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Neurosciences
Constantijn L. van der Burght, Ole Numssen, Benito Schlaak, Tomas Goucha, Gesa Hartwigsen
Summary: Auditory sentence comprehension involves processing semantics, syntax, and prosody. This study used transcranial magnetic stimulation to investigate the role of the left inferior frontal gyrus in semantic and syntactic processing. The results suggest that the anterior inferior frontal gyrus is crucial for semantic processing, while both the anterior and posterior inferior frontal gyri are involved in syntactic processing.
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
(2023)
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Neurosciences
Toshiki Iwabuchi, Michiru Makuuchi
Summary: This study found selective involvement of a subregion of the left ATL in semantic/pragmatic processing, without a main effect of syntax in the left ATL subregion that was more responsive to natural sentences than meaningless sentences.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Kamila Polisenska, Shula Chiat, Jakub Szewczyk, Katherine E. Twomey
Summary: The study found that semantic plausibility and syntactic complexity had different effects on children's sentence processing performance in a sentence repetition task, while n-gram frequency did not have a significant impact in contrast to previous findings.
JOURNAL OF CHILD LANGUAGE
(2021)
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Psychology, Experimental
Constantijn L. van der Burght, Angela D. Friederici, Tomas Goucha, Gesa Hartwigsen
Summary: The study found that pitch accents can establish expectations in both syntactic and semantic domains, but only syntactic expectations are strong enough to interfere with sentence comprehension when violated. In the presence of contradictory cues in the same sentence, local syntactic cues take precedence over semantic cues and overwrite previous information signaled by prosody.
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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Shannon M. Sheppard, Erin L. Meier, Kevin T. Kim, Bonnie L. Breining, Lynsey M. Keator, Bohao Tang, Brian S. Caffo, Argye E. Hillis
Summary: This study compared sentence comprehension abilities in acute and chronic stage left hemisphere stroke patients, identifying factors related to the severity of damage to Broca's area, supramarginal gyrus, and superior longitudinal fasciculus. The results suggest that intact Broca's area may support syntactic processing after functional reorganization when temporoparietal regions are damaged.
BRAIN AND LANGUAGE
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Sophie M. Hardy, Ole Jensen, Linda Wheeldon, Ali Mazaheri, Katrien Segaert
Summary: This study used magnetoencephalography to investigate the neural mechanisms involved in sentence comprehension, specifically the binding of words at the syntax level. The findings revealed that syntax binding was associated with alpha band activity in left-lateralized language regions. Overall, the study highlights the crucial role of alpha band activity in controlling the allocation and coordination of brain resources during syntax composition.
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Behavioral Sciences
Elena Barbieri, Kaitlyn A. Litcofsky, Matthew Walenski, Brianne Chiappetta, Marek-Marsel Mesulam, Cynthia K. Thompson
Summary: The study compared real-time semantic, morphosyntactic, and verb-argument structure processing in individuals with Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) using event-related potentials (ERP). The results indicate impaired VAS and morphosyntax processing in PPA-G, while VAS information processing may also be impaired in PPA-L.
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Neurosciences
Neelima Wagley, James R. Booth
Summary: The study examined the longitudinal relations of brain and behavior in children aged 6-7.5 years old to test the bootstrapping account of language development. Results indicated a close relationship between lexical and grammatical development, with stronger evidence for syntactic bootstrapping suggesting that acquisition of phrase structure in school-age children may facilitate learning of word meanings.
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Neurosciences
Fernanda Ferreira, Zhuang Qiu
Summary: Prediction in language processing, specifically syntactic prediction, has been a major topic in psycholinguistics for the past two decades. This review discusses influential parsing models, evidence for specific syntactic forms prediction, and the implications of syntactic prediction on language architecture theories, while also outlining four avenues for future research.
Article
Psychiatry
Khamelia Malik, I. Gusti Agung Ayu Widyarini, Fransiska Kaligis, A. A. A. A. Kusumawardhani, Prasandhya Astagiri Yusuf, Adila Alfa Krisnadhi, Oskar Riandi, Arierta Pujitresnani
Summary: This study aims to describe the differences in syntactic and semantic analysis in prodromal psychosis and normal adolescents using machine learning technology. Early recognition of the prodromal phase is important to prevent the development of severe mental disorder symptoms.
ASIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY
(2023)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Joshua Snell, Jeremy Yeaton, Jonathan Mirault, Jonathan Grainger
Summary: This article examines whether lexical processing occurs simultaneously for multiple words during reading, and suggests supplementing traditional cognitive science methods with neuroscientific techniques. The study combines eye-tracking and EEG to investigate the impact of syntax on oculomotor behavior and brain potentials, finding that even when eye movements are unaffected, syntax still influences brain activity as early as 100 ms after fixation on target words.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Leah Gosselin, Laura Sabourin
Summary: The study found significant differences in language processing between habitual and non-habitual code-switchers, with the latter showing increased negativity in processing non-switched trials. Additionally, habitual code-switchers exhibited an LPC effect from 500 to 900 ms.
