OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Brain and Language is 5. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Neural evidence for perceiving a vowel merger after a social interaction within a native language	32
Concepts require flexible grounding	30
Chronic aphasias after left-hemisphere resective surgery	25
Getting language right: Relating individual differences in right hemisphere contributions to language learning and relearning	24
Language measurement in childhood epilepsy: A review	22
Brain responses to lexical attestedness and phonological well-formedness as revealed by fast periodic visual stimulation	21
Competing influence of visual speech on auditory neural adaptation	17
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Positive emotion of self-referential contexts could facilitate adult’s novel word learning: An fNIRS study	17
Accent discrimination abilities during the first days of life: An fNIRS study	16
Sequential adaptation effects reveal proactive control in processing spoken sentences: Evidence from event-related potentials	15
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Reading abilities and dopamine D2/D3 receptor availability: An inverted U-shaped association in subjects with schizophrenia	15
Expressive recall and recognition as complementary measures to assess novel word learning ability in aphasia	14
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Watching talking faces: The development of cortical representation of visual syllables in infancy	13
Individual differences in neural markers of beat processing relate to spoken grammar skills in six-year-old children	12
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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 words	12
Principal component decomposition of acoustic and neural representations of time-varying pitch reveals adaptive efficient coding of speech covariation patterns	12
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Expanding the emergentist Account:Reply to open peer commentaries	11
Neural oscillations during predictive sentence processing in young children	11
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Impaired neural entrainment to low frequency amplitude modulations in English-speaking children with dyslexia or dyslexia and DLD	10
A comparison of functional activation and connectivity of the cerebellum in adults and children during single word processing	10
Oscillatory brain responses to processing code-switches in the presence of others	10
Between bodily action and conventionalized structure: The neural mechanisms of constructed action in sign language comprehension	10
Word class and word frequency in the MMN looking glass	9
Losing the sense of smell does not disrupt processing of odor words	9
Perceptual flexibility in word learning: Preschoolers learn words with speech sound variability	9
Parallel semantic processing in the flankers task: Evidence from the N400	9
Shared grey matter correlates of reading and attention	9
Rapid auditory processing of puretones is associated with basic components of language in individuals with autism spectrum disorders	9
Interactive and additive effects of word frequency and predictability: A fixation-related fMRI study	8
Prospective memory in bilinguals and monolinguals: ERP and behavioural correlates of prospective processing in bilinguals	8
No Brain is an Island: Commentary on Billot and Kiran	8
The impact of speaker accent on discourse processing: A frequency investigation	8
Delineating Region-Specific contributions and connectivity patterns for semantic association and categorization through ROI and Granger causality analysis	8
Resting state EEG network modularity predicts literacy skills in L1 Chinese but not in L2 English	8
The tone atlas of perceptual discriminability and perceptual distance: Four tone languages and five language groups	8
Neural correlates of phonology-to-orthography mapping consistency effects on Chinese spoken word recognition	8
Language processing following childhood poverty: Evidence for disrupted neural networks	8
Word and morpheme frequency effects in naming Mandarin Chinese compounds: More than a replication	7
Linguistic signs in action: The neuropragmatics of speech acts	7
Experience-based individual differences modulate language, mind and brain outcomes in multilinguals	7
Idiosyncratic use of bottom-up and top-down information leads to differences in speech perception flexibility: Converging evidence from ERPs and eye-tracking	7
Allophonic familiarity differentiates word representations in the brain of native speakers of regional linguistic varieties	7
Evidence for early encoding of speech in blind people	7
Neural underpinnings of sentence reading in deaf, native sign language users	7
Brain decoding in multiple languages: Can cross-language brain decoding work?	7
The bidirectional influence between emotional language and inhibitory control in Chinese: An ERP study	7
Cross-language generalization of language treatment in multilingual people with post-stroke aphasia: A meta-analysis	7
Understanding the neural mechanisms for infants' perception of native and non-native speech	7
Neural changes in sign language vocabulary learning: Tracking lexical integration with ERP measures	7
Masked ERP repetition priming in deaf and hearing readers	7
Conceptual representations in the default, control and attention networks are task-dependent and cross-modal	7
Neural correlates of syntactic comprehension: A longitudinal study	7
The organization of the semantic network as reflected by the neural correlates of six semantic dimensions	7
Functional brain networks underlying automatic and controlled handwriting in Chinese	6
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Morphological decomposition in Chinese compound word recognition: Electrophysiological evidence	6
Acupoint-brain (acubrain) mapping: Common and distinct cortical language regions activated by focused ultrasound stimulation on two language-relevant acupoints	6
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Abnormally weak functional connections get stronger in chronic stroke patients who benefit from naming therapy	6
Cross-linguistic differences in case marking shape neural power dynamics and gaze behavior during sentence planning	6
Impact of motor stroke on novel and conventional action metaphor comprehension	6
Top-down sensory prediction in the infant brain at 6 months is correlated with language development at 12 and 18 months	6
Electrophysiological signatures of attentional control in bilingual processing: Evidence from proactive interference	6
Two different brain networks underlying picture naming with familiar pre-existing native words and new vocabulary	6
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	6
Weighing the role of social cognition and executive functioning in pragmatics in the schizophrenia spectrum: A systematic review and meta-analysis	6
Neuromodulation of the language system: A critical advance in understanding language processing and treating disorders of communication	6

Event related potential exploration of the organizational structure of abstract versus concrete words in neurologically intact younger adults	6
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Longitudinal characterization of patients with progressive apraxia of speech without clearly predominant phonetic or prosodic speech features	5
Semantic network activation facilitates oral word reading in chronic aphasia	5
Observing gesture at learning enhances subsequent phonological and semantic processing of L2 words: An N400 study	5
On the syllable structure effect in European Portuguese: Evidence from ERPs	5
Individual differences in first-pass fixation duration in reading are related to resting-state functional connectivity	5
Can the resource reduction hypothesis explain sentence processing in aphasia? A visual world study in German	5
Variability in sentence comprehension in aphasia in German	5
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Acoustic analysis and neuroimaging correlates of diadochokinetic rates in mild-moderate primary progressive apraxia of speech	5
The source of attention modulations in bilingual language contexts	5
The role of research design in the reproducibility of L1 and L2 language networks: A review of bilingual neuroimaging meta-analyses	5
Memory after visual search: Overlapping phonology, shared meaning, and bilingual experience influence what we remember	5
Short-term training helps second-language learners read like native readers: An ERP study	5
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