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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Resting state EEG network modularity predicts literacy skills in L1 Chinese but not in L2 English	39
Elevated pre-target EEG alpha power enhances the probability of comprehending weakly noise masked words and decreases the probability of comprehending strongly masked words	28
Editorial Board	27
Concepts require flexible grounding	24
Neural evidence for perceiving a vowel merger after a social interaction within a native language	21
No Brain is an Island: Commentary on Billot and Kiran	20
Losing the sense of smell does not disrupt processing of odor words	19
Between bodily action and conventionalized structure: The neural mechanisms of constructed action in sign language comprehension	18
Editorial Board	17
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Two different brain networks underlying picture naming with familiar pre-existing native words and new vocabulary	17
Top-down sensory prediction in the infant brain at 6 months is correlated with language development at 12 and 18 months	16
How the conceptual specificity of individual words affects incremental sentence composition: MEG evidence	16
Mapping the basal temporal language network: a SEEG functional connectivity study	16
The source of attention modulations in bilingual language contexts	15
Reliability and validity for perceptual flexibility in speech	15
Editorial Board	15
From Synapse to Network: Neuroplasticity in Post-Stroke Language Recovery: Commentary on Billot and Kiran	15
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	15
Functional network and structural connections involved in picture naming	14
English and Mandarin native speakers’ cue-weighting of lexical stress: Results from MMN and LDN	13
White matter microstructural integrity pre- and post-treatment in individuals with chronic post-stroke aphasia	13
Multilayer networks: An untapped tool for understanding bilingual neurocognition	13
Native language background affects the perception of duration and pitch	13
Can you touch the N400? The interactive effects of body-object interaction and task demands on N400 amplitudes and decision latencies	12

The multifaceted nature of language across adulthood	12
Neural correlates of pronoun processing: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis	11
Age and attainment in foreign language learning: The critical period account stands	11
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How visual attention span and phonological skills contribute to N170 print tuning: An EEG study in French dyslexic students	11
Using TMS to evaluate a causal role for right posterior temporal cortex in talker-specific phonetic processing	11
AoA-L2 and Usage-L2 modulate the functional neuroplasticity of the subcortex	11
Orthographic influences on spoken word recognition in bilinguals are dependent on the orthographic depth of the target language not the native language	11
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Early differentiation of memory retrieval processes for newly learned voices and phonemes as indexed by the MMN	10
Decoding the silence: Neural bases of zero pronoun resolution in Chinese	10
Exploring the ventral white matter language network in bimodal and unimodal bilinguals	10
The crucial role of the left inferior frontal gyrus (BA44) in synergizing syntactic structure and information structure during sentence comprehension	10
Task difficulty modulates age-related differences in functional connectivity during word production	10
Language and communication functioning in children and adolescents with agenesis of the corpus callosum	10
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 e	9
Resting state electroencephalography (EEG) correlates with children’s language skills: Evidence from sentence repetition	9
Motor experience modulates neural processing of lexical action language: Evidence from rugby players	9
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 processing	9
‘Moderate global aphasia’: A generalized decline of language processing caused by glioma surgery but not stroke	9
Production of relative clauses in Cantonese-speaking children with and without Developmental Language Disorder	9
Further disentangling neuroplasticity mechanisms: Response to open peer commentaries	9
The social hierarchical restrictions of Chinese verbs rapidly guide online thematic role assignment in comprehension	9
Hemispheric co-lateralization of language and spatial attention reduces performance in dual-task	9
Functional connectivity between parietal and temporal lobes mediates internal forward models during speech production	8
Auditory perception of ambiguous and non-ambiguous sound in early and late blind children: A functional connectivity study	8
Editorial Board	8
Acquisition of novel word meaning via cross situational word learning: An event-related potential study	8
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 concepts	8
Neural correlates of syntactic comprehension: A longitudinal study	8
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Impaired neural entrainment to low frequency amplitude modulations in English-speaking children with dyslexia or dyslexia and DLD	8
Evidence for early encoding of speech in blind people	8
Bilingualism, sleep, and cognition: An integrative view and open research questions	7
Abnormally weak functional connections get stronger in chronic stroke patients who benefit from naming therapy	7
The role of research design in the reproducibility of L1 and L2 language networks: A review of bilingual neuroimaging meta-analyses	7
Poor reading is characterized by a more connected network with wrong hubs	7
Person-specific connectivity mapping uncovers differences of bilingual language experience on brain bases of attention in children	7
Selective attention in cognitive processing revisited: A Long-term Re-evaluation	7
The tone atlas of perceptual discriminability and perceptual distance: Four tone languages and five language groups	7
Semantic network activation facilitates oral word reading in chronic aphasia	7
Electrophysiological signatures of attentional control in bilingual processing: Evidence from proactive interference	7
Environmental noise, brain structure, and language development in children	7
Editorial Board	7
Reading anxiety modulates the functional connectivity of the reading-related network during adult reading	7
Language measurement in childhood epilepsy: A review	7
Neural underpinnings of sentence reading in deaf, native sign language users	7
White matter correlates of reading subskills in children with and without reading disability	7

Original language versus dubbed movies: Effects on our brain and emotions	7
Editorial Board	6
Cross-linguistic interference in late language learners: An ERP study	6
Aging affects steaks more than knives: Evidence that the processing of words related to motor skills is relatively spared in aging	6
Age effects in second language acquisition: Expanding the emergentist account	6
Rapid neural changes during novel speech-sound learning: An fMRI and DTI study	6
The time course of normalizing speech variability in vowels	6
Sentence predictability modulates cortical response to phonetic ambiguity	6
Semantic memory structure mediates the role of brain functional connectivity in creative writing	6
Accounting for word production, comprehension, and repetition in semantic dementia, Alzheimer’s dementia, and mild cognitive impairment	6
Editorial Board	6
Metaphor processing is influenced by stimulus emotionality and task demands: Evidence from ERPs	6