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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Elevated pre-target EEG alpha power enhances the probability of comprehending weakly noise masked words and decreases the probability of comprehending strongly masked words	39
Editorial Board	32
Neural evidence for perceiving a vowel merger after a social interaction within a native language	30
No Brain is an Island: Commentary on Billot and Kiran	26
Concepts require flexible grounding	25
Between bodily action and conventionalized structure: The neural mechanisms of constructed action in sign language comprehension	24
Resting state EEG network modularity predicts literacy skills in L1 Chinese but not in L2 English	24
Losing the sense of smell does not disrupt processing of odor words	22
Editorial Board	21
Two different brain networks underlying picture naming with familiar pre-existing native words and new vocabulary	20
Editorial Board	20
The source of attention modulations in bilingual language contexts	19
Mapping the basal temporal language network: a SEEG functional connectivity study	19
Revealing human brain syntactic processing: Insights from voxel-wise models and network representation	19
Editorial Board	19
How domain-general proactive control modulates the processing of English wh-dependencies: An EEG study	17
From Synapse to Network: Neuroplasticity in Post-Stroke Language Recovery: Commentary on Billot and Kiran	17
Top-down sensory prediction in the infant brain at 6 months is correlated with language development at 12 and 18 months	17
White matter microstructural integrity pre- and post-treatment in individuals with chronic post-stroke aphasia	16
Multilayer networks: An untapped tool for understanding bilingual neurocognition	15
English and Mandarin native speakers’ cue-weighting of lexical stress: Results from MMN and LDN	15
Editorial Board	15
Native language background affects the perception of duration and pitch	15
Editorial Board	15
AoA-L2 and Usage-L2 modulate the functional neuroplasticity of the subcortex	14

Neural correlates of pronoun processing: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis	14
Using TMS to evaluate a causal role for right posterior temporal cortex in talker-specific phonetic processing	13
Orthographic influences on spoken word recognition in bilinguals are dependent on the orthographic depth of the target language not the native language	13
Reliability and validity for perceptual flexibility in speech	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
How visual attention span and phonological skills contribute to N170 print tuning: An EEG study in French dyslexic students	12
The multifaceted nature of language across adulthood	12
Early differentiation of memory retrieval processes for newly learned voices and phonemes as indexed by the MMN	12
Can you touch the N400? The interactive effects of body-object interaction and task demands on N400 amplitudes and decision latencies	12
Exploring the ventral white matter language network in bimodal and unimodal bilinguals	12
Editorial Board	12
Age and attainment in foreign language learning: The critical period account stands	11
Task difficulty modulates age-related differences in functional connectivity during word production	11
Decoding the silence: Neural bases of zero pronoun resolution in Chinese	11
Daytime naps consolidate Cantonese tone learning through promoting cross-talker perception: The role of prior knowledge	11
Language and communication functioning in children and adolescents with agenesis of the corpus callosum	11
Resting state electroencephalography (EEG) correlates with children’s language skills: Evidence from sentence repetition	10
The social hierarchical restrictions of Chinese verbs rapidly guide online thematic role assignment in comprehension	10
Functional connectivity between parietal and temporal lobes mediates internal forward models during speech production	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
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
‘Moderate global aphasia’: A generalized decline of language processing caused by glioma surgery but not stroke	10
Motor experience modulates neural processing of lexical action language: Evidence from rugby players	10
Further disentangling neuroplasticity mechanisms: Response to open peer commentaries	10
Editorial Board	9
Hemispheric co-lateralization of language and spatial attention reduces performance in dual-task	9
The tone atlas of perceptual discriminability and perceptual distance: Four tone languages and five language groups	9
Production of relative clauses in Cantonese-speaking children with and without Developmental Language Disorder	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
Editorial Board	9
Impaired neural entrainment to low frequency amplitude modulations in English-speaking children with dyslexia or dyslexia and DLD	9
What constitutes success in L2 learning? Time to rid ourselves of the holy grail of ‘ultimate attainment’	9
Acquisition of novel word meaning via cross situational word learning: An event-related potential study	9
Evidence for early encoding of speech in blind people	9
Neural correlates of syntactic comprehension: A longitudinal study	9
The role of research design in the reproducibility of L1 and L2 language networks: A review of bilingual neuroimaging meta-analyses	8
Abnormally weak functional connections get stronger in chronic stroke patients who benefit from naming therapy	8
Environmental noise, brain structure, and language development in children	8
Semantic network activation facilitates oral word reading in chronic aphasia	8
Poor reading is characterized by a more connected network with wrong hubs	8
White matter correlates of reading subskills in children with and without reading disability	8
Neural underpinnings of sentence reading in deaf, native sign language users	8
Electrophysiological signatures of attentional control in bilingual processing: Evidence from proactive interference	8
Person-specific connectivity mapping uncovers differences of bilingual language experience on brain bases of attention in children	8
Bilingualism, sleep, and cognition: An integrative view and open research questions	7
Editorial Board	7
Accounting for word production, comprehension, and repetition in semantic dementia, Alzheimer’s dementia, and mild cognitive impairment	7
Rapid neural changes during novel speech-sound learning: An fMRI and DTI study	7

Selective attention in cognitive processing revisited: A Long-term Re-evaluation	7
Cross-linguistic interference in late language learners: An ERP study	7
Abstract sentence meanings are grounded in the sensory-motor regions in a context-dependent fashion	7
Original language versus dubbed movies: Effects on our brain and emotions	7
Reading anxiety modulates the functional connectivity of the reading-related network during adult reading	7
Semantic memory structure mediates the role of brain functional connectivity in creative writing	6
Editorial Board	6
On the perception of stress position by French listeners: An EEG investigation	6
The role and use of event-related potentials in aphasia: A scoping review	6
Gender expansive listeners utilize a non-binary, multidimensional conception of gender to inform voice gender perception	6
Age effects in second language acquisition: Expanding the emergentist account	6
Metaphor processing is influenced by stimulus emotionality and task demands: Evidence from ERPs	6
Getting the wires uncrossed to recover language after stroke: Commentary on Billot and Kiran	6
Talker discontinuity disrupts attention to speech: Evidence from EEG and pupillometry	6
Language changes in Alzheimer’s disease: A systematic review of verb processing	6
The time course of normalizing speech variability in vowels	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 impact of linguistic complexity on feasibility and reliability of language mapping in aphasic glioma patients	6
Embodiment of action-related language in the native and a late foreign language – An fMRI-study	6
The impact of musical expertise on anticipatory semantic processing during online speech comprehension: An electroencephalography study	6