Sikoya M. Ashburn, D. Lynn Flowers, Guinevere F. Eden
{"title":"A comparison of functional activation and connectivity of the cerebellum in adults and children during single word processing","authors":"Sikoya M. Ashburn, D. Lynn Flowers, Guinevere F. Eden","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105346","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105346","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Meta-analyses on reading show cerebellar activation in adults, but not children, suggesting a possible age-dependent role of the cerebellum in reading. However, the few studies that compare adults and children during reading report mixed cerebellar activation results. Here, we studied (i) cerebellar activation during implicit word processing in adults and children and (ii) functional connectivity (FC) between the cerebellum and left cortical regions involved in reading. First, both groups activated bilateral cerebellum for word processing when compared to fixation, but not when compared to the active control. There were no differences between adults and children. Second, we found intrinsic FC between several cerebellar seed regions and cortical target regions in adults and children, as well as between-group differences. However, task-modulated FC specific to word processing revealed no within- nor between-group results. Together this study does not provide support for a role of the cerebellum in word processing at either age.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92005859","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 advantage of the music-enabled brain in accommodating lexical tone variabilities","authors":"Kaile Zhang , Ran Tao , Gang Peng","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105348","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The perception of multiple-speaker speech is challenging. People with music training generally show more robust and faster tone perception. The present study investigated whether music training experience can facilitate tonal-language speakers to accommodate speech variability in lexical tones. Native Cantonese musicians and nonmusicians were asked to identify Cantonese level tones from multiple speakers. Two groups were equally well in using context cues to normalize lexical tone variability at behavioral level. However, the advantage of music training was observed at cortical level. The time-domain ERP analysis suggested that musicians normalized lexical tone variability much earlier than nonmusicians (N1: 70–175 ms vs. P2: 175–280 ms). An exploratory source analysis further revealed that two groups probably relied on different cortical regions to normalize lexical tones. Left BA41 showed stronger involvement in musicians in accommodating tone variability, but right auditory cortex (including BA 41, 42 and 22) activated to a greater extend in nonmusicians.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71773840","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":"Is a Giraffe's long neck a new machine built out of old parts? Commentary on age effects in second language acquisition: Expanding the emergentist account","authors":"Arturo E. Hernandez","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105344","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49791259","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 CPH is dead. Long live the critical period hypothesis","authors":"Emanuel Bylund , Gunnar Norrman","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105341","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49791260","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":"Studying second language acquisition in the age of large language models: Unlocking the mysteries of language and learning, A commentary on “Age effects in second language acquisition: Expanding the emergentist account” by Catherine L. Caldwell-Harris and Brian MacWhinney","authors":"Viorica Marian","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105338","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49778313","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":"What constitutes success in L2 learning? Time to rid ourselves of the holy grail of ‘ultimate attainment’","authors":"Annick De Houwer","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105342","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49791256","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":"Exposure is the proximal influence on second language acquisition","authors":"Amelia Lambelet , Virginia Valian","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105339","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49791258","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":"Age and attainment in foreign language learning: The critical period account stands","authors":"ZhaoHong Han , Amy Baohan","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105343","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49791257","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}
Rutvik H. Desai , Christopher T. Hackett , Karim Johari , Vicky T. Lai , Nicholas Riccardi
{"title":"Spatiotemporal characteristics of the neural representation of event concepts","authors":"Rutvik H. Desai , Christopher T. Hackett , Karim Johari , Vicky T. Lai , Nicholas Riccardi","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105328","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105328","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Events are a fundamentally important part of our understanding of the world. How lexical concepts denoting events are represented in the brain remains controversial. We conducted two experiments using event and object nouns matched on a range of psycholinguistic variables, including concreteness, to examine spatial and temporal characteristics of event concepts. Both experiments used magnitude and valence tasks on event and object nouns. The fMRI experiment revealed a distributed set of regions for events, including the angular gyrus, anterior temporal lobe, and posterior cingulate across tasks. In the EEG experiment, events and objects differed in amplitude within the 300–500 ms window. Together these results shed light into the spatiotemporal characteristics of event concept representation and show that event concepts are represented in the putative hubs of the semantic system. While these hubs are typically associated with object semantics, they also represent events, and have a likely role in temporal integration.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41241139","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}
Loubna El Ouardi , Mohamed Yeou , Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah
{"title":"Neural correlates of pronoun processing: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis","authors":"Loubna El Ouardi , Mohamed Yeou , Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105347","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105347","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Pronouns are unique linguistic devices that allow for the expression of referential relationships. Despite their communicative utility, the neural correlates of the operations involved in reference assignment and/or resolution, are not well-understood. The present study synthesized the neuroimaging literature on pronoun processing to test extant theories of pronoun comprehension. Following the PRISMA guidelines and the<!--> <!-->best-practice recommendations for neuroimaging <em>meta</em>-analyses, a systematic literature search and record assessment were performed. As a result, 16 fMRI studies were included in the <em>meta</em>-analysis, and were coded in Scribe 3.6 for inclusion in the BrainMap database. The activation coordinates for the contrasts of interest were transformed into Talairach space and submitted to an Activation Likelihood Estimation (ALE) <em>meta</em>-analysis in GingerALE 3.0.1. The results indicated that pronoun processing had functional convergence in the left posterior middle and superior temporal gyri, potentially reflecting the retrieval, prediction and integration roles of these areas for pronoun processing.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41241138","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}