Brain and Language

Papers
(The median citation count of Brain and Language is 2. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Elevated pre-target EEG alpha power enhances the probability of comprehending weakly noise masked words and decreases the probability of comprehending strongly masked words40
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Neural evidence for perceiving a vowel merger after a social interaction within a native language26
No Brain is an Island: Commentary on Billot and Kiran25
Between bodily action and conventionalized structure: The neural mechanisms of constructed action in sign language comprehension24
Concepts require flexible grounding24
Losing the sense of smell does not disrupt processing of odor words23
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Resting state EEG network modularity predicts literacy skills in L1 Chinese but not in L2 English21
Two different brain networks underlying picture naming with familiar pre-existing native words and new vocabulary20
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Mapping the basal temporal language network: a SEEG functional connectivity study19
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Effects of object familiarity on children’s silent gestures19
Revealing human brain syntactic processing: Insights from voxel-wise models and network representation19
How domain-general proactive control modulates the processing of English wh-dependencies: An EEG study18
The source of attention modulations in bilingual language contexts18
Top-down sensory prediction in the infant brain at 6 months is correlated with language development at 12 and 18 months17
From Synapse to Network: Neuroplasticity in Post-Stroke Language Recovery: Commentary on Billot and Kiran16
White matter microstructural integrity pre- and post-treatment in individuals with chronic post-stroke aphasia15
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English and Mandarin native speakers’ cue-weighting of lexical stress: Results from MMN and LDN15
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
Multilayer networks: An untapped tool for understanding bilingual neurocognition15
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AoA-L2 and Usage-L2 modulate the functional neuroplasticity of the subcortex14
Orthographic influences on spoken word recognition in bilinguals are dependent on the orthographic depth of the target language not the native language13
How visual attention span and phonological skills contribute to N170 print tuning: An EEG study in French dyslexic students13
Neural correlates of pronoun processing: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis13
Using TMS to evaluate a causal role for right posterior temporal cortex in talker-specific phonetic processing13
Reliability and validity for perceptual flexibility in speech12
Functional network and structural connections involved in picture naming12
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Parafoveally perceived orthographic cues facilitate foveal semantic processing: Evidence from event-related potentials12
Exploring the ventral white matter language network in bimodal and unimodal bilinguals12
The multifaceted nature of language across adulthood12
The crucial role of the left inferior frontal gyrus (BA44) in synergizing syntactic structure and information structure during sentence comprehension12
Task difficulty modulates age-related differences in functional connectivity during word production11
Daytime naps consolidate Cantonese tone learning through promoting cross-talker perception: The role of prior knowledge11
Age and attainment in foreign language learning: The critical period account stands11
Further disentangling neuroplasticity mechanisms: Response to open peer commentaries11
Early differentiation of memory retrieval processes for newly learned voices and phonemes as indexed by the MMN11
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 e11
Decoding the silence: Neural bases of zero pronoun resolution in Chinese11
Language and communication functioning in children and adolescents with agenesis of the corpus callosum11
Functional connectivity between parietal and temporal lobes mediates internal forward models during speech production10
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
Resting state electroencephalography (EEG) correlates with children’s language skills: Evidence from sentence repetition10
Motor experience modulates neural processing of lexical action language: Evidence from rugby players10
What constitutes success in L2 learning? Time to rid ourselves of the holy grail of ‘ultimate attainment’10
‘Moderate global aphasia’: A generalized decline of language processing caused by glioma surgery but not stroke10
The social hierarchical restrictions of Chinese verbs rapidly guide online thematic role assignment in comprehension10
Production of relative clauses in Cantonese-speaking children with and without Developmental Language Disorder9
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Evidence for early encoding of speech in blind people9
Dissociating the time courses of age of acquisition effect and word frequency effect during Chinese spoken word production9
Acquisition of novel word meaning via cross situational word learning: An event-related potential study9
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 study9
Spatiotemporal characteristics of the neural representation of event concepts9
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Neural underpinnings of sentence reading in deaf, native sign language users8
The tone atlas of perceptual discriminability and perceptual distance: Four tone languages and five language groups8
Electrophysiological signatures of attentional control in bilingual processing: Evidence from proactive interference8
Semantic network activation facilitates oral word reading in chronic aphasia8
Neural correlates of syntactic comprehension: A longitudinal study8
The role of research design in the reproducibility of L1 and L2 language networks: A review of bilingual neuroimaging meta-analyses8
Impaired neural entrainment to low frequency amplitude modulations in English-speaking children with dyslexia or dyslexia and DLD8
Rapid neural changes during novel speech-sound learning: An fMRI and DTI study7
Person-specific connectivity mapping uncovers differences of bilingual language experience on brain bases of attention in children7
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
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Environmental noise, brain structure, and language development in children7
Neural associations between fingerspelling, print, and signs: An ERP priming study with deaf readers7
Selective attention in cognitive processing revisited: A Long-term Re-evaluation7
Poor reading is characterized by a more connected network with wrong hubs7
Six advances in research on bilingualism6
Cross-linguistic interference in late language learners: An ERP study6
Age effects in second language acquisition: Expanding the emergentist account6
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On the perception of stress position by French listeners: An EEG investigation6
