刊讯｜SSCI 期刊《大脑与语言》2022年第227-230卷

BRAIN AND LANGUAGE 

Volume 227-230, 2022

BRAIN AND LANGUAGE（SSCI一区，2021 IF：2.781）2022年第227-230卷共刊文23篇。详情如下：

2022年第227卷共发文6篇，均为研究性论文。涉及老年人情感词汇理解过程中的注意力和调节、原发性进行性失语症、外语效应的元分析、熟悉不同的同音词在不同区域的母语使用者大脑中的表征等。

2022年第228卷共发文3篇，均为研究性论文。涉及跨半球交流在促进大脑左侧句法处理中的作用、个人观点调节反事实加工、不同血管类型围产期卒中患者的语言偏侧化及结局等。

2022年第229卷共发文6篇，均为研究性论文。涉及通过跨情境词学习获得新词意义、语义数的神经相关性、葡萄牙语的音节结构效应、儿童的环境噪声、大脑结构和语言发展、联想和分类语义处理中的半球相似性等。

2022年第230卷共发文8篇，均为研究性论文。涉及语音感知的神经处理、行为和神经节律敏感性预测汉语语音意识和单词阅读发展、游戏对大脑可塑性的影响、双语者的连续语音跟踪对语言和噪音的适应、句子规划过程中案例标记形状的神经动力学和凝视行为的跨语言差异、静止状态脑电图与儿童的语言能力相关等。

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目录

ARTICLES

■ Attention and regulation during emotional word comprehension in older adults: Evidence from event-related potentials and brain oscillations, by Li-Chuan Ku, John J.B. Allen, Vicky T. Lai.

■ A neurocognitive computational account of word production, comprehension, and repetition in primary progressive aphasia, by Ardi Roelofs.

■ Not all bilinguals are the same: A meta-analysis of the moral foreign language effect, by Michelle Stankovic, Britta Biedermann, Takeshi Hamamura.

■ Allophonic familiarity differentiates word representations in the brain of native speakers of regional linguistic varieties, by Giuseppe Di Dona, Federica Mantione, Birgit Alber, Simone Sulpizio, Francesco Vespignani.

■ Person-specific connectivity mapping uncovers differences of bilingual language experience on brain bases of attention in children, by Maria M.Arredondoa, Ioulia Kovelman, Teresa Satterfield, Xiaosu Hu, Lara Stojanov, Adriene M. Beltz.

■ Showing strength through flexibility: Multi-accent toddlers recognize words quickly and efficiently, by Suzanne V.H. van der Feest, Maya C. Rose, Elizabeth K. Johnson.

摘要

Attention and regulation during emotional word comprehension in older adults: Evidence from event-related potentials and brain oscillations

Li-Chuan Ku, Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA; Cognitive Science Program, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

John J.B. Allen, Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

Vicky T. Lai, Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA; Cognitive Science Program, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

Abstract Older adults often show a positivity bias effect during picture processing, focusing more on positive than negative information. It is unclear whether this positivity bias effect generalizes to language and whether arousal matters. The present study investigated how age affects emotional word comprehension with varied valence (positive, negative) and arousal (high, low). We recorded older and younger participants’ brainwaves (EEG) while they read positive/negative and high/low-arousing words and pseudowords, and made word/non-word judgments. Older adults showed increased N400s and left frontal alpha decreases (300–450 ms) for low-arousing positive as compared to low-arousing negative words, suggesting an arousal-dependent positivity bias during lexical retrieval. Both age groups showed similar LPPs to negative words. Older adults further showed a larger mid-frontal theta increase (500–700 ms) than younger adults for low-arousing negative words, possibly indicating down-regulation of negative meanings of low-arousing words. Altogether, our data supported the strength and vulnerability integration model of aging.

Key words Aging, Emotional words, Positivity bias effect, Event-related potentials, Theta oscillations, Alpha oscillations

A neurocognitive computational account of word production, comprehension, and repetition in primary progressive aphasia

Ardi Roelofs, Radboud University, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognition, Thomas van Aquinostraat 4, 6525 GD Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Abstract Computational models have elucidated word production, comprehension, and repetition in poststroke aphasia syndromes, but simulations are lacking for primary progressive aphasia (PPA) resulting from neurodegenerative disease. Here, the WEAVER++/ARC model, which has previously been applied to poststroke aphasia, is extended to the three major PPA variants: nonfluent/agrammatic, semantic, and logopenic. Following a seminal suggestion by Pick (1892/1977) and modern empirical insights, the model assumes that PPA arises from a progressive loss of activation capacity in portions of the language network with neurocognitive epicenters specific to each PPA variant. Computer simulations revealed that the model succeeds reasonably well in capturing the patterns of impaired and spared naming, comprehension, and repetition performance, at both group and individual patient levels. Moreover, it captures the worsening of performance with progression of the disease. The model explains about 90% of the variance, lending computational support to Pick’s suggestion and modern insights.

