Conceptual representations in the default, control and attention networks are task-dependent and cross-modal
Brain Lang. 2023 Aug 16;244:105313. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105313. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTConceptual knowledge is central to human cognition. Neuroimaging studies suggest that conceptual processing involves modality-specific and multimodal brain regions in a task-dependent fashion. However, it remains unclear (1) to what extent conceptual feature representations are also modulated by the task, (2) whether conceptual representations in multimodal regions are indeed cross-modal, and (3) how the conceptual system relates to the large-scale functional brain networks. To address these issues, we conducted multivariate...
Source: Brain and Language - August 18, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Philipp Kuhnke Markus Kiefer Gesa Hartwigsen Source Type: research
Acoustic Analysis and Neuroimaging Correlates of Diadochokinetic Rates in Mild-Moderate Primary Progressive Apraxia of Speech
Brain Lang. 2023 May;240:105254. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105254. Epub 2023 Apr 6.ABSTRACTSpeech rate can be judged clinically using diadochokinetic (DDK) tasks, such as alternating motion rates (AMR) and sequential motion rates (SMR). We evaluated whether acoustic AMR/SMR speech rates would differentiate primary progressive apraxia of speech (PPAOS) from healthy controls, and determined how DDK rates relate to phonetic and prosodic speech characteristics and brain metabolism on FDG-PET. Rate was calculated for each of three AMRs (repetitions of 'puh', 'tuh', and 'kuh') and for SMRs (repetitions of 'puhtuhkuh') for 27 PPA...
Source: Brain and Language - August 16, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Kennedy A Josephs Joseph R Duffy Peter R Martin Yehkyoung C Stephens Neha Atulkumar Singh Heather M Clark Hugo Botha Val J Lowe Jennifer L Whitwell Rene L Utianski Source Type: research
Acoustic Analysis and Neuroimaging Correlates of Diadochokinetic Rates in Mild-Moderate Primary Progressive Apraxia of Speech
Brain Lang. 2023 May;240:105254. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105254. Epub 2023 Apr 6.ABSTRACTSpeech rate can be judged clinically using diadochokinetic (DDK) tasks, such as alternating motion rates (AMR) and sequential motion rates (SMR). We evaluated whether acoustic AMR/SMR speech rates would differentiate primary progressive apraxia of speech (PPAOS) from healthy controls, and determined how DDK rates relate to phonetic and prosodic speech characteristics and brain metabolism on FDG-PET. Rate was calculated for each of three AMRs (repetitions of 'puh', 'tuh', and 'kuh') and for SMRs (repetitions of 'puhtuhkuh') for 27 PPA...
Source: Brain and Language - August 16, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Kennedy A Josephs Joseph R Duffy Peter R Martin Yehkyoung C Stephens Neha Atulkumar Singh Heather M Clark Hugo Botha Val J Lowe Jennifer L Whitwell Rene L Utianski Source Type: research
Acoustic Analysis and Neuroimaging Correlates of Diadochokinetic Rates in Mild-Moderate Primary Progressive Apraxia of Speech
Brain Lang. 2023 May;240:105254. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105254. Epub 2023 Apr 6.ABSTRACTSpeech rate can be judged clinically using diadochokinetic (DDK) tasks, such as alternating motion rates (AMR) and sequential motion rates (SMR). We evaluated whether acoustic AMR/SMR speech rates would differentiate primary progressive apraxia of speech (PPAOS) from healthy controls, and determined how DDK rates relate to phonetic and prosodic speech characteristics and brain metabolism on FDG-PET. Rate was calculated for each of three AMRs (repetitions of 'puh', 'tuh', and 'kuh') and for SMRs (repetitions of 'puhtuhkuh') for 27 PPA...
