Brain and Language

Papers
(The median citation count of Brain and Language is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Neural evidence for perceiving a vowel merger after a social interaction within a native language35
Concepts require flexible grounding28
Brain responses to lexical attestedness and phonological well-formedness as revealed by fast periodic visual stimulation26
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Competing influence of visual speech on auditory neural adaptation21
Reading abilities and dopamine D2/D3 receptor availability: An inverted U-shaped association in subjects with schizophrenia20
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Expressive recall and recognition as complementary measures to assess novel word learning ability in aphasia18
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Principal component decomposition of acoustic and neural representations of time-varying pitch reveals adaptive efficient coding of speech covariation patterns17
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Expanding the emergentist Account:Reply to open peer commentaries15
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Individual differences in neural markers of beat processing relate to spoken grammar skills in six-year-old children15
The bidirectional influence between emotional language and inhibitory control in Chinese: An ERP study14
Losing the sense of smell does not disrupt processing of odor words14
Interactive and additive effects of word frequency and predictability: A fixation-related fMRI study13
The impact of speaker accent on discourse processing: A frequency investigation13
Language processing following childhood poverty: Evidence for disrupted neural networks13
Idiosyncratic use of bottom-up and top-down information leads to differences in speech perception flexibility: Converging evidence from ERPs and eye-tracking13
The tone atlas of perceptual discriminability and perceptual distance: Four tone languages and five language groups13
No Brain is an Island: Commentary on Billot and Kiran12
Chronic aphasias after left-hemisphere resective surgery11
Rapid auditory processing of puretones is associated with basic components of language in individuals with autism spectrum disorders11
Elevated pre-target EEG alpha power enhances the probability of comprehending weakly noise masked words and decreases the probability of comprehending strongly masked words11
Prospective memory in bilinguals and monolinguals: ERP and behavioural correlates of prospective processing in bilinguals11
Oscillatory brain responses to processing code-switches in the presence of others11
Neural correlates of syntactic comprehension: A longitudinal study11
The organization of the semantic network as reflected by the neural correlates of six semantic dimensions11
Parallel semantic processing in the flankers task: Evidence from the N40010
Shared grey matter correlates of reading and attention10
Delineating Region-Specific contributions and connectivity patterns for semantic association and categorization through ROI and Granger causality analysis10
Allophonic familiarity differentiates word representations in the brain of native speakers of regional linguistic varieties10
Impaired neural entrainment to low frequency amplitude modulations in English-speaking children with dyslexia or dyslexia and DLD9
Positive emotion of self-referential contexts could facilitate adult’s novel word learning: An fNIRS study9
Brain decoding in multiple languages: Can cross-language brain decoding work?9
Word and morpheme frequency effects in naming Mandarin Chinese compounds: More than a replication9
Neural oscillations during predictive sentence processing in young children9
Neural changes in sign language vocabulary learning: Tracking lexical integration with ERP measures9
Perceptual flexibility in word learning: Preschoolers learn words with speech sound variability9
Word class and word frequency in the MMN looking glass9
Watching talking faces: The development of cortical representation of visual syllables in infancy9
A comparison of functional activation and connectivity of the cerebellum in adults and children during single word processing9
Resting state EEG network modularity predicts literacy skills in L1 Chinese but not in L2 English9
Language measurement in childhood epilepsy: A review9
Neural correlates of phonology-to-orthography mapping consistency effects on Chinese spoken word recognition9
Audiovisual speech perception deficits in unaffected siblings of children with developmental language disorder8
Cross-language generalization of language treatment in multilingual people with post-stroke aphasia: A meta-analysis8
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Understanding the neural mechanisms for infants' perception of native and non-native speech8
Conceptual representations in the default, control and attention networks are task-dependent and cross-modal8
Experience-based individual differences modulate language, mind and brain outcomes in multilinguals8
Between bodily action and conventionalized structure: The neural mechanisms of constructed action in sign language comprehension8
Evidence for early encoding of speech in blind people8
Getting language right: Relating individual differences in right hemisphere contributions to language learning and relearning8
Accent discrimination abilities during the first days of life: An fNIRS study8
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On the syllable structure effect in European Portuguese: Evidence from ERPs7
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Morphological decomposition in Chinese compound word recognition: Electrophysiological evidence7
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Memory after visual search: Overlapping phonology, shared meaning, and bilingual experience influence what we remember7
