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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Resting state EEG network modularity predicts literacy skills in L1 Chinese but not in L2 English39
Elevated pre-target EEG alpha power enhances the probability of comprehending weakly noise masked words and decreases the probability of comprehending strongly masked words28
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Concepts require flexible grounding24
Neural evidence for perceiving a vowel merger after a social interaction within a native language21
No Brain is an Island: Commentary on Billot and Kiran20
Losing the sense of smell does not disrupt processing of odor words19
Between bodily action and conventionalized structure: The neural mechanisms of constructed action in sign language comprehension18
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Two different brain networks underlying picture naming with familiar pre-existing native words and new vocabulary17
Top-down sensory prediction in the infant brain at 6 months is correlated with language development at 12 and 18 months16
How the conceptual specificity of individual words affects incremental sentence composition: MEG evidence16
Mapping the basal temporal language network: a SEEG functional connectivity study16
The source of attention modulations in bilingual language contexts15
Reliability and validity for perceptual flexibility in speech15
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From Synapse to Network: Neuroplasticity in Post-Stroke Language Recovery: Commentary on Billot and Kiran15
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 design15
Functional network and structural connections involved in picture naming14
English and Mandarin native speakers’ cue-weighting of lexical stress: Results from MMN and LDN13
White matter microstructural integrity pre- and post-treatment in individuals with chronic post-stroke aphasia13
Multilayer networks: An untapped tool for understanding bilingual neurocognition13
Native language background affects the perception of duration and pitch13
Can you touch the N400? The interactive effects of body-object interaction and task demands on N400 amplitudes and decision latencies12
The multifaceted nature of language across adulthood12
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How visual attention span and phonological skills contribute to N170 print tuning: An EEG study in French dyslexic students11
Using TMS to evaluate a causal role for right posterior temporal cortex in talker-specific phonetic processing11
AoA-L2 and Usage-L2 modulate the functional neuroplasticity of the subcortex11
Orthographic influences on spoken word recognition in bilinguals are dependent on the orthographic depth of the target language not the native language11
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Neural correlates of pronoun processing: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis11
Age and attainment in foreign language learning: The critical period account stands11
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Early differentiation of memory retrieval processes for newly learned voices and phonemes as indexed by the MMN10
Decoding the silence: Neural bases of zero pronoun resolution in Chinese10
Exploring the ventral white matter language network in bimodal and unimodal bilinguals10
The crucial role of the left inferior frontal gyrus (BA44) in synergizing syntactic structure and information structure during sentence comprehension10
Task difficulty modulates age-related differences in functional connectivity during word production10
Language and communication functioning in children and adolescents with agenesis of the corpus callosum10
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 e9
Resting state electroencephalography (EEG) correlates with children’s language skills: Evidence from sentence repetition9
Motor experience modulates neural processing of lexical action language: Evidence from rugby players9
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 processing9
‘Moderate global aphasia’: A generalized decline of language processing caused by glioma surgery but not stroke9
Production of relative clauses in Cantonese-speaking children with and without Developmental Language Disorder9
Further disentangling neuroplasticity mechanisms: Response to open peer commentaries9
The social hierarchical restrictions of Chinese verbs rapidly guide online thematic role assignment in comprehension9
Hemispheric co-lateralization of language and spatial attention reduces performance in dual-task9
Auditory perception of ambiguous and non-ambiguous sound in early and late blind children: A functional connectivity study8
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Acquisition of novel word meaning via cross situational word learning: An event-related potential study8
What constitutes success in L2 learning? Time to rid ourselves of the holy grail of ‘ultimate attainment’8
Spatiotemporal characteristics of the neural representation of event concepts8
Neural correlates of syntactic comprehension: A longitudinal study8
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Impaired neural entrainment to low frequency amplitude modulations in English-speaking children with dyslexia or dyslexia and DLD8
Evidence for early encoding of speech in blind people8
Functional connectivity between parietal and temporal lobes mediates internal forward models during speech production8
Abnormally weak functional connections get stronger in chronic stroke patients who benefit from naming therapy7