Source: Brain and Language - August 16, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Kennedy A Josephs Joseph R Duffy Peter R Martin Yehkyoung C Stephens Neha Atulkumar Singh Heather M Clark Hugo Botha Val J Lowe Jennifer L Whitwell Rene L Utianski Source Type: research
Embodiment of action-related language in the native and a late foreign language - An fMRI-study
Brain Lang. 2023 Aug 12;244:105312. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105312. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTTheories of embodied cognition postulate that language processing activates similar sensory-motor structures as when interacting with the environment. Only little is known about the neural substrate of embodiment in a foreign language (L2) as compared to the mother tongue (L1). In this fMRI study, we investigated embodiment of motor and non-motor action verbs in L1 and L2 including 31 late bilinguals. Half had German as L1 and French as L2, and the other half vice-versa. We collapsed across languages to avoid the confound be...
Source: Brain and Language - August 14, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: E Monaco M Mouthon J Britz S Sato I Stefanos-Yakoub J M Annoni L B Jost Source Type: research
Embodiment of action-related language in the native and a late foreign language - An fMRI-study
Brain Lang. 2023 Aug 12;244:105312. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105312. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTTheories of embodied cognition postulate that language processing activates similar sensory-motor structures as when interacting with the environment. Only little is known about the neural substrate of embodiment in a foreign language (L2) as compared to the mother tongue (L1). In this fMRI study, we investigated embodiment of motor and non-motor action verbs in L1 and L2 including 31 late bilinguals. Half had German as L1 and French as L2, and the other half vice-versa. We collapsed across languages to avoid the confound be...
Source: Brain and Language - August 14, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: E Monaco M Mouthon J Britz S Sato I Stefanos-Yakoub J M Annoni L B Jost Source Type: research
Complain like you mean it! How prosody conveys suffering even about innocuous events
Brain Lang. 2023 Aug 8;244:105305. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105305. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWhen complaining, speakers can use their voice to convey a feeling of pain, even when describing innocuous events. Rapid detection of emotive and identity features of the voice may constrain how the semantic content of complaints is processed, as indexed by N400 and P600 effects evoked by the final, pain-related word. Twenty-six participants listened to statements describing painful and innocuous events expressed in a neutral or complaining voice, produced by ingroup and outgroup accented speakers. Participants evaluated how ...
Source: Brain and Language - August 10, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Ma ël Mauchand Marc D Pell Source Type: research
Complain like you mean it! How prosody conveys suffering even about innocuous events
Brain Lang. 2023 Aug 8;244:105305. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105305. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWhen complaining, speakers can use their voice to convey a feeling of pain, even when describing innocuous events. Rapid detection of emotive and identity features of the voice may constrain how the semantic content of complaints is processed, as indexed by N400 and P600 effects evoked by the final, pain-related word. Twenty-six participants listened to statements describing painful and innocuous events expressed in a neutral or complaining voice, produced by ingroup and outgroup accented speakers. Participants evaluated how ...
Source: Brain and Language - August 10, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Ma ël Mauchand Marc D Pell Source Type: research
Complain like you mean it! How prosody conveys suffering even about innocuous events
Brain Lang. 2023 Aug 8;244:105305. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105305. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWhen complaining, speakers can use their voice to convey a feeling of pain, even when describing innocuous events. Rapid detection of emotive and identity features of the voice may constrain how the semantic content of complaints is processed, as indexed by N400 and P600 effects evoked by the final, pain-related word. Twenty-six participants listened to statements describing painful and innocuous events expressed in a neutral or complaining voice, produced by ingroup and outgroup accented speakers. Participants evaluated how ...
Source: Brain and Language - August 10, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Ma ël Mauchand Marc D Pell Source Type: research
Complain like you mean it! How prosody conveys suffering even about innocuous events
Brain Lang. 2023 Aug 8;244:105305. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105305. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWhen complaining, speakers can use their voice to convey a feeling of pain, even when describing innocuous events. Rapid detection of emotive and identity features of the voice may constrain how the semantic content of complaints is processed, as indexed by N400 and P600 effects evoked by the final, pain-related word. Twenty-six participants listened to statements describing painful and innocuous events expressed in a neutral or complaining voice, produced by ingroup and outgroup accented speakers. Participants evaluated how ...
