Interactions of lexical and conceptual representations: Evidence from EEG
We examined whether meanings automatically activate linguistic forms, and whether these forms affect semantic decisions. Participants were presented sequentially with pairs of pictures and decided whether the objects in the pictures were related. At no point did they name the pictures. The object names of the experimental stimuli were ambiguous either in orthography (homographs), phonology (homophones), or both (homonyms), or unambiguous. We show that the lexical characteristics of the name of the objects affect a semantic decision about real world relations, in an online measure (N400), in addition to offline behavioral m...
Source: Brain and Language - July 12, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Zohar Eviatar Nahal Binur Orna Peleg Source Type: research
Interactions of lexical and conceptual representations: Evidence from EEG
We examined whether meanings automatically activate linguistic forms, and whether these forms affect semantic decisions. Participants were presented sequentially with pairs of pictures and decided whether the objects in the pictures were related. At no point did they name the pictures. The object names of the experimental stimuli were ambiguous either in orthography (homographs), phonology (homophones), or both (homonyms), or unambiguous. We show that the lexical characteristics of the name of the objects affect a semantic decision about real world relations, in an online measure (N400), in addition to offline behavioral m...
Source: Brain and Language - July 12, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Zohar Eviatar Nahal Binur Orna Peleg Source Type: research
Interactions of lexical and conceptual representations: Evidence from EEG
We examined whether meanings automatically activate linguistic forms, and whether these forms affect semantic decisions. Participants were presented sequentially with pairs of pictures and decided whether the objects in the pictures were related. At no point did they name the pictures. The object names of the experimental stimuli were ambiguous either in orthography (homographs), phonology (homophones), or both (homonyms), or unambiguous. We show that the lexical characteristics of the name of the objects affect a semantic decision about real world relations, in an online measure (N400), in addition to offline behavioral m...
Source: Brain and Language - July 12, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Zohar Eviatar Nahal Binur Orna Peleg Source Type: research
Interindividual variability and consistency of language mapping paradigms for presurgical use
Brain Lang. 2023 Jul 4;243:105299. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105299. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMost functional MRI studies of language processing have focussed on group-level inference, but for clinical use, the aim is to predict outcomes at an individual patient level. This requires being able to identify atypical activation and understand how differences relate to language outcomes. A language mapping paradigm that selectively activates left hemisphere language regions in healthy individuals allows atypical activation in a patient to be more easily identified. We investigated the interindividual variability and consi...
Source: Brain and Language - July 6, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Georgia Thomas Katie L McMahon Emma Finch David A Copland Source Type: research
Interindividual variability and consistency of language mapping paradigms for presurgical use
Brain Lang. 2023 Jul 4;243:105299. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105299. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMost functional MRI studies of language processing have focussed on group-level inference, but for clinical use, the aim is to predict outcomes at an individual patient level. This requires being able to identify atypical activation and understand how differences relate to language outcomes. A language mapping paradigm that selectively activates left hemisphere language regions in healthy individuals allows atypical activation in a patient to be more easily identified. We investigated the interindividual variability and consi...
Source: Brain and Language - July 6, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Georgia Thomas Katie L McMahon Emma Finch David A Copland Source Type: research
Interindividual variability and consistency of language mapping paradigms for presurgical use
Brain Lang. 2023 Jul 4;243:105299. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105299. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMost functional MRI studies of language processing have focussed on group-level inference, but for clinical use, the aim is to predict outcomes at an individual patient level. This requires being able to identify atypical activation and understand how differences relate to language outcomes. A language mapping paradigm that selectively activates left hemisphere language regions in healthy individuals allows atypical activation in a patient to be more easily identified. We investigated the interindividual variability and consi...
Source: Brain and Language - July 6, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Georgia Thomas Katie L McMahon Emma Finch David A Copland Source Type: research
Interindividual variability and consistency of language mapping paradigms for presurgical use
Brain Lang. 2023 Jul 4;243:105299. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105299. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMost functional MRI studies of language processing have focussed on group-level inference, but for clinical use, the aim is to predict outcomes at an individual patient level. This requires being able to identify atypical activation and understand how differences relate to language outcomes. A language mapping paradigm that selectively activates left hemisphere language regions in healthy individuals allows atypical activation in a patient to be more easily identified. We investigated the interindividual variability and consi...
Source: Brain and Language - July 6, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Georgia Thomas Katie L McMahon Emma Finch David A Copland Source Type: research
Interindividual variability and consistency of language mapping paradigms for presurgical use
Brain Lang. 2023 Jul 4;243:105299. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105299. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMost functional MRI studies of language processing have focussed on group-level inference, but for clinical use, the aim is to predict outcomes at an individual patient level. This requires being able to identify atypical activation and understand how differences relate to language outcomes. A language mapping paradigm that selectively activates left hemisphere language regions in healthy individuals allows atypical activation in a patient to be more easily identified. We investigated the interindividual variability and consi...
Source: Brain and Language - July 6, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Georgia Thomas Katie L McMahon Emma Finch David A Copland Source Type: research
Neural phase angle from two months when tracking speech and non-speech rhythm linked to language performance from 12 to 24 months
Brain Lang. 2023 Jul 1;243:105301. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105301. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAtypical phase alignment of low-frequency neural oscillations to speech rhythm has been implicated in phonological deficits in developmental dyslexia. Atypical phase alignment to rhythm could thus also characterize infants at risk for later language difficulties. Here, we investigate phase-language mechanisms in a neurotypical infant sample. 122 two-, six- and nine-month-old infants were played speech and non-speech rhythms while EEG was recorded in a longitudinal design. The phase of infants' neural oscillations aligned cons...
