Can pragmatic inference benefit from topic prominence? ERP evidence from Mandarin Chinese
This study investigated how pragmatic inference making is modulated by information structure in preceding text. We created three types of two-clause structures in which the interpretation of a critical word in the second clause was dependent on the engagement of pragmatic inference as well as a successful establishment of a referential relation between the target word and an intended antecedent in the preceding text. An enhanced P600 response was elicited by target words when the intended referent was in non-topic position compared to topic position or sub-topic position. Moreover, a reduced N400 was elicited by the target...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Morphosyntactic integration in French sentence processing: Event-related brain potentials evidence
Publication date: May 2018Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 46Author(s): Frédéric Isel, Michèle KailAbstractThe present event-related brain potentials (ERP) study investigated the online integration of morphosyntactic information in auditory French sentences using a violation paradigm. Two main factors were manipulated: (1) The degree of complexity of the morphosyntactic violation, (2) The moment when the agreement violation occurs within the sentence. Both types of morphological agreement violations (intra/inter) elicited a biphasic anterior negativity/P600 ERP pattern. However, the amplitude of this pattern ...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Task strategy may contribute to performance differences between monolinguals and bilinguals in cognitive control tasks: ERP evidence
In conclusion, we point to the importance of considering qualitative differences in task processing and strategy while studying group differences - an approach rarely considered in current research on executive functions in bilinguals. (Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics)
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
A case study about the interplay between language control and cognitive abilities in bilingual differential aphasia: Behavioral and brain correlates
Publication date: May 2018Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 46Author(s): Lize Van der Linden, Laurence Dricot, Miet De Letter, Wouter Duyck, Marie-Pierre de Partz, Adrian Ivanoiu, Arnaud SzmalecAbstractThe current study examines the hypothesis that differential aphasia may be due to a problem with language control rather than with language-specific impairment and how this is related to non-linguistic cognitive control abilities. To this end, we report a case study of an L2 dominant French-English bilingual aphasia patient with larger impairments in French than in English. We assessed cross-language interactions u...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Processes underpinning gender and number disagreement in Dutch: An ERP study
Publication date: May 2018Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 46Author(s): Srđan Popov, Roelien BastiaanseAbstractIn the current experiment, participants read word-by-word sentences containing gender (adjective-noun) and number (article-noun) disagreement in Dutch while EEG was recorded. Number and gender disagreement were expected to elicit different responses due to several reasons. Firstly, gender is a lexical feature whose value (e.g., masculine or feminine) is stored in the lexicon, whereas number value is assigned depending on conceptual knowledge (numerosity). Also, Dutch marks number but not gender on the ...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Processing scalar implicatures in conversational contexts: An ERP study
Publication date: May 2018Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 46Author(s): Thomas Holtgraves, Brian KrausAbstractScalar expressions are words that have both a semantic meaning (e.g., the semantic meaning of “some” is “more than one”) and a pragmatic meaning (e.g., the pragmatic meaning of “some” is “some but not all”). The majority of experimental research on scalar terms has focused on the quantity expression “some” and its use in nonconversational contexts. In contrast, in this research we examined five different scalar expressions that were embedded in a conversational context with varying de...
