Brain and Language

Papers
(The median citation count of Brain and Language is 1. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Neural evidence for perceiving a vowel merger after a social interaction within a native language40
No Brain is an Island: Commentary on Billot and Kiran32
Losing the sense of smell does not disrupt processing of odor words28
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The neural mechanisms underlying semantic unification and semanteme integration23
Comprehension and production of relative clauses in Mandarin-speaking children with and without developmental language disorder23
Between bodily action and conventionalized structure: The neural mechanisms of constructed action in sign language comprehension23
Elevated pre-target EEG alpha power enhances the probability of comprehending weakly noise masked words and decreases the probability of comprehending strongly masked words22
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Concepts require flexible grounding21
Top-down sensory prediction in the infant brain at 6 months is correlated with language development at 12 and 18 months20
Revealing human brain syntactic processing: Insights from voxel-wise models and network representation20
How domain-general proactive control modulates the processing of English wh-dependencies: An EEG study20
Two different brain networks underlying picture naming with familiar pre-existing native words and new vocabulary19
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Effects of object familiarity on children’s silent gestures17
The source of attention modulations in bilingual language contexts17
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Mapping the basal temporal language network: a SEEG functional connectivity study16
From Synapse to Network: Neuroplasticity in Post-Stroke Language Recovery: Commentary on Billot and Kiran16
Does working memory independently influence language development in bilingual children? A 30-year reflection16
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Native language background affects the perception of duration and pitch15
Can you touch the N400? The interactive effects of body-object interaction and task demands on N400 amplitudes and decision latencies15
Parafoveally perceived orthographic cues facilitate foveal semantic processing: Evidence from event-related potentials15
How visual attention span and phonological skills contribute to N170 print tuning: An EEG study in French dyslexic students14
Reliability and validity for perceptual flexibility in speech13
Neural correlates of pronoun processing: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis13
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Orthographic influences on spoken word recognition in bilinguals are dependent on the orthographic depth of the target language not the native language13
Using TMS to evaluate a causal role for right posterior temporal cortex in talker-specific phonetic processing13
Task difficulty modulates age-related differences in functional connectivity during word production12
Language and communication functioning in children and adolescents with agenesis of the corpus callosum12
Functional network and structural connections involved in picture naming12
The crucial role of the left inferior frontal gyrus (BA44) in synergizing syntactic structure and information structure during sentence comprehension12
AoA-L2 and Usage-L2 modulate the functional neuroplasticity of the subcortex12
The multifaceted nature of language across adulthood12
Daytime naps consolidate Cantonese tone learning through promoting cross-talker perception: The role of prior knowledge12
White matter microstructural integrity pre- and post-treatment in individuals with chronic post-stroke aphasia12
English and Mandarin native speakers’ cue-weighting of lexical stress: Results from MMN and LDN12
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Age and attainment in foreign language learning: The critical period account stands11
Exploring the ventral white matter language network in bimodal and unimodal bilinguals11
Motor experience modulates neural processing of lexical action language: Evidence from rugby players11
Decoding the silence: Neural bases of zero pronoun resolution in Chinese11
Further disentangling neuroplasticity mechanisms: Response to open peer commentaries11
From eye to cortex: Tracing the neurocognitive dynamics of bilingual novel word acquisition10
How are visemes and graphemes integrated with speech sounds during spoken word recognition? ERP evidence for supra-additive responses during audiovisual compared to auditory speech processing10
The effects on tACS and tRNS on language function: A literature review10
‘Moderate global aphasia’: A generalized decline of language processing caused by glioma surgery but not stroke10
Studying second language acquisition in the age of large language models: Unlocking the mysteries of language and learning, A commentary on “Age effects in second language acquisition: Expanding the e10
The social hierarchical restrictions of Chinese verbs rapidly guide online thematic role assignment in comprehension10
Acquisition of novel word meaning via cross situational word learning: An event-related potential study9
What constitutes success in L2 learning? Time to rid ourselves of the holy grail of ‘ultimate attainment’9
Spatiotemporal characteristics of the neural representation of event concepts9
Auditory perception of ambiguous and non-ambiguous sound in early and late blind children: A functional connectivity study9
Dissociating the time courses of age of acquisition effect and word frequency effect during Chinese spoken word production9
Functional connectivity between parietal and temporal lobes mediates internal forward models during speech production9
Resting state electroencephalography (EEG) correlates with children’s language skills: Evidence from sentence repetition9
Hemispheric co-lateralization of language and spatial attention reduces performance in dual-task9
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Evidence for early encoding of speech in blind people8
Neural correlates of syntactic comprehension: A longitudinal study8
Production of relative clauses in Cantonese-speaking children with and without Developmental Language Disorder8
The tone atlas of perceptual discriminability and perceptual distance: Four tone languages and five language groups8