Key words Aphasia, Comprehension, Modeling, Naming, Repetition

Not all bilinguals are the same: A meta-analysis of the moral foreign language effect

Michelle Stankovic, School of Population Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, 208 Kent Street, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia

Britta Biedermann, School of Allied Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, 208 Kent Street, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia; enAble Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, 208 Kent Street, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia

Takeshi Hamamura, School of Population Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, 208 Kent Street, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia

Abstract Emerging evidence shows bilinguals employ different decision-making strategies in their foreign language compared to their native language (known as the Foreign Language Effect). When completing moral dilemmas, accumulating research findings indicate that bilinguals are more likely to endorse the utilitarian option. We conducted a meta-analysis to investigate whether linguistic variables (proficiency, immersion, and language similarity) moderate utilitarian responding to moral dilemmas in a foreign language. A systematic literature search extracted experiments comparing binary responses to moral dilemmas among bilingual participants. Analyses confirmed a moral Foreign Language Effect within personal dilemmas, though this effect was moderated by self-reported reading proficiency, whereby bilinguals with higher self-reported reading proficiency were less likely to make a utilitarian choice. Our findings suggest that not all bilinguals may experience a Foreign Language Effect, with low self-reported reading proficiency being the most likely indicator of whether their response tendencies to a moral dilemma change in the foreign language.

Key words Bilingualism, Foreign language, Moral judgement, Decision-making

Allophonic familiarity differentiates word representations in the brain of native speakers of regional linguistic varieties

Giuseppe Di Dona, Dipartimento di Psicologia e Scienze Cognitive, Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy

Federica Mantione, Dipartimento di Psicologia e Scienze Cognitive, Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy

Birgit Alber, Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione, Libera Università di Bolzano, Italy

Simone Sulpizio, Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy; Milan Center for Neuroscience (NeuroMi), University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

Francesco Vespignani, Dipartimento di Psicologia dello Sviluppo e della Socializzazione, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy

Abstract This study aims to shed light on the issue whether familiar allophonic variation is encoded in word representations. Both Italian speakers born in Trentino and speakers born in the Central-Southern regions of Italy took part in the experiment. We tested the MMN elicited by the same word encompassing two different allophones, one of which was more familiar to one group of participants than to the other, depending on their regional variety of Italian. The Trentino group showed an enhanced MMN for the word embedding the familiar variant while Central-Southern speakers showed no difference. The amplitude of the MMN for the unfamiliar word variant in Trentino speakers showed an inverse correlation with the passive exposure to the Trentino dialect. We conclude that words embedding familiar and unfamiliar allophones are differently represented in the brain of native speakers of regional language and the degree of differentiation is modulated by individual experience.

Key words Word representation, Multilingualism, Regional language, Allophonic variation, Allophonic familiarity, EEG, Mismatch, Negativity, MMN, Memory retrieval, Individual differences

Person-specific connectivity mapping uncovers differences of bilingual language experience on brain bases of attention in children

Maria M.Arredondoa, The University of Texas at Austin, Dept. of Human Development & Family Sciences, 108 E Dean Keeton St., Austin, TX 78712, USA; University of Michigan, Dept. of Psychology, 530 Church St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA

Ioulia Kovelman, University of Michigan, Dept. of Psychology, 530 Church St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA

Teresa Satterfield, University of Michigan, Dept. of Romance Languages & Literatures, 812 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA

Xiaosu Hu, University of Michigan, Dept. of Biologic and Materials Sciences & Prosthodontics, School of Dentistry, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA

Lara Stojanov, University of Michigan, Dept. of Psychology, 530 Church St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA

Adriene M.Beltz, University of Michigan, Dept. of Psychology, 530 Church St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA

Abstract Bilingualism influences children’s cognition, yet bilinguals vary greatly in their dual-language experiences. To uncover sources of variation in bilingual and monolingual brain function, the present study used standard analysis and innovative person-specific connectivity models combined with a data-driven grouping algorithm. Children (ages 7–9; N = 52) completed a visuo-spatial attention task while undergoing functional near-infrared spectroscopy neuroimaging. Both bilingual and monolingual groups performed similarly, and engaged bilateral frontal and parietal regions. However, bilinguals showed greater brain activity than monolinguals in left frontal and parietal regions. Connectivity models revealed two empirically-derived subgroups. One subgroup was composed of monolinguals and bilinguals who were more English dominant, and showed left frontal-parietal connections. The other was composed of bilinguals who were balanced in their dual-language abilities and showed left frontal lobe connections. The findings inform how individual variation in early language experiences influences children’s emerging cortical networks for executive function, and reveal efficacy of data-driven approaches.

