Asymmetry of affect in verbal irony understanding: What about the N400 and P600 components?
Publication date: August 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 51Author(s): Stéphanie Caillies, Pamela Gobin, Alexandre Obert, Sarah Terrien, Alexandre Coutté, Galina Iakimova, Chrystel Besche-RichardAbstractWe investigated the neurocognitive processes behind the asymmetry of affect observed in irony understanding, where ironic criticism is more easily understood than ironic praise. We recorded the ERPs of participants while they listened to positive (e.g., “These children are always smiling”) or negative (e.g., “His son is very unfortunate”) remarks pronounced with a sincere or ironic prosody. Particip...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - May 1, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Speech perception in bilingual contexts: Neuropsychological impact of mixing languages at the inter-sentential level
Publication date: August 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 51Author(s): Alejandro Pérez, Jon Andoni DuñabeitiaAbstractThe neuropsychological impact of processing naturalistic speech streams containing code switches at the inter-sentential level was studied in fluent bilinguals who frequently switch between languages. To this end, electroencephalographic recordings (EEG) and a behavioral recall test were used to address speech perception while processing pieces of information conveyed in a single- or mixed-language speech carrier. Measurements of spectral power in the continuous EEG signal accompanying perce...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - April 19, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
When embeddedness matters: Electrophysiological evidence for the role of head noun position in Chinese relative clause processing
Publication date: August 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 51Author(s): Yanyu Xiong, Laurent Dekydtspotter, Sharlene NewmanAbstractThis ERP study of Chinese subject- and object-modifying relative clauses (RCs) aimed at investigating how sentence context (embeddedness) temporally interacted with relativization in terms of processing load. In stead of adotping a static view of processing costs of RCs, we focused on the dynamic modulation of processing load by sentence context at two critical words–the relative marker de and head noun. Using cluster-based permutation analyses of ERPs, our study found an early ...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - April 10, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
A dissociation between syntactic and lexical processing in Parkinson's disease
Publication date: August 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 51Author(s): Karim Johari, Matthew Walenski, Jana Reifegerste, Farzad Ashrafi, Roozbeh Behroozmand, Mostafa Daemi, Michael T. UllmanAbstractParkinson's disease (PD), which involves the degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the basal ganglia, has long been associated with motor deficits. Increasing evidence suggests that language can also be impaired, including aspects of syntactic and lexical processing. However, the exact pattern of these impairments remains somewhat unclear, for several reasons. Few studies have examined and compared syntactic and...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - April 2, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Higher resting state functional connectivity between the vmPFC and rTPJ in individuals who display conversational synchrony
Publication date: August 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 51Author(s): Rupa Gupta Gordon, Arianna Rigon, Natalie V. Covington, Michelle Voss, Melissa C. DuffAbstractThe neural mechanisms that support synchrony of conversational behaviors (e.g., word production, turn length) are not well understood. Lesion work has suggested that the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) is important for noncontent speech convergence, which measures if word production becomes more similar across a conversation (Gordon, Tranel, & Duff, 2014). However, the relationship between neural activity and conversational synchrony has n...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - March 28, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Brain activation and functional connectivity during Chinese writing: An fMRI study
Publication date: August 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 51Author(s): Yang Yang, Zhentao Zuo, Fred Tam, Simon J. Graham, Ran Tao, Nizhuan Wang, Hong-Yan BiAbstractHow the brain processes writing in Chinese is largely unknown. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) with kinematic recording, this study examined the brain activation and functional connectivity associated with writing to dictation of Chinese characters, contrasted with drawing circles, in 33 healthy adults. It was found that writing Chinese characters recruited activation in the bilateral precentral gyrus, superior/medial frontal gy...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - March 24, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Levodopa effect on spontaneous speech in Parkinson's disease
Publication date: August 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 51Author(s): Ece Bayram, Eda Aslanbaba, Muhittin Cenk AkbostanciAbstractParkinson's disease (PD) is associated with verb deficits detected with tasks including picture naming and verbal fluency. However, these deficits are not frequently reported by the patients themselves. Levodopa, the gold standard for motor symptoms in PD, has been previously implicated to improve these verb deficits. We evaluated the effect of levodopa by using a spontaneous speech task which is more naturalistic than the previously used tasks to detect verb deficits. Thirty PD p...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - March 16, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
