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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Neural tracking of the speech envelope is differentially modulated by attention and language experience	32
Not all bilinguals are the same: A meta-analysis of the moral foreign language effect	30
Research on bilingualism as discovery science	25
Understanding particularized and generalized conversational implicatures: Is theory-of-mind necessary?	23
Conceptual expansion via novel metaphor processing: An ERP replication and extension study examining individual differences in creativity	22
Dynamic EEG analysis during language comprehension reveals interactive cascades between perceptual processing and sentential expectations	22
The bilingual structural connectome: Dual-language experiential factors modulate distinct cerebral networks	21
Dopamine, vocalization, and astrocytes	20
How to improve social communication in aging: Pragmatic and cognitive interventions	20
Language changes in Alzheimer’s disease: A systematic review of verb processing	17
Structural neural correlates of individual differences in categorical perception	17
Expertise, ecosystem, and emergentism: Dynamic developmental bilingualism	16
Heterogeneity in abstract verbs: An ERP study	16
Signatures of brain plasticity supporting language recovery after perinatal arterial ischemic stroke	16
Automaticity in the reading circuitry	15
Idiosyncratic use of bottom-up and top-down information leads to differences in speech perception flexibility: Converging evidence from ERPs and eye-tracking	15
Machine learning accurately classifies neural responses to rhythmic speech vs. non-speech from 8-week-old infant EEG	15
Gender expansive listeners utilize a non-binary, multidimensional conception of gender to inform voice gender perception	14
Neural mechanisms of language learning from social contexts	14
White matter microstructural differences underlying beta oscillations during speech in adults who stutter	14
Decoding of speech information using EEG in children with dyslexia: Less accurate low-frequency representations of speech, not “Noisy” representations	13
Linguistic signs in action: The neuropragmatics of speech acts	13
A neurocognitive computational account of word production, comprehension, and repetition in primary progressive aphasia	13
Talker discontinuity disrupts attention to speech: Evidence from EEG and pupillometry	12
Exploring attention in the bilingualism continuum: A resting-state functional connectivity study	12

Towards a model of language neurobiology in early development	12
Negation as conflict: Conflict adaptation following negating vertical spatial words	12
Age effects in second language acquisition: Expanding the emergentist account	12
Working memory relates to individual differences in speech category learning: Insights from computational modeling and pupillometry	11
Functional network and structural connections involved in picture naming	11
Distinct mechanisms drive hemispheric lateralization of object recognition in the visual word form and fusiform face areas	11
Environmental noise, brain structure, and language development in children	11
Aging affects steaks more than knives: Evidence that the processing of words related to motor skills is relatively spared in aging	11
Reading proficiency influences the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation: Evidence from selective modulation of dorsal and ventral pathways of reading in bilinguals	11
Language immersion and language training: Two paths to enhanced language regulation and cognitive control	10
Experience-based individual differences modulate language, mind and brain outcomes in multilinguals	10
Parallel semantic processing in the flankers task: Evidence from the N400	10
Determinants of bilingualism predict dynamic changes in resting state EEG oscillations	9
Bilingual language entropy influences executive functions through functional connectivity and signal variability	9
Cross-linguistic interference in late language learners: An ERP study	9
Are our brains more prescriptive than our mouths? Experience with dialectal variation in syntax differentially impacts ERPs and behavior	9
Can inhibition deficit hypothesis account for age-related differences in semantic fluency? Converging evidence from Stroop color and word test and an ERP flanker task	9
The tone atlas of perceptual discriminability and perceptual distance: Four tone languages and five language groups	9
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) combined with multi-modality aphasia therapy for chronic post-stroke non-fluent aphasia: A pilot randomized sham-controlled trial	8
The role and use of event-related potentials in aphasia: A scoping review	8
Poor reading is characterized by a more connected network with wrong hubs	8
Brain decoding in multiple languages: Can cross-language brain decoding work?	8
Donepezil alone and combined with intensive language-action therapy on depression and apathy in chronic post-stroke aphasia: A feasibility study	8
Language learning as a function of infant directed speech (IDS) in Spanish: Testing neural commitment using the positive-MMR	8
Structural brain changes with second language learning: A longitudinal voxel-based morphometry study	8
Reliability of single-subject neural activation patterns in speech production tasks	8
Sequential adaptation effects reveal proactive control in processing spoken sentences: Evidence from event-related potentials	8
Cross-linguistic semantic preview benefit in Basque-Spanish bilingual readers: Evidence from fixation-related potentials	8
Language lateralization and outcome in perinatal stroke patients with different vascular types	8
Reliability and validity for perceptual flexibility in speech	8
Behavioral and neurological effects of tDCS on speech motor recovery: A single-subject intervention study	8
Neural correlates of semantic number: A cross-linguistic investigation	7
Person-specific connectivity mapping uncovers differences of bilingual language experience on brain bases of attention in children	7
Variability in sentence comprehension in aphasia in German	7
Masked ERP repetition priming in deaf and hearing readers	7
Word class and word frequency in the MMN looking glass	7
Individuals with congenital amusia do not show context-dependent perception of tonal categories	7
Independent syntactic representation identified in left front-temporal cortex during Chinese sentence comprehension	7
Individual differences in first-pass fixation duration in reading are related to resting-state functional connectivity	7
Electrophysiological signatures of attentional control in bilingual processing: Evidence from proactive interference	7
Resting state EEG network modularity predicts literacy skills in L1 Chinese but not in L2 English	7
Acquisition of novel word meaning via cross situational word learning: An event-related potential study	7
The impact of musical expertise on anticipatory semantic processing during online speech comprehension: An electroencephalography study	7
The source of attention modulations in bilingual language contexts	7
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	7
Prospective memory in bilinguals and monolinguals: ERP and behavioural correlates of prospective processing in bilinguals	7
Temporal features of concepts are grounded in time perception neural networks: An EEG study	6
Functional connectivity between parietal and temporal lobes mediates internal forward models during speech production	6
Oscillatory brain responses to processing code-switches in the presence of others	6
The impact of knowledge on poetry composition: An fMRI investigation	6

The effect of Subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation on verb and noun naming in Turkish-Speaking Parkinson’s disease patients	6
Does language context impact the neural correlates of executive control in monolingual and multilingual young adults?	6
Multilayer networks: An untapped tool for understanding bilingual neurocognition	6
Is phonological deficit a necessary or sufficient condition for Chinese reading disability?	6
Attention and regulation during emotional word comprehension in older adults: Evidence from event-related potentials and brain oscillations	6
Resting state electroencephalography (EEG) correlates with children’s language skills: Evidence from sentence repetition	6
Continuous speech tracking in bilinguals reflects adaptation to both language and noise	6
Reduced pattern similarity in brain activation during orthographic processing in children with developmental dyslexia	6
White matter microstructural integrity pre- and post-treatment in individuals with chronic post-stroke aphasia	6
Abnormally weak functional connections get stronger in chronic stroke patients who benefit from naming therapy	6
Showing strength through flexibility: Multi-accent toddlers recognize words quickly and efficiently	6
Embodiment of action-related language in the native and a late foreign language – An fMRI-study	6
Positive and negative moods differently affect creative meaning processing in both the native and non-native language	6
Gaming enhances learning-induced plastic changes in the brain	6