The role of research design in the reproducibility of L1 and L2 language networks: A review of bilingual neuroimaging meta-analyses7
Poor reading is characterized by a more connected network with wrong hubs7
Person-specific connectivity mapping uncovers differences of bilingual language experience on brain bases of attention in children7
Selective attention in cognitive processing revisited: A Long-term Re-evaluation7
The tone atlas of perceptual discriminability and perceptual distance: Four tone languages and five language groups7
Semantic network activation facilitates oral word reading in chronic aphasia7
Electrophysiological signatures of attentional control in bilingual processing: Evidence from proactive interference7
Environmental noise, brain structure, and language development in children7
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Reading anxiety modulates the functional connectivity of the reading-related network during adult reading7
Language measurement in childhood epilepsy: A review7
Neural underpinnings of sentence reading in deaf, native sign language users7
White matter correlates of reading subskills in children with and without reading disability7
Original language versus dubbed movies: Effects on our brain and emotions7
Bilingualism, sleep, and cognition: An integrative view and open research questions7
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Cross-linguistic interference in late language learners: An ERP study6
Aging affects steaks more than knives: Evidence that the processing of words related to motor skills is relatively spared in aging6
Age effects in second language acquisition: Expanding the emergentist account6
Rapid neural changes during novel speech-sound learning: An fMRI and DTI study6
The time course of normalizing speech variability in vowels6
Sentence predictability modulates cortical response to phonetic ambiguity6
Semantic memory structure mediates the role of brain functional connectivity in creative writing6
Accounting for word production, comprehension, and repetition in semantic dementia, Alzheimer’s dementia, and mild cognitive impairment6
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Metaphor processing is influenced by stimulus emotionality and task demands: Evidence from ERPs6
Talker discontinuity disrupts attention to speech: Evidence from EEG and pupillometry5
Getting the wires uncrossed to recover language after stroke: Commentary on Billot and Kiran5
Machine learning accurately classifies neural responses to rhythmic speech vs. non-speech from 8-week-old infant EEG5
Embodiment of action-related language in the native and a late foreign language – An fMRI-study5
A comparison of learning and retention of a syntactic construction between Cantonese-speaking children with and without DLD in a priming task5
Language changes in Alzheimer’s disease: A systematic review of verb processing5
The impact of linguistic complexity on feasibility and reliability of language mapping in aphasic glioma patients5
Gender expansive listeners utilize a non-binary, multidimensional conception of gender to inform voice gender perception5
On the perception of stress position by French listeners: An EEG investigation5
The role and use of event-related potentials in aphasia: A scoping review5
The impact of musical expertise on anticipatory semantic processing during online speech comprehension: An electroencephalography study5
Brain representations of lexical ambiguity: Disentangling homonymy, polysemy, and their meanings5
Getting language right: Relating individual differences in right hemisphere contributions to language learning and relearning4
Rapid auditory processing of puretones is associated with basic components of language in individuals with autism spectrum disorders4
Competing influence of visual speech on auditory neural adaptation4
Positive emotion of self-referential contexts could facilitate adult’s novel word learning: An fNIRS study4
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Taxonomic and thematic relations rely on different types of semantic features: Evidence from an fMRI meta-analysis and a semantic priming study4
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 responses to lexical attestedness and phonological well-formedness as revealed by fast periodic visual stimulation4
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Donepezil alone and combined with intensive language-action therapy on depression and apathy in chronic post-stroke aphasia: A feasibility study4
The impact of knowledge on poetry composition: An fMRI investigation4
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Understanding the neural mechanisms for infants' perception of native and non-native speech4
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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
Weighing the role of social cognition and executive functioning in pragmatics in the schizophrenia spectrum: A systematic review and meta-analysis3
Cross-linguistic differences in case marking shape neural power dynamics and gaze behavior during sentence planning3
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Memory after visual search: Overlapping phonology, shared meaning, and bilingual experience influence what we remember3
Functional brain networks underlying automatic and controlled handwriting in Chinese3
Longitudinal trajectories of the neural encoding mechanisms of speech-sound features during the first year of life3
The role of vocabulary and grammar in the listening text comprehension of school-age Cantonese-speaking children with developmental language disorder3
