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Revisiting bilingual processing: insights from L1 transfer in L2 acquisition 重新审视双语加工：来自二语习得中母语迁移的见解。

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105645

Huanhuan Yin, Martin J. Pickering

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The neural correlates of nominal classification rule learning and their individual differences 名义分类规则学习的神经关联及其个体差异

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105654

Diego Elisandro Dardon , Haining Cui , Motoaki Sugiura , Hyeonjeong Jeong

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Dysgraphia in Japanese patients with primary progressive aphasia 日本原发性进行性失语症患者的书写困难

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105655

Shoko Ota , Maki Suzuki , Akihiro Takasaki , Nobuko Kawakami , Keisuke Morihara , Kazuo Kakinuma , Shiho Matsubara , Kazuto Katsuse , Chifumi Iseki , Shigenori Kanno , Manabu Ikeda , Kyoko Suzuki

{"title":"Dysgraphia in Japanese patients with primary progressive aphasia","authors":"Shoko Ota , Maki Suzuki , Akihiro Takasaki , Nobuko Kawakami , Keisuke Morihara , Kazuo Kakinuma , Shiho Matsubara , Kazuto Katsuse , Chifumi Iseki , Shigenori Kanno , Manabu Ikeda , Kyoko Suzuki","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105655","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105655","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Dysgraphia in Japanese patients with primary progressive aphasia (PPA) remains underexplored. Japanese writing system–kanji (morphograms) and kana (phonograms)–offers a unique opportunity to study dysgraphia in PPA. We investigated 32 Japanese speakers with PPA: 14 with nonfluent/agrammatic (nfvPPA), 13 with semantic (svPPA), and 5 with logopenic (lvPPA) variants. Writing abilities were assessed through the dictation of 30 kanji and 30 kana words. Patients with nfvPPA exhibited significant kana dysgraphia, reflecting phonological route dysfunction. Kanji dysgraphia predominated in svPPA and lvPPA, with phonologically plausible errors most common in svPPA, indicating orthographic-semantic route impairment. Character stroke errors in kana were more frequent in nfvPPA, possibly reflecting graphemic motor deficits. These findings highlight distinct dysgraphia patterns across PPA subtypes, corresponding to the specific brain regions predominantly impaired in each variant.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"271 ","pages":"Article 105655"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145416441","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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Juggling with rubber hands, leaping with rubber feet: Sensorimotor reuse during verb comprehension 橡胶手杂耍，橡胶脚跳跃：动词理解过程中感觉运动的再利用

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105639

Suesan MacRae , Heath E. Matheson

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Electrophysiological correlates of meaning-based attentional guidance mechanism as a function of cognitive loads in visual search for words 视觉词搜索中基于意义的注意引导机制与认知负荷的电生理关联

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105642

Julien Dampure , Horacio A. Barber

{"title":"Electrophysiological correlates of meaning-based attentional guidance mechanism as a function of cognitive loads in visual search for words","authors":"Julien Dampure , Horacio A. Barber","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105642","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105642","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the impact of foveal and task-related cognitive loads on meaning-based attentional guidance during visual search for words. Participants searched for words through successive three-words displays while their electroencephalogram was recorded. In target-absent trials, displays contained a central word and two parafoveal words: one distractor semantically-related to the target and one unrelated distractor. To manipulate the task-related cognitive load, participants either searched for specific words either provided beforehand (literal task) or defined only by their semantic category (categorical task). The foveal load was manipulated by varying both the lexical frequency and the semantic-relatedness with the targets of the centered word in the three-words displays. Results indicated that in the literal task, when cognitive load was low, parafoveal distractor words semantically-related to the target triggered faster attentional responses as reflected in increased P2a amplitude, while increasing foveal load delayed parafoveal semantic processing, as shown by N3 and N400 modulations. In contrast, the categorical task, characterized by higher task-related cognitive demands, showed limited evidence of parafoveal semantic processing. Rather, word processing seemed to be focused on deeper processing of central words, as evidenced by N400 variations. Altogether, this work contributes to understanding the interplay between semantic and attentional mechanisms in visual search, highlighting the influence of cognitive resources on visual word processing. Moreover, the findings suggest that covert and overt attention may follow distinct temporal dynamics in parafoveal semantic processing, underscoring the importance of considering task demands and spatial factors when comparing visual search and reading.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"271 ","pages":"Article 105642"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145159435","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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Developmental differences in L1 and L2 text comprehension: An ERP study 母语和二语文本理解的发展差异：一个ERP研究

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105644

Ana I. Pérez, Nuria Montoro, Almudena Ortega, Carmen Aguirre, Giulia Togato, Mª Teresa Bajo

