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{"title":"Audiovisual speech perception deficits in unaffected siblings of children with developmental language disorder","authors":"Natalya Kaganovich ,&nbsp;Rhiana Ragheb ,&nbsp;Sharon Christ ,&nbsp;Jennifer Schumaker","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105547","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105547","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Siblings of children with developmental language disorder (DLD) often have weaker language skills compared to peers with typical development (TD). However, whether their language-relevant audiovisual skills are also atypical is unknown. Study 1 examined whether siblings use information about a talker’s mouth shape during phonemic processing as children with TD do. Study 2 examined siblings’ ability to match auditory words with observed word articulations. Only children with TD showed a significant MMN to audiovisual phonemic violations, suggesting that, just like in children with DLD, lip shape does not modulate phonemic processing in siblings. Children with DLD and siblings were also less accurate than children with TD at detecting audiovisual word mismatches. The N400 amplitude in children with TD was significantly larger than in children with DLD and marginally larger than in siblings. Phonemic and lexical representations in siblings lack audiovisual details, which may contribute to poor language development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"263 ","pages":"Article 105547"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143419372","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}

{"title":"Common and distinct ERP responses to violations of two different types of politeness maxims during sentence comprehension","authors":"Meng Han ,&nbsp;Yaxu Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105538","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105538","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>An ERP experiment was conducted to investigate the common and distinct neurocognitive mechanisms underlying the on-line processing of two types of politeness maxims (self-depreciation and other-elevation) and the individual differences during sentence reading. Electroencephalograms were recorded while participants read sentences containing pragmatically appropriate or inappropriate honorific or humble terms. When collapsing all participants’ data, inappropriate humble and honorific terms elicited N400 and P600 effects, respectively, which could reflect semantic processing costs and rechecking processes, respectively. More importantly, communication abilities modulated N400 and late negativity effects for appropriateness for humble but not honorific terms. In contrast, perspective-taking and emphatic concern modulated N400 and late positivity effects, respectively, for honorific but not humble terms. Moreover, some commonness of the appropriateness effect modulation by individual variables was also observed. These results are discussed in terms of the commonness and individuality of neurocognitive mechanisms underlying the processing of different politeness maxims during sentence comprehension.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"263 ","pages":"Article 105538"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143043419","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}

{"title":"Electrophysiological correlates of selective speech adaptation","authors":"Jeroen J. Stekelenburg ,&nbsp;Jakob Limpens ,&nbsp;Martijn Baart ,&nbsp;Jean Vroomen","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105545","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105545","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Selective speech adaptation refers to the phenomenon where repeated exposure to identical speech sounds temporarily reduces sensitivity to that sound. We used EEG to track the time-course of this effect. Participants were first exposed to the Dutch vowels /e/ or /ø/ and subsequently identified ambiguous sounds halfway between these phonemes. In over 90 % of the trials, the ambiguous speech sounds were perceived as the opposite phoneme to the one they were repeatedly exposed to. This perceptual shift was linked to late EEG deviations, starting around 575 ms after sound onset, which were primarily located in the left superior temporal gyrus. These findings highlight a strong link between the perceptual interpretation of ambiguous phonemes and late brain potentials. As selective speech adaptation can occur at various levels within the auditory processing hierarchy, the observed EEG effects likely reflect activity at a higher-order cortical stage involved in resolving perceptual ambiguity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"263 ","pages":"Article 105545"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143054322","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}

{"title":"The crucial role of the left inferior frontal gyrus (BA44) in synergizing syntactic structure and information structure during sentence comprehension","authors":"Hyeonjeong Jeong ,&nbsp;Jungho Kim ,&nbsp;Masataka Yano ,&nbsp;Haining Cui ,&nbsp;Sachiko Kiayama ,&nbsp;Masatoshi Koizumi","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105533","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105533","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the neural mechanisms behind integrating syntactic and information structures during sentence comprehension using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Focusing on Japanese sentences with canonical (SOV) and non-canonical (OSV) word orders, the study revealed distinct neural networks responsible for processing these linguistic structures. The left opercular part of the inferior frontal gyrus, left premotor area, and left posterior superior/middle temporal gyrus were primarily involved in syntactic processing. In contrast, the right inferior frontal sulcus, bilateral intraparietal sulci, and the left triangular part of the inferior frontal gyrus were linked to information structure processing. Importantly, the left opercular part of the inferior frontal gyrus (BA44) played a crucial role in integrating these structures during the later stages of comprehension, particularly when processing the second noun phrase. These findings enhance our understanding of the complex interplay between syntactic and information structures in language comprehension.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"262 ","pages":"Article 105533"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143016819","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}

{"title":"Exploring the impact of sentential negation on inhibitory motor networks: Insights from paired-pulse TMS","authors":"Francesca Vitale ,&nbsp;Ana Hernández-Sauret ,&nbsp;Alessio Avenanti ,&nbsp;Manuel de Vega","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105536","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105536","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The embodied approach to language meaning suggests that negation with action verbs decreases activation of the negated concept, reflected in reduced motor-evoked potentials (MEPs) induced by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). This study aims to explore how action negation influences inhibitory and facilitatory mechanisms within the primary motor cortex (M1) using paired-pulse TMS (ppTMS). We evaluated corticospinal excitability (CSE), short intracortical inhibition (SICI), indexing GABAA activity, and intracortical facilitation (ICF), related to glutamatergic activity. Participants read action and attentional sentences, presented in affirmative and negative form, with TMS pulses administered over the left M1 at 250 ms from verb onset. Results show negated action sentences differently modulate CSE and SICI compared to affirmative ones, indicating GABAA activity of negation. No differences emerged for attentional sentences, nor for ICF stimulation. This study confirms the suppressive impact of action negation on CSE and highlights inhibitory networks’ role in action negation processing within M1.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"262 ","pages":"Article 105536"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143016816","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}

