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Neurosciences
Huiling Li, Ying Cao, Chuansheng Chen, Xiaoyu Liu, Shuo Zhang, Leilei Mei
Summary: Previous studies have explored factors influencing cross-language overlap in bilinguals/multilinguals' brain activations. However, it remains uncertain how the depth of semantic processing affects the similarity of neural patterns between native and second languages. To address this, Chinese-English bilinguals underwent fMRI scans while performing shallow and deep semantic processing tasks in their native and second languages. Results from representational similarity analysis indicated that deep semantic processing led to higher cross-language pattern similarity and semantic representation in select regions of the reading brain network, compared to shallow semantic processing.
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
(2023)
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Behavioral Sciences
Xiaoyu Liu, Liyuan Hu, Jing Qu, Shuo Zhang, Xinqi Su, Aqian Li, Leilei Mei
Summary: In the field of bilingualism, the assimilation hypothesis suggests that bilinguals use the neural network of their native language to process their second language. Chinese-English bilinguals show bilateral fusiform gyrus activation when processing English words, similar to the activation seen when processing Chinese characters. However, it is unclear which type of information processing is assimilated in the fusiform gyrus. This study used RSA and PPI analysis to examine the differences in information representation and functional connectivity between Chinese and English in the fusiform subregions of bilinguals.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Xingrong Guo
Summary: This study investigated the difficulties that English second language learners face in producing native-like English lexical stress, and how these difficulties are related to their native dialect backgrounds. The results showed that native English speakers employed an exquisite combination of acoustic features, while learners with dialect backgrounds transferred their native prosody, resulting in deviations or abnormalities in acoustic cues.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
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Neurosciences
Yohan Wards, Shane E. Ehrhardt, Hannah L. Filmer, Jason B. Mattingley, Kelly G. Garner, Paul E. Dux
Summary: A limitation in multitasking cognition is reflected by performance costs when attempting to undertake two tasks simultaneously. Combined brain stimulation and cognitive training can improve multitasking and decision-making performance and induce training transfer. This transfer is associated with neural activity changes in specific brain regions.
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Wen Kong, Quan-Jiang Guo, Yin-Yan Dong, Xuesong (Andy) Gao
Summary: The study compared abstracts written by English majors and Chinese majors to investigate the effects of EFL learning on written L1 Chinese at the lexical level. Significant differences were found in various word classes and lexical complexity, but not in lexical diversity, supporting the multi-competence theory.
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Neurosciences
Sijia Guo, Ke Peng, Rui Ding, Junchen Zhou, Yan Liu, Yao He, Yuhong Liu, Ke Li, Pei Liu, Cheng Luo, Jing Lu, Dezhong Yao
Summary: This study found that Chinese-trained musicians and Western-trained musicians have different brain activation and functional connections when listening to music, as reflected by the activation locations in the brain and the connections between the auditory and reward systems. The influence of different music styles on the strategies of musicians when listening to music is also evident, with musical characteristics playing an important role in this process.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Mathematical
Yongqiang Su, Yixun Li, Hong Li
Summary: This study collected familiarity norms for a large number of two, three, and four-character Chinese words and investigated the contribution of familiarity to Chinese lexical processing. The results showed that familiarity had a greater effect on low-frequency words.
BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Yuxin Hao, Zihan Jin, Qihao Yang, Xuelin Wang, Haitao Liu
Summary: The majority of lexical richness indices are based on Indo-European languages, particularly English, and their applicability to other language types is lacking research. This study examines the applicability of 44 such indices to Chinese and finds that certain indices can effectively predict the writing quality of Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) learners. The study also identifies specific indices that may be more suitable for measuring Chinese than English, and highlights the better measuring capacity of transformed indices for L2 Chinese. This study emphasizes the potential impact of effective indices on L2 teaching and suggests future research directions.
Article
Linguistics
Iske Bakker-Marshall, Atsuko Takashima, Carla B. Fernandez, Gabriele Janzen, James M. McQueen, Janet G. Van Hell
Summary: This study found that monolinguals and bilinguals reached largely comparable behavioral performance levels in novel word learning, but did so by recruiting partially overlapping but non-identical neural systems.
