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Continuous theta-burst stimulation demonstrates language-network-specific causal effects on syntactic processing.
Neuroimage
February 2025
Max Planck Partner Group, School of International Chinese Language Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China; Department of Neuropsychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany. Electronic address:
Hierarchical syntactic structure processing is proposed to be at the core of the human language faculty. Syntactic processing is supported by the left fronto-temporal language network, including a core area in the inferior frontal gyrus as well as its interaction with the posterior temporal lobe (i.e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEffects of Structure and Meaning on Cortical Tracking of Linguistic Units in Naturalistic Speech.
Neurobiol Lang (Camb)
June 2022
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Recent research has established that cortical activity "tracks" the presentation rate of syntactic phrases in continuous speech, even though phrases are abstract units that do not have direct correlates in the acoustic signal. We investigated whether cortical tracking of phrase structures is modulated by the extent to which these structures compositionally determine meaning. To this end, we recorded electroencephalography (EEG) of 38 native speakers who listened to naturally spoken Dutch stimuli in different conditions, which parametrically modulated the degree to which syntactic structure and lexical semantics determine sentence meaning.
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- People have a natural ability to recognize emotions and individuals better in their own culture, known as the other-race and language-familiarity effect.
- Researchers used voice transformations to create identical acoustic stimuli in French and Japanese to eliminate cultural expression differences and conducted cross-cultural experiments.
- The results showed that participants were more accurate in identifying emotional cues and pitch changes in their native language, indicating that difficulties stem more from unfamiliarity with the sounds of another language than from differences in its structure.
Neural synchrony reflects closure of jabberwocky noun phrases but not predictable pseudoword sequences.
Eur J Neurosci
June 2023
University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Successful language comprehension requires the combination of individual words into larger linguistic units. In the present minimal-phrase study, we used electroencephalography (EEG) to investigate whether syntactic combination is indexed by changes in neural synchrony, while testing for both token-based and type-based effects. To do this, we analysed intertrial phase coherence (ITPC) elicited by reading two item (words or pseudowords) phrases that were either unifiable or nonunifiable.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHierarchical structure and memory mechanisms in agreement attraction.
PLoS One
July 2020
Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz, United States of America.
Speakers occasionally produce verbs that agree with an element that is not the subject, a so-called 'attractor'; likewise, comprehenders occasionally fail to notice agreement errors when the verb agrees with the attractor. Cross-linguistic studies converge in showing that attraction is modulated by the hierarchical position of the attractor in the sentence structure. We report two experiments exploring the link between structural position and memory representations in attraction.
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