OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Brain and Language is 4. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
No Brain is an Island: Commentary on Billot and Kiran	60
Elevated pre-target EEG alpha power enhances the probability of comprehending weakly noise masked words and decreases the probability of comprehending strongly masked words	39
The neural mechanisms underlying semantic unification and semanteme integration	32
Concepts require flexible grounding	31
Comprehension and production of relative clauses in Mandarin-speaking children with and without developmental language disorder	28
Oscillatory dynamics of inflectional processing: teasing apart defaultness and productivity effects in Russian verbs	24
Editorial Board	24
Neural evidence for perceiving a vowel merger after a social interaction within a native language	24
Five-year-old children engage temporal but not frontal mechanisms during morphosyntactic processing of sentences	23
Between bodily action and conventionalized structure: The neural mechanisms of constructed action in sign language comprehension	23
Losing the sense of smell does not disrupt processing of odor words	22
Editorial Board	20
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Mapping the basal temporal language network: a SEEG functional connectivity study	19
Metaphors we learn to sign by: Positive transfer effects of existing sign language expertise and gestural repertoire on metaphor inferencing in a novel sign language	18
How domain-general proactive control modulates the processing of English wh-dependencies: An EEG study	17
Does working memory independently influence language development in bilingual children? A 30-year reflection	17
Evidence for a role of memory in novel word-learning after perinatal stroke	16
Two different brain networks underlying picture naming with familiar pre-existing native words and new vocabulary	16
Revealing human brain syntactic processing: Insights from voxel-wise models and network representation	16
Electrophysiological correlates of meaning-based attentional guidance mechanism as a function of cognitive loads in visual search for words	16
Editorial Board	15
Effects of object familiarity on children’s silent gestures	15
From Synapse to Network: Neuroplasticity in Post-Stroke Language Recovery: Commentary on Billot and Kiran	14
Inhibitory states modulate the processing of negated concepts in existential sentences. Evidence from ERPs	13

You again? 14-month-olds show neural signatures of lexical-semantic activation for novel instead of familiar voices	13
From rhythms to meaning: Longitudinal evidence on multimodal precursors of early gestures and language development	12
Using TMS to evaluate a causal role for right posterior temporal cortex in talker-specific phonetic processing	12
Neural correlates of pronoun processing: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis	11
AoA-L2 and Usage-L2 modulate the functional neuroplasticity of the subcortex	11
English and Mandarin native speakers’ cue-weighting of lexical stress: Results from MMN and LDN	11
Editorial Board	11
How visual attention span and phonological skills contribute to N170 print tuning: An EEG study in French dyslexic students	10
Parafoveally perceived orthographic cues facilitate foveal semantic processing: Evidence from event-related potentials	10
Can you touch the N400? The interactive effects of body-object interaction and task demands on N400 amplitudes and decision latencies	10
Intervention-induced cortical thickness changes in Chinese children with reading disability	10
White matter microstructural integrity pre- and post-treatment in individuals with chronic post-stroke aphasia	9
Native language background affects the perception of duration and pitch	9
Functional network and structural connections involved in picture naming	9
Orthographic influences on spoken word recognition in bilinguals are dependent on the orthographic depth of the target language not the native language	9
Editorial Board	8
Language and communication functioning in children and adolescents with agenesis of the corpus callosum	8
Further disentangling neuroplasticity mechanisms: Response to open peer commentaries	8
The crucial role of the left inferior frontal gyrus (BA44) in synergizing syntactic structure and information structure during sentence comprehension	8
Age and attainment in foreign language learning: The critical period account stands	8
Word selection, concreteness and brain lateralization	8
The effects on tACS and tRNS on language function: A literature review	8
Motor experience modulates neural processing of lexical action language: Evidence from rugby players	8
Exploring the ventral white matter language network in bimodal and unimodal bilinguals	8
Daytime naps consolidate Cantonese tone learning through promoting cross-talker perception: The role of prior knowledge	8
Task difficulty modulates age-related differences in functional connectivity during word production	8
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	8
Hemispheric co-lateralization of language and spatial attention reduces performance in dual-task	7
Spatiotemporal characteristics of the neural representation of event concepts	7
The social hierarchical restrictions of Chinese verbs rapidly guide online thematic role assignment in comprehension	7
Dissociating the time courses of age of acquisition effect and word frequency effect during Chinese spoken word production	7
Editorial Board	7
Functional connectivity between parietal and temporal lobes mediates internal forward models during speech production	7
Reading-selective areas in the cerebellum in adult readers	7
What constitutes success in L2 learning? Time to rid ourselves of the holy grail of ‘ultimate attainment’	7
Auditory perception of ambiguous and non-ambiguous sound in early and late blind children: A functional connectivity study	7
From eye to cortex: Tracing the neurocognitive dynamics of bilingual novel word acquisition	7
Editorial Board	6
The neural basis of emotional prosody processing: development of lateralization	6
Impaired neural entrainment to low frequency amplitude modulations in English-speaking children with dyslexia or dyslexia and DLD	6
Evidence for early encoding of speech in blind people	6
Neural mechanisms of face cue predictability and the integration of facial and acoustic cues in native- and nonnative-accented words	6
Production of relative clauses in Cantonese-speaking children with and without Developmental Language Disorder	6
Editorial Board	6
Categorical perception of the index finger as an American Sign Language phonological construct	6
White matter correlates of reading subskills in children with and without reading disability	5
The role of research design in the reproducibility of L1 and L2 language networks: A review of bilingual neuroimaging meta-analyses	5
Reading anxiety modulates the functional connectivity of the reading-related network during adult reading	5
Direct and mediating effects of multilingualism on reducing perceived loneliness in the aging brain	5
The time course of the multidimensional information representation of Chinese characters	5

Six advances in research on bilingualism	5
Neural underpinnings of sentence reading in deaf, native sign language users	5
Abstract sentence meanings are grounded in the sensory-motor regions in a context-dependent fashion	5
Bilingualism, sleep, and cognition: An integrative view and open research questions	5
Neural substrates of speech disorders in Parkinson’s disease: A narrative review of the evidence from task-based and resting-state fMRI studies	5
Neural associations between fingerspelling, print, and signs: An ERP priming study with deaf readers	5
Semantic network activation facilitates oral word reading in chronic aphasia	5
Editorial Board	5
Original language versus dubbed movies: Effects on our brain and emotions	5
Rapid neural changes during novel speech-sound learning: An fMRI and DTI study	5
Editorial Board	4
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The neural time course of self-oriented pointing and labeling in visual processing	4
Editorial: Developmental Language Disorder in Chinese	4
A comparison of learning and retention of a syntactic construction between Cantonese-speaking children with and without DLD in a priming task	4
Semantic memory structure mediates the role of brain functional connectivity in creative writing	4
Selective attention in cognitive processing revisited: A Long-term Re-evaluation	4
Getting the wires uncrossed to recover language after stroke: Commentary on Billot and Kiran	4
Investigating the “bilingual edge”: origins, current practices, and future directions	4
On the perception of stress position by French listeners: An EEG investigation	4
Age effects in second language acquisition: Expanding the emergentist account	4
Accounting for word production, comprehension, and repetition in semantic dementia, Alzheimer’s dementia, and mild cognitive impairment	4
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Metaphor processing is influenced by stimulus emotionality and task demands: Evidence from ERPs	4
The impact of linguistic complexity on feasibility and reliability of language mapping in aphasic glioma patients	4