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{"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":"2025-01-20","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":"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":"2025-01-17","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":"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":"2025-01-16","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":"Bilingualism, sleep, and cognition: An integrative view and open research questions","authors":"F. Gallo ,&nbsp;A. Myachykov ,&nbsp;J. Abutalebi ,&nbsp;V. DeLuca ,&nbsp;J. Ellis ,&nbsp;J. Rothman ,&nbsp;L.R. Wheeldon","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105507","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105507","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Sleep and language are fundamental to human existence and have both been shown to substantially affect cognitive functioning including memory, attentional performance, and cognitive control. Surprisingly, there is little-to-no research that examines the shared impact of bilingualism and sleep on cognitive functions. In this paper, we provide a general overview of existing research on the interplay between bilingualism and sleep with a specific focus on executive functioning. First, we highlight their interconnections and the resulting implications for cognitive performance. Second, we emphasize the need to explore how bilingualism and sleep intersect at cognitive and neural levels, offering insights into potential ways of studying the interplay between sleep, language learning, and bilingual language use. Finally, we suggest that understanding these relationships could enhance our knowledge of reserve and its role in mitigating age-related cognitive decline.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"260 ","pages":"Article 105507"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142792185","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":"Spatiotemporal dynamics of abstract concept processing: An MEG study","authors":"Lili Tian ,&nbsp;Hongjun Chen ,&nbsp;Jan Kujala ,&nbsp;Tiina Parviainen","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105505","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105505","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Our current understanding of how linguistic concepts are represented and retrieved in the brain is largely based on studies using concrete language, and only few studies have focused on the neural correlates of abstract concepts. The role of the motor system, besides the classical language network, has been intensively discussed in action-related concrete concepts. To advance our understanding of spatiotemporal dynamics underlying abstract concept processing, our study investigated to what extent language and motor regions are engaged in the processing of abstract concepts vs. concrete concepts. We used concrete, metaphorical, and abstract phrases as stimuli, creating a graded continuum of abstractness. Neuromagnetic signals were recorded from 26 Chinese native speakers using a 306-channel whole-head magnetoencephalography (MEG) system. Cluster-based permutation F-tests were carried out on the amplitude of source waveform for individual language and motor regions of interest (ROIs) in the three consecutive time-windows (200–300, 300–400, and 400–500 ms). Results showed that, compared with concrete and metaphorical phrases, abstract phrases evoked significantly weaker activation in the left posterior part of superior temporal sulcus (STS) at 200–300 ms, and significantly stronger activation in the left anterior temporal pole (TP) at 300–400 ms. We found no significant differences in the involvement of motor ROIs across conditions. Our results suggest that concrete concept processing engages more the posterior STS in an earlier time window, while abstract concept processing relies more strongly on the anterior TP in a later time window. Results are discussed by revisiting the ATL (anterior temporal lobe)-hub hypothesis and the novel definition of concrete and abstract concepts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"260 ","pages":"Article 105505"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142787950","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 impact of speaker accent on discourse processing: A frequency investigation","authors":"Trisha Thomas ,&nbsp;Clara D. Martin ,&nbsp;Sendy Caffarra","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105509","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105509","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Previous studies indicate differences in native and foreign speech processing (<span><span>Lev-Ari, 2018</span></span>), with mixed evidence for differences between dialectal and foreign accent processing (<span><span>Adank et al., 2009</span></span>, <span><span>Floccia et al., 2006</span></span>, <span><span>Floccia et al., 2009</span></span>, <span><span>Girard et al., 2008</span></span>). Two theories have been proposed: The Perceptual Distance Hypothesis suggests that dialectal accent processing is an attenuated version of foreign accent processing (<span><span>Clarke &amp; Garrett, 2004</span></span>), while the Different Processes Hypothesis argues that foreign and dialectal accents are processed via distinct mechanisms (<span><span>Floccia, Butler, Girard, &amp; Goslin, 2009</span></span>). A recent single-word ERP study suggested flexibility in these mechanisms (<span><span>Thomas, Martin, &amp; Caffarra, 2022</span></span>). The present study deepens this investigation by investigating differences in native, dialectal, and foreign accent processing across frequency bands during extended speech. Electroencephalographic data was recorded from 30 participants who listened to dialogues of approximately six minutes spoken in native, dialectal and foreign accents. Power spectral density estimation (1–35 Hz) was performed. Linear mixed models were done in frequency windows of particular relevance to discourse processing. Frequency bands associated with phoneme [gamma], syllable [theta], and prosody [delta] were considered along with those of general cognitive mechanisms [alpha and beta]. Results show power differences in the Gamma frequency range. While in higher frequency ranges foreign accent processing is differentiated from power amplitudes of native and dialectal accent processing, in low frequencies we do not see any accent-related power amplitude modulations. This suggests that there may be a difference in phoneme processing for native accent types and foreign accent, while we speculate that top-down mechanisms during discourse processing may mitigate the effects observed with short units of speech.