BILINGUALISM-LANGUAGE AND COGNITION
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Andrew James Anderson, Douwe Kiela, Jeffrey R. Binder, Leonardo Fernandino, Colin J. Humphries, Lisa L. Conant, Rajeev D. S. Raizada, Scott Grimm, Edmund C. Lalor
Summary: Recent studies have used vector models of word meaning derived from patterns of word co-occurrence in text corpora to explain brain activation elicited by sentences, mapping out semantic representation across a distributed brain network spanning temporal, parietal, and frontal cortex. However, it remains unclear whether activation patterns within regions reflect unified representations of sentence-level meaning. To address this issue, a recurrent deep artificial neural network was used to encode sentences and predict fMRI activation elements, showing that propositional sentence-level meaning is represented within and across multiple cortical regions.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Xiaodan Xing, Qingfeng Li, Mengya Yuan, Hao Wei, Zhong Xue, Tao Wang, Feng Shi, Dinggang Shen
Summary: The study proposed a novel approach to extract disease-related features from functional connectivity matrices in the brain, utilizing dynamic graph convolutional networks and LSTM layers to handle dynamic graphs. Demographics of patients were also used as additional outputs to guide classification. The performance of the proposed architecture was tested on the ADNI II dataset for classification of Alzheimer's disease patients from normal controls, achieving high accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Lijuan Feng, Nan Jiang
Summary: This study examines the Context Predictability Effect in the processing of Chinese using self-paced reading and investigates if there is a prediction error cost. The study manipulates context constraint strength and word predictability. The results show that Chinese native speakers and advanced Chinese L2 learners both exhibit a Context Predictability Effect and a prediction error cost in reading processing, which is different from previous research findings. Additionally, Chinese L2 learners are slower than Chinese native speakers during predictive reading processing. This paper is significant as it provides behavioral experimental evidence for the existence of a prediction error cost in Chinese L2 processing, supporting the hypothesis of Lexical Prediction.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Clorice R. Reinhardt, Daniel Konstantinovsky, Alexander Soudackov, Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
Summary: This article presents a kinetic model that describes the reversible radical transfer in the enzyme ribonucleotide reductase (RNR). The model is based on experimental studies and provides insights into the time evolution and factors influencing radical transport in RNR.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Fan-Pei Gloria Yang, Tzu-Yu Liu, Chih-Hsuan Liu, Shumei Murakami, Toshiharu Nakai
Summary: This study used fMRI to examine the neural basis of the response to cognitive training in healthy older adults. The findings revealed that cognitive training increased connectivity in frontotemporal regions related to language and memory functions. There were also significant correlations between the behavioral changes in a linguistic task and connectivity in regions associated with goal-oriented persistence and lexical processing. The increased hippocampal connectivity was consistent with previous research on memory improvement. The study suggests that cognitive training can promote neural changes in the right direction and potentially mitigate age-associated cognitive decline.
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Kyoungmun Lee, Hyun-Ro Lee, Young Hun Kim, Jaemin Park, Suchan Cho, Sheng Li, Myungeun Seo, Siyoung Q. Choi
Summary: This study demonstrated the continuous generation of hydroxyl radicals in oil-confined aqueous microdroplets, enabling the synthesis of polymers at high reactant concentrations. The transport of hydroxyl radicals also facilitated polymerization reactions in the continuous oil phase. This interfacial phenomenon was successfully applied to the chain extension of polymers.
