Pub Date : 2024-11-13DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105496
Jiaqi Wang , Niels O. Schiller , Rinus G. Verdonschot
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.
{"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}
Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105483
E. Susan Duncan
{"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}
Pub Date : 2024-10-24DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105495
Marc Gimeno-Martínez , Eva Gutierrez-Sigut , Cristina Baus
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.
{"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}
Pub Date : 2024-10-22DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105494
Yinan Xu , My V.H. Nguyen , Kelly A. Vaughn , Pilar Archila‐Suerte , Arturo E. Hernandez
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.
{"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}
Pub Date : 2024-10-17DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105478
Argye E. Hillis
{"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}
Pub Date : 2024-10-14DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105479
Sandra Martin , Gesa Hartwigsen
{"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}
Pub Date : 2024-10-14DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105477
Ida Rangus , Leonardo Bonilha
{"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}
Pub Date : 2024-10-12DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105482
Peter E. Turkeltaub , Kelly C. Martin
{"title":"You can't be right all the time: Knowns and unknowns of right hemisphere plasticity in aphasia recovery","authors":"Peter E. Turkeltaub , Kelly C. Martin","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105482","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105482","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"258 ","pages":"Article 105482"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142426013","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}
Pub Date : 2024-10-12DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105481
Jed A. Meltzer
Although many of the language deficits exhibited by people with aphasia are directly caused by the total destruction of certain brain regions by a stroke (i.e. the lesion), strokes can exert widespread physiological effects in other areas beyond the lesion. These effects can include loss of neuronal integrity in the absence of a frank infarct, and a shift in the balance of excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmission within perilesional tissue. Such changes can further exacerbate the long-term cognitive and linguistic impact of a stroke event, but on the other hand, they are potentially reversible and represent a promising target for interventions such as pharmaceuticals and noninvasive brain stimulation. This commentary gives an overview of findings related to perilesional dysfunction, outlines potential mechanisms of impairment and recovery, and surveys the possibilities for new interventions to reverse perilesional dysfunction and thereby improve communication in people with aphasia.
{"title":"Aphasia recovery: The role of physiological dysfunction in perilesional tissue: Commentary on Billot and Kiran","authors":"Jed A. Meltzer","doi":"10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105481","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105481","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Although many of the language deficits exhibited by people with aphasia are directly caused by the total destruction of certain brain regions by a stroke (i.e. the lesion), strokes can exert widespread physiological effects in other areas beyond the lesion. These effects can include loss of neuronal integrity in the absence of a frank infarct, and a shift in the balance of excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmission within perilesional tissue. Such changes can further exacerbate the long-term cognitive and linguistic impact of a stroke event, but on the other hand, they are potentially reversible and represent a promising target for interventions such as pharmaceuticals and noninvasive brain stimulation. This commentary gives an overview of findings related to perilesional dysfunction, outlines potential mechanisms of impairment and recovery, and surveys the possibilities for new interventions to reverse perilesional dysfunction and thereby improve communication in people with aphasia.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55330,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Language","volume":"258 ","pages":"Article 105481"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142426015","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}
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