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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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Neural evidence for perceiving a vowel merger after a social interaction within a native language42
No Brain is an Island: Commentary on Billot and Kiran31
Comprehension and production of relative clauses in Mandarin-speaking children with and without developmental language disorder30
Losing the sense of smell does not disrupt processing of odor words24
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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 words22
The neural mechanisms underlying semantic unification and semanteme integration20
Between bodily action and conventionalized structure: The neural mechanisms of constructed action in sign language comprehension19
Concepts require flexible grounding19
How domain-general proactive control modulates the processing of English wh-dependencies: An EEG study18
Revealing human brain syntactic processing: Insights from voxel-wise models and network representation18
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Top-down sensory prediction in the infant brain at 6 months is correlated with language development at 12 and 18 months18
Two different brain networks underlying picture naming with familiar pre-existing native words and new vocabulary17
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Does working memory independently influence language development in bilingual children? A 30-year reflection16
Effects of object familiarity on children’s silent gestures16
From Synapse to Network: Neuroplasticity in Post-Stroke Language Recovery: Commentary on Billot and Kiran15
Mapping the basal temporal language network: a SEEG functional connectivity study15
Native language background affects the perception of duration and pitch15
Electrophysiological correlates of meaning-based attentional guidance mechanism as a function of cognitive loads in visual search for words15
Parafoveally perceived orthographic cues facilitate foveal semantic processing: Evidence from event-related potentials15
Can you touch the N400? The interactive effects of body-object interaction and task demands on N400 amplitudes and decision latencies14
How visual attention span and phonological skills contribute to N170 print tuning: An EEG study in French dyslexic students13
Using TMS to evaluate a causal role for right posterior temporal cortex in talker-specific phonetic processing12
Reliability and validity for perceptual flexibility in speech12
Neural correlates of pronoun processing: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis12
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White matter microstructural integrity pre- and post-treatment in individuals with chronic post-stroke aphasia12
AoA-L2 and Usage-L2 modulate the functional neuroplasticity of the subcortex12
Orthographic influences on spoken word recognition in bilinguals are dependent on the orthographic depth of the target language not the native language12
English and Mandarin native speakers’ cue-weighting of lexical stress: Results from MMN and LDN12
The multifaceted nature of language across adulthood12
Age and attainment in foreign language learning: The critical period account stands11
Functional network and structural connections involved in picture naming11
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Exploring the ventral white matter language network in bimodal and unimodal bilinguals11
Language and communication functioning in children and adolescents with agenesis of the corpus callosum11
Task difficulty modulates age-related differences in functional connectivity during word production10
Decoding the silence: Neural bases of zero pronoun resolution in Chinese10
Daytime naps consolidate Cantonese tone learning through promoting cross-talker perception: The role of prior knowledge10
Word selection, concreteness and brain lateralization10
The crucial role of the left inferior frontal gyrus (BA44) in synergizing syntactic structure and information structure during sentence comprehension10
Further disentangling neuroplasticity mechanisms: Response to open peer commentaries10
Motor experience modulates neural processing of lexical action language: Evidence from rugby players9
‘Moderate global aphasia’: A generalized decline of language processing caused by glioma surgery but not stroke9
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 e8
The social hierarchical restrictions of Chinese verbs rapidly guide online thematic role assignment in comprehension8
The effects on tACS and tRNS on language function: A literature review8
Resting state electroencephalography (EEG) correlates with children’s language skills: Evidence from sentence repetition8
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 processing8
From eye to cortex: Tracing the neurocognitive dynamics of bilingual novel word acquisition8
Auditory perception of ambiguous and non-ambiguous sound in early and late blind children: A functional connectivity study7
Production of relative clauses in Cantonese-speaking children with and without Developmental Language Disorder7
Dissociating the time courses of age of acquisition effect and word frequency effect during Chinese spoken word production7
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Neural correlates of syntactic comprehension: A longitudinal study7
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What constitutes success in L2 learning? Time to rid ourselves of the holy grail of ‘ultimate attainment’7
Evidence for early encoding of speech in blind people7
Impaired neural entrainment to low frequency amplitude modulations in English-speaking children with dyslexia or dyslexia and DLD7
Hemispheric co-lateralization of language and spatial attention reduces performance in dual-task7