Key words Bilingualism, Attention, fNIRS, Brain development, Cognition, Children, Connectivity

Showing strength through flexibility: Multi-accent toddlers recognize words quickly and efficiently

Suzanne V.H. van der Feest, Program in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences and Program in Linguistics, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA

Maya C. Rose, Program in Educational Psychology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA

Elizabeth K. Johnson, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, 3359 Mississauga Rd., Mississauga, ON, Canada

Abstract One of the great mysteries of language acquisition is how children cope with variation in their input. If one parent says pah-tah-to and the other parent says pah-tay-to, how does this affect a child’s speech processing development? Past research suggests variable input may have negative effects on the efficiency of multi-accent children’s word recognition, leading to slower word recognition compared to mono-accent children, and even failure to recognize words in their parent’s non-dominant accent. Here, we re-examine speed of word recognition in a large sample of Dutch-learning 24-month-olds (n = 96) who receive routine exposure to one versus two varieties of their native language.. We conclude that multi-accent children are equipped to flexibly adapt to their variable speech input, and show no language delay at 24 months of age. Contrary to earlier reports, we find no evidence that exposure to multiple varieties has long-lasting detrimental effects on toddler’s word recognition efficiency.

Key words Accent adaptation, Speech perception, Word recognition, Language development

目录

ARTICLES

■ Lateralization as a symphony: Joint influence of interhemispheric inhibition and transmission on brain asymmetry and syntactic processing, by Chih Yeh, Min-Hsin Chen, Po-Heng Chen, Chia-Lin Lee.

■ Better I than He: Personal perspective modulates counterfactual processing, by Tianyue Wang, Xiaodong Xu.

■ Language lateralization and outcome in perinatal stroke patients with different vascular types, by Nigul Ilves, Mairi Männamaa, Rael Laugesaar , Norman Ilves, Dagmar Loorits, Ulvi Vaher, Pille Kool, Pilvi Ilves.

摘要

Lateralization as a symphony: Joint influence of interhemispheric inhibition and transmission on brain asymmetry and syntactic processing

Chih Yeh, Max Planck School of Cognition, Germany; Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Min-Hsin Chen, Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Po-Heng Chen, Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Chia-Lin Lee, Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan; Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University, Taiwan; Graduate Institute of Brain and Mind Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taiwan; Neurobiology and Cognitive Neuroscience Center, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Abstract This study investigated the roles of cross-hemispheric communications in promoting left-lateralized syntactic processing in the brain. Fifty-six young right-handers without familial sinistrality background underwent a divided visual field ERP grammaticality judgment experiment to assess syntactic processing in each hemisphere. Two behavioral tasks —the bilateral flanker task and bilateral word matching task, were used to assess cross-hemispheric inhibition and transmission. Grand average ERP data showed a significant P600 grammaticality effect in the left hemisphere (LH) only; however, individual variations in the P600 responses were observed in both hemispheres. Results of correlational analyses showed that larger LH P600 effects were associated with slower inter-hemispheric transmissions; smaller right hemisphere (RH) P600 effects were associated with more effective RH inhibition. These results yielded support for both the callosal distance hypothesis and the inhibition hypothesis for language lateralization and demonstrated that different aspects of cross-hemispheric communications jointly influence the degree of syntactic lateralization.

Key words Syntactic lateralization, Interhemispheric inhibition, Interhemispheric transmission, Event-related potentials, P600, Split visual field paradigm, Hemispheric differences

Better I than He: Personal perspective modulates counterfactual processing

Tianyue Wang, Xiaodong Xu, School of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210097, China

Abstract First-person narratives are more attentively and emotionally engaging than third-person narratives. This study examined whether and how personal perspective modulates counterfactual processing. Participants read counterfactual and causal conditionals written from the first-person or third-person perspective (e.g., If/Because I/he had read enough literature before, I/he would have finished my/his thesis easily.), followed by factual consequences that contained a critical word either consistent or inconsistent with preceding contexts (e.g., Therefore, when I/he was about to defend the thesis I/he felt panicked/confident). In both perspectives, inconsistent words showed a prolonged N400 vs. consistent words in the counterfactual condition, but a larger P600 in the causal condition. The critical word showed a larger P600 in the first- than the third-person condition in counterfactual scenarios, but not in causal scenarios. These findings suggest that personal perspective exerts different influences on counterfactual processing, presumably by modulating the amount of attentional resources involved.