Neural mechanisms of face cue predictability and the integration of facial and acoustic cues in native- and nonnative-accented words8
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Impaired neural entrainment to low frequency amplitude modulations in English-speaking children with dyslexia or dyslexia and DLD8
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Electrophysiological signatures of attentional control in bilingual processing: Evidence from proactive interference7
White matter correlates of reading subskills in children with and without reading disability7
Abnormally weak functional connections get stronger in chronic stroke patients who benefit from naming therapy7
Neural associations between fingerspelling, print, and signs: An ERP priming study with deaf readers7
Semantic network activation facilitates oral word reading in chronic aphasia7
Categorical perception of the index finger as an American Sign Language phonological construct7
Environmental noise, brain structure, and language development in children7
The role of research design in the reproducibility of L1 and L2 language networks: A review of bilingual neuroimaging meta-analyses7
Neural underpinnings of sentence reading in deaf, native sign language users7
Getting the wires uncrossed to recover language after stroke: Commentary on Billot and Kiran6
Semantic memory structure mediates the role of brain functional connectivity in creative writing6
Reading anxiety modulates the functional connectivity of the reading-related network during adult reading6
Six advances in research on bilingualism6
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A comparison of learning and retention of a syntactic construction between Cantonese-speaking children with and without DLD in a priming task6
The time course of normalizing speech variability in vowels6
Rapid neural changes during novel speech-sound learning: An fMRI and DTI study6
Abstract sentence meanings are grounded in the sensory-motor regions in a context-dependent fashion6
Accounting for word production, comprehension, and repetition in semantic dementia, Alzheimer’s dementia, and mild cognitive impairment6
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Age effects in second language acquisition: Expanding the emergentist account6
Bilingualism, sleep, and cognition: An integrative view and open research questions6
Person-specific connectivity mapping uncovers differences of bilingual language experience on brain bases of attention in children6
Original language versus dubbed movies: Effects on our brain and emotions6
Selective attention in cognitive processing revisited: A Long-term Re-evaluation6
Language changes in Alzheimer’s disease: A systematic review of verb processing5
Gender expansive listeners utilize a non-binary, multidimensional conception of gender to inform voice gender perception5
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Donepezil alone and combined with intensive language-action therapy on depression and apathy in chronic post-stroke aphasia: A feasibility study5
The impact of linguistic complexity on feasibility and reliability of language mapping in aphasic glioma patients5
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The impact of knowledge on poetry composition: An fMRI investigation5
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Embodiment of action-related language in the native and a late foreign language – An fMRI-study5
On the perception of stress position by French listeners: An EEG investigation5
Metaphor processing is influenced by stimulus emotionality and task demands: Evidence from ERPs5
Modulating language and executive functions in bilingual aphasia with cerebellar tDCS: a case series5
Understanding the neural mechanisms for infants' perception of native and non-native speech4
Taxonomic and thematic relations rely on different types of semantic features: Evidence from an fMRI meta-analysis and a semantic priming study4
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Language processing following childhood poverty: Evidence for disrupted neural networks4
Word and morpheme frequency effects in naming Mandarin Chinese compounds: More than a replication4
Brain representations of lexical ambiguity: Disentangling homonymy, polysemy, and their meanings4
Getting language right: Relating individual differences in right hemisphere contributions to language learning and relearning4
Brain responses to lexical attestedness and phonological well-formedness as revealed by fast periodic visual stimulation4
Language mixing in people with aphasia: A cross-linguistic analysis using the 4M model4
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Competing influence of visual speech on auditory neural adaptation4
Weighing the role of social cognition and executive functioning in pragmatics in the schizophrenia spectrum: A systematic review and meta-analysis3
Can the resource reduction hypothesis explain sentence processing in aphasia? A visual world study in German3
Memory after visual search: Overlapping phonology, shared meaning, and bilingual experience influence what we remember3
Cross-linguistic differences in case marking shape neural power dynamics and gaze behavior during sentence planning3
Native prosodic structures constrain L2 word recognition: Evidence from Bengali-English bilinguals3
Rapid auditory processing of puretones is associated with basic components of language in individuals with autism spectrum disorders3
Neuromodulation of the language system: A critical advance in understanding language processing and treating disorders of communication3
Subject relative clause preference in Basque: ERP evidence3
Neural dynamics decoding of the influence of modal properties on referential shifting: A univariate and multivariate EEG analysis3
Exploring the impact of sentential negation on inhibitory motor networks: Insights from paired-pulse TMS3
Speech in noise listening correlates identified in resting state and DTI MRI images3
Context-modulating effect on processing scientific metaphors: Evidence from ERPs3
The role of vocabulary and grammar in the listening text comprehension of school-age Cantonese-speaking children with developmental language disorder3
A neurocognitive computational account of word production, comprehension, and repetition in primary progressive aphasia2