Functional connectivity between parietal and temporal lobes mediates internal forward models during speech production7
Spatiotemporal characteristics of the neural representation of event concepts7
Acquisition of novel word meaning via cross situational word learning: An event-related potential study7
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Neural mechanisms of face cue predictability and the integration of facial and acoustic cues in native- and nonnative-accented words7
Six advances in research on bilingualism6
The role of research design in the reproducibility of L1 and L2 language networks: A review of bilingual neuroimaging meta-analyses6
Neural underpinnings of sentence reading in deaf, native sign language users6
Abstract sentence meanings are grounded in the sensory-motor regions in a context-dependent fashion6
White matter correlates of reading subskills in children with and without reading disability6
The tone atlas of perceptual discriminability and perceptual distance: Four tone languages and five language groups6
Semantic network activation facilitates oral word reading in chronic aphasia6
Environmental noise, brain structure, and language development in children6
Bilingualism, sleep, and cognition: An integrative view and open research questions6
Categorical perception of the index finger as an American Sign Language phonological construct6
Neural associations between fingerspelling, print, and signs: An ERP priming study with deaf readers6
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Selective attention in cognitive processing revisited: A Long-term Re-evaluation5
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Rapid neural changes during novel speech-sound learning: An fMRI and DTI study5
Accounting for word production, comprehension, and repetition in semantic dementia, Alzheimer’s dementia, and mild cognitive impairment5
Original language versus dubbed movies: Effects on our brain and emotions5
Semantic memory structure mediates the role of brain functional connectivity in creative writing5
Person-specific connectivity mapping uncovers differences of bilingual language experience on brain bases of attention in children5
Reading anxiety modulates the functional connectivity of the reading-related network during adult reading5
Age effects in second language acquisition: Expanding the emergentist account5
The time course of the multidimensional information representation of Chinese characters5
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The impact of linguistic complexity on feasibility and reliability of language mapping in aphasic glioma patients4
Gender expansive listeners utilize a non-binary, multidimensional conception of gender to inform voice gender perception4
A comparison of learning and retention of a syntactic construction between Cantonese-speaking children with and without DLD in a priming task4
On the perception of stress position by French listeners: An EEG investigation4
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Getting the wires uncrossed to recover language after stroke: Commentary on Billot and Kiran4
Metaphor processing is influenced by stimulus emotionality and task demands: Evidence from ERPs4
Embodiment of action-related language in the native and a late foreign language – An fMRI-study4
Taxonomic and thematic relations rely on different types of semantic features: Evidence from an fMRI meta-analysis and a semantic priming study3
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Getting language right: Relating individual differences in right hemisphere contributions to language learning and relearning3
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Modulating language and executive functions in bilingual aphasia with cerebellar tDCS: a case series3
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Rapid auditory processing of puretones is associated with basic components of language in individuals with autism spectrum disorders3
Brain representations of lexical ambiguity: Disentangling homonymy, polysemy, and their meanings3
The impact of knowledge on poetry composition: An fMRI investigation3
Donepezil alone and combined with intensive language-action therapy on depression and apathy in chronic post-stroke aphasia: A feasibility study3
Brain responses to lexical attestedness and phonological well-formedness as revealed by fast periodic visual stimulation3
Word and morpheme frequency effects in naming Mandarin Chinese compounds: More than a replication3
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Language mixing in people with aphasia: A cross-linguistic analysis using the 4M model3
Language processing following childhood poverty: Evidence for disrupted neural networks2
Understanding the neural mechanisms for infants' perception of native and non-native speech2
A sculpting effect of reading on later representational quality of phonology revealed by multi-voxel pattern analysis in young children2
Subject relative clause preference in Basque: ERP evidence2
Contribution of the language network to the comprehension of Python programming code2
Exploring foreign language anxiety and resting-state EEG alpha asymmetry2
The modulation of cognitive load on speech normalization: A neurophysiological perspective2
The CPH is dead. Long live the critical period hypothesis2
Longitudinal trajectories of the neural encoding mechanisms of speech-sound features during the first year of life2
Cross-linguistic differences in case marking shape neural power dynamics and gaze behavior during sentence planning2
Native prosodic structures constrain L2 word recognition: Evidence from Bengali-English bilinguals2
Can the resource reduction hypothesis explain sentence processing in aphasia? A visual world study in German2
Juggling with rubber hands, leaping with rubber feet: Sensorimotor reuse during verb comprehension2
Neuromodulation of the language system: A critical advance in understanding language processing and treating disorders of communication2