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"260 ","pages":"Article 105509"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142808306","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":"Speech in noise listening correlates identified in resting state and DTI MRI images","authors":"David S. Wack ,&nbsp;Ferdinand Schweser ,&nbsp;Audrey S. Wack ,&nbsp;Sarah F. Muldoon ,&nbsp;Konstantinos Slavakis ,&nbsp;Cheryl McGranor ,&nbsp;Erin Kelly ,&nbsp;Robert S. Miletich ,&nbsp;Kathleen McNerney","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105503","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105503","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study presents an examination of the neural connectivity associated with processing speech in noisy environments, an ability that declines with age. We correlated subjects’ speech-in-noise (SIN) ability with resting-state MRI scans and Fractional Anisotropy (FA) values from the auditory section of the corpus callosum, both with and without correcting for age. The results revealed that subjects who performed poorly on the right ear SIN test (QuickSIN, MedRx) had higher correlations between the primary auditory cortex and regions of the brain that process language. Subjects who performed well on the QuickSIN test had stronger correlations bilaterally between the primary auditory cortices, however, this finding was due to age. Likewise, FA values seem best explained by age not SIN. The Ig2 region of the insula showed significant correlation with right ear SIN when correcting for age.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"260 ","pages":"Article 105503"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142820120","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":"Revisiting the 40-Hz gamma response: Phase-locked neural activity along the human auditory pathway relates to bilingual experience","authors":"Luan Tonelli ,&nbsp;Parker Tichko ,&nbsp;Erika Skoe","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105506","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105506","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Spoken language experience influences brain responses to sound, but it is unclear whether this neuroplasticity is limited to speech frequencies (&gt;100 Hz) or also affects lower gamma ranges (∼30–60 Hz). Using the frequency-following response (FFR), a far-field phase-locked response to sound, we explore whether bilingualism influences the location of the strongest response in the gamma range. Our results indicate that the strongest gamma response for bilinguals is most often at 43 Hz, compared to 51 Hz for monolinguals. Using a computational model, we show how this group difference could result from differential subcortical activation. These results shed light on the well-known but under-explored variability observed in the gamma range and highlight that FFRs are a composite of neural activity from both subcortical and cortical sources. Additionally, our findings emphasize that individual auditory experiences can uniquely shape subcortical activation, influencing FFRs below speech frequencies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"260 ","pages":"Article 105506"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142824548","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":"Interactive and additive effects of word frequency and predictability: A fixation-related fMRI study","authors":"Sarah Schuster ,&nbsp;Kim-Lara Weiss ,&nbsp;Florian Hutzler ,&nbsp;Martin Kronbichler ,&nbsp;Stefan Hawelka","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105508","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105508","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The effects of word frequency and predictability are informative with respect to bottom-up and top-down mechanisms during reading. Word frequency is assumed to index bottom-up, whereas word predictability top-down information. Findings regarding potential interactive effects, however, are inconclusive. An interactive effect would suggest an early lexical impact of contextual top-down mechanisms where both variables are processed concurrently in early stages of word recognition. An additive effect, to the contrary, would suggest that contextual top-down processing only occurs post-lexically. We evaluated potential interactions between word frequency and predictability during silent reading by means of functional magnetic resonance imaging and simultaneous eye-tracking (i.e., <em>fixation-related fMRI</em>). Our data revealed exclusively additive effects. Specifically, we observed effects of word frequency and word predictability in left inferior frontal regions, whereas word frequency additionally exhibited an effect in the left occipito-temporal cortex. We interpret our findings in terms of contextual top-down processing facilitation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"260 ","pages":"Article 105508"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142787949","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":"Evidence for early encoding of speech in blind people","authors":"Yu-Lu Liu ,&nbsp;Yu-Xin Zhang ,&nbsp;Yao Wang,&nbsp;Ying Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105504","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105504","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Blind listeners rely more on their auditory skills than the sighted to adapt to unavailable visual information. However, it is still unclear whether the blind has stronger noise-related modulation compared with the sighted when speech is presented under adverse listening conditions. This study aims to address this research gap by constructing noisy conditions and syllable contrasts to obtain auditory middle-latency response (MLR) and long-latency response (LLR) in blind and sighted adults. We found that blind people showed higher MLR (Na, Nb, and Pa) and N1 amplitudes compared with sighted, while this phenomenon was not observed for mismatch negativity (MMN) during auditory discrimination in both quiet and noisy backgrounds, which might eventually affect stream segregation and facilitate the understanding of speech in complex environments, contributing to their more sensitive speech detection ability of blind people. These results had important implications regarding the interpretation of noise-induced changes in the early encoding of speech in blind people.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"259 ","pages":"Article 105504"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142781348","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}