Mascheretti , Ivan Voronin , Bei Feng , Isabelle Ouellet-Morin , Mara Brendgen , Frank Vitaro , Philippe Robaey , Michel Boivin , Ginette Dionne

{"title":"The mediation role of reading-related endophenotypes in the gene-to-reading pathway","authors":"Alexandra Remon , Sara Mascheretti , Ivan Voronin , Bei Feng , Isabelle Ouellet-Morin , Mara Brendgen , Frank Vitaro , Philippe Robaey , Michel Boivin , Ginette Dionne","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105552","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105552","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Although individual differences in reading-related skills are largely influenced by genetic variation, the molecular basis of the heritability of this phenotype is far from understood. Functional single-nucleotide polymorphisms spanning reading-candidate genes and genome-wide significant top hits were identified. By using a multiple-predictor/multiple-mediator framework, we investigated whether relationships between functional genetic variants (<em>DYX1C1</em>-rs3743205, <em>DYX1C1</em>-rs57809907, <em>KIAA0319</em>-rs9461045, and <em>KIAA0319</em>-Haplotype) and genome-wide significant top hits (rs11208009 on chromosome 1) and reading skills could be explained by reading-related cognitive and sensory endophenotypes in a sample of 328 8-year-old twins. The association between rs3743205 and rs57809907 with reading skills is partially mediated by phonological awareness (PA). Specifically, the rs3743205-C/C genotype and carrying the minor ‘A’ allele of rs57809907 were associated with lower PA scores which in turn was correlated with poorer reading skills. These findings reveal insights into the sequential gene-behavior cascade in reading acquisition and contribute to the growing literature on the neurogenetic machinery of reading development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"264 ","pages":"Article 105552"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143454349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Differential effects of working memory constraints on syntactic and semantic processing: Evidence from ERPs

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2025-02-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105550

Megan Nakamura , Eleonora Rossi

{"title":"Differential effects of working memory constraints on syntactic and semantic processing: Evidence from ERPs","authors":"Megan Nakamura , Eleonora Rossi","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105550","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105550","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Working memory (WM) is essential for language comprehension. It enables us to retain and manipulate information, track context, and recall key details. While WM’s role in syntactic processing is well-established, its impact on semantic processing is less clear.WM resources are allocated based on task demands, with syntactic processing—requiring the maintenance and manipulation of hierarchical dependencies—placing higher demands on WM. The present study uses electroencephalography (EEG) to examine how WM constraints impact syntactic and semantic processing. Monolingual English speakers completed a Sentence Judgment Task (SJT). Participants were assigned to two groups: the NonMemory group completed the SJT alone, while the Memory group performed a dual-task version requiring them to memorize a sequence of three words and monitor the sentences for these words. Event-related potential (ERP) results reveal a diminished P600 effect for syntactic violations in the Memory group, suggesting reduced sensitivity to syntactic errors under WM constraints. In contrast, no significant group differences for the N400 were observed for semantic violations, indicating that semantic processing may be less affected by WM limitations. This study advances our understanding of the role of WM in language processing and highlights how WM constraints differentially impact syntactic vs semantic processing. Insights from this research can inform how the brain adapts to varying WM demands, such as in second language processing, where prioritizing semantic over syntactic processing may be necessary to optimize limited cognitive resources.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"264 ","pages":"Article 105550"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143445445","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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Semantic memory structure mediates the role of brain functional connectivity in creative writing

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2025-02-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105551

Jing Gu , Xueyang Wang , Cheng Liu , Kaixiang Zhuang , Li Fan , Jingyi Zhang , Jiangzhou Sun , Jiang Qiu

{"title":"Semantic memory structure mediates the role of brain functional connectivity in creative writing","authors":"Jing Gu , Xueyang Wang , Cheng Liu , Kaixiang Zhuang , Li Fan , Jingyi Zhang , Jiangzhou Sun , Jiang Qiu","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105551","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105551","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Associative theories of creativity posit that high-creativity individuals possess flexible semantic memory structures that allow broad access to varied information. However, the semantic memory structure characteristics and neural substrates of creative writing are unclear. Here, we explored the semantic network features and the predictive whole-brain functional connectivity associated with creative writing and generated mediation models. Participants completed two creative story continuation tasks. We found that keywords from written texts with superior creative writing performance encompassed more semantic categories and were highly interconnected and transferred efficiently. Connectome predictive modeling (CPM) was conducted with resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data to identify whole-brain functional connectivity patterns related to creative writing, dominated by default mode network (DMN). Semantic network features were found to mediate the relationship between brain functional connectivity and creative writing performance. These results highlight how semantic memory structure and the DMN-driven brain functional connectivity patterns support creative writing performance. Our findings extend prior research on the role of semantic memory structure and the DMN in creativity, expand upon previous research on semantic creativity, and provide insight into the cognitive and neural foundations of creative writing.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"264 ","pages":"Article 105551"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143419855","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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Audiovisual speech perception deficits in unaffected siblings of children with developmental language disorder

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2025-02-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105547

Natalya Kaganovich , Rhiana Ragheb , Sharon Christ , Jennifer Schumaker

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ERP representational similarity analysis reveals the prediction of semantic features in minimal phrasal contexts

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2025-02-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105546

Jingxiao Li , Mingdong Li , Wei Zhou , Qingqing Qu

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Metaphor processing is influenced by stimulus emotionality and task demands: Evidence from ERPs 隐喻加工受刺激情绪和任务需求的影响：来自erp的证据。

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105530

Laura Baiocco , Valeria A. Pfeifer , Vicky T. Lai

{"title":"Metaphor processing is influenced by stimulus emotionality and task demands: Evidence from ERPs","authors":"Laura Baiocco , Valeria A. Pfeifer , Vicky T. Lai","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105530","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105530","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Past studies showed that metaphoric expressions (e.g., “she was cold to him”) require more cognitive-neural effort than literal paraphrases (e.g., “she was indifferent to him”). In event-related potentials (ERP) studies, this was revealed as an N400, a late positivity (LP), and/or a late negativity (LN). We investigated whether stimulus emotionality and task demands influence these ERP correlates and metaphor processing. In Experiment 1, participants read emotional/neutral metaphorical/literal sentences and performed a sensicality judgement task. Emotional metaphors, in comparison to emotional literal sentences, showed a widespread N400 effect (300–450 ms) and a left-anterior LN (450–850 ms). In Experiment 2, participants simply read the sentences and participation was verified by occasional post-trial comprehension questions. Emotional metaphors elicited a more positive LP (450–850 ms) than emotional literal sentences. Findings indicate that stimulus emotionality and task demand co-determine the extent to which emotion- and semantic- related neural resources are recruited during metaphor comprehension.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"261 ","pages":"Article 105530"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142900639","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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Selective attention in cognitive processing revisited: A Long-term Re-evaluation 重新审视认知加工中的选择性注意：一个长期的再评价。

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105518

Ellen Bialystok

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