Key words Chinese, Counterfactuals, Personal perspective, Self-relevance, ERPs

Language lateralization and outcome in perinatal stroke patients with different vascular types

Nigul Ilves, Radiology Clinic, Tartu University Hospital, Tartu, Estonia; Department of Radiology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

Mairi Männamaa, Department of Pediatrics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia; Children’s Clinic, Tartu University Hospital, Tartu, Estonia

Norman Ilves, Mairi Männamaa, Rael Laugesaar , Norman Ilves, Dagmar Loorits, Ulvi Vaher, Pille Kool, Pilvi Ilvesab.

Dagmar Loorits, Department of Radiology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

Ulvi Vaher, Department of Radiology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia; Department of Pediatrics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia; Children’s Clinic, Tartu University Hospital, Tartu, Estonia

Pille Kool, Department of Radiology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

Pilvi Ilves, Radiology Clinic, Tartu University Hospital, Tartu, Estonia; Department of Radiology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

Abstract Perinatal stroke affects child’s language development and can change language lateralization. Language generation and comprehension tasks in functional magnetic resonance imaging were used to determine language lateralization in term born children with perinatal left-side arterial ischemic stroke (AIS) (n = 9, mean age (SD) 13.4 (3.1) y.) and periventricular venous infarction (PVI) (n = 12, 11.8 (2.8) y.), and in healthy right-handed controls (n = 30, 11.6 (2.6) y.). Lateralization index was calculated for the Broca and Wernicke areas and correlated with language and cognitive outcomes measured by the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children II ed.

Language outcome in children with perinatal stroke is poorer compared to healthy controls. Children with small AIS lesions and most children with PVI showed left-side language activation. Most children with large AIS lesions and one child with large PVI had language activation reorganized to the right hemisphere. Language reorganization to the unlesioned right hemisphere did not ensure normal language outcome.

Key words Perinatal stroke, Lateralization index, Language lateralization, Language outcome, Functional magnetic resonance

目录

ARTICLES

■ Acquisition of novel word meaning via cross situational word learning: An event-related potential study, by Anthony J. Angwin, Samuel R. Armstrong, Courtney Fisher, Paola Escudero.

■ Neural correlates of semantic number: A cross-linguistic investigation, by Donald Dunagan, Shulin Zhang, Jixing Li, Shohini Bhattasali, Christophe Pallier, John Whitman, Yiming Yang, John Hale.

■ On the syllable structure effect in European Portuguese: Evidence from ERPs, by Ana Duarte Campos, Helena Mendes Oliveira, Eduardo Lopéz-Caneda, Francisco Javier Gutiérrez-Domínguez, Ana Paula Soares.

■ Environmental noise, brain structure, and language development in children, by Katrina R. Simon, Emily C. Merz, Xiaofu He, Kimberly G. Noble.

■ The last course of coarse coding: Hemispheric similarities in associative and categorical semantic processing, by Emily N. Mech, Padmapriya Kandhadai, Kara D. Federmeier.

■ The tone atlas of perceptual discriminability and perceptual distance: Four tone languages and five language groups, by Liquan Liu, Regine Lai, Leher Singh, Marina Kalashnikova, Patrick C.M.Wong, Benjawan Kasisopa, Ao Chen, Chutamanee Onsuwan, Denis Burnham

摘要

Acquisition of novel word meaning via cross situational word learning: An event-related potential study

Anthony J. Angwin, Samuel R. Armstrong, Courtney Fisher, University of Queensland, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Brisbane, Australia

Paola Escudero, The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia

Abstract Cross-situational statistical word learning (CSWL) refers to the process whereby participants learn new words by tracking ambiguous word-object co-occurrences across time. This study used event-related potentials to explore the acquisition of novel word meanings via CSWL in healthy adults. After learning to associate novel auditory words (e.g., ‘ket’) with familiar objects (e.g., sword), participants performed a semantic judgement task where the learned novel words were paired with a familiar word belonging to either the same (e.g., dagger) or a different (e.g., harp) semantic category. As a comparison, the task also included word pairs comprising two familiar words. The analyses revealed that the unrelated novel word pairs elicited a similar N400 to that of the unrelated familiar word pairs, but with a different hemispheric distribution (left hemisphere for novel words, right hemisphere for familiar words). These findings demonstrate rapid meaning acquisition via CSWL, which is reflected at a neurophysiological level.

