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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Neural tracking of the speech envelope is differentially modulated by attention and language experience	28
Not all bilinguals are the same: A meta-analysis of the moral foreign language effect	27
Multisession transcranial direct current stimulation facilitates verbal learning and memory consolidation in young and older adults	27
Research on bilingualism as discovery science	24
Functional linguistic specificity of the left frontal aslant tract for spontaneous speech fluency: Evidence from intraoperative language mapping	21
Understanding particularized and generalized conversational implicatures: Is theory-of-mind necessary?	20
How to improve social communication in aging: Pragmatic and cognitive interventions	20
The bilingual structural connectome: Dual-language experiential factors modulate distinct cerebral networks	19
Dynamic EEG analysis during language comprehension reveals interactive cascades between perceptual processing and sentential expectations	18
Pre-treatment graph measures of a functional semantic network are associated with naming therapy outcomes in chronic aphasia	17
A domain-general perspective on the role of the basal ganglia in language and music: Benefits of music therapy for the treatment of aphasia	17
Conceptual expansion via novel metaphor processing: An ERP replication and extension study examining individual differences in creativity	17
Dopamine, vocalization, and astrocytes	16
Neuroanatomical correlates of phonologic errors in logopenic progressive aphasia	15
Effects of theta burst stimulation over the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex on language switching – A behavioral and ERP study	15
Expertise, ecosystem, and emergentism: Dynamic developmental bilingualism	15
Heterogeneity in abstract verbs: An ERP study	14
Machine learning accurately classifies neural responses to rhythmic speech vs. non-speech from 8-week-old infant EEG	14
Language and motor processing in reading and typing: Insights from beta-frequency band power modulations	14
Thalamus is a common locus of reading, arithmetic, and IQ: Analysis of local intrinsic functional properties	13
Neural mechanisms of language learning from social contexts	13
Signatures of brain plasticity supporting language recovery after perinatal arterial ischemic stroke	13
Language changes in Alzheimer’s disease: A systematic review of verb processing	12
Exploring attention in the bilingualism continuum: A resting-state functional connectivity study	12
Idiosyncratic use of bottom-up and top-down information leads to differences in speech perception flexibility: Converging evidence from ERPs and eye-tracking	12

A neurocognitive computational account of word production, comprehension, and repetition in primary progressive aphasia	12
Growing Random Forests reveals that exposure and proficiency best account for individual variability in L2 (and L1) brain potentials for syntax and semantics	12
Cognitive control regions are recruited in bilinguals' silent reading of mixed-language paragraphs	12
White matter microstructural differences underlying beta oscillations during speech in adults who stutter	12
The role of left vs. right superior temporal gyrus in speech perception: An fMRI-guided TMS study	12
Cerebellar contributions to rapid semantic processing in reading	12
Stronger right hemisphere functional connectivity supports executive aspects of language in older adults	11
Automaticity in the reading circuitry	11
Negation as conflict: Conflict adaptation following negating vertical spatial words	11
Gender expansive listeners utilize a non-binary, multidimensional conception of gender to inform voice gender perception	11
Noninvasive neurostimulation of left ventral motor cortex enhances sensorimotor adaptation in speech production	11
Procedural and declarative memory brain systems in developmental language disorder (DLD)	11
Decoding of speech information using EEG in children with dyslexia: Less accurate low-frequency representations of speech, not “Noisy” representations	11
Aging affects steaks more than knives: Evidence that the processing of words related to motor skills is relatively spared in aging	11
Working memory relates to individual differences in speech category learning: Insights from computational modeling and pupillometry	10
Structural neural correlates of individual differences in categorical perception	10
Towards a model of language neurobiology in early development	10
Linguistic signs in action: The neuropragmatics of speech acts	10
Recruiting the right hemisphere: Sex differences in inter-hemispheric communication during semantic verbal fluency	10
Language immersion and language training: Two paths to enhanced language regulation and cognitive control	9
