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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Neural evidence for perceiving a vowel merger after a social interaction within a native language	40
No Brain is an Island: Commentary on Billot and Kiran	32
Losing the sense of smell does not disrupt processing of odor words	28
Editorial Board	27
The neural mechanisms underlying semantic unification and semanteme integration	23
Comprehension and production of relative clauses in Mandarin-speaking children with and without developmental language disorder	23
Between bodily action and conventionalized structure: The neural mechanisms of constructed action in sign language comprehension	23
Elevated pre-target EEG alpha power enhances the probability of comprehending weakly noise masked words and decreases the probability of comprehending strongly masked words	22
Editorial Board	21
Concepts require flexible grounding	21
Top-down sensory prediction in the infant brain at 6 months is correlated with language development at 12 and 18 months	20
Revealing human brain syntactic processing: Insights from voxel-wise models and network representation	20
How domain-general proactive control modulates the processing of English wh-dependencies: An EEG study	20
Two different brain networks underlying picture naming with familiar pre-existing native words and new vocabulary	19
Editorial Board	18
Effects of object familiarity on children’s silent gestures	17
The source of attention modulations in bilingual language contexts	17
Editorial Board	17
Mapping the basal temporal language network: a SEEG functional connectivity study	16
From Synapse to Network: Neuroplasticity in Post-Stroke Language Recovery: Commentary on Billot and Kiran	16
Does working memory independently influence language development in bilingual children? A 30-year reflection	16
Editorial Board	16
Parafoveally perceived orthographic cues facilitate foveal semantic processing: Evidence from event-related potentials	15
Native language background affects the perception of duration and pitch	15
Can you touch the N400? The interactive effects of body-object interaction and task demands on N400 amplitudes and decision latencies	15

How visual attention span and phonological skills contribute to N170 print tuning: An EEG study in French dyslexic students	14
Orthographic influences on spoken word recognition in bilinguals are dependent on the orthographic depth of the target language not the native language	13
Using TMS to evaluate a causal role for right posterior temporal cortex in talker-specific phonetic processing	13
Reliability and validity for perceptual flexibility in speech	13
Neural correlates of pronoun processing: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis	13
Editorial Board	13
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English and Mandarin native speakers’ cue-weighting of lexical stress: Results from MMN and LDN	12
Task difficulty modulates age-related differences in functional connectivity during word production	12
Language and communication functioning in children and adolescents with agenesis of the corpus callosum	12
Functional network and structural connections involved in picture naming	12
The crucial role of the left inferior frontal gyrus (BA44) in synergizing syntactic structure and information structure during sentence comprehension	12
AoA-L2 and Usage-L2 modulate the functional neuroplasticity of the subcortex	12
The multifaceted nature of language across adulthood	12
Daytime naps consolidate Cantonese tone learning through promoting cross-talker perception: The role of prior knowledge	12
White matter microstructural integrity pre- and post-treatment in individuals with chronic post-stroke aphasia	12
Editorial Board	11
Age and attainment in foreign language learning: The critical period account stands	11
Exploring the ventral white matter language network in bimodal and unimodal bilinguals	11
Motor experience modulates neural processing of lexical action language: Evidence from rugby players	11
Decoding the silence: Neural bases of zero pronoun resolution in Chinese	11
Further disentangling neuroplasticity mechanisms: Response to open peer commentaries	11
From eye to cortex: Tracing the neurocognitive dynamics of bilingual novel word acquisition	10
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 processing	10
The effects on tACS and tRNS on language function: A literature review	10
‘Moderate global aphasia’: A generalized decline of language processing caused by glioma surgery but not stroke	10
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	10
The social hierarchical restrictions of Chinese verbs rapidly guide online thematic role assignment in comprehension	10
Resting state electroencephalography (EEG) correlates with children’s language skills: Evidence from sentence repetition	9
Hemispheric co-lateralization of language and spatial attention reduces performance in dual-task	9
Editorial Board	9
Acquisition of novel word meaning via cross situational word learning: An event-related potential study	9
What constitutes success in L2 learning? Time to rid ourselves of the holy grail of ‘ultimate attainment’	9
Spatiotemporal characteristics of the neural representation of event concepts	9
Auditory perception of ambiguous and non-ambiguous sound in early and late blind children: A functional connectivity study	9
Dissociating the time courses of age of acquisition effect and word frequency effect during Chinese spoken word production	9
Functional connectivity between parietal and temporal lobes mediates internal forward models during speech production	9
Impaired neural entrainment to low frequency amplitude modulations in English-speaking children with dyslexia or dyslexia and DLD	8
Evidence for early encoding of speech in blind people	8
Neural correlates of syntactic comprehension: A longitudinal study	8
Production of relative clauses in Cantonese-speaking children with and without Developmental Language Disorder	8
The tone atlas of perceptual discriminability and perceptual distance: Four tone languages and five language groups	8
Neural mechanisms of face cue predictability and the integration of facial and acoustic cues in native- and nonnative-accented words	8
Editorial Board	8
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Electrophysiological signatures of attentional control in bilingual processing: Evidence from proactive interference	7
White matter correlates of reading subskills in children with and without reading disability	7
Abnormally weak functional connections get stronger in chronic stroke patients who benefit from naming therapy	7
Neural associations between fingerspelling, print, and signs: An ERP priming study with deaf readers	7
Semantic network activation facilitates oral word reading in chronic aphasia	7

Categorical perception of the index finger as an American Sign Language phonological construct	7
Environmental noise, brain structure, and language development in children	7
The role of research design in the reproducibility of L1 and L2 language networks: A review of bilingual neuroimaging meta-analyses	7
Neural underpinnings of sentence reading in deaf, native sign language users	7
Reading anxiety modulates the functional connectivity of the reading-related network during adult reading	6
Six advances in research on bilingualism	6
Selective attention in cognitive processing revisited: A Long-term Re-evaluation	6
Getting the wires uncrossed to recover language after stroke: Commentary on Billot and Kiran	6
Semantic memory structure mediates the role of brain functional connectivity in creative writing	6
Rapid neural changes during novel speech-sound learning: An fMRI and DTI study	6
Abstract sentence meanings are grounded in the sensory-motor regions in a context-dependent fashion	6
Editorial Board	6
A comparison of learning and retention of a syntactic construction between Cantonese-speaking children with and without DLD in a priming task	6
The time course of normalizing speech variability in vowels	6
Bilingualism, sleep, and cognition: An integrative view and open research questions	6
Person-specific connectivity mapping uncovers differences of bilingual language experience on brain bases of attention in children	6
Original language versus dubbed movies: Effects on our brain and emotions	6
Accounting for word production, comprehension, and repetition in semantic dementia, Alzheimer’s dementia, and mild cognitive impairment	6
Editorial Board	6
Age effects in second language acquisition: Expanding the emergentist account	6