Typical and atypical neural mechanisms support spoken word processing in Angelman syndrome2
Visual simulations in the two cerebral hemispheres: A bilingual perspective2
The modulation of cognitive load on speech normalization: A neurophysiological perspective2
You can't be right all the time: Knowns and unknowns of right hemisphere plasticity in aphasia recovery2
A sculpting effect of reading on later representational quality of phonology revealed by multi-voxel pattern analysis in young children2
Continuous speech tracking in bilinguals reflects adaptation to both language and noise2
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Exploring attention in the bilingualism continuum: A resting-state functional connectivity study2
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A subject relative clause preference in a split-ergative language: ERP evidence from Georgian2
Towards a model of language neurobiology in early development2
Language proficiency is associated with neural representational dimensionality of semantic concepts2
Individualized white matter connectivity of the articulatory pathway: An ultra-high field study2
Temporal features of concepts are grounded in time perception neural networks: An EEG study2
Graded and sharp transitions in semantic function in left temporal lobe2
Readers scrutinize lexical familiarity only in the absence of expectations: Evidence from lexicality effects on event-related potentials2
Behavioral and neural rhythm sensitivities predict phonological awareness and word reading development in Chinese2
Transcranial photobiomodulation on the left inferior frontal gyrus enhances Mandarin Chinese L1 and L2 complex sentence processing performances2
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) combined with multi-modality aphasia therapy for chronic post-stroke non-fluent aphasia: A pilot randomized sham-controlled trial2
Speech register influences listeners’ word expectations2
Conventionality determines the time course of indirect replies comprehension: An ERP study2
Native and non-native parsing of adjective placement – An ERP study of Mandarin and English sentence processing2
The CPH is dead. Long live the critical period hypothesis2
Exploring foreign language anxiety and resting-state EEG alpha asymmetry2
Longitudinal trajectories of the neural encoding mechanisms of speech-sound features during the first year of life2
Contribution of the language network to the comprehension of Python programming code2
Mental simulation in bilingual and second language processing: New directions in the Competition Model2
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The cheese was green with… envy: An EEG study on minimal fictional descriptions1
Auditory representations for long lasting sounds: Insights from event-related brain potentials and neural oscillations1
Attention, musicality, and familiarity shape cortical speech tracking at the musical cocktail party1
Conceptual representations in the default, control and attention networks are task-dependent and cross-modal1
Evidence for planning and motor subtypes of stuttering based on resting state functional connectivity1
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Impaired motor skills and proprioceptive function in Mandarin-speaking children with developmental language disorder1
Early ERP indices of gender-biased processing elicited by generic masculine role nouns and the feminine–masculine pair form1
Bilingualism: Not all we know now is old news1
Subcortical volume and language proficiency in bilinguals and monolinguals: A structural MRI study1
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The mediation role of reading-related endophenotypes in the gene-to-reading pathway1
Impact of motor stroke on novel and conventional action metaphor comprehension1
Auditory rhythm discrimination in adults who stutter: An fMRI study1
Reading abilities and dopamine D2/D3 receptor availability: An inverted U-shaped association in subjects with schizophrenia1
Revisiting nonword repetition as a clinical marker of developmental language disorder: Evidence from monolingual and bilingual L2 Cantonese1
Delineating Region-Specific contributions and connectivity patterns for semantic association and categorization through ROI and Granger causality analysis1
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Shared grey matter correlates of reading and attention1
Research on bilingualism as discovery science1
Neural changes in sign language vocabulary learning: Tracking lexical integration with ERP measures1
Structural brain changes with second language learning: A longitudinal voxel-based morphometry study1
Microstructural white matter changes underlying speech deficits in Parkinson’s disease1
Oscillatory brain responses to processing code-switches in the presence of others1
Understanding an implicated causality: The brain network for processing concessive relations1
Interindividual variability and consistency of language mapping paradigms for presurgical use1
Better I than He: Personal perspective modulates counterfactual processing1
Complain like you mean it! How prosody conveys suffering even about innocuous events1
Prospective memory in bilinguals and monolinguals: ERP and behavioural correlates of prospective processing in bilinguals1
Individual differences in visual pattern completion predict adaptation to degraded speech1
The bidirectional influence between emotional language and inhibitory control in Chinese: An ERP study1
Bilingual advantage for memory of events: Why now you see it, now you don’t?1
Watching talking faces: The development of cortical representation of visual syllables in infancy1
Spatiotemporal dynamics of abstract and concrete semantic representations1
Interactive and additive effects of word frequency and predictability: A fixation-related fMRI study1
Improving speech perception in noise in young and older adults using transcranial magnetic stimulation1
Accent discrimination abilities during the first days of life: An fNIRS study1
An electrophysiological investigation of referential communication1
Neural correlates of semantic number: A cross-linguistic investigation1
The advantage of the music-enabled brain in accommodating lexical tone variabilities1
An exploratory study and new model of the role of implicit timing in sentence comprehension1
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