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From eye to cortex: Tracing the neurocognitive dynamics of bilingual novel word acquisition 从眼睛到大脑皮层：双语小说词汇习得的神经认知动态追踪

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2025-08-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105632

Yang Fu , Jing Yang , Beatriz Bermúdez-Margaretto , Huili Wang , Damian Enrique Jan Cordón , Alberto Domínguez

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An exploratory study and new model of the role of implicit timing in sentence comprehension 内隐时间在句子理解中的探索性研究与新模式

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2025-08-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105635

Arianna N. LaCroix , Corianne Rogalsky

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Interhemispheric functional connectivity of the ventral occipitotemporal cortex supports Chinese reading 腹侧枕颞叶皮层的功能连接支持中文阅读

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2025-08-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105634

Xinqi Su , Lala Gu , Rui Hu , XiaoXue Feng , Aqian Li , Jingyu Yang , Leilei Mei

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Does gesture follow speech in describing metaphorical motion events over developmental time? 在描述发展过程中的隐喻运动事件时，手势是否跟随言语？

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2025-08-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105620

Şeyda Özçalışkan , Susan Goldin-Meadow

{"title":"Does gesture follow speech in describing metaphorical motion events over developmental time?","authors":"Şeyda Özçalışkan , Susan Goldin-Meadow","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105620","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105620","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Children learning structurally different languages display variability in the way they package semantic elements of a physical motion event in gesture, mirroring the patterns found in speech for the same events. In this study, we ask whether these differences extend to metaphorical motion events and, if so, when in development the patterns become evident. We studied the speech and gestures produced by 100 children learning English or Turkish (n = 50/language)—equally divided into 5 age groups: 3–4, 5–6, 7–8, 9–10, 11–12 years—when describing metaphorical motion events (e.g., idea runs out of the mind). We compared the patterns to previously reported findings on the same children describing physical motion (e.g., girl runs out of the house). Our results showed evidence for cross-linguistic differences in the expression of metaphorical motion events in both speech and gesture, akin to cross-linguistic differences observed in the expression of physical motion events. But language-specific patterns emerged later in metaphorical than in physical motion descriptions, both in speech and in co-speech gesture. Our results suggest that gesture and speech form tightly integrated systems in the expression of metaphorical concepts, as they do for the expression of physical events, by children learning structurally different languages.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"270 ","pages":"Article 105620"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144828132","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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Recursive self-feedback enables target language production in aphasia with pathological language mixing 递归自我反馈使病理性语言混合失语症的目标语产生成为可能

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2025-08-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105633

Gerald C. Imaezue , Celine Davis , Krishna Veni Maram , David Ajayi , Mira Goral

{"title":"Recursive self-feedback enables target language production in aphasia with pathological language mixing","authors":"Gerald C. Imaezue , Celine Davis , Krishna Veni Maram , David Ajayi , Mira Goral","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105633","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105633","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Stroke in bilingual adults can lead to aphasia with pathological language mixing (PLM), a rare neurological condition with limited treatment options. Recursive self-feedback (RSF) offers a self-directed approach, allowing individuals with PLM to iteratively self-monitor and correct their language mixing independently. We demonstrated the effects of RSF in a 59-year-old female bilingual speaker of Spanish and English (Patient P3) with severe Broca’s aphasia and PLM, 67-months poststroke. Over 14 intensive RSF sessions (2 h/day, 5 days/week, for 3 weeks), P3 used a mobile app to self-correct her mixing errors and increase the proportion of English words in her spontaneous speech. Post-treatment assessments showed improvements across both treated and untreated narrative prompts, with an 11-point increase in her Aphasia Quotient on the English version of the Western Aphasia Battery-Revised. These findings demonstrate that RSF enables target language production, yielding clinically meaningful language recovery in P3 without external cueing, modelling or feedback. RSF is a promising procedure for aphasia therapy, opening new pathways for targeting language access, control and recovery in aphasia and PLM.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"270 ","pages":"Article 105633"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144826630","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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Categorical perception of the index finger as an American Sign Language phonological construct 食指作为美国手语语音结构的范畴知觉

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2025-08-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105631