Exploring the impact of sentential negation on inhibitory motor networks: Insights from paired-pulse TMS7
Mapping the basal temporal language network: a SEEG functional connectivity study7
Impact of motor stroke on novel and conventional action metaphor comprehension7
Top-down sensory prediction in the infant brain at 6 months is correlated with language development at 12 and 18 months7
Two different brain networks underlying picture naming with familiar pre-existing native words and new vocabulary7
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Functional brain networks underlying automatic and controlled handwriting in Chinese7
Weighing the role of social cognition and executive functioning in pragmatics in the schizophrenia spectrum: A systematic review and meta-analysis7
Neuromodulation of the language system: A critical advance in understanding language processing and treating disorders of communication7
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Short-term training helps second-language learners read like native readers: An ERP study7
Neural underpinnings of sentence reading in deaf, native sign language users6
How the conceptual specificity of individual words affects incremental sentence composition: MEG evidence6
Can the resource reduction hypothesis explain sentence processing in aphasia? A visual world study in German6
Electrophysiological signatures of attentional control in bilingual processing: Evidence from proactive interference6
Observing gesture at learning enhances subsequent phonological and semantic processing of L2 words: An N400 study6
Revisiting the 40-Hz gamma response: Phase-locked neural activity along the human auditory pathway relates to bilingual experience6
Acoustic analysis and neuroimaging correlates of diadochokinetic rates in mild-moderate primary progressive apraxia of speech6
Variability in sentence comprehension in aphasia in German6
The source of attention modulations in bilingual language contexts6
The dynamics of neuroplasticity in the recovery from post-stroke aphasia: Commentary on Billot and Kiran6
Acupoint-brain (acubrain) mapping: Common and distinct cortical language regions activated by focused ultrasound stimulation on two language-relevant acupoints6
Developmental language disorder in Chinese children: A systematic review of research from 1997 to 20225
White matter correlates of reading subskills in children with and without reading disability5
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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 design5
Speech in noise listening correlates identified in resting state and DTI MRI images5
Poor reading is characterized by a more connected network with wrong hubs5
Longitudinal characterization of patients with progressive apraxia of speech without clearly predominant phonetic or prosodic speech features5
Cross-linguistic differences in case marking shape neural power dynamics and gaze behavior during sentence planning5
Environmental noise, brain structure, and language development in children5
Semantic network activation facilitates oral word reading in chronic aphasia5
The role of research design in the reproducibility of L1 and L2 language networks: A review of bilingual neuroimaging meta-analyses5
Corrigendum to “Functional brain networks underlying automatic and controlled handwriting in Chinese” [Brain Lang. 219 (2021) 104962]5
Linguistic signs in action: The neuropragmatics of speech acts4
Abnormally weak functional connections get stronger in chronic stroke patients who benefit from naming therapy4
The influence of experience on cognitive load during simultaneous interpretation4
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ERP representational similarity analysis reveals the prediction of semantic features in minimal phrasal contexts4
Event related potential exploration of the organizational structure of abstract versus concrete words in neurologically intact younger adults4
Bilingual language entropy influences executive functions through functional connectivity and signal variability4
Multilayer networks: An untapped tool for understanding bilingual neurocognition4
Longitudinal trajectories of the neural encoding mechanisms of speech-sound features during the first year of life4
Better I than He: Personal perspective modulates counterfactual processing4
Is phonological deficit a necessary or sufficient condition for Chinese reading disability?4
Reading anxiety modulates the functional connectivity of the reading-related network during adult reading4
Bilingualism, sleep, and cognition: An integrative view and open research questions4
From Synapse to Network: Neuroplasticity in Post-Stroke Language Recovery: Commentary on Billot and Kiran4
Revisiting neuroplasticity mechanisms in aphasia recovery: Commentary on Billot and Kiran3
Functional network and structural connections involved in picture naming3
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Orthographic influences on spoken word recognition in bilinguals are dependent on the orthographic depth of the target language not the native language3
English and Mandarin native speakers’ cue-weighting of lexical stress: Results from MMN and LDN3
Transmodal neural substrates of general semantic knowledge: From single words to sentences, stories, and the default mode network3
Readers scrutinize lexical familiarity only in the absence of expectations: Evidence from lexicality effects on event-related potentials3
Consistency and regularity effects in character identification: A greater role for global than local mapping congruence3
Expertise, ecosystem, and emergentism: Dynamic developmental bilingualism3
Original language versus dubbed movies: Effects on our brain and emotions3
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An ERP study of hemispheric differences in perceptual representations of language reveals meaning attribution in the right hemisphere and constituents of the N400-effect3
