Sarah Schuster , Kim-Lara Weiss , Florian Hutzler , Martin Kronbichler , Stefan Hawelka
{"title":"Interactive and additive effects of word frequency and predictability: A fixation-related fMRI study","authors":"Sarah Schuster , Kim-Lara Weiss , Florian Hutzler , Martin Kronbichler , 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 , Yu-Xin Zhang , Yao Wang, 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}
Jiaqi Wang , Niels O. Schiller , Rinus G. Verdonschot
{"title":"Word and morpheme frequency effects in naming Mandarin Chinese compounds: More than a replication","authors":"Jiaqi Wang , Niels O. Schiller , Rinus G. Verdonschot","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105496","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105496","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The question whether compound words are stored in our mental lexicon in a decomposed or full-listing way prompted Janssen and colleagues (2008) to investigate the representation of compounds using word and morpheme frequencies manipulations. Our study replicated their study using a new set of stimuli from a spoken corpus and incorporating EEG data for a more detailed investigation. In the current study, despite ERP analyses revealing no word frequency or morpheme frequency effects across conditions, behavioral outcomes indicated that Mandarin compounds are not sensitive to word frequency. Instead, the response times highlighted a morpheme frequency effect in naming Mandarin compounds, which contrasted with the findings of Janssen and colleagues. These findings challenge the full-listing model and instead support the decompositional model.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"259 ","pages":"Article 105496"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142631590","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":"No Brain is an Island: Commentary on Billot and Kiran","authors":"E. Susan Duncan","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105483","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105483","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"258 ","pages":"Article 105483"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142551986","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}
Marc Gimeno-Martínez , Eva Gutierrez-Sigut , Cristina Baus
{"title":"Neural changes in sign language vocabulary learning: Tracking lexical integration with ERP measures","authors":"Marc Gimeno-Martínez , Eva Gutierrez-Sigut , Cristina Baus","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105495","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105495","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The present study aimed to investigate the neural changes related to the early stages of sign language vocabulary learning. Hearing non-signers were exposed to Catalan Sign Language (LSC) signs in three laboratory learning sessions over the course of a week. Participants completed two priming tasks designed to examine learning-related neural changes by means of N400 responses. In a semantic decision task, participants evaluated whether written Catalan word pairs were semantically related or not. The experimental manipulation included prime-target phonological overlap (or not) of the corresponding LSC sign translations. In a LSC primed lexical decision task, participants saw pairs of signs and had to determine if the targets were real LSC signs or not. The experimental design included pairs of signs that were semantically related or unrelated. The results of the LSC lexical decision task showed N400 lexicality and semantic priming effects in the third session. Also in the third session, N400 effects related to the activation of LSC phonology were observed during word processing in the semantic decision task. Overall, our findings suggest rapid neural changes occurring during the initial stages of intensive sign language vocabulary training. The results are discussed in relation to the temporality of lexicality and semantic effects, as well as their potential relation to linguistic features of sign languages.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"259 ","pages":"Article 105495"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142513395","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}
Yinan Xu , My V.H. Nguyen , Kelly A. Vaughn , Pilar Archila‐Suerte , Arturo E. Hernandez
{"title":"Subcortical volume and language proficiency in bilinguals and monolinguals: A structural MRI study","authors":"Yinan Xu , My V.H. Nguyen , Kelly A. Vaughn , Pilar Archila‐Suerte , Arturo E. Hernandez","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105494","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105494","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The current study focused on an understudied but most prominent bilingual population in the U.S. – heritage bilinguals. The current study combined data from eight MRI studies to examine the relationship between language experience and subcortical gray matter volume in 215 heritage Spanish-English bilinguals and 145 English monolinguals, within and between groups. For bilinguals, higher Spanish (L1) proficiency was related to less volume in the bilateral globus pallidus, and higher English (L2) proficiency and earlier English AoA were related to greater volume in the right thalamus, left accumbens, and bilateral globus pallidus. For monolinguals, higher English proficiency was associated with greater volume only in the right pallidum. These results suggest that subcortical gray matter structures are related to the learning of a second language. Future research is encouraged to understand subcortical adaptation in relation to L1 and L2 acquisition from a developmental perspective.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"259 ","pages":"Article 105494"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142513396","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":"Getting the wires uncrossed to recover language after stroke: Commentary on Billot and Kiran","authors":"Argye E. Hillis","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105478","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105478","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"258 ","pages":"Article 105478"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142445002","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 dynamics of neuroplasticity in the recovery from post-stroke aphasia: Commentary on Billot and Kiran","authors":"Sandra Martin , Gesa Hartwigsen","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105479","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105479","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"258 ","pages":"Article 105479"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142432280","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":"Commentary on Billot and Kiran","authors":"Ida Rangus , Leonardo Bonilha","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105477","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105477","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"258 ","pages":"Article 105477"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142432281","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}