Article
Neurosciences
Luyao Chen, Tomas Goucha, Claudia Maennel, Angela D. Friederici, Emiliano Zaccarella
Summary: The study investigates the impact of hierarchical structures in artificial grammar on the brain's syntax processing, revealing that the construction of syntax critically depends on a unique left-hemispheric syntactic network involving Broca's area BA 44 and the posterior superior temporal gyrus. This suggests that the novel artificial grammar can serve as a suitable experimental tool to study syntax-specific processes in the human brain.
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
(2021)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Marco Riva, Stephen M. Wilson, Ruofan Cai, Antonella Castellano, Kesshi M. Jordan, Roland G. Henry, Maria Luisa Gorno Tempini, Mitchel S. Berger, Edward F. Chang
Summary: Electrocortical stimulation mapping (ECS) was used during awake surgery in 6 patients to investigate sentence-level processing. Stimulation of the inferior frontal gyrus disrupted comprehension of passive sentences in all subjects, while simpler tasks remained unaffected. These findings suggest the presence of language regions that contribute differently to sentence processing, and sentence-level tasks are best for identifying them. The functional consequences of resecting these sites need further investigation.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSURGERY
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Biomedical
Andrea Cometa, Piergiorgio d'Orio, Martina Revay, Franco Bottoni, Claudia Repetto, Giorgio Lo Russo, Stefano F. Cappa, Andrea Moro, Silvestro Micera, Fiorenzo Artoni
Summary: This study investigated the neural causal connections evoked by processing homophonous phrases using a protocol that separates syntax from sound information. The results identified different networks involved in the processing of verb phrases (VPs) and noun phrases. Additionally, a proof-of-concept for decoding the syntactic category of a perceived phrase based on causality measures was presented.
JOURNAL OF NEURAL ENGINEERING
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Ling Yu, Yaxu Zhang, Julie E. Boland, Lin Cai
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Julie E. Boland, Robin Queen
Article
Psychology
Hang Wei, Julie E. Boland, Zhenguang G. Cai, Fang Yuan, Min Wang
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION
(2019)
Article
Psychology
Guadalupe de los Santos, Julie E. Boland, Richard L. Lewis
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION
(2020)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Julie E. Boland, Pedro Fonseca, Ilana Mermelstein, Myles Williamson
Summary: Small, variable transmission delays over Zoom disrupt the typical rhythm of conversation, leading to delays in turn initiation. Remote responses over Zoom have significantly longer latency compared to local responses, suggesting disruption of automated mechanisms guiding turn initiation timing. The electronic transmission delays may disrupt neural oscillators that normally synchronize on syllable rate, affecting the ability of interlocutors to precisely time the initiation of their turns.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-GENERAL
(2022)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Min Wang, Qiao Gan, Julie E. Boland
Summary: This study investigated the relationships among interactive intensity, lexical alignment, and L2 writing quality in two variations of a story continuation task. The results showed that the multi-turn version, which involved more interaction, had a stronger impact on lexical alignment and improvement in writing quality compared to the single-turn version.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Julie E. Boland, Emily Atkinson, Guadalupe De Los Santos, Robin Queen
Summary: Four experiments were conducted to investigate adaptation to a regional grammatical structure through reading exposure. The results showed that participants exposed to the regional constructions gradually adapted and read the novel constructions faster over time. However, the experiments also revealed that participants failed to learn the specific syntactic constructions tested. It suggests that the adaptation effects reflect learning general properties of the experimental stimuli rather than the syntactic constructions themselves.
Article
Neurosciences
Yanan Du, Yaxu Zhang
Summary: This study examined the strategic control in processing gender stereotypes in language comprehension. The results showed that high consistency and high proportion led to larger N400 and late negativity effects, while equal proportion resulted in a gradual reduction of N400 effects. This suggests that gender stereotypes can still be activated even when sentence contexts have determined the gender of target role characters, but readers may develop alternative strategies based on sentence contexts.
Article
Neurosciences
Yanan Du, Yaxu Zhang
Summary: This study investigated how local gender stereotype information interacts with discourse context during Chinese discourse reading. Event-related potentials were recorded to explore the effects of gender stereotypes in discourse comprehension. Results showed that the discourse context had a significant influence on the processing of gender stereotypes, suggesting that readers can simultaneously consider both discourse context and local pragmatic information during reading comprehension.
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Linguistics
Patrice Speeter Beddor, Andries W. Coetzee, Will Styler, Kevin B. McGowan, Julie E. Boland
Article
Education & Educational Research
Hang Wei, Julie E. Boland, Jonathan Brennan, Fang Yuan, Min Wang, Chi Zhang
SECOND LANGUAGE RESEARCH
(2018)
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Psychology, Experimental
Lisa S. Arduino, Laura Veronelli, Lin Cai, Shuwei Xue, Massimo Corbo, Yaxu Zhang
JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
(2016)
Article
Linguistics
Julie E. Boland, Edith Kaan, Jorge Valdes Kroff, Stefanie Wulff
LINGUISTICS VANGUARD
(2016)
Article
Linguistics
Yufen Hsieh, Julie E. Boland
JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC RESEARCH
(2015)