OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Brain and Language is 4. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
No Brain is an Island: Commentary on Billot and Kiran	47
Comprehension and production of relative clauses in Mandarin-speaking children with and without developmental language disorder	37
Editorial Board	31
Oscillatory dynamics of inflectional processing: teasing apart defaultness and productivity effects in Russian verbs	26
Elevated pre-target EEG alpha power enhances the probability of comprehending weakly noise masked words and decreases the probability of comprehending strongly masked words	23
The neural mechanisms underlying semantic unification and semanteme integration	22
Concepts require flexible grounding	21
Between bodily action and conventionalized structure: The neural mechanisms of constructed action in sign language comprehension	21
Editorial Board	20
Neural evidence for perceiving a vowel merger after a social interaction within a native language	20
Evidence for a role of memory in novel word-learning after perinatal stroke	20
Losing the sense of smell does not disrupt processing of odor words	20
Editorial Board	19
How domain-general proactive control modulates the processing of English wh-dependencies: An EEG study	18
Top-down sensory prediction in the infant brain at 6 months is correlated with language development at 12 and 18 months	18
Two different brain networks underlying picture naming with familiar pre-existing native words and new vocabulary	17
Editorial Board	17
Does working memory independently influence language development in bilingual children? A 30-year reflection	17
Effects of object familiarity on children’s silent gestures	15
Revealing human brain syntactic processing: Insights from voxel-wise models and network representation	15
Electrophysiological correlates of meaning-based attentional guidance mechanism as a function of cognitive loads in visual search for words	15
Editorial Board	15
Mapping the basal temporal language network: a SEEG functional connectivity study	14
Can you touch the N400? The interactive effects of body-object interaction and task demands on N400 amplitudes and decision latencies	14
Editorial Board	14

From Synapse to Network: Neuroplasticity in Post-Stroke Language Recovery: Commentary on Billot and Kiran	14
English and Mandarin native speakers’ cue-weighting of lexical stress: Results from MMN and LDN	13
Orthographic influences on spoken word recognition in bilinguals are dependent on the orthographic depth of the target language not the native language	13
Editorial Board	13
Using TMS to evaluate a causal role for right posterior temporal cortex in talker-specific phonetic processing	13
Functional network and structural connections involved in picture naming	12
Native language background affects the perception of duration and pitch	12
White matter microstructural integrity pre- and post-treatment in individuals with chronic post-stroke aphasia	12
The multifaceted nature of language across adulthood	12
Parafoveally perceived orthographic cues facilitate foveal semantic processing: Evidence from event-related potentials	11
Intervention-induced cortical thickness changes in Chinese children with reading disability	11
Neural correlates of pronoun processing: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis	11
How visual attention span and phonological skills contribute to N170 print tuning: An EEG study in French dyslexic students	11
AoA-L2 and Usage-L2 modulate the functional neuroplasticity of the subcortex	10
Exploring the ventral white matter language network in bimodal and unimodal bilinguals	10
Age and attainment in foreign language learning: The critical period account stands	10
Editorial Board	10
Daytime naps consolidate Cantonese tone learning through promoting cross-talker perception: The role of prior knowledge	9
The crucial role of the left inferior frontal gyrus (BA44) in synergizing syntactic structure and information structure during sentence comprehension	9
Word selection, concreteness and brain lateralization	9
Task difficulty modulates age-related differences in functional connectivity during word production	9
Language and communication functioning in children and adolescents with agenesis of the corpus callosum	9
Further disentangling neuroplasticity mechanisms: Response to open peer commentaries	8
The effects on tACS and tRNS on language function: A literature review	8
Auditory perception of ambiguous and non-ambiguous sound in early and late blind children: A functional connectivity study	8
Motor experience modulates neural processing of lexical action language: Evidence from rugby players	8
From eye to cortex: Tracing the neurocognitive dynamics of bilingual novel word acquisition	8
Editorial Board	8
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	8
The social hierarchical restrictions of Chinese verbs rapidly guide online thematic role assignment in comprehension	8
Resting state electroencephalography (EEG) correlates with children’s language skills: Evidence from sentence repetition	8
What constitutes success in L2 learning? Time to rid ourselves of the holy grail of ‘ultimate attainment’	7
Hemispheric co-lateralization of language and spatial attention reduces performance in dual-task	7
The tone atlas of perceptual discriminability and perceptual distance: Four tone languages and five language groups	7
Impaired neural entrainment to low frequency amplitude modulations in English-speaking children with dyslexia or dyslexia and DLD	7
Production of relative clauses in Cantonese-speaking children with and without Developmental Language Disorder	7
Spatiotemporal characteristics of the neural representation of event concepts	7
Evidence for early encoding of speech in blind people	7
Neural mechanisms of face cue predictability and the integration of facial and acoustic cues in native- and nonnative-accented words	7
Acquisition of novel word meaning via cross situational word learning: An event-related potential study	7
Functional connectivity between parietal and temporal lobes mediates internal forward models during speech production	7
Dissociating the time courses of age of acquisition effect and word frequency effect during Chinese spoken word production	7
Editorial Board	7
Editorial Board	7
Editorial Board	6
Neural associations between fingerspelling, print, and signs: An ERP priming study with deaf readers	6
Semantic network activation facilitates oral word reading in chronic aphasia	6
Neural underpinnings of sentence reading in deaf, native sign language users	6
Environmental noise, brain structure, and language development in children	6
The role of research design in the reproducibility of L1 and L2 language networks: A review of bilingual neuroimaging meta-analyses	6

Categorical perception of the index finger as an American Sign Language phonological construct	6
White matter correlates of reading subskills in children with and without reading disability	6
Six advances in research on bilingualism	5
Abstract sentence meanings are grounded in the sensory-motor regions in a context-dependent fashion	5
Reading anxiety modulates the functional connectivity of the reading-related network during adult reading	5
Rapid neural changes during novel speech-sound learning: An fMRI and DTI study	5
Original language versus dubbed movies: Effects on our brain and emotions	5
Neural substrates of speech disorders in Parkinson’s disease: A narrative review of the evidence from task-based and resting-state fMRI studies	5
Bilingualism, sleep, and cognition: An integrative view and open research questions	5
The time course of the multidimensional information representation of Chinese characters	5
Selective attention in cognitive processing revisited: A Long-term Re-evaluation	5
Age effects in second language acquisition: Expanding the emergentist account	4
Semantic memory structure mediates the role of brain functional connectivity in creative writing	4
Editorial: Developmental Language Disorder in Chinese	4
Metaphor processing is influenced by stimulus emotionality and task demands: Evidence from ERPs	4
Investigating the “bilingual edge”: origins, current practices, and future directions	4
A comparison of learning and retention of a syntactic construction between Cantonese-speaking children with and without DLD in a priming task	4
Editorial Board	4
Getting the wires uncrossed to recover language after stroke: Commentary on Billot and Kiran	4
On the perception of stress position by French listeners: An EEG investigation	4
The impact of linguistic complexity on feasibility and reliability of language mapping in aphasic glioma patients	4
Accounting for word production, comprehension, and repetition in semantic dementia, Alzheimer’s dementia, and mild cognitive impairment	4
The neural time course of self-oriented pointing and labeling in visual processing	4
Editorial Board	4
Embodiment of action-related language in the native and a late foreign language – An fMRI-study	4