Can inhibition deficit hypothesis account for age-related differences in semantic fluency? Converging evidence from Stroop color and word test and an ERP flanker task	9
Are our brains more prescriptive than our mouths? Experience with dialectal variation in syntax differentially impacts ERPs and behavior	9
Talker discontinuity disrupts attention to speech: Evidence from EEG and pupillometry	9
Distinct mechanisms drive hemispheric lateralization of object recognition in the visual word form and fusiform face areas	9
Reading proficiency influences the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation: Evidence from selective modulation of dorsal and ventral pathways of reading in bilinguals	9
Age effects in second language acquisition: Expanding the emergentist account	9
Determinants of bilingualism predict dynamic changes in resting state EEG oscillations	8
Sequential adaptation effects reveal proactive control in processing spoken sentences: Evidence from event-related potentials	8
Cross-linguistic semantic preview benefit in Basque-Spanish bilingual readers: Evidence from fixation-related potentials	8
Cross-linguistic interference in late language learners: An ERP study	8
Language learning as a function of infant directed speech (IDS) in Spanish: Testing neural commitment using the positive-MMR	8
Experience-based individual differences modulate language, mind and brain outcomes in multilinguals	8
Individuals with congenital amusia do not show context-dependent perception of tonal categories	7
Structural brain changes with second language learning: A longitudinal voxel-based morphometry study	7
Functional network and structural connections involved in picture naming	7
Poor reading is characterized by a more connected network with wrong hubs	7
Word class and word frequency in the MMN looking glass	7
The tone atlas of perceptual discriminability and perceptual distance: Four tone languages and five language groups	7
Acquisition of novel word meaning via cross situational word learning: An event-related potential study	7
Effect of muscular activation on surrounding motor networks in developmental stuttering: A TMS study	7
Person-specific connectivity mapping uncovers differences of bilingual language experience on brain bases of attention in children	7
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 design	7
Resting state EEG network modularity predicts literacy skills in L1 Chinese but not in L2 English	7
EEG signatures of elementary composition: Disentangling genuine composition and expectancy processes	7
Bilingual language entropy influences executive functions through functional connectivity and signal variability	7
Environmental noise, brain structure, and language development in children	7
Variability in sentence comprehension in aphasia in German	7
Brain decoding in multiple languages: Can cross-language brain decoding work?	7
Metaphor processing is supramodal semantic processing: The role of the bilateral lateral temporal regions in multimodal communication	6
Masked ERP repetition priming in deaf and hearing readers	6

Oscillatory brain responses to processing code-switches in the presence of others	6
Earlier age of second language learning induces more robust speech encoding in the auditory brainstem in adults, independent of amount of language exposure during early childhood	6
Neuromodulation of cursing in American English: A combined tDCS and pupillometry study	6
Temporal features of concepts are grounded in time perception neural networks: An EEG study	6
Independent syntactic representation identified in left front-temporal cortex during Chinese sentence comprehension	6
Electrophysiological signatures of attentional control in bilingual processing: Evidence from proactive interference	6
Behavioral and neurological effects of tDCS on speech motor recovery: A single-subject intervention study	6
Mind the stimulation site: Enhancing and diminishing sentence comprehension with anodal tDCS	6
The neural bases of argumentative reasoning	6
Donepezil alone and combined with intensive language-action therapy on depression and apathy in chronic post-stroke aphasia: A feasibility study	6
Individual differences in first-pass fixation duration in reading are related to resting-state functional connectivity	6
The impact of musical expertise on anticipatory semantic processing during online speech comprehension: An electroencephalography study	6
Prospective memory in bilinguals and monolinguals: ERP and behavioural correlates of prospective processing in bilinguals	6
Phonetic discrimination mediates the relationship between auditory brainstem response stability and syntactic performance	6
The role and use of event-related potentials in aphasia: A scoping review	6
Does language context impact the neural correlates of executive control in monolingual and multilingual young adults?	6
Multilayer networks: An untapped tool for understanding bilingual neurocognition	6