Key words Event-related potentials, Word learning, Cross-situational statistical learning, N400

Neural correlates of semantic number: A cross-linguistic investigation

Donald Dunagan, Department of Linguistics, University of Georgia, GA, USA

Shulin Zhang, Department of Linguistics, University of Georgia, GA, USA

Jixing Li, Neuroscience of Language Lab, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Shohini Bhattasali, Department of Linguistics, UMIACS, University of Maryland, MD, USA

Christophe Pallier, Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, INSERM-CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

John Whitman, Department of Linguistics, Cornell University, NY, USA

Yiming Yang, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China

John Hale, Department of Linguistics, University of Georgia, GA, USA

Abstract One aspect of natural language comprehension is understanding how many of what or whom a speaker is referring to. While previous work has documented the neural correlates of number comprehension and quantity comparison, this study investigates semantic number from a cross-linguistic perspective with the goal of identifying cortical regions involved in distinguishing plural from singular nouns. Three fMRI datasets are used in which Chinese, French, and English native speakers listen to an audiobook of a children’s story in their native language. These languages are selected because they differ in their number semantics. Across these languages, several well-known language regions manifest a contrast between plural and singular, including the pars orbitalis, pars triangularis, posterior temporal lobe, and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex. This is consistent with a common brain network supporting comprehension across languages with overt as well as covert number-marking.

Key words Neurolinguistics, Semantics, Typology, Number, Cognitive neuroscience

On the syllable structure effect in European Portuguese: Evidence from ERPs

Ana Duarte Campos, Research Group in Psycholinguistics, CIPsi, School of Psychology, Minho University, Braga, Portugal

Helena Mendes Oliveira, Research Group in Psycholinguistics, CIPsi, School of Psychology, Minho University, Braga, Portugal

Eduardo Lopéz-Caneda, Psychological Neuroscience Lab, CIPsi, School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

Francisco Javier Gutiérrez-Domínguez, Research Group in Psycholinguistics, CIPsi, School of Psychology, Minho University, Braga, Portugal

Ana Paula Soares, Research Group in Psycholinguistics, CIPsi, School of Psychology, Minho University, Braga, Portugal

Abstract Syllable effects during visual word recognition have been observed for CV but not for CVC syllables, a puzzling effect that is not explained either by the distributional frequencies of CV and CVC syllables, syllable complexity, or syllabic neighbourhood density. Furthermore, in European Portuguese (EP), syllable effects have not been found for pseudowords, suggesting that syllable activation might not precede lexical activation. Here, we combined a colour-congruency lexical decision task with the collection of electroencephalographic (EEG) data to investigate syllable effects in EP for CV and CVC words and pseudowords, with the latter presenting a match (CVCO+P+) or a mismatch (CVCO+P-) between their orthographic (O) and phonological (P) syllable structure to further ascertain the locus (i.e., orthographic and/or phonological) of syllable effects. Results showed syllable congruency effects in the N100, P200, and N400 ERP components for CV and CVC words suggesting the influence of different factors underlying the syllable structure effect.

Key words Syllable Structure Effect, European Portuguese, Event-Related Potentials, Orthographic Information, Phonological Information, Syllable Complexity, Syllabic Neighbourhood, CV Skeletal Structure

Environmental noise, brain structure, and language development in children

Katrina R. Simon, Department of Human Development, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

Emily C. Merz, Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA

Xiaofu He, Department of Psychiatry, The Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA

Kimberly G. Noble, Department of Human Development, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA; Teachers College, Columbia University, Department of Biobehavioral Sciences, USA

Abstract While excessive noise exposure in childhood has been associated with reduced language ability, few studies have examined potential underlying neurobiological mechanisms that may account for noise-related differences in language skills. In this study, we tested the hypotheses that higher everyday noise exposure would be associated with 1) poorer language skills and 2) differences in language-related cortical structure. A socioeconomically diverse sample of children aged 5–9 (N = 94) completed standardized language assessments. High-resolution T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans were acquired, and surface area and cortical thickness of the left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) and left superior temporal gyrus (STG) were extracted. Language Environmental Analysis (LENA) was used to measure levels of exposure to excessive environmental noise over the course of a typical day (n = 43 with complete LENA, MRI, and behavioral data). Results indicated that children exposed to excessive levels of noise exhibited reduced cortical thickness in the left IFG. These findings add to a growing literature that explores the extent to which home environmental factors, such as environmental noise, are associated with neurobiological development related to language development in children.

