OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Brain and Language is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-06-01 to 2024-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Multisession transcranial direct current stimulation facilitates verbal learning and memory consolidation in young and older adults	29
Not all bilinguals are the same: A meta-analysis of the moral foreign language effect	28
Neural tracking of the speech envelope is differentially modulated by attention and language experience	28
Research on bilingualism as discovery science	24
Functional linguistic specificity of the left frontal aslant tract for spontaneous speech fluency: Evidence from intraoperative language mapping	22
Understanding particularized and generalized conversational implicatures: Is theory-of-mind necessary?	21
Dynamic EEG analysis during language comprehension reveals interactive cascades between perceptual processing and sentential expectations	21
The bilingual structural connectome: Dual-language experiential factors modulate distinct cerebral networks	20
How to improve social communication in aging: Pragmatic and cognitive interventions	20
Conceptual expansion via novel metaphor processing: An ERP replication and extension study examining individual differences in creativity	18
A domain-general perspective on the role of the basal ganglia in language and music: Benefits of music therapy for the treatment of aphasia	17
Pre-treatment graph measures of a functional semantic network are associated with naming therapy outcomes in chronic aphasia	17
Expertise, ecosystem, and emergentism: Dynamic developmental bilingualism	16
Dopamine, vocalization, and astrocytes	16
Signatures of brain plasticity supporting language recovery after perinatal arterial ischemic stroke	15
Effects of theta burst stimulation over the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex on language switching – A behavioral and ERP study	15
Machine learning accurately classifies neural responses to rhythmic speech vs. non-speech from 8-week-old infant EEG	14
Neural mechanisms of language learning from social contexts	14
Heterogeneity in abstract verbs: An ERP study	14
The role of left vs. right superior temporal gyrus in speech perception: An fMRI-guided TMS study	13
Thalamus is a common locus of reading, arithmetic, and IQ: Analysis of local intrinsic functional properties	13
White matter microstructural differences underlying beta oscillations during speech in adults who stutter	13
Idiosyncratic use of bottom-up and top-down information leads to differences in speech perception flexibility: Converging evidence from ERPs and eye-tracking	13
Automaticity in the reading circuitry	12
Exploring attention in the bilingualism continuum: A resting-state functional connectivity study	12

A neurocognitive computational account of word production, comprehension, and repetition in primary progressive aphasia	12
Gender expansive listeners utilize a non-binary, multidimensional conception of gender to inform voice gender perception	12
Cerebellar contributions to rapid semantic processing in reading	12
Procedural and declarative memory brain systems in developmental language disorder (DLD)	12
Language changes in Alzheimer’s disease: A systematic review of verb processing	12
Linguistic signs in action: The neuropragmatics of speech acts	11
Decoding of speech information using EEG in children with dyslexia: Less accurate low-frequency representations of speech, not “Noisy” representations	11
Recruiting the right hemisphere: Sex differences in inter-hemispheric communication during semantic verbal fluency	11
Stronger right hemisphere functional connectivity supports executive aspects of language in older adults	11
Structural neural correlates of individual differences in categorical perception	11
Negation as conflict: Conflict adaptation following negating vertical spatial words	11
Noninvasive neurostimulation of left ventral motor cortex enhances sensorimotor adaptation in speech production	11
Aging affects steaks more than knives: Evidence that the processing of words related to motor skills is relatively spared in aging	11
Towards a model of language neurobiology in early development	10
Working memory relates to individual differences in speech category learning: Insights from computational modeling and pupillometry	10
Talker discontinuity disrupts attention to speech: Evidence from EEG and pupillometry	9
Distinct mechanisms drive hemispheric lateralization of object recognition in the visual word form and fusiform face areas	9
Reading proficiency influences the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation: Evidence from selective modulation of dorsal and ventral pathways of reading in bilinguals	9
Determinants of bilingualism predict dynamic changes in resting state EEG oscillations	9
Age effects in second language acquisition: Expanding the emergentist account	9
Experience-based individual differences modulate language, mind and brain outcomes in multilinguals	9