Graded and sharp transitions in semantic function in left temporal lobe2
Towards a model of language neurobiology in early development2
Exploring attention in the bilingualism continuum: A resting-state functional connectivity study2
You can't be right all the time: Knowns and unknowns of right hemisphere plasticity in aphasia recovery2
Neural dynamics decoding of the influence of modal properties on referential shifting: A univariate and multivariate EEG analysis2
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Language proficiency is associated with neural representational dimensionality of semantic concepts2
Weighing the role of social cognition and executive functioning in pragmatics in the schizophrenia spectrum: A systematic review and meta-analysis2
Speech in noise listening correlates identified in resting state and DTI MRI images2
Exploring the impact of sentential negation on inhibitory motor networks: Insights from paired-pulse TMS2
Competing influence of visual speech on auditory neural adaptation2
Temporal features of concepts are grounded in time perception neural networks: An EEG study2
Behavioral and neural rhythm sensitivities predict phonological awareness and word reading development in Chinese2
Native and non-native parsing of adjective placement – An ERP study of Mandarin and English sentence processing2
The longitudinal interplay of print exposure and auditory brain responses in the prediction of reading skills2
Individualized white matter connectivity of the articulatory pathway: An ultra-high field study2
Readers scrutinize lexical familiarity only in the absence of expectations: Evidence from lexicality effects on event-related potentials2
The role of vocabulary and grammar in the listening text comprehension of school-age Cantonese-speaking children with developmental language disorder2
Context-modulating effect on processing scientific metaphors: Evidence from ERPs2
Continuous speech tracking in bilinguals reflects adaptation to both language and noise1
Conceptual representations in the default, control and attention networks are task-dependent and cross-modal1
Bilingualism: Not all we know now is old news1
Mental simulation in bilingual and second language processing: New directions in the Competition Model1
Bilingual advantage for memory of events: Why now you see it, now you don’t?1
Delineating Region-Specific contributions and connectivity patterns for semantic association and categorization through ROI and Granger causality analysis1
Early ERP indices of gender-biased processing elicited by generic masculine role nouns and the feminine–masculine pair form1
Impaired motor skills and proprioceptive function in Mandarin-speaking children with developmental language disorder1
Speech register influences listeners’ word expectations1
Spatiotemporal dynamics of abstract and concrete semantic representations1
Do newborns detect prosodic violations in an unfamiliar language at birth?1
Auditory representations for long lasting sounds: Insights from event-related brain potentials and neural oscillations1
Watching talking faces: The development of cortical representation of visual syllables in infancy1
Microstructural white matter changes underlying speech deficits in Parkinson’s disease1
A subject relative clause preference in a split-ergative language: ERP evidence from Georgian1
The neural correlates of nominal classification rule learning and their individual differences1
The mediation role of reading-related endophenotypes in the gene-to-reading pathway1
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Neural changes in sign language vocabulary learning: Tracking lexical integration with ERP measures1
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Auditory rhythm discrimination in adults who stutter: An fMRI study1
A neurocognitive computational account of word production, comprehension, and repetition in primary progressive aphasia1
An electrophysiological investigation of referential communication1
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An exploratory study and new model of the role of implicit timing in sentence comprehension1
Impact of motor stroke on novel and conventional action metaphor comprehension1
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Visual simulations in the two cerebral hemispheres: A bilingual perspective1
Typical and atypical neural mechanisms support spoken word processing in Angelman syndrome1
Prospective memory in bilinguals and monolinguals: ERP and behavioural correlates of prospective processing in bilinguals1
Oscillatory brain responses to processing code-switches in the presence of others1
Evidence for planning and motor subtypes of stuttering based on resting state functional connectivity1
The bidirectional influence between emotional language and inhibitory control in Chinese: An ERP study1
Interactive and additive effects of word frequency and predictability: A fixation-related fMRI study1
Subcortical volume and language proficiency in bilinguals and monolinguals: A structural MRI study1
Transcranial photobiomodulation on the left inferior frontal gyrus enhances Mandarin Chinese L1 and L2 complex sentence processing performances1
Language-specific regions in the supplementary motor area: Evidence from verb generation during electrical stimulation mapping1
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) combined with multi-modality aphasia therapy for chronic post-stroke non-fluent aphasia: A pilot randomized sham-controlled trial1
Interindividual variability and consistency of language mapping paradigms for presurgical use1
Better I than He: Personal perspective modulates counterfactual processing1
Shared grey matter correlates of reading and attention1
Conventionality determines the time course of indirect replies comprehension: An ERP study1
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