LaReina Hingson, Jeffrey J. Green, Brooklyn Lorenc

{"title":"Categorical perception of the index finger as an American Sign Language phonological construct","authors":"LaReina Hingson, Jeffrey J. Green, Brooklyn Lorenc","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105631","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105631","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In American Sign Language, specific handshapes found in the manual alphabet and/or numbering system (such as the pointed index finger—the number “1”—and its bent counterpart—the letter “x”) are assumed to be phonologically distinct under the rationale that bentness of the finger(s) constitutes a phonemic distinctive feature. This study investigates this notion, building on previous behavioral studies of American Sign Language categorical perception of bentness of the index finger. We examined varying levels of bentness between 180° and 90° using a scale ranging from the signs BLACK and SUMMER in the standard dialect. Experiment 1 found that when presented with all levels of bentness, signing participants identified a categorical boundary around 130°. Experiment 2 used EEG to investigate vMMN and P300 responses to within-category and between-category oddballs. This is the first study to our knowledge to use EEG to investigates categorical perception in ASL. The results of Experiment 2 indicated that signing participants did not consistently agree on the 130° boundary, citing a “lack of context” to identify the sign. However, those signing participants who consistently categorized signs according to the boundary determined in Experiment 1 showed stronger P300 responses to between-category differences than to within-category differences. However, even these participants showed no CP effects in the vMMN. This, combined with individual variation in where the category boundary lies, suggests that CP bentness may be a weaker phonological feature in ASL than spoken phonemic features, or may instead be a phonetic, not phonological, feature.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"270 ","pages":"Article 105631"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144826631","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 effects on tACS and tRNS on language function: A literature review tACS和tRNS对语言功能的影响：文献综述

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2025-08-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105630

Leah Urwicz, Silvia Marchesotti, Adrian G. Guggisberg

{"title":"The effects on tACS and tRNS on language function: A literature review","authors":"Leah Urwicz, Silvia Marchesotti, Adrian G. Guggisberg","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105630","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105630","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Transcranial electrical stimulation (tES) techniques are promising noninvasive tools for modulating language-related neural processes. While transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has been well studied, transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) and transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS) remain less characterized. This review synthesizes findings from 11 studies (394 participants) investigating the effects of tACS and tRNS on language processing in neurotypical individuals. Both techniques significantly enhance phonological and semantic processing, with a moderate overall effect size, and with outcomes varying according to stimulation parameters and target regions. The effect remained significant after adjusting for potential publication bias, supporting the robustness of the findings. Prefrontal stimulation was preferentially used for enhancing phonological skills, while stimulation of both temporal and prefrontal areas influenced semantic processing. Future research would benefit from examining network-level effects, developing personalized stimulation protocols, and assessing long-term outcomes − areas that remain underexplored − to advance theoretical understanding and clinical applications.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"269 ","pages":"Article 105630"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144763609","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 mechanisms underlying semantic unification and semanteme integration 语义统一和语义整合的神经机制

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2025-07-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105629

Wenjia Zhang , Jie Dong , Genyi Feng , Gang Wang , Zongwen Gu , Xu Gao , Xinyi Liu , Hao Yan

{"title":"The neural mechanisms underlying semantic unification and semanteme integration","authors":"Wenjia Zhang , Jie Dong , Genyi Feng , Gang Wang , Zongwen Gu , Xu Gao , Xinyi Liu , Hao Yan","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105629","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105629","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The basic composition processing of human language (at least) contains semantic unification and semanteme integration. However, previous researchers only focused on the neural mechanism underlying semantic unification. In the current study, participants were asked to complete both the semantic unification and semanteme integration tasks while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanning. In each task, the violated and congruent conditions were constructed. The regional activation analyses showed that the violation effect (violated > congruent) elicited more activation in the right anterior temporal lobe (RATL) in the semantic unification task and more widespread activation in the semanteme integration task. Moreover, the results of psychophysiological interaction (PPI) analyses showed that the violation effect elicited significant connectivity such as between RATL and bilateral angular gyrus (AG) only in the semanteme integration task. Altogether, these results suggested that semanteme integration elicited more activation and functional connectivity compared with semantic unification.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"269 ","pages":"Article 105629"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144724102","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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Comprehension and production of relative clauses in Mandarin-speaking children with and without developmental language disorder 有和没有发展性语言障碍的汉语儿童关系从句的理解和产生

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2025-07-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105613

Shenai Hu , Lin Zhong , Maria Teresa Guasti , Shaowei Li

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Does working memory independently influence language development in bilingual children? A 30-year reflection 工作记忆是否独立影响双语儿童的语言发展？30年的反思

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2025-07-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105628

Kerry Danahy Ebert

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