Backward licensing of Negative Polarity Items in Dutch: An ERP investigation
Publication date: August 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 51Author(s): Leticia Pablos, Jenny Doetjes, Bobby J. Ruijgrok, Lisa L.S. ChengAbstractThis Event-related Potential (ERP) study examines the licensing of NPIs in Dutch in a grammatical configuration where the NPI linearly precedes its licensor. It investigates how the addition of modifiers at two different structural positions in the sentence affects differently the process of actively searching for an upcoming licensor. We measured the ERPs elicited at the licensor position by comparing conditions with modifiers at two different structural positions, ...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - February 21, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Neural correlates of processing emotions in words across cultures
Publication date: August 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 51Author(s): Peiyao Chen, Bingle Chen, Thomas F. Münte, Chunming Lu, Li Liu, Taomei GuoAbstractCulture influences its individuals' behaviors in a subtle yet effective way. While the physical experience of emotions is largely biologically determined, emotion perception and processing can still be culturally specific. The present study investigates the neural mechanisms that underlie emotion processing and experience in two cultures. Participants from Eastern and Western cultures performed a lexical decision task on positive and negative words, along w...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - February 21, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
An electrophysiological investigation of translation and morphological priming in biscriptal bilinguals
Publication date: August 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 51Author(s): Wonil Chung, Myung-Kwan Park, Say Young KimAbstractThe current study used event-related potentials (ERPs) to investigate whether the pattern of cross-language masked translation priming reflects the asymmetric link between first language (L1) and second language (L2) and whether it occurs via morphological decomposition with unbalanced Korean-English bilinguals. In Experiment 1, the targets were Korean (L1) compound words (e.g., 꿀벌, “kkwu-pel”, honeybee), and the primes were English (L2) words: either 1) translated compound words ...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - February 21, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Does phonological rule of tone substitution modulate mismatch negativity?
This study examined whether the phonological substitution rule of tone sandhi modulates tone perception in the preattentive stage. Tone sandhi is commonly present in East Asian languages. An example from Mandarin is the Tone tone 3 sandhi rule: T3 is pronounced as T2 when followed by another T3 (33 → 23). Previous mismatch negativity (MMN) studies in Mandarin have reported a smaller amplitude or longer latency in standard-deviant pair consisting of T2 and T3 (T2-T3) than in T1-T3. The most widely accepted explanation for this is that T2 and T3 have steeper pitch slopes than T1. This study tested an alternative accoun...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - February 21, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Cross-linguistic perspectives on second language reading
Publication date: Available online 20 February 2019Source: Journal of NeurolinguisticsAuthor(s): Ludo Verhoeven, Charles Perfetti, Kenneth PughAbstractThroughout the world, many people learn to read in a second language (L2) which can be considered a challenging task given that a script needs to be learned in a language that is not fully acquired yet. The neurocognitive processes of learning to read in an L2 are just beginning to be understood. Across different languages, L2 reading can be seen as a learned sensitivity to the systematic relationships among the surface representations of words and their meanings, and their ...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - February 20, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Situation model building ability uniquely predicts first and second language reading comprehension
We examined the unique role of textbase memory and situation model building ability in first (L1) and second (L2) language reading comprehension. Participants were 76 monolingual and 102 bilingual children in 4th grade. A pathfinder network approach was used to assess textbase memory and situation model building ability, on top of other well-known cognitive and linguistic predictors of reading comprehension (working memory, nonverbal reasoning, decoding, vocabulary, and grammar). Reading comprehension was assessed by a standardized task unrelated to the textbase and situation model building task. The results showed that th...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - January 12, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
The influence of bilingual language experience on executive control: An ERPs study
Publication date: August 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 51Author(s): Lu Jiao, Yuanyue Zhang, Patrick Plummer, Cong Liu, Baoguo ChenAbstractWhile some studies have examined the influence of bilingual language experience on executive control, few studies have looked at both bilingual experience and socioeconomic status (SES) together to see whether one, both, or an interaction exists when examining the executive control processing during a nonverbal conflict resolution task. To address this issue, the current study took advantage of event-related brain potentials (ERPs) as a group of bilinguals performed a n...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - December 19, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Editorial Board
Publication date: February 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 49Author(s): (Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics)
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - November 30, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Neuroemergentism: A framework for studying cognition and the brain
Publication date: February 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 49Author(s): Arturo E. Hernandez, Hannah L. Claussenius-Kalman, Juliana Ronderos, Anny P. Castilla-Earls, Lichao Sun, Suzanne D. Weiss, David R. YoungAbstractThere has been virtual explosion of studies published in cognitive neuroscience primarily due to increased accessibility to neuroimaging methods, which has led to different approaches in interpretation. This review seeks to synthesize both developmental approaches and more recent views that consider neuroimaging. The ways in which Neuronal Recycling, Neural Reuse, and Language as Shaped by the ...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - November 30, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
It's about time: Adding processing to neuroemergentism
Publication date: February 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 49Author(s): Erin S. Isbilen, Morten H. Christiansen, Nick Chater (Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics)
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - November 30, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Emergent and constrained: Understanding brain and cognitive development
Publication date: February 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 49Author(s): Dean D'Souza, Hana D'SouzaAbstractThe process by which neural structures and cognitive functions arise through manifold local interactions (emergence) is at the core of many neurocognitive frameworks (as reviewed by Hernandez et al., 2018). However, the emergence of neural structures and cognitive processes is not unconstrained; it is context dependent. Therefore, to truly understand brain and behaviour, it is necessary to identify the contexts or factors that interact to constrain the emergence of higher-level neurocognitive processes ...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - November 30, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Neuroemergentism: Levels and constraints
Publication date: February 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 49Author(s): Brian MacWhinneyAbstractEverywhere in Nature, patterns emerge when the combination of parts on a lower level creates more complex structures which are then subject to constraints and competition on this new level. This means that emergentist accounts must focus on a description of levels, competition, and constraints.The four approaches to neuroemergentism analyzed by Hernandez all recognize the role of emergent levels and new constraints. Together, they can be used to further articulate a fuller theory of neuroemergence. (Source: Journ...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - November 30, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
What underlies the emergence of stimulus- and domain-specific neural responses? Commentary on Hernandez, Claussenius-Kalman, Ronderos, Castilla-Earls, Sun, Weiss, & Young (2018)
Publication date: February 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 49Author(s): Frederic Dick, Saloni KrishnanAbstractHernandez et al (2018) provide a welcome historical perspective and synthesis of emergentist theories over the last decades, particularly in their focus on theoretical differences. Here we discuss a number of neuroimaging findings on the character and drivers of seemingly domain-selective neural response preferences, and how these might bear on the predictiveness of different emergentist accounts. (Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics)
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - November 30, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
The compatibility within a modular framework of emergent and dynamical processes in mind and brain
Publication date: February 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 49Author(s): Michael Sharwood SmithAbstractIn the light of the continuing controversy over evidence supporting emergentist and non-emergentist accounts of cognitive and brain development, this commentary compares the proposals for a neuroemergentist framework for studying cognition and the brain (Hernandez et al., in press) and compares it with the Modular Cognition Framework (MCF) also known as Modular Online Growth and Use of Language (Truscott & Sharwood Smith, 2004). Both approaches are intended to optimise the exploration of relationships betwe...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - November 30, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
If experience is not enough: Understanding multilingualism through early neurobiological variability
Publication date: February 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 49Author(s): Simone Sulpizio, Jubin Abutalebi (Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics)
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - November 30, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
