Do adults acquire a second orthography using their native reading network?
Publication date: Available online 16 April 2018 Source:Journal of Neurolinguistics Author(s): Lea Martin, Elizabeth A. Hirshorn, Corrine Durisko, Michelle W. Moore, Robert Schwartz, Yihao Zheng, Julie A. Fiez Adult second language learners typically aim to acquire both spoken and written proficiency in the second language (L2). It is widely assumed that adults fully retain the capacity they used to acquire literacy as children for their native language (L1). However, given basic principles of neural plasticity and a limited body of empirical evidence, this assumption merits investigation. Accordingly, the current...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - June 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Working memory and discourse production in people with aphasia
This study explored the relationship between Working Memory (WM) and discourse production in people with aphasia, based on data from the AphasiaBank. The dataset comprised the children's story “Cinderella” and basic WM measures of span, collected from 45 participants (15 people with nonfluent Broca's aphasia, 15 people with anomic aphasia, 15 people with fluent Wernicke's aphasia). Discourse samples were coded for and analyzed in terms of content, micro- (words and sentences) and macro- (groups of sentences) linguistic components, known to demonstrate multi-level discourse ability. Comparisons were made among the diffe...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - June 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 2018 Source:Journal of Neurolinguistics Author(s): Tineke Prins, Ton Dijkstra, Olaf Koeneman To 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 irregul...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - June 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 2018 Source:Journal of Neurolinguistics Author(s): Christos Salis, Nadine Martin, Sarah V. Meehan, Kevin McCaffery Auditory-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 - June 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Emergentism in neuroscience and beyond
Publication date: Available online 17 May 2018 Source:Journal of Neurolinguistics Author(s): Karina Tachihara, Adele E. Goldberg (Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics)
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - June 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Role of the left hemisphere in visuospatial working memory
Publication date: Available online 18 May 2018 Source:Journal of Neurolinguistics Author(s): Selvi R. Paulraj, Krista Schendel, Brian Curran, Nina F. Dronkers, Juliana V. Baldo Visuospatial 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 ...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - June 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 2018 Source:Journal of Neurolinguistics Author(s): Xiaoqing Li, Ximing Shao, Jinyan Xia, Xiaoying Xu Although 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 - June 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 2018 Source:Journal of Neurolinguistics Author(s): Dimitrios Kasselimis, Georgia Angelopoulou, Panagiotis Simos, Michael Petrides, Christos Peppas, Georgios Velonakis, Antonios Tavernarakis, Ioannis Evdokimidis, Constantin Potagas The 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...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - June 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Effects of combination of linguistic and musical pitch experience on subcortical pitch encoding
In this study, using subcortical electrophysiological measures (frequency following response), we seek to understand the effect of interaction of linguistic pitch experience and musical pitch experience on subcortical lexical and musical pitch encoding. We compared musicians and non-musicians who were native speakers of a tone language on subcortical encoding of linguistic and musical pitch. We found that musicians and non-musicians did not differ on the brainstem encoding of lexical tones. However, musicians showed a more robust brainstem encoding of musical pitch as compared to non-musicians. These findings suggest that ...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - June 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Diglossic aphasia and the adaptation of the Bilingual Aphasia Test to Palestinian Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic
Publication date: August 2018 Source:Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 47 Author(s): Reem Khamis Dakwar, May Ahmar, Rola Farah, Karen Froud The Bilingual Aphasia Test (BAT) is a criterion-referenced test developed in multiple languages and language-pairs to identify differential recovery in bilingual aphasia. It was developed to allow equivalent and culturally non-biased examination of all languages spoken by bi- or multi-lingual individuals with aphasia, to enable valid comparison of the residual abilities in each of the languages spoken. This comparison is critical for clinical practice to inform clinical decisio...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - June 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Event-related potentials associated with cognitive mechanisms underlying lexical-semantic processing in monolingual and bilingual 18-month-old children
Publication date: August 2018 Source:Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 47 Author(s): Pia Rämä, Louah Sirri, Louise Goyet Prior to their second birthday, children are sensitive to the semantic relatedness between spoken words. Yet, it remains unclear whether simultaneous second language acquisition affects this sensitivity. Here, we investigated the influence of early acquisition of two languages on the event-related potentials (ERPs) associated with lexical-semantic processing of spoken words in 18-month-old monolingual and bilingual children. Children were exposed to an auditory semantic priming task in French, w...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - June 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Semantic processing of self-adaptors, emblems, and iconic gestures: An ERP study
Publication date: August 2018 Source:Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 47 Author(s): Kawai Chui, Chia-Ying Lee, Kanyu Yeh, Pei-Chun Chao The study investigates how the brain processes self-adaptors, semantically-unrelated emblems, and iconic gestures along with speech. The three types of gestures give rise to a continuum of semantic distinctions in relation to the accompanying speech. The overall N400 component occurred between 500 and 800 msec after the simultaneous gesture and speech onsets. In comparison to the speech-only condition, the reduced N400 evidenced the facilitation effect of iconic gestures at the ce...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - June 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Beyond the simple view of early first and second language reading: The impact of lexical quality
Publication date: Available online 14 April 2018 Source:Journal of Neurolinguistics Author(s): Ludo Verhoeven, Marinus Voeten, Anne Vermeer According to the simple view of reading (SVR), reading comprehension is the product of word decoding and listening comprehension. Against this background, we examined the additional role of early lexical quality in the prediction of reading comprehension, either directly or indirectly via word decoding or listening comprehension. Following a longitudinal design, 566 children learning to read Dutch as L1 and 463 children learning to read Dutch as L2 in the Netherlands were tested o...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - April 15, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Single and compound logographic Kanji words elicit distinct early neurophysiological responses: ERP evidence from fluent and na ïve Kanji readers
Publication date: Available online 13 April 2018 Source:Journal of Neurolinguistics Author(s): Madison A. Niermeyer, Emily Miller, Yuko Tamaoki, Eve Wiggins, Courtney Stevens While the N170 to printed words in alphabetic scripts is consistently left-lateralized, the available evidence on logographic scripts is much less consistent. Here, we examined the extent to which use of single-character (e.g.,目) versus compound-character (e.g., 目玉) words in a logographic script could account for differences in the laterality of early neural responses in fluent readers. Participants included both fluent Kanji readers (n...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - April 14, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Reading comprehension in L1 and L2: An integrative approach
Publication date: Available online 7 April 2018 Source:Journal of Neurolinguistics Author(s): Ping Li, Roy B. Clariana Like other areas of research in reading and language, the study of reading comprehension has traditionally focused on readers of native or first language, and relatively little attention has been directed to the study of second language reading comprehension. Even fewer studies have examined the neurocognitive bases of second language reading comprehension. In this article we take these research gaps as a starting point for providing an integrative analysis of reading comprehension in first and second ...
Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics - April 8, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