Source: Brain and Language - August 10, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Ma ël Mauchand Marc D Pell Source Type: research
Watching talking faces: The development of cortical representation of visual syllables in infancy
Brain Lang. 2023 Jul 21;244:105304. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105304. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTFrom birth, we perceive speech by hearing and seeing people talk. In adults cortical representations of visual speech are processed in the putative temporal visual speech area (TVSA), but it remains unknown how these representations develop. We measured infants' cortical responses to silent visual syllables and non-communicative mouth movements using functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy. Our results indicate that cortical specialisation for visual speech may emerge during infancy. The putative TVSA was active to both visual...
Source: Brain and Language - July 23, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Aleksandra A W Dopiera ła David L ópez Pérez Evelyne Mercure Agnieszka Pluta Anna Malinowska-Korczak Samuel Evans Tomasz Wolak Przemys ław Tomalski Source Type: research
Watching talking faces: The development of cortical representation of visual syllables in infancy
Brain Lang. 2023 Jul 21;244:105304. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105304. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTFrom birth, we perceive speech by hearing and seeing people talk. In adults cortical representations of visual speech are processed in the putative temporal visual speech area (TVSA), but it remains unknown how these representations develop. We measured infants' cortical responses to silent visual syllables and non-communicative mouth movements using functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy. Our results indicate that cortical specialisation for visual speech may emerge during infancy. The putative TVSA was active to both visual...
Source: Brain and Language - July 23, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Aleksandra A W Dopiera ła David L ópez Pérez Evelyne Mercure Agnieszka Pluta Anna Malinowska-Korczak Samuel Evans Tomasz Wolak Przemys ław Tomalski Source Type: research
Watching talking faces: The development of cortical representation of visual syllables in infancy
Brain Lang. 2023 Jul 21;244:105304. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105304. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTFrom birth, we perceive speech by hearing and seeing people talk. In adults cortical representations of visual speech are processed in the putative temporal visual speech area (TVSA), but it remains unknown how these representations develop. We measured infants' cortical responses to silent visual syllables and non-communicative mouth movements using functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy. Our results indicate that cortical specialisation for visual speech may emerge during infancy. The putative TVSA was active to both visual...
Source: Brain and Language - July 23, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Aleksandra A W Dopiera ła David L ópez Pérez Evelyne Mercure Agnieszka Pluta Anna Malinowska-Korczak Samuel Evans Tomasz Wolak Przemys ław Tomalski Source Type: research
Watching talking faces: The development of cortical representation of visual syllables in infancy
Brain Lang. 2023 Jul 21;244:105304. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105304. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTFrom birth, we perceive speech by hearing and seeing people talk. In adults cortical representations of visual speech are processed in the putative temporal visual speech area (TVSA), but it remains unknown how these representations develop. We measured infants' cortical responses to silent visual syllables and non-communicative mouth movements using functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy. Our results indicate that cortical specialisation for visual speech may emerge during infancy. The putative TVSA was active to both visual...
Source: Brain and Language - July 23, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Aleksandra A W Dopiera ła David L ópez Pérez Evelyne Mercure Agnieszka Pluta Anna Malinowska-Korczak Samuel Evans Tomasz Wolak Przemys ław Tomalski Source Type: research
Watching talking faces: The development of cortical representation of visual syllables in infancy
Brain Lang. 2023 Jul 21;244:105304. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105304. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTFrom birth, we perceive speech by hearing and seeing people talk. In adults cortical representations of visual speech are processed in the putative temporal visual speech area (TVSA), but it remains unknown how these representations develop. We measured infants' cortical responses to silent visual syllables and non-communicative mouth movements using functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy. Our results indicate that cortical specialisation for visual speech may emerge during infancy. The putative TVSA was active to both visual...
Source: Brain and Language - July 23, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Aleksandra A W Dopiera ła David L ópez Pérez Evelyne Mercure Agnieszka Pluta Anna Malinowska-Korczak Samuel Evans Tomasz Wolak Przemys ław Tomalski Source Type: research
