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The time course of the multidimensional information representation of Chinese characters 汉字多维信息表示的时间过程

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105658

Jiayi Yang , Lala Gu , Xin Fu , Nannan Gu , Xingying Lin , Guohua Wang , Leilei Mei

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White matter topological organization of reading network correlates with phonological awareness in Chinese adults 成人阅读网络白质拓扑组织与语音意识的关系。

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105666

Siyu Chen , Yueye Zhao , Xinyue Zhang , Jianyi Liu , Zi-Gang Huang , Jingjing Zhao

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Neural mechanisms of long-term sensorimotor adaptation in L1 and L2 speech motor control systems L1和L2语音运动控制系统长期感觉运动适应的神经机制。

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105668

Xiao Cai , Yulong Yin , Qingfang Zhang

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Neurophysiological evidence of rapid holistic tone-based lexical access 基于快速整体音调的词汇获取的神经生理学证据。

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105670

Renata Kochančikaitė , Yury Shtyrov , Merle Horne , Mikael Roll

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Representations and processes in bilingual memory: advances since Cognitive processing in bilinguals 双语记忆的表征与加工：自认知加工以来的研究进展

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105656

Wendy S. Francis

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The late frontal positivity reflects incremental mental model updating: Graded predictability effects during authentic text reading 后额叶正性反映了心智模式的渐进式更新：真实文本阅读的分级可预测性效应

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105667

Weiqi Wang , Lin Chen , Charles Perfetti

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Neurophysiological correlates, linguistic richness and subjective components in stressful interactions during discourse production 话语产生过程中应激互动的神经生理关联、语言丰富性和主观成分

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105669

Katia Rovelli, Michela Balconi

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Do newborns detect prosodic violations in an unfamiliar language at birth? 新生儿在出生时是否察觉到不熟悉语言的韵律违反？

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105640

Caterina Marino , Jessica Gemignani , Marcela Peña , Anna Martinez-Alvarez , Luca Bonadies , Eugenio Baraldi , Judit Gervain

{"title":"Do newborns detect prosodic violations in an unfamiliar language at birth?","authors":"Caterina Marino , Jessica Gemignani , Marcela Peña , Anna Martinez-Alvarez , Luca Bonadies , Eugenio Baraldi , Judit Gervain","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105640","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105640","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Experience with language starts prenatally, as the intrauterine environment allows speech prosody to get through. <span><span>Martinez-Alvarez and colleagues (2023)</span></span> demonstrated that newborns detect utterance-level prosodic violations in the language they heard prenatally, French. It remains unknown, however, whether this discrimination ability requires prenatal experience with a given language or whether newborns have an early sensitivity to the shapes of prosodic contours that extends beyond prenatal experience. To this purpose, we tested infants exposed prenatally to Italian with the French stimuli of <span><span>Martinez-Alvarez et al. (2023)</span></span>, and we measured their brain responses with fNIRS. We found that Italian-exposed newborns discriminate between standard and deviant prosodic contours in French, activating right hemispheric areas specialized for the processing of prosody in adults. However, the time course and the localization of the effect were different from those found in French newborns. This suggests that an early sensitivity to prosodic contours may be modulated by prenatal experience at birth.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"271 ","pages":"Article 105640"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145050579","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 processing of regional varieties in native Spanish listeners: the role of accent familiarity 西班牙语地区变体的语义加工：口音熟悉度的作用

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105638

Cristal Giorio, Janet G. van Hell

{"title":"Semantic processing of regional varieties in native Spanish listeners: the role of accent familiarity","authors":"Cristal Giorio, Janet G. van Hell","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105638","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105638","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Research shows that nonnative accents differing from a listener’s own can impede comprehension, as described by the Interlanguage Speech Intelligibility Benefit (ISIB). While extensively studied in nonnative contexts, native regional varieties have been less frequently studied, with mixed findings. This study examined native listeners’ real-time sentence processing of geographically distant Spanish varieties. Mexican Spanish speakers listened to accents that matched (Mexican) or mismatched (Peninsular Spain, Puerto Rico) their own, along with nonnative English-accented Spanish. Behavioral results showed high comprehension across all varieties. ERP findings revealed semantic violation N400 effects for the Mexican and familiar Peninsular Spain but not for the less-familiar Puerto Rican accent. An N400 and late negativity appeared for nonnative English-accented Spanish. Results indicate that less-familiar native language varieties challenge, while familiar accents facilitate, lexico-semantic access during real-time sentence processing. Findings support a generalized intra-language processing benefit for regional varieties beyond matched speech, further refining the ISIB hypothesis.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"271 ","pages":"Article 105638"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145027839","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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Exploring whether and when acquisition order interacts with exposure frequency during lexical learning: Evidence from behavioral and electrophysiological findings 探索词汇学习中习得顺序是否以及何时与暴露频率相互作用：来自行为和电生理发现的证据

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105643

Yuxi Zhou, Qingfang Zhang

{"title":"Exploring whether and when acquisition order interacts with exposure frequency during lexical learning: Evidence from behavioral and electrophysiological findings","authors":"Yuxi Zhou, Qingfang Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105643","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105643","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Production and comprehension research has shown that words acquired earlier and encountered more frequently are responded faster and more accurately, reflecting the effects of age of acquisition (AoA) and word frequency (WF). Both effects are interpreted as the quality of lexical-semantic/phonological representations and the structure of lexical network. However, it remains unclear how the processing advantages associated with earlier acquisition and frequent occurrence develop in the vocabulary learning. To address these issues, this study investigated whether and how acquisition order and exposure frequency of to-be-learnt pseudowords, mirroring AoA and WF of real words, affect Chinese spoken word production over four consecutive days. ERP recordings on Day4 further explored the time courses of acquisition order and exposure frequency effects for newly-acquired pseudowords. Results illustrated an overall benefit of earlier acquisition regardless of the degree of consolidation, while higher exposure frequency merely modulated early formation of episodic representations. Moreover, the acquisition order effect was localized to more positive waveforms occurring around 148–578 ms after pictures onset. No interaction was observed between acquisition order and exposure frequency at either behavioral or electrophysiological levels. Our findings therefore have implications for the dominant role of acquisition order over exposure frequency in shaping the development of lexical network in adults.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"271 ","pages":"Article 105643"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145107304","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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