{"title":"Hemispheric co-lateralization of language and spatial attention reduces performance in dual-task","authors":"Miaomiao Zhu ,&nbsp;Qing Cai","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105537","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105537","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Hemispheric specialization of different functions is proposed to confer evolutionary benefits, yet the behavioral impacts of lateralization and its cognitive and neural mechanisms remain unclear. This study investigated the effect of lateralization pattern between language and spatial attention on dual-task performance and its association with callosal connectivity. Functional lateralization was assessed using fMRI verbal fluency and landmark tasks, and interhemispheric connections were evaluated through diffusion-weighted imaging. The typical lateralization pattern enhanced overall performance and reduced interference in dual-task compared to the co-lateralized pattern (both functions lateralized to one hemisphere). However, no differences were observed between the mirrored pattern (right language dominance and left attention dominance) and the co-lateralized pattern. While callosal connectivity did not significantly differ among groups, a negative correlation was observed between the lateralization degree and callosal connectivity. Our findings partially support the functional crowding hypothesis and offer insights into neurocognitive mechanisms underlying functional reorganization after brain lesions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"262 ","pages":"Article 105537"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143043417","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}

{"title":"Neural connectivity underlying core language functions","authors":"Anastasia A. Bohsali ,&nbsp;Joseph M. Gullett ,&nbsp;David B. FitzGerald ,&nbsp;Thomas Mareci ,&nbsp;Bruce Crosson ,&nbsp;Keith White ,&nbsp;Stephen E. Nadeau","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105535","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105535","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>Although many white matter tracts underlying language functions have been identified, even in aggregate they do not provide a sufficiently detailed and expansive picture to enable us to fully understand the computational processes that might underly language production and comprehension. We employed diffusion tensor tractography (DTT) with a tensor distribution model to more extensively explore the white matter tracts supporting core language functions. Our study was guided by hypotheses stemming largely from the aphasia literature.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>We employed high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) with a dual region of interest tractography approach. Our diffusion tensor distribution model uses a mixture of Wishart distributions to estimate the water molecule displacement probability functions on a voxel-by-voxel basis and to model crossing/branching fibers using a multicompartmental approach.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>We replicated the results of previously published studies of tracts underlying language function. Our study also yielded a number of novel findings: 1) extensive connectivity between Broca’s region and the entirety of the middle and superior frontal gyri; 2) extensive interconnectivity between the four subcomponents of Broca’s region, pars orbitalis, pars triangularis, pars opercularis, and the inferior precentral gyrus; 3) connectivity between the mid-superior temporal gyrus and the transverse gyrus; 4) connectivity between the mid-superior temporal gyrus, the transverse gyrus, and the planum temporale and the inferior and middle temporal gyri; and 5) connectivity between mid- and anterior superior temporal gyrus and all components of Broca’s region.</div></div><div><h3>Discussion</h3><div>These results, which replicate the results of prior DTT studies, also considerably extend them and thereby provide a fuller picture of the structural basis of language function and the basis for a novel model of the neural network architecture of language function. This new model is entirely consistent with discoveries from the aphasia literature and with parallel distributed processing conceptualizations of language function.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"262 ","pages":"Article 105535"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143043418","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}

{"title":"The impact of linguistic complexity on feasibility and reliability of language mapping in aphasic glioma patients","authors":"Leonie Kram ,&nbsp;Beate Neu ,&nbsp;Ann-Katrin Ohlerth ,&nbsp;Axel Schroeder ,&nbsp;Bernhard Meyer ,&nbsp;Sandro M. Krieg ,&nbsp;Sebastian Ille","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105534","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105534","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Reliable language mappings require sufficient language skills. This study evaluated whether linguistic task properties impact feasibility and reliability of navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation (nTMS)-based language mappings in aphasic glioma patients.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>The effect of linguistic complexity on naming accuracy during baseline testing without stimulation and on the number of errors during nTMS was evaluated for 16 moderately and 4 severely expressive aphasic patients.</div></div><div><h3>Result</h3><div>During baseline, items acquired later in life and used less frequently, a higher amount of multisyllabic, compound, and inanimate items were named inaccurately. Even after removing these more complex items, less frequent and multisyllabic items were more error-prone during stimulation.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Higher linguistic item complexity was associated with decreased naming accuracy during baseline and resulted in a potentially higher false positive rate during nTMS in aphasic glioma patients. Thus, tailoring task complexity to individual performance capabilities may considerably support the preservation of residual functionality.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"262 ","pages":"Article 105534"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143016751","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}

{"title":"Selective attention in cognitive processing revisited: A Long-term Re-evaluation","authors":"Ellen Bialystok","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105518","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105518","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The volume by <span><span>Harris (1992)</span></span> was published at a time when research on the cognitive effects of bilingualism was in its infancy. In this article I revisit the chapter I contributed to that volume and evaluate the extent to which the arguments presented there remain valid. Specifically, I review three claims I made, namely, that the effects of bilingual experience extend into nonverbal domains, that these effects were continuous in nature and not categorical, and that selective attention was the key to explaining cognitive change in bilinguals. Thirty years later, these claims remain largely intact. In contrast, the claim that the mechanism for the effects comes from a specific aspect of linguistic processing that transfers to other domains must be rejected.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"261 ","pages":"Article 105518"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142873464","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}

{"title":"Metaphor processing is influenced by stimulus emotionality and task demands: Evidence from ERPs","authors":"Laura Baiocco ,&nbsp;Valeria A. Pfeifer ,&nbsp;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}