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Language-specific regions in the supplementary motor area: Evidence from verb generation during electrical stimulation mapping 辅助运动区的语言特异性区域：电刺激映射过程中动词生成的证据

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Brain and Language Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105641

Mireia Hernández , Anna Gasa-Roqué , Alba Gómez-Andres , Ruth Lau , Inmaculada Rico , Montserrat Juncadella , Àngels Camins , Antoni Rodríguez-Fornells , Andreu Gabarrós

{"title":"Language-specific regions in the supplementary motor area: Evidence from verb generation during electrical stimulation mapping","authors":"Mireia Hernández , Anna Gasa-Roqué , Alba Gómez-Andres , Ruth Lau , Inmaculada Rico , Montserrat Juncadella , Àngels Camins , Antoni Rodríguez-Fornells , Andreu Gabarrós","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105641","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105641","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Language representation has been attributed to the perisylvian areas of the left hemisphere, with a more widely distributed network in multilingual populations. However, multilingual evidence has long obviated the involvement of regions outside classical perisylvian areas, such as the supplementary motor area (SMA). We aimed to provide novel evidence on the SMA’s role in language localization using electrical stimulation mapping (ESM) during awake brain surgery. We conducted a case-series study of 4 bilingual or multilingual patients with an expansive brain lesion near the SMA who underwent an ESM. Our results evidenced that the stimulation of the left-SMA induced language difficulties during a verb generation task, with a higher proportion of language-specific sites in the pre-SMA region. Moreover, we reported specific language sites for multiple acquired languages. Overall, our study highlighted the SMA as a language-eloquent area, likely linked to lexical decisions, while also being sensitive to different—but not necessarily all—languages of a patient.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"271 ","pages":"Article 105641"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145121002","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 : 2025-11-01 Epub 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":"2025-11-01","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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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 : 2025-11-01 Epub 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

{"title":"From eye to cortex: Tracing the neurocognitive dynamics of bilingual novel word acquisition","authors":"Yang Fu , Jing Yang , Beatriz Bermúdez-Margaretto , Huili Wang , Damian Enrique Jan Cordón , Alberto Domínguez","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105632","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105632","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The current study examined how native language (L1) orthographic features influence bilinguals’ ability to rapidly form new representations for second-language (L2) written word forms. We assessed eye movements, neural activity, and behavioral performance in sequential bilinguals with L1-L2 orthographical pairs within (Spanish-English) and across (Mandarin Chinese-English) writing systems. Participants were trained on novel English words embedded in naturalistic sentence contexts, followed by a two-day post-training session. Analyses of eye-movement variables, fixation-related potentials, and learning outcomes revealed that Spanish-English bilinguals exhibited more automatic lexical encoding of novel words, reflected in shorter fixations and attenuated early neural responses, whereas Chinese-English bilinguals maintained prolonged attentional engagement across exposures. These divergent exposure-related dynamics predicted post-training performance, with Spanish bilinguals showing greater gains after consolidation. The findings suggest that the neuroplasticity underlying L2 word learning is shaped by pre-existing cortical circuits for native linguistic features, leading to different neural strategies for forming new lexical representations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"270 ","pages":"Article 105632"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144902945","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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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 : 2025-11-01 Epub 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

{"title":"Interhemispheric functional connectivity of the ventral occipitotemporal cortex supports Chinese reading","authors":"Xinqi Su , Lala Gu , Rui Hu , XiaoXue Feng , Aqian Li , Jingyu Yang , Leilei Mei","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105634","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105634","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Previous studies have revealed the involvement of the bilateral ventral occipitotemporal cortex (vOT) in word reading, especially in Chinese character reading. However, the interhemispheric communication mechanisms of the bilateral vOT and how they work in Chinese character reading have not been fully investigated. Two experiments were conducted in this study to address those questions using resting-state and task-based fMRI. Experiment 1 revealed stronger interhemispheric resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) in the posterior vOT subregion compared to the middle and anterior subregions and a significant positive correlation with Chinese reading efficiency in the posterior subregion. Experiment 2 further explored the effective connectivity in the Chinese rhythm and semantic judgment tasks using dynamic causal model analysis. Results showed significant interhemispheric intrinsic connections similar to those in the resting state in the posterior subregion and right-to-left modulatory connections in the middle and anterior subregions. In addition, stronger right-to-left modulatory connectivity in the anterior subregion was associated with better behavioral performance in the semantic judgment task. These convergent findings highlight the importance of interhemispheric communication of the bilateral vOT in Chinese character reading.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"270 ","pages":"Article 105634"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144865368","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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