Reading anxiety modulates the functional connectivity of the reading-related network during adult reading6
Abstract sentence meanings are grounded in the sensory-motor regions in a context-dependent fashion6
The time course of normalizing speech variability in vowels6
Metaphor processing is influenced by stimulus emotionality and task demands: Evidence from ERPs6
Getting the wires uncrossed to recover language after stroke: Commentary on Billot and Kiran6
Original language versus dubbed movies: Effects on our brain and emotions6
Bilingualism, sleep, and cognition: An integrative view and open research questions6
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
A comparison of learning and retention of a syntactic construction between Cantonese-speaking children with and without DLD in a priming task6
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Embodiment of action-related language in the native and a late foreign language – An fMRI-study5
Machine learning accurately classifies neural responses to rhythmic speech vs. non-speech from 8-week-old infant EEG5
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Brain representations of lexical ambiguity: Disentangling homonymy, polysemy, and their meanings5
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The impact of musical expertise on anticipatory semantic processing during online speech comprehension: An electroencephalography study5
Gender expansive listeners utilize a non-binary, multidimensional conception of gender to inform voice gender perception5
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The impact of knowledge on poetry composition: An fMRI investigation5
Talker discontinuity disrupts attention to speech: Evidence from EEG and pupillometry5
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
Donepezil alone and combined with intensive language-action therapy on depression and apathy in chronic post-stroke aphasia: A feasibility study5
Taxonomic and thematic relations rely on different types of semantic features: Evidence from an fMRI meta-analysis and a semantic priming study5
Brain responses to lexical attestedness and phonological well-formedness as revealed by fast periodic visual stimulation4
Competing influence of visual speech on auditory neural adaptation4
Language processing following childhood poverty: Evidence for disrupted neural networks4
Speech in noise listening correlates identified in resting state and DTI MRI images4
Understanding the neural mechanisms for infants' perception of native and non-native speech4
Positive emotion of self-referential contexts could facilitate adult’s novel word learning: An fNIRS study4
Rapid auditory processing of puretones is associated with basic components of language in individuals with autism spectrum disorders4
Neuromodulation of the language system: A critical advance in understanding language processing and treating disorders of communication4
Exploring the impact of sentential negation on inhibitory motor networks: Insights from paired-pulse TMS4
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Word and morpheme frequency effects in naming Mandarin Chinese compounds: More than a replication4
Getting language right: Relating individual differences in right hemisphere contributions to language learning and relearning4
Can the resource reduction hypothesis explain sentence processing in aphasia? A visual world study in German4
Memory after visual search: Overlapping phonology, shared meaning, and bilingual experience influence what we remember3
Weighing the role of social cognition and executive functioning in pragmatics in the schizophrenia spectrum: A systematic review and meta-analysis3
Subject relative clause preference in Basque: ERP evidence3
Graded and sharp transitions in semantic function in left temporal lobe3
Neural dynamics decoding of the influence of modal properties on referential shifting: A univariate and multivariate EEG analysis3
Temporal features of concepts are grounded in time perception neural networks: An EEG study3
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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
Exploring foreign language anxiety and resting-state EEG alpha asymmetry3
Readers scrutinize lexical familiarity only in the absence of expectations: Evidence from lexicality effects on event-related potentials3
Conceptual expansion via novel metaphor processing: An ERP replication and extension study examining individual differences in creativity3
Native prosodic structures constrain L2 word recognition: Evidence from Bengali-English bilinguals3
Cross-linguistic differences in case marking shape neural power dynamics and gaze behavior during sentence planning3
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A sculpting effect of reading on later representational quality of phonology revealed by multi-voxel pattern analysis in young children3
Longitudinal trajectories of the neural encoding mechanisms of speech-sound features during the first year of life3
The CPH is dead. Long live the critical period hypothesis3
Continuous speech tracking in bilinguals reflects adaptation to both language and noise2
Exploring attention in the bilingualism continuum: A resting-state functional connectivity study2
Native and non-native parsing of adjective placement – An ERP study of Mandarin and English sentence processing2
A subject relative clause preference in a split-ergative language: ERP evidence from Georgian2
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Neural changes in sign language vocabulary learning: Tracking lexical integration with ERP measures2
Early ERP indices of gender-biased processing elicited by generic masculine role nouns and the feminine–masculine pair form2
The bilingual structural connectome: Dual-language experiential factors modulate distinct cerebral networks2
Towards a model of language neurobiology in early development2
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
Language proficiency is associated with neural representational dimensionality of semantic concepts2
Conventionality determines the time course of indirect replies comprehension: An ERP study2
A neurocognitive computational account of word production, comprehension, and repetition in primary progressive aphasia2
Delineating Region-Specific contributions and connectivity patterns for semantic association and categorization through ROI and Granger causality analysis2
Visual simulations in the two cerebral hemispheres: A bilingual perspective2
Contribution of the language network to the comprehension of Python programming code2
Individualized white matter connectivity of the articulatory pathway: An ultra-high field study2
Behavioral and neural rhythm sensitivities predict phonological awareness and word reading development in Chinese2
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
Transcranial photobiomodulation on the left inferior frontal gyrus enhances Mandarin Chinese L1 and L2 complex sentence processing performances2
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Typical and atypical neural mechanisms support spoken word processing in Angelman syndrome2
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