Key words Child development, Noise, MRI, Language, Brain

The last course of coarse coding: Hemispheric similarities in associative and categorical semantic processing 

Emily N. Mech, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States

Padmapriya Kandhadai, Department of Computing Studies and Information Systems, Douglas College, Canada

Kara D. Federmeier, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States; Program in Neuroscience, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States; The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States

Abstract To test theories that posit differences in how semantic information is represented in the cerebral hemispheres, we assessed semantic priming for associatively and categorically related prime-target pairs that were graded in relatedness strength. Visual half-field presentation was used to bias processing to the right or left hemisphere, and event-related potential (ERP) and behavioral responses were measured while participants completed a semantic relatedness judgement task. Contrary to theories positing representational differences across the cerebral hemispheres, in two experiments using (1) centralized prime presentation and lateralized targets and (2) lateralized primes and targets, we found similar priming patterns across the two hemispheres at the level of semantic access (N400), on later measures of explicit processing (late positive complex; LPC), and in behavioral response speeds and accuracy. We argue that hemispheric differences, when they arise, are more likely due to differences in task demands than in how the hemispheres fundamentally represent semantic information.

Key words Hemispheric asymmetries, Event-related potentials (ERPs), N400, LPC, Associative priming, Categorical priming, Coarse coding hypothesis

The tone atlas of perceptual discriminability and perceptual distance: Four tone languages and five language groups

Liquan Liu, School of Psychology, Western Sydney University, Australia; The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University, Australia; Center for Multilingualism in Society Across the Lifespan, University of Oslo, Norway; Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, Australian Research Council, Australia

Regine Lai, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Leher Singh, Department of Psychology, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Marina Kalashnikova, The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University, Australia; Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, Spain; Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, Spain

Patrick C.M.Wong, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Brain and Mind Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Benjawan Kasisopa, The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University, Australia

Ao Chen, School of Communication Sciences, Beijing Language and Culture University, China

Chutamanee Onsuwan, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Center of Excellence in Intelligent Informatics, Speech and Language Technology, and Service Innovation (CILS), Thammasat University, Thailand

Denis Burnham, The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University, Australia

Abstract Some prior investigations suggest that tone perception is flexible, reasonably independent of native phonology, whereas others suggest it is constrained by native phonology. We address this issue in a systematic and comprehensive investigation of adult tone perception. Sampling from diverse tone and non-tone speaking communities, we tested discrimination of the three major tone systems (Cantonese, Thai, Mandarin) that dominate the tone perception literature, in relation to native language and language experience as well as stimulus variation (tone properties, presentation order, pitch cues) using linear mixed effect modelling and multidimensional scaling. There was an overall discrimination advantage for tone language speakers and for native tones. However, language- and tone-specific effects, and presentation order effects also emerged. Thus, over and above native phonology, stimulus variation exerts a powerful influence on tone discrimination. This study provides a tone atlas, a reference guide to inform empirical studies of tone sensitivity, both retrospectively and prospectively.

Key words Tone, Cross-linguistic perception, Tone system, Contrast type, Perceptual asymmetry, Cue-weighting, Multi-dimensional analysis

目录

ARTICLES

■ Principal component decomposition of acoustic and neural representations of time-varying pitch reveals adaptive efficient coding of speech covariation patterns, by Fernando Llanos, G. Nike Gnanateja, Bharath Chandrasekaran.

■ Behavioral and neural rhythm sensitivities predict phonological awareness and word reading development in Chinese, by Chen Sun, Xiangyun Meng, Boqi Du, Yuxuan Zhang, Li Liu, Qi Dong, George K. Georgiou, Yun Nan.

■ Gaming enhances learning-induced plastic changes in the brain, by Katja Junttila, Anna-Riikka Smolander, Reima Karhila, Anastasia Giannakopoulou, Maria Uther, Mikko Kurimo, Sari Ylinen.

■ Continuous speech tracking in bilinguals reflects adaptation to both language and noise, by Benjamin D. Zinszer, Qiming Yuan, Zhaoqi Zhang, Bharath Chandrasekaran, Taomei Guo.

■ Cross-linguistic differences in case marking shape neural power dynamics and gaze behavior during sentence planning, by Aitor Egurtzegi, Damián E. Blasi, Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Itziar Laka, Martin Meyer，Balthasar Bickel, Sebastian Sauppe.

■ Resting state electroencephalography (EEG) correlates with children’s language skills: Evidence from sentence repetition, by Jarrad A.G. Lum, Gillian M. Clark, Felicity J. Bigelow, Peter G. Enticott.

■ Top-down sensory prediction in the infant brain at 6 months is correlated with language development at 12 and 18 months, by Shinmin Wang, Xian Zhang, Tian Hong, Ovid J.L. Tzeng, Richard Aslin.