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One tract, two tract, old tract, new tract: A pilot study of the structural and functional differentiation of the inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus
Publication date: May 2018Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 46Author(s): Claire Rollans, Jacqueline CummineAbstractThe inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus (IFOF), a major ventral white matter pathway, has been shown to be a crucial component of semantic (Moritz-Gasser, Herbet & Duffau, 2013) and lexical/orthographic (Vandermosten, Boets, Polemans, Sunaert, Wouters & Ghesquière, 2012) processing. However, recent anatomical studies of the brain have revealed at least two differentiable components of the IFOF: a dorsal component projecting from the frontal lobe to the superior parietal lobule and a ventral compone...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Short-term memory span in aphasia: Insights from speech-timing measures
Publication date: Available online 4 May 2018Source: Journal of NeurolinguisticsAuthor(s): Christos Salis, Nadine Martin, Sarah V. Meehan, Kevin McCafferyAbstractAuditory-verbal short-term memory impairments are part and parcel of aphasia and interfere with linguistic processing. To date, the science about short-term memory impairments in aphasia has been generated and dominated by studying measures of accuracy, that is, span length. Because accuracy is expressed through speech, examining the speech-timing characteristics of persons with aphasia as they engage in spoken recall could reveal insights about the manner in whic...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
How Dutch and Turkish-Dutch readers process morphologically complex words: An ERP study
Publication date: Available online 4 May 2018Source: Journal of NeurolinguisticsAuthor(s): Tineke Prins, Ton Dijkstra, Olaf KoenemanAbstractTo examine time-course differences between regularly and irregularly inflected, and productively and non-productively derived words, native Dutch speakers and Turkish-Dutch early bilinguals performed a visual lexical decision task combined with electroencephalography (EEG) recordings. Target items were presented in two types of nonword contexts to examine the effects of stimulus list composition and language background. We found similar negative brain responses for regularly and irregu...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Emergentism in neuroscience and beyond
Publication date: Available online 17 May 2018Source: Journal of NeurolinguisticsAuthor(s): Karina Tachihara, Adele E. Goldberg (Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics)
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Role of the left hemisphere in visuospatial working memory
Publication date: Available online 18 May 2018Source: Journal of NeurolinguisticsAuthor(s): Selvi R. Paulraj, Krista Schendel, Brian Curran, Nina F. Dronkers, Juliana V. BaldoAbstractVisuospatial processing deficits are typically associated with damage to the right hemisphere. However, deficits on spatial working memory have been reported among some individuals with focal left hemisphere damage (LHD). It has been suggested that the left hemisphere may play a role in such non-verbal working memory tasks due to the use of subvocal, verbally-mediated strategies. The current study investigated the role of the left hemisphere i...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
The cognitive and neural oscillatory mechanisms underlying the facilitating effect of rhythm regularity on speech comprehension
Publication date: Available online 23 May 2018Source: Journal of NeurolinguisticsAuthor(s): Xiaoqing Li, Ximing Shao, Jinyan Xia, Xiaoying XuAbstractAlthough a larger number of studies with Indo-European languages as materials have demonstrated the facilitating effect of rhythm regularity on speech comprehension, the internal mechanisms underlying this facilitating effect is still not completely clear. The present electroencephalograph study examined whether and how a rhythmical sentence context affects Mandarin Chinese speech comprehension, and the cognitive and neural oscillatory mechanisms underlying this rhythm regular...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Working memory impairment in aphasia: The issue of stimulus modality
Publication date: Available online 24 May 2018Source: Journal of NeurolinguisticsAuthor(s): Dimitrios Kasselimis, Georgia Angelopoulou, Panagiotis Simos, Michael Petrides, Christos Peppas, Georgios Velonakis, Antonios Tavernarakis, Ioannis Evdokimidis, Constantin PotagasAbstractThe presence of short-term/working memory deficits in aphasia has been well-established in the relevant literature. Moreover, recent studies have demonstrated such deficits in both the verbal and visuospatial modalities in patients with aphasia following a left hemisphere stroke. The present study aims to investigate the prevalence and possible lesi...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Short-term and working memory deficits in aphasia: Current issues in theory, evidence, and treatment
Publication date: Available online 7 July 2018Source: Journal of NeurolinguisticsAuthor(s): Irene Minkina, Christos Salis, Nadine MartinAbstractIn this article, we introduce a special issue of the Journal of Neurolinguistics that focuses on current research in short-term and working memory impairment in aphasia. The papers are summarized briefly and discussed with respect to their individual and collective contributions to our understanding of the role of short-term and working memory processes in language and its impairment in aphasia. The timeliness of the special issue is noted, as it sets the stage for future work in t...
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