Can the resource reduction hypothesis explain sentence processing in aphasia? A visual world study in German3
Neuromodulation of the language system: A critical advance in understanding language processing and treating disorders of communication3
Corrigendum to “Functional brain networks underlying automatic and controlled handwriting in Chinese” [Brain Lang. 219 (2021) 104962]3
Native prosodic structures constrain L2 word recognition: Evidence from Bengali-English bilinguals3
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Typical and atypical neural mechanisms support spoken word processing in Angelman syndrome2
Towards a model of language neurobiology in early development2
Speech register influences listeners’ word expectations2
Language proficiency is associated with neural representational dimensionality of semantic concepts2
Behavioral and neural rhythm sensitivities predict phonological awareness and word reading development in Chinese2
Readers scrutinize lexical familiarity only in the absence of expectations: Evidence from lexicality effects on event-related potentials2
Graded and sharp transitions in semantic function in left temporal lobe2
Continuous speech tracking in bilinguals reflects adaptation to both language and noise2
You can't be right all the time: Knowns and unknowns of right hemisphere plasticity in aphasia recovery2
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
The bilingual structural connectome: Dual-language experiential factors modulate distinct cerebral networks2
Contribution of the language network to the comprehension of Python programming code2
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
A sculpting effect of reading on later representational quality of phonology revealed by multi-voxel pattern analysis in young children2
Subject relative clause preference in Basque: ERP evidence2
Conceptual expansion via novel metaphor processing: An ERP replication and extension study examining individual differences in creativity2
Individualized white matter connectivity of the articulatory pathway: An ultra-high field study2
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Visual simulations in the two cerebral hemispheres: A bilingual perspective2
Conventionality determines the time course of indirect replies comprehension: An ERP study2
A subject relative clause preference in a split-ergative language: ERP evidence from Georgian2
Can inhibition deficit hypothesis account for age-related differences in semantic fluency? Converging evidence from Stroop color and word test and an ERP flanker task2
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Exploring foreign language anxiety and resting-state EEG alpha asymmetry2
Temporal features of concepts are grounded in time perception neural networks: An EEG study2
Exploring attention in the bilingualism continuum: A resting-state functional connectivity study2
Neural changes in sign language vocabulary learning: Tracking lexical integration with ERP measures1
Impact of motor stroke on novel and conventional action metaphor comprehension1
Spatiotemporal dynamics of abstract and concrete semantic representations1
Accent discrimination abilities during the first days of life: An fNIRS study1
Auditory representations for long lasting sounds: Insights from event-related brain potentials and neural oscillations1
Delineating Region-Specific contributions and connectivity patterns for semantic association and categorization through ROI and Granger causality analysis1
Watching talking faces: The development of cortical representation of visual syllables in infancy1
Consistency and regularity effects in character identification: A greater role for global than local mapping congruence1
Interactive and additive effects of word frequency and predictability: A fixation-related fMRI study1
A neurocognitive computational account of word production, comprehension, and repetition in primary progressive aphasia1
Prospective memory in bilinguals and monolinguals: ERP and behavioural correlates of prospective processing in bilinguals1
An electrophysiological investigation of referential communication1
Interindividual variability and consistency of language mapping paradigms for presurgical use1
The bidirectional influence between emotional language and inhibitory control in Chinese: An ERP study1
Evidence for planning and motor subtypes of stuttering based on resting state functional connectivity1
Oscillatory brain responses to processing code-switches in the presence of others1
Better I than He: Personal perspective modulates counterfactual processing1
Shared grey matter correlates of reading and attention1
Conceptual representations in the default, control and attention networks are task-dependent and cross-modal1
Auditory rhythm discrimination in adults who stutter: An fMRI study1
The mediation role of reading-related endophenotypes in the gene-to-reading pathway1
Microstructural white matter changes underlying speech deficits in Parkinson’s disease1
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Reading abilities and dopamine D2/D3 receptor availability: An inverted U-shaped association in subjects with schizophrenia1
Are our brains more prescriptive than our mouths? Experience with dialectal variation in syntax differentially impacts ERPs and behavior1
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Early ERP indices of gender-biased processing elicited by generic masculine role nouns and the feminine–masculine pair form1
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