How visual attention span and phonological skills contribute to N170 print tuning: An EEG study in French dyslexic students3
Using TMS to evaluate a causal role for right posterior temporal cortex in talker-specific phonetic processing2
Subject relative clause preference in Basque: ERP evidence2
Word-producing brain: Contribution of the left anterior middle temporal gyrus to word production patterns in spoken language2
Microstructural white matter changes underlying speech deficits in Parkinson’s disease2
Graded and sharp transitions in semantic function in left temporal lobe2
Are our brains more prescriptive than our mouths? Experience with dialectal variation in syntax differentially impacts ERPs and behavior2
Reduced pattern similarity in brain activation during orthographic processing in children with developmental dyslexia2
Different language control mechanisms in comprehension and production: Evidence from paragraph reading2
The role of vocabulary and grammar in the listening text comprehension of school-age Cantonese-speaking children with developmental language disorder2
Neural correlates of pronoun processing: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis2
Selective attention in cognitive processing revisited: A Long-term Re-evaluation2
Electrophysiology reveals cognitive-linguistic alterations after concussion2
Exploring foreign language anxiety and resting-state EEG alpha asymmetry2
Sentence-level embeddings reveal dissociable word- and sentence-level cortical representation across coarse- and fine-grained levels of meaning2
Auditory representations for long lasting sounds: Insights from event-related brain potentials and neural oscillations2
Cross-linguistic and acoustic-driven effects on multiscale neural synchrony to stress rhythms2
Native language background affects the perception of duration and pitch2
Interindividual variability and consistency of language mapping paradigms for presurgical use2
Learning a new language in time: What does variation in bilingual experience tell us? Commentary on Caldwell-Harris and MacWhinney (2023): Age effects in second language acquisition: Expanding the eme2
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A sculpting effect of reading on later representational quality of phonology revealed by multi-voxel pattern analysis in young children2
White matter microstructural integrity pre- and post-treatment in individuals with chronic post-stroke aphasia2
ERP evidence for cross-domain prosodic priming from music to speech2
Dopamine, vocalization, and astrocytes2
Language immersion and language training: Two paths to enhanced language regulation and cognitive control2
The relationship between reading abilities and the left occipitotemporal sulcus: A dual perspective study2
Temporal features of concepts are grounded in time perception neural networks: An EEG study2
Can you touch the N400? The interactive effects of body-object interaction and task demands on N400 amplitudes and decision latencies2
AoA-L2 and Usage-L2 modulate the functional neuroplasticity of the subcortex2
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Person-specific connectivity mapping uncovers differences of bilingual language experience on brain bases of attention in children1
Reliability and validity for perceptual flexibility in speech1
Auditory pseudoword rhyming effects in bilingual children reflect second language proficiency: An ERP study1
Research on bilingualism as discovery science1
Treatment-induced neuroplasticity after anomia therapy in post-stroke aphasia: A systematic review of neuroimaging studies1
Cortical hemisphere preference and brainstem ear asymmetry reflect experience-dependent functional modulation of pitch1
The crucial role of the left inferior frontal gyrus (BA44) in synergizing syntactic structure and information structure during sentence comprehension1
Aging affects steaks more than knives: Evidence that the processing of words related to motor skills is relatively spared in aging1
Gaming enhances learning-induced plastic changes in the brain1
Decoding the silence: Neural bases of zero pronoun resolution in Chinese1
Cursed Concepts: New insights on combinatorial processing from ERP correlates of swearing in context1
Towards a model of language neurobiology in early development1
Linking L2 proficiency and patterns of functional connectivity during L1 word retrieval1
Does language context impact the neural correlates of executive control in monolingual and multilingual young adults?1
Sentence predictability modulates cortical response to phonetic ambiguity1
Exploring the ventral white matter language network in bimodal and unimodal bilinguals1
Conceptual expansion via novel metaphor processing: An ERP replication and extension study examining individual differences in creativity1
The time course of normalizing speech variability in vowels1
Neural connectivity underlying core language functions1
The multifaceted nature of language across adulthood1
How does the “default mode” network contribute to semantic cognition?1
Rapid neural changes during novel speech-sound learning: An fMRI and DTI study1
Individualized white matter connectivity of the articulatory pathway: An ultra-high field study1
Exploring attention in the bilingualism continuum: A resting-state functional connectivity study1
Is frontal EEG gamma power a neural correlate of language in toddlerhood? An examination of late talking and expressive language ability1
Continuous speech tracking in bilinguals reflects adaptation to both language and noise1
The posterior middle temporal gyrus serves as a hub in syntactic comprehension: A model on the syntactic neural network1
Neural phase angle from two months when tracking speech and non-speech rhythm linked to language performance from 12 to 24 months1
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