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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Resting state EEG network modularity predicts literacy skills in L1 Chinese but not in L2 English	39
Elevated pre-target EEG alpha power enhances the probability of comprehending weakly noise masked words and decreases the probability of comprehending strongly masked words	30
Editorial Board	28
Neural evidence for perceiving a vowel merger after a social interaction within a native language	25
No Brain is an Island: Commentary on Billot and Kiran	24
Losing the sense of smell does not disrupt processing of odor words	23
Between bodily action and conventionalized structure: The neural mechanisms of constructed action in sign language comprehension	20
Concepts require flexible grounding	20
Editorial Board	19
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How the conceptual specificity of individual words affects incremental sentence composition: MEG evidence	18
Two different brain networks underlying picture naming with familiar pre-existing native words and new vocabulary	18
Mapping the basal temporal language network: a SEEG functional connectivity study	17
Top-down sensory prediction in the infant brain at 6 months is correlated with language development at 12 and 18 months	16
Revealing human brain syntactic processing: Insights from voxel-wise models and network representation	16
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	16
The source of attention modulations in bilingual language contexts	16
Editorial Board	16
From Synapse to Network: Neuroplasticity in Post-Stroke Language Recovery: Commentary on Billot and Kiran	15
Native language background affects the perception of duration and pitch	15
Multilayer networks: An untapped tool for understanding bilingual neurocognition	15
Can you touch the N400? The interactive effects of body-object interaction and task demands on N400 amplitudes and decision latencies	14
English and Mandarin native speakers’ cue-weighting of lexical stress: Results from MMN and LDN	14
Editorial Board	13
The multifaceted nature of language across adulthood	13

Neural correlates of pronoun processing: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis	12
Editorial Board	12
Orthographic influences on spoken word recognition in bilinguals are dependent on the orthographic depth of the target language not the native language	12
AoA-L2 and Usage-L2 modulate the functional neuroplasticity of the subcortex	12
White matter microstructural integrity pre- and post-treatment in individuals with chronic post-stroke aphasia	12
How visual attention span and phonological skills contribute to N170 print tuning: An EEG study in French dyslexic students	11
Using TMS to evaluate a causal role for right posterior temporal cortex in talker-specific phonetic processing	11
Editorial Board	11
Reliability and validity for perceptual flexibility in speech	11
Age and attainment in foreign language learning: The critical period account stands	11
Functional network and structural connections involved in picture naming	11
Exploring the ventral white matter language network in bimodal and unimodal bilinguals	10
Language and communication functioning in children and adolescents with agenesis of the corpus callosum	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
Decoding the silence: Neural bases of zero pronoun resolution in Chinese	10
The crucial role of the left inferior frontal gyrus (BA44) in synergizing syntactic structure and information structure during sentence comprehension	10
Daytime naps consolidate Cantonese tone learning through promoting cross-talker perception: The role of prior knowledge	10
Further disentangling neuroplasticity mechanisms: Response to open peer commentaries	10
Early differentiation of memory retrieval processes for newly learned voices and phonemes as indexed by the MMN	10
Task difficulty modulates age-related differences in functional connectivity during word production	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	9
‘Moderate global aphasia’: A generalized decline of language processing caused by glioma surgery but not stroke	9
Editorial Board	9
Motor experience modulates neural processing of lexical action language: Evidence from rugby players	9
Hemispheric co-lateralization of language and spatial attention reduces performance in dual-task	9
Auditory perception of ambiguous and non-ambiguous sound in early and late blind children: A functional connectivity study	9
Resting state electroencephalography (EEG) correlates with children’s language skills: Evidence from sentence repetition	9
What constitutes success in L2 learning? Time to rid ourselves of the holy grail of ‘ultimate attainment’	9
Functional connectivity between parietal and temporal lobes mediates internal forward models during speech production	9
Spatiotemporal characteristics of the neural representation of event concepts	8
Impaired neural entrainment to low frequency amplitude modulations in English-speaking children with dyslexia or dyslexia and DLD	8
Semantic network activation facilitates oral word reading in chronic aphasia	8
Electrophysiological signatures of attentional control in bilingual processing: Evidence from proactive interference	8
Acquisition of novel word meaning via cross situational word learning: An event-related potential study	8
Editorial Board	8
Evidence for early encoding of speech in blind people	8
Neural underpinnings of sentence reading in deaf, native sign language users	8
The tone atlas of perceptual discriminability and perceptual distance: Four tone languages and five language groups	8
Production of relative clauses in Cantonese-speaking children with and without Developmental Language Disorder	8
Neural correlates of syntactic comprehension: A longitudinal study	8
Language measurement in childhood epilepsy: A review	8
The role of research design in the reproducibility of L1 and L2 language networks: A review of bilingual neuroimaging meta-analyses	8
White matter correlates of reading subskills in children with and without reading disability	7
Editorial Board	7
Reading anxiety modulates the functional connectivity of the reading-related network during adult reading	7
Abstract sentence meanings are grounded in the sensory-motor regions in a context-dependent fashion	7
Poor reading is characterized by a more connected network with wrong hubs	7
Environmental noise, brain structure, and language development in children	7
Original language versus dubbed movies: Effects on our brain and emotions	7

Rapid neural changes during novel speech-sound learning: An fMRI and DTI study	7
Abnormally weak functional connections get stronger in chronic stroke patients who benefit from naming therapy	7
Person-specific connectivity mapping uncovers differences of bilingual language experience on brain bases of attention in children	7
Selective attention in cognitive processing revisited: A Long-term Re-evaluation	7
Bilingualism, sleep, and cognition: An integrative view and open research questions	7
Age effects in second language acquisition: Expanding the emergentist account	6
Editorial Board	6
The time course of normalizing speech variability in vowels	6
Cross-linguistic interference in late language learners: An ERP study	6
Sentence predictability modulates cortical response to phonetic ambiguity	6
Metaphor processing is influenced by stimulus emotionality and task demands: Evidence from ERPs	6
Accounting for word production, comprehension, and repetition in semantic dementia, Alzheimer’s dementia, and mild cognitive impairment	6
Semantic memory structure mediates the role of brain functional connectivity in creative writing	6
A comparison of learning and retention of a syntactic construction between Cantonese-speaking children with and without DLD in a priming task	6
On the perception of stress position by French listeners: An EEG investigation	6
Aging affects steaks more than knives: Evidence that the processing of words related to motor skills is relatively spared in aging	6