Commentary on Neuroemergentism: A framework for studying cognition and the brain. The neurocomputations of neuroemergentism: Long-term memory + reinforcement learning = language?
Publication date: February 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 49Author(s): Andrea StoccoAbstractHernandez and colleagues proposed a new framework, neuroemergentism, according to which complex functions (such as language) may originate from the interactions of existing neural mechanisms that have evolved for potentially different reasons, and whose recycling within a new network results in apparent functional specialization. Here, I will consider neuroemergentism from a computational perspective. In particular, I will examine how this approach could provide a way to make sense of linguistic abilities within two...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - November 30, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Neuroemergentism: At the intersection of ontogeny and phylogeny
Publication date: February 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 49Author(s): Viorica Marian, Sayuri Hayakawa (Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics)
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - November 30, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Tracking qualitative changes in cognition and brain development through bilingualism
Publication date: February 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 49Author(s): Ioulia Kovelman, Rebecca A. Marks (Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics)
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - November 30, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Neuroemergentism: Response to commentaries
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. Young (Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics)
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - November 30, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Neural correlates of intra-sentential code-switching in the auditory modality
Publication date: August 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 51Author(s): Carla B. Fernandez, Kaitlyn A. Litcofsky, Janet G. van HellAbstractCode-switching, the interchangeable use of two languages, is a hallmark of bilingual language processing. Although code-switching occurs most often in spoken communication, studies examining the neural mechanisms of code-switching typically present code-switched materials visually, using reading paradigms. The present study examined intra-sentential code-switching in the auditory modality in Spanish-English bilinguals, using Event-Related Potential (ERP) and Time Frequency...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - November 27, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
The second-order effect of orthography-to-phonology mapping consistency on Chinese spoken word recognition
Publication date: August 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 51Author(s): Pei-Chun Chao, Wei-Fan Chen, Chia-Ying LeeAbstractThe influences of the orthography-to-phonology (O-to-P) mapping consistency as the first-order effect on visual word recognition are well documented. Few studies have investigated the second-order O-to-P consistency effect on spoken word recognition. To address this issue, Experiment 1 asked participants to perform a writing-to-dictation task for 230 Chinese monosyllabic words and found that the response accuracy increased with the homophone density, and the homophone density, O-to-P consi...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - November 25, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Concrete and abstract word processing in deep dyslexia
Publication date: Available online 23 November 2018Source: Journal of NeurolinguisticsAuthor(s): Simritpal Kaur Malhi, Tara Lynn McAuley, Brette Lansue, Lori BuchananAbstractThe purpose of this case study was to test the failure of inhibition theory of deep dyslexia (FIT; Buchanan, McEwen, Westbury, & Libben, 2003) with concrete and abstract words. FIT proposes that in deep dyslexia, errors to abstract words are the result of an impairment in phonological output lexicon selection rather than a semantic deficit for abstract words. FIT also proposes a dissociation between explicit phonological lexicon production (can be comp...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - November 24, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Neurobiological signatures of L2 proficiency: Evidence from a bi-directional cross-linguistic study
Publication date: Available online 12 November 2018Source: Journal of NeurolinguisticsAuthor(s): Henry Brice, William Einar Mencl, Stephen J. Frost, Atira Sara Bick, Jay G. Rueckl, Kenneth R. Pugh, Ram FrostAbstractRecent evidence has shown that convergence of print and speech processing across a network of primarily left-hemisphere regions of the brain is a predictor of future reading skills in children, and a marker of fluent reading ability in adults. The present study extends these findings into the domain of second-language (L2) literacy, through brain imaging data of English and Hebrew L2 learners. Participants recei...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - November 12, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Brain electrophysiological responses to emotion nouns versus emotionless nouns
This study examined brain electrophysiological responses to nouns that denote emotions (e.g., guilt and joy) in comparison to nouns that denote abstract (e.g., theme) and concrete entities (e.g., teapot) without emotional connotations. Thirty-two participants completed a lexical decision task. Behavioral responses to emotion nouns were faster and more accurate than abstract and concrete nouns. ERP data showed that emotion nouns were associated with a less pronounced N400 that peaked earlier relative to abstract and concrete nouns. Further, N400 amplitude differences between emotion and concrete nouns emerged earlier with a...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - October 24, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Bilingual aphasia: Explanations in population encoding
Publication date: February 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 49Author(s): Stephen E. NadeauAbstractThe study of bilingual aphasia has particular power to determine the neural basis of language function and can advance the treatment of aphasia. No theory of bilingual language has provided a coherent and comprehensive account for research results. I begin with a précis of a population encoding model of language function that assumes that representations are based upon the patterns of activity of large populations of neurons. I then consider how regularities in specific domains of language function (e.g. in sem...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - October 23, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Differential effects of negative and positive emotional content over veridical and false recognition in aging and Alzheimer's disease
Publication date: February 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 49Author(s): Javier Rodríguez-Ferreiro, Carmen Martínez, Fernando CuetosAbstractAlzheimer's disease (AD) patients are known to present semantic memory impairments, and semantic processing plays a crucial role in the formation of false memories. We assessed 40 early stage AD patients and 35 matched healthy volunteers with an emotional version of the Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm, which allows the study of false memory formation. Participants were presented with three negative, three neutral and three positive lists of words, each semantically a...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - October 16, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Differential effect of reading training on functional connectivity in children with reading difficulties with and without ADHD comorbidity
Publication date: February 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 49Author(s): Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus, Alexander Hershey, Benjamin Kay, Mark DiFrancescoAbstractA comorbidity of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) with reading difficulties (RD) is common in children. However, children with ADHD + RD have a different reading and executive functions (EF) profile than children with RD alone. We compared the effect of an EF-based intervention on neural circuits related to EF in children with RD and those with ADHD + RD. Functional connectivity MRI data from a lexical decision task suggest that the RD-alon...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - October 5, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Are there similarities between emotional and familiarity-based processing in visual word recognition?
Publication date: February 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 49Author(s): Lars Kuchinke, Christina J. MuellerAbstractPrevious ERP research revealed emotion effects on visual word processing in early time windows (P1) and during later evaluative processing (LPC). In both time windows interactions with word familiarity measures have been reported.Using an evaluative conditioning paradigm participants learned to associate meaningless pseudowords with neutral or negative valence. In addition, one set of pseudowords was learned three times as often as the others in order to manipulate familiarity.Behavioral result...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - September 21, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
On the neural basis of word reading: A meta-analysis of fMRI evidence using activation likelihood estimation
Publication date: February 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 49Author(s): K.A. Murphy, J. Jogia, J.B. TalcottAbstractThe neural networks that support normal single word reading have been studied extensively with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and been heavily meta analysed; yet two caveats persist. Firstly, inclusion criteria are generally broad, allowing for a range of studies with inconsistent methodological practices to become a major source of variance in the data. Secondly, the sophistication of meta analytic techniques are ever improving, calling for a continuation of quantitative summarie...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - September 15, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Metaphorical meaning learning in contexts: An event-related potential study
Publication date: February 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 49Author(s): Wenjuan Liu, Jinfeng Ding, Lin Li, Yufang YangAbstractThe current study explored whether the metaphorical meaning of novel words can be learned and how the metaphorical meaning was acquired during contextual reading. The novel words were embedded in two types of learning contexts: one supported the metaphorical meaning (metaphorical meaning learning condition: ML condition), and the other supported the literal meaning (literal meaning learning condition: LL condition). The learning effect was assessed via a semantic-relatedness judgment...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - September 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