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Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - March 15, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
The fundamental phonological unit of Japanese word production: An EEG study using the picture-word interference paradigm
Publication date: August 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 51Author(s): Rinus G. Verdonschot, Shingo Tokimoto, Yayoi MiyaokaAbstractIt has been shown that in Germanic languages (e.g. English, Dutch) phonemes are the primary (or proximate) planning units during the early stages of phonological encoding. Contrastingly, in Chinese and Japanese the phoneme does not seem to play an important role but rather the syllable (Chinese) and mora (Japanese) are essential. However, despite the lack of behavioral evidence, neurocorrelational studies in Chinese suggested that electrophysiological brain responses (i.e. preced...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - March 13, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Right hemisphere involvement for pun processing – Effects of idiom decomposition
Publication date: August 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 51Author(s): Kremena Koleva, Mark Mon-Williams, Ekaterini KlepousniotouAbstractThe present study investigated hemispheric processing of puns involving decomposable idioms (e.g. Old skiers never die, they just go downhill) and non-decomposable ones (e.g., Old cleaners never die, they just bite the dust) using a divided visual field paradigm. In two cross-modal priming experiments, participants listened to puns and made lexical decisions for targets presented either in the left or right visual fields. To investigate hemispheric asymmetries at different ...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - February 23, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Prosodic phrase priming during listening to Chinese ambiguous phrases in different experimental tasks
In conclusion, prosodic phrase structures are formulated in the brain and modulate the processing of the immediately subsequent item during speech comprehension, and this process is influenced by the type of task being performed. (Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics)
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - February 21, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
The impact of the Cognitive Pragmatic Treatment on the pragmatic and informative skills of individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI)
ConclusionsThe study highlighted the efficacy of the CPT program in improving patients' informativeness, confirming previous reports of its effectiveness in the rehabilitation of communicative-pragmatic skills. (Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics)
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - February 21, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Altered hemispheric specialization for speech in adult dyslexic readers: An ERPs and dichotic listening study
Publication date: August 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 51Author(s): Shay MenasheAbstractThe aim of this study was to investigate the functional speech lateralization in adult dyslexic readers whose native language is Hebrew. Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded from 22 non-impaired readers and 18 dyslexic readers performing dichotic nonsense consonant-vowel (CV) syllables and dichotic vowels target detection tasks. Evidence of altered patterns of behavioral speech lateralization was found in the dyslexic group mainly for the CV syllables task. The latencies and amplitudes of the N1P2 ERPs complex...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - February 21, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Brain responses to morphologically complex verbs: An electrophysiological study of Swedish regular and irregular past tense forms
Publication date: August 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 51Author(s): Andrea Schremm, Mikael Novén, Merle Horne, Mikael RollAbstractThe present electrophysiological study investigated irregular versus regular verb form processing in Swedish during reading. In line with previous results from other languages, overregularized verbs, i.e. incorrect irregular stem + regular past tense suffix combinations (e.g. *stjäl + de ‘steal + past tense’), elicited a left-lateralized negativity (LAN) relative to correct irregulars (stal ‘stole’), suggesting rule-based decomposition of regularly inflected w...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - February 21, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Changes in the functional connectivity of auditory and language-related brain regions in children with congenital severe sensorineural hearing loss: An fMRI study
Publication date: August 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 51Author(s): Qiang Li, Huang Guo, Lihua Liu, Shuang XiaAbstractEarly hearing deprivation can affect the development of hearing, language, and vision. Thirty-four infants with congenital severe sensorineural hearing loss (CSSHL) and 20 age- and sex-matched subjects with normal hearing were recruited. The amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (ALFF) of auditory and language-related brain areas was compared between infants with deafness and control subjects. Relative to subjects with normal hearing, infants with CSSHL had decreased ALFF values in the ri...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - February 21, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