■ Event related potential exploration of the organizational structure of abstract versus concrete words in neurologically intact younger adults, by Chaleece W. Sandberg, Erika Exton, Kelly L. Coburn, Soyeon Chun, Carol Miller.

摘要

Principal component decomposition of acoustic and neural representations of time-varying pitch reveals adaptive efficient coding of speech covariation patterns

Fernando Llanos, Department of Linguistics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA

Nike Gnanateja, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA

Bharath Chandrasekaran, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA

Abstract Understanding the effects of statistical regularities on speech processing is a central issue in auditory neuroscience. To investigate the effects of distributional covariance on the neural processing of speech features, we introduce and validate a novel approach: decomposition of time-varying signals into patterns of covariation extracted with Principal Component Analysis. We used this decomposition to assay the sensory representation of pitch covariation patterns in native Chinese listeners and non-native learners of Mandarin Chinese tones. Sensory representations were examined using the frequency-following response, a far-field potential that reflects phase-locked activity from neural ensembles along the auditory pathway. We found a more efficient representation of the covariation patterns that accounted for more redundancy in the form of distributional covariance. Notably, long-term language and short-term training experiences enhanced the sensory representation of these covariation patterns.

Key words Principal component analysis, Lexical tones, Frequency following response, Efficient coding, Statistical learning, Speech perception

Behavioral and neural rhythm sensitivities predict phonological awareness and word reading development in Chinese

Chen Sun, State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & IDG, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China

Xiangyun Meng, State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & IDG, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China

Boqi Du, State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & IDG, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China

Yuxuan Zhang, State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & IDG, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China

Li Liu, State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & IDG, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China

Qi Dong, State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & IDG, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China

George K. Georgiou, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G5, Canada

Yun Nan, State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & IDG, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China

Abstract The present study examined both the development of behavioral and electrophysiological rhythm processing and their contribution to phonological awareness and word reading in Chinese. We followed a sample of 47 Mandarin-speaking Chinese children from age 9 (Grade 3) to age 11 (Grade 5). Results showed first a significant improvement over time in behavioral beat perception and in P3as for small beat changes. Second, behavioral and neural beat sensitivities at age 9 predicted phonological awareness (phoneme deletion and tone identification) at age 11 and its development over the two-year span of the study. Neural beat sensitivities at age 9 also explained unique variance in reading accuracy (but not reading fluency) at age 11 and its two-year development. Taken together, these findings suggest that rhythm and Chinese reading-related skills are intricately related. Neural rhythm sensitivities could serve as predictive biomarkers for the development of phonological awareness and reading in Chinese school-age children.

Key words Beat perception, Chinese, Reading, Longitudinal, Mismatch response

Gaming enhances learning-induced plastic changes in the brain

Katja Junttila, Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, POB 21, FI-00014, University of Helsinki, Finland

Anna-Riikka Smolander, Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, POB 21, FI-00014, University of Helsinki, Finland; Logopedics, Welfare Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

Reima Karhila, Aalto University, Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics, P.O. Box 12200, FI-00076 Aalto, Finland

Anastasia Giannakopoulou, School of Psychology, University of Bedfordshire, Park Square, Luton LU1 3JU, United Kingdom

Maria Uther, Centre for Psychological Research, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education, Health and Wellbeing, University of Wolverhampton, M305, Millenium City Building, Wolverhampton WV1 1LY, United Kingdom

Mikko Kurimo, Aalto University, Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics, P.O. Box 12200, FI-00076 Aalto, Finland

Sari Ylinen, Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, POB 21, FI-00014, University of Helsinki, Finland; Logopedics, Welfare Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland; CICERO Learning, Faculty of Educational Sciences, P.O. Box 9, 00014, University of Helsinki, Finland

Abstract Digital games may benefit children’s learning, yet the factors that induce gaming benefits to cognition are not well known. In this study, we investigated the effectiveness of digital game-based learning in children by comparing the learning of foreign speech sounds and words in a digital game or a non-game digital application. To evaluate gaming-induced plastic changes in the brain, we used the mismatch negativity (MMN) brain response that reflects the access to long-term memory representations. We recorded auditory brain responses from 37 school-aged Finnish-speaking children before and after playing a computer-based language-learning game. The MMN amplitude increased between the pre- and post-measurement for the game condition but not for the non-game condition, suggesting that the gaming intervention enhanced learning more than the non-game intervention. The results indicate that digital games can be beneficial for children’s speech-sound learning and that gaming elements per se, not just practice time, support learning.