ACS CENTRAL SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Tai-Li Chou, Seng Chia, Chi-Yung Shang, Susan Shur-Fen Gau
EUROPEAN NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
(2015)
Article
Neurosciences
Chen-Gia Tsai, Chien-Chung Chen, Ya-Chien Wen, Tai-Li Chou
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2015)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Pin-Jane Chen, Susan Shur-Fen Gau, Shu-Hui Lee, Tai-Li Chou
Article
Neurosciences
Shu-Hui Lee, James R. Booth, Tai-Li Chou
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Xin-Yu Gao, Meng-Feng Li, Tai-Li Chou, Jei-Tun Wu
JOVE-JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS
(2016)
Article
Neurosciences
Li-Ying Fan, Chi-Yung Shang, Wen-Yih Isaac Tseng, Susan Shur-Fen Gau, Tai-Li Chou
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
(2018)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Chen-Gia Tsai, Tai-Li Chou, Chia-Wei Li
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Ciao-Han Wong, Susan Shur-Fen Gau, Tai-Li Chou
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Tai-Shan Li, Chih-Min Liu, Chen-Chung Liu, Ming H. Hsieh, Yi-Ting Lin, En-Nan Wang, Tzung-Jeng Hwang, Tai-Li Chou
JOURNAL OF THE FORMOSAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
(2020)
Article
Psychiatry
Tai-Shan Li, Susan Shur-Fen Gau, Tai-Li Chou
Summary: This study examined the differences in underlying mechanisms of socioemotional processes between males with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and healthy control males using the Taiwanese version of the Reading the Mind in the Eyes test (RMET) and network analysis methods. The results showed that ASD males performed poorer on the RMET and had higher network density and in-degree scores, especially in negative words, compared to control males.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Hsing-Chang Ni, Yi-Lung Chen, Yi-Ping Chao, Chen-Te Wu, Rao-Shayn Chen, Tai-Li Chou, Susan Shur-Fen Gau, Hsiang-Yuan Lin
Summary: Although previous open-label trials suggest the potential of inhibitory rTMS over the DLPFC in ASD, our double-blind sham-controlled trial did not find superior efficacy of cTBS over the left DLPFC in children, adolescents, and adults with ASD. Time effects of cTBS on symptoms and executive function were significant in both active and sham groups. These findings suggest the need for more rigorous rTMS/TBS studies in ASD.
Article
Psychology, Biological
Shu-Hui Lee, Seng Chia, Tai-Li Chou, Susan Shur-Fen Gau
Summary: Emerging evidence suggests deficits in executive functions in the fronto-striato-parietal network in individuals with ADHD. This study aimed to investigate whether these deficits are also present in women with ADHD by using functional magnetic resonance imaging. The results showed that compared to healthy controls, adults with ADHD exhibited reduced activation in the caudate nucleus and inferior frontal gyrus. Furthermore, women with ADHD showed greater difficulties in resolving interference compared to men with ADHD, as indicated by the increased differences in brain activation.
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Kehui Zhang, Xin Sun, Chi-Lin Yu, Rachel L. Eggleston, Rebecca A. Marks, Nia Nickerson, Valeria C. Caruso, Xiao-Su Hu, Twila Tardif, Tai-Li Chou, James R. Booth, Ioulia Kovelman
Summary: During literacy development, children learn to recognize word sounds and meanings in print, but this process is different for alphabetic and character-based orthographies. A study involving bilingual and monolingual children showed that the task that was more central to reading in a specific orthography elicited less brain activation. Bilingual children showed less activation during phonology but more activation during morphology compared to monolinguals. These findings suggest that both the structural characteristics and literacy experiences with a given language can influence children's emerging brain networks for learning to read.
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
(2023)
Article
Linguistics
Xin Sun, Rebecca A. Marks, Rachel L. Eggleston, Kehui Zhang, Chi-Lin Yu, Nia Nickerson, Valeria Caruso, Tai-Li Chou, Xiao-Su Hu, Twila Tardif, James R. Booth, Adriene M. Beltz, Ioulia Kovelman
Summary: Diversity and variation in language experiences, such as bilingualism, contribute to heterogeneity in children's neural organization for language and brain development. The present study examined the effects of bilingual proficiency on children's neural organization for language function, and found that bilinguals' heritage language proficiency made a unique contribution to children's language network density. The study also revealed common and unique patterns in children's patterns of task-related functional connectivity.
NEUROBIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Hsing-Chang Ni, Yi-Lung Chen, Yi-Ping Chao, Chen-Te Wu, Yu-Yu Wu, Sophie Hsin-Yi Liang, Wei-Chih Chin, Tai-Li Chou, Susan Shur-Fen Gau, Ying-Zu Huang, Hsiang-Yuan Lin
Summary: The study demonstrated the feasibility and efficacy of long-term intermittent theta burst stimulation over the posterior superior temporal sulcus in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder. Participants with higher intelligence, better social cognitive performances, alongside less attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder severity at baseline, were more likely to be responders to the stimulation, suggesting individual characteristics may moderate therapeutic efficacy. Longer courses of non-invasive brain stimulation may be needed to produce therapeutic benefits in autism.