Can inhibition deficit hypothesis account for age-related differences in semantic fluency? Converging evidence from Stroop color and word test and an ERP flanker task	9
Language immersion and language training: Two paths to enhanced language regulation and cognitive control	9
Language lateralization and outcome in perinatal stroke patients with different vascular types	8
Cross-linguistic interference in late language learners: An ERP study	8
Parallel semantic processing in the flankers task: Evidence from the N400	8
Language learning as a function of infant directed speech (IDS) in Spanish: Testing neural commitment using the positive-MMR	8
Are our brains more prescriptive than our mouths? Experience with dialectal variation in syntax differentially impacts ERPs and behavior	8
Brain decoding in multiple languages: Can cross-language brain decoding work?	8
Cross-linguistic semantic preview benefit in Basque-Spanish bilingual readers: Evidence from fixation-related potentials	8
Structural brain changes with second language learning: A longitudinal voxel-based morphometry study	8
Functional network and structural connections involved in picture naming	8
Sequential adaptation effects reveal proactive control in processing spoken sentences: Evidence from event-related potentials	8
The source of attention modulations in bilingual language contexts	7
Word class and word frequency in the MMN looking glass	7
Individuals with congenital amusia do not show context-dependent perception of tonal categories	7
Effect of muscular activation on surrounding motor networks in developmental stuttering: A TMS study	7
Bilingual language entropy influences executive functions through functional connectivity and signal variability	7
Effects of concurrent action and object naming treatment on naming skills and functional brain activation patterns in primary progressive aphasia: An fMRI study with a case-series design	7
Behavioral and neurological effects of tDCS on speech motor recovery: A single-subject intervention study	7
Resting state EEG network modularity predicts literacy skills in L1 Chinese but not in L2 English	7
Acquisition of novel word meaning via cross situational word learning: An event-related potential study	7
Person-specific connectivity mapping uncovers differences of bilingual language experience on brain bases of attention in children	7
Poor reading is characterized by a more connected network with wrong hubs	7
Environmental noise, brain structure, and language development in children	7
The tone atlas of perceptual discriminability and perceptual distance: Four tone languages and five language groups	7
Donepezil alone and combined with intensive language-action therapy on depression and apathy in chronic post-stroke aphasia: A feasibility study	7
EEG signatures of elementary composition: Disentangling genuine composition and expectancy processes	7
Neuromodulation of cursing in American English: A combined tDCS and pupillometry study	7
Variability in sentence comprehension in aphasia in German	7

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) combined with multi-modality aphasia therapy for chronic post-stroke non-fluent aphasia: A pilot randomized sham-controlled trial	6
The impact of musical expertise on anticipatory semantic processing during online speech comprehension: An electroencephalography study	6
Reliability and validity for perceptual flexibility in speech	6
Temporal features of concepts are grounded in time perception neural networks: An EEG study	6
Masked ERP repetition priming in deaf and hearing readers	6
Oscillatory brain responses to processing code-switches in the presence of others	6
Showing strength through flexibility: Multi-accent toddlers recognize words quickly and efficiently	6
Embodiment of action-related language in the native and a late foreign language – An fMRI-study	6
The role and use of event-related potentials in aphasia: A scoping review	6
Earlier age of second language learning induces more robust speech encoding in the auditory brainstem in adults, independent of amount of language exposure during early childhood	6
The neural bases of argumentative reasoning	6
Reliability of single-subject neural activation patterns in speech production tasks	6
Electrophysiological signatures of attentional control in bilingual processing: Evidence from proactive interference	6
Phonetic discrimination mediates the relationship between auditory brainstem response stability and syntactic performance	6
Metaphor processing is supramodal semantic processing: The role of the bilateral lateral temporal regions in multimodal communication	6
Independent syntactic representation identified in left front-temporal cortex during Chinese sentence comprehension	6
Does language context impact the neural correlates of executive control in monolingual and multilingual young adults?	6
Multilayer networks: An untapped tool for understanding bilingual neurocognition	6
Individual differences in first-pass fixation duration in reading are related to resting-state functional connectivity	6
Prospective memory in bilinguals and monolinguals: ERP and behavioural correlates of prospective processing in bilinguals	6