Source: Brain and Language - July 3, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Áine Ní Choisdealbha Adam Attaheri Sinead Rocha Natasha Mead Helen Olawole-Scott Perrine Brusini Samuel Gibbon Panagiotis Boutris Christina Grey Declan Hines Isabel Williams Sheila A Flanagan Usha Goswami Source Type: research
Spatiotemporal dynamics of abstract and concrete semantic representations
Brain Lang. 2023 Jul 1;243:105298. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105298. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTDual Coding Theories (DCT) suggest that meaning is represented in the brain by a double code: a language-derived code in the Anterior Temporal Lobe (ATL) and a sensory-derived code in perceptual and motor regions. Concrete concepts should activate both codes, while abstract ones rely solely on the linguistic code. To test these hypotheses, the present magnetoencephalography (MEG) experiment had participants judge whether visually presented words relate to the senses while we recorded brain responses to abstract and concrete s...
Source: Brain and Language - July 3, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Lorenzo Vignali Yangwen Xu Jacopo Turini Olivier Collignon Davide Crepaldi Roberto Bottini Source Type: research
Neural phase angle from two months when tracking speech and non-speech rhythm linked to language performance from 12 to 24 months
Brain Lang. 2023 Jul 1;243:105301. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105301. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAtypical phase alignment of low-frequency neural oscillations to speech rhythm has been implicated in phonological deficits in developmental dyslexia. Atypical phase alignment to rhythm could thus also characterize infants at risk for later language difficulties. Here, we investigate phase-language mechanisms in a neurotypical infant sample. 122 two-, six- and nine-month-old infants were played speech and non-speech rhythms while EEG was recorded in a longitudinal design. The phase of infants' neural oscillations aligned cons...
Source: Brain and Language - July 3, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Áine Ní Choisdealbha Adam Attaheri Sinead Rocha Natasha Mead Helen Olawole-Scott Perrine Brusini Samuel Gibbon Panagiotis Boutris Christina Grey Declan Hines Isabel Williams Sheila A Flanagan Usha Goswami Source Type: research
Spatiotemporal dynamics of abstract and concrete semantic representations
Brain Lang. 2023 Jul 1;243:105298. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105298. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTDual Coding Theories (DCT) suggest that meaning is represented in the brain by a double code: a language-derived code in the Anterior Temporal Lobe (ATL) and a sensory-derived code in perceptual and motor regions. Concrete concepts should activate both codes, while abstract ones rely solely on the linguistic code. To test these hypotheses, the present magnetoencephalography (MEG) experiment had participants judge whether visually presented words relate to the senses while we recorded brain responses to abstract and concrete s...
Source: Brain and Language - July 3, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Lorenzo Vignali Yangwen Xu Jacopo Turini Olivier Collignon Davide Crepaldi Roberto Bottini Source Type: research
Neural phase angle from two months when tracking speech and non-speech rhythm linked to language performance from 12 to 24 months
Brain Lang. 2023 Jul 1;243:105301. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105301. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAtypical phase alignment of low-frequency neural oscillations to speech rhythm has been implicated in phonological deficits in developmental dyslexia. Atypical phase alignment to rhythm could thus also characterize infants at risk for later language difficulties. Here, we investigate phase-language mechanisms in a neurotypical infant sample. 122 two-, six- and nine-month-old infants were played speech and non-speech rhythms while EEG was recorded in a longitudinal design. The phase of infants' neural oscillations aligned cons...
Source: Brain and Language - July 3, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Áine Ní Choisdealbha Adam Attaheri Sinead Rocha Natasha Mead Helen Olawole-Scott Perrine Brusini Samuel Gibbon Panagiotis Boutris Christina Grey Declan Hines Isabel Williams Sheila A Flanagan Usha Goswami Source Type: research
Spatiotemporal dynamics of abstract and concrete semantic representations
Brain Lang. 2023 Jul 1;243:105298. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105298. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTDual Coding Theories (DCT) suggest that meaning is represented in the brain by a double code: a language-derived code in the Anterior Temporal Lobe (ATL) and a sensory-derived code in perceptual and motor regions. Concrete concepts should activate both codes, while abstract ones rely solely on the linguistic code. To test these hypotheses, the present magnetoencephalography (MEG) experiment had participants judge whether visually presented words relate to the senses while we recorded brain responses to abstract and concrete s...
Source: Brain and Language - July 3, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Lorenzo Vignali Yangwen Xu Jacopo Turini Olivier Collignon Davide Crepaldi Roberto Bottini Source Type: research
Visual simulations in the two cerebral hemispheres: A bilingual perspective
Brain Lang. 2023 Jul;242:105291. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105291. Epub 2023 Jun 3.ABSTRACTThe ability of each hemisphere to construct visual simulations during first language (L1) and second language (L2) sentence reading was investigated. Late bilinguals read L1 and L2 sentences and decided after each sentence whether a pictured object was mentioned in the sentence. Target pictures were presented laterally in the left/right visual field (LVF/RVF) to the right/left hemisphere (RH/LH), respectively. 'Yes' responses were faster when the pictured object's shape matched, rather than mismatched, the sentence-implied shape, irr...
Source: Brain and Language - June 5, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Tal Norman Orna Peleg Source Type: research
