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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Neural evidence for perceiving a vowel merger after a social interaction within a native language	35
Concepts require flexible grounding	28
Brain responses to lexical attestedness and phonological well-formedness as revealed by fast periodic visual stimulation	26
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Competing influence of visual speech on auditory neural adaptation	21
Reading abilities and dopamine D2/D3 receptor availability: An inverted U-shaped association in subjects with schizophrenia	20
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Expressive recall and recognition as complementary measures to assess novel word learning ability in aphasia	18
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Principal component decomposition of acoustic and neural representations of time-varying pitch reveals adaptive efficient coding of speech covariation patterns	17
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Expanding the emergentist Account:Reply to open peer commentaries	15
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Individual differences in neural markers of beat processing relate to spoken grammar skills in six-year-old children	15
Losing the sense of smell does not disrupt processing of odor words	14
The bidirectional influence between emotional language and inhibitory control in Chinese: An ERP study	14
The impact of speaker accent on discourse processing: A frequency investigation	13
Language processing following childhood poverty: Evidence for disrupted neural networks	13
Idiosyncratic use of bottom-up and top-down information leads to differences in speech perception flexibility: Converging evidence from ERPs and eye-tracking	13
The tone atlas of perceptual discriminability and perceptual distance: Four tone languages and five language groups	13
Interactive and additive effects of word frequency and predictability: A fixation-related fMRI study	13
No Brain is an Island: Commentary on Billot and Kiran	12
Rapid auditory processing of puretones is associated with basic components of language in individuals with autism spectrum disorders	11

Elevated pre-target EEG alpha power enhances the probability of comprehending weakly noise masked words and decreases the probability of comprehending strongly masked words	11
Prospective memory in bilinguals and monolinguals: ERP and behavioural correlates of prospective processing in bilinguals	11
Oscillatory brain responses to processing code-switches in the presence of others	11
Neural correlates of syntactic comprehension: A longitudinal study	11
The organization of the semantic network as reflected by the neural correlates of six semantic dimensions	11
Chronic aphasias after left-hemisphere resective surgery	11
Parallel semantic processing in the flankers task: Evidence from the N400	10
Shared grey matter correlates of reading and attention	10
Delineating Region-Specific contributions and connectivity patterns for semantic association and categorization through ROI and Granger causality analysis	10
Allophonic familiarity differentiates word representations in the brain of native speakers of regional linguistic varieties	10
Impaired neural entrainment to low frequency amplitude modulations in English-speaking children with dyslexia or dyslexia and DLD	9
Positive emotion of self-referential contexts could facilitate adult’s novel word learning: An fNIRS study	9
Brain decoding in multiple languages: Can cross-language brain decoding work?	9
Word and morpheme frequency effects in naming Mandarin Chinese compounds: More than a replication	9
Neural oscillations during predictive sentence processing in young children	9
Neural changes in sign language vocabulary learning: Tracking lexical integration with ERP measures	9
Perceptual flexibility in word learning: Preschoolers learn words with speech sound variability	9
Word class and word frequency in the MMN looking glass	9
Watching talking faces: The development of cortical representation of visual syllables in infancy	9
A comparison of functional activation and connectivity of the cerebellum in adults and children during single word processing	9
Resting state EEG network modularity predicts literacy skills in L1 Chinese but not in L2 English	9
Language measurement in childhood epilepsy: A review	9
Neural correlates of phonology-to-orthography mapping consistency effects on Chinese spoken word recognition	9
Understanding the neural mechanisms for infants' perception of native and non-native speech	8
Conceptual representations in the default, control and attention networks are task-dependent and cross-modal	8
Experience-based individual differences modulate language, mind and brain outcomes in multilinguals	8
Between bodily action and conventionalized structure: The neural mechanisms of constructed action in sign language comprehension	8
Evidence for early encoding of speech in blind people	8
Getting language right: Relating individual differences in right hemisphere contributions to language learning and relearning	8
Accent discrimination abilities during the first days of life: An fNIRS study	8
Audiovisual speech perception deficits in unaffected siblings of children with developmental language disorder	8
Cross-language generalization of language treatment in multilingual people with post-stroke aphasia: A meta-analysis	8
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On the syllable structure effect in European Portuguese: Evidence from ERPs	7
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Morphological decomposition in Chinese compound word recognition: Electrophysiological evidence	7
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Memory after visual search: Overlapping phonology, shared meaning, and bilingual experience influence what we remember	7
Exploring the impact of sentential negation on inhibitory motor networks: Insights from paired-pulse TMS	7
Mapping the basal temporal language network: a SEEG functional connectivity study	7
Impact of motor stroke on novel and conventional action metaphor comprehension	7
Top-down sensory prediction in the infant brain at 6 months is correlated with language development at 12 and 18 months	7
Two different brain networks underlying picture naming with familiar pre-existing native words and new vocabulary	7
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Functional brain networks underlying automatic and controlled handwriting in Chinese	7
Weighing the role of social cognition and executive functioning in pragmatics in the schizophrenia spectrum: A systematic review and meta-analysis	7
Neuromodulation of the language system: A critical advance in understanding language processing and treating disorders of communication	7
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Short-term training helps second-language learners read like native readers: An ERP study	7
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Can the resource reduction hypothesis explain sentence processing in aphasia? A visual world study in German	6
Electrophysiological signatures of attentional control in bilingual processing: Evidence from proactive interference	6
Observing gesture at learning enhances subsequent phonological and semantic processing of L2 words: An N400 study	6
Revisiting the 40-Hz gamma response: Phase-locked neural activity along the human auditory pathway relates to bilingual experience	6
Acoustic analysis and neuroimaging correlates of diadochokinetic rates in mild-moderate primary progressive apraxia of speech	6
Variability in sentence comprehension in aphasia in German	6
The source of attention modulations in bilingual language contexts	6
The dynamics of neuroplasticity in the recovery from post-stroke aphasia: Commentary on Billot and Kiran	6
Acupoint-brain (acubrain) mapping: Common and distinct cortical language regions activated by focused ultrasound stimulation on two language-relevant acupoints	6
Neural underpinnings of sentence reading in deaf, native sign language users	6
How the conceptual specificity of individual words affects incremental sentence composition: MEG evidence	6