Key words Digital game-based learning, Gaming, Foreign-language learning, Automatic speech recognition

Continuous speech tracking in bilinguals reflects adaptation to both language and noise

Benjamin D. Zinszer, Department of Psychology, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, USA

QimingYuan, State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, China

Zhaoqi Zhang, State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, China

Bharath Chandrasekaran, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Taomei Guo, State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, China

Abstract Listeners regularly comprehend continuous speech despite noisy conditions. Previous studies show that neural tracking of speech degrades under noise, predicts comprehension, and increases for non-native listeners. We test the hypothesis that listeners similarly increase tracking for both L2 and noisy L1 speech, after adjusting for comprehension. Twenty-four Chinese-English bilinguals underwent EEG while listening to one hour of an audiobook, mixed with three levels of noise, in Mandarin and English and answered comprehension questions. We estimated tracking of the speech envelope in EEG for each one-minute segment using the multivariate temporal response function (mTRF). Contrary to our prediction, L2 tracking was significantly lower than L1, while L1 tracking significantly increased with noise maskers without reducing comprehension. However, greater L2 proficiency was positively associated with greater L2 tracking. We discuss how studies of speech envelope tracking using noise and bilingualism might be reconciled through a focus on exerted rather than demanded effort.

Key words Speech perception in noise, Continuous speech, mTRF, L2 proficiency

Cross-linguistic differences in case marking shape neural power dynamics and gaze behavior during sentence planning

Aitor Egurtzegi, Department of Comparative Language Science, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution, University of Zurich, Switzerland; English Department, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Damián E. Blasi, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, United States; Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy, University of South Australia, Australia; Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience Research Hub, University of South Australia, Australia

Itziar Laka, Department of Linguistics and Basque Studies, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain

Martin Meyer, Department of Comparative Language Science, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Cognitive Psychology Unit, Psychological Institute, University of Klagenfurt, Austria

Balthasar Bickel, Department of Comparative Language Science, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Sebastian Sauppe, Department of Comparative Language Science, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Abstract Languages differ in how they mark the dependencies between verbs and arguments, e.g., by case. An eye tracking and EEG picture description study examined the influence of case marking on the time course of sentence planning in Basque and Swiss German. While German assigns an unmarked (nominative) case to subjects, Basque specifically marks agent arguments through ergative case. Fixations to agents and event-related synchronization (ERS) in the theta and alpha frequency bands, as well as desynchronization (ERD) in the alpha and beta bands revealed multiple effects of case marking on the time course of early sentence planning. Speakers decided on case marking under planning early when preparing sentences with ergative-marked agents in Basque, whereas sentences with unmarked agents allowed delaying structural commitment across languages. These findings support hierarchically incremental accounts of sentence planning and highlight how cross-linguistic differences shape the neural dynamics underpinning language use.

Key words Sentence planning, Syntactic dependencies, Case marking, Event-related synchronization/desynchronizationThetaAlphaBetaEye tracking

Resting state electroencephalography (EEG) correlates with children’s language skills: Evidence from sentence repetition

Jarrad A.G. Lum, Gillian M. Clark, Felicity J. Bigelow, Peter G. Enticott, School of Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia

Abstract Spontaneous neural oscillatory activity reflects the brain’s functional architecture and has previously been shown to correlate with perceptual, motor and executive skills. The current study used resting state electroencephalography to examine the relationship between spontaneous neural oscillatory activity and children’s language skills. Participants in the study were 52 English-speaking children aged around 10-years. Language was assessed using a sentence repetition task. The main analysis revealed resting state theta power negatively correlated with this task. No significant correlations were found in the other studied frequency bands (delta, alpha, beta, gamma). As part of typical brain development, spontaneous theta power declines across childhood and adolescence. The negative correlation observed in this study may therefore be indicating children’s language skills are related to the maturation of theta oscillations. More generally, the study provides further evidence that oscillatory activity in the developing brain, even at rest, is reliably associated with children’s language skills.

Key words Resting state electroencephalography (RS-EEG), Quantitative electroencephalography (qEEG), Neural oscillations, Theta, Language, Sentence repetition

Top-down sensory prediction in the infant brain at 6 months is correlated with language development at 12 and 18 months

Shinmin Wang, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

Xian Zhang, Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine,New Haven, CT, USA

Tian Hong, Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT, USA

Ovid J.L. Tzeng, Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan; Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; Linguistic Institute, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Richard Aslin, Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT, USA; Department of Psychology and Child Study Center, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA; Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA

Abstract Previous research has suggested that top-down sensory prediction facilitates, and may be necessary for, efficient transmission of information in the brain. Here we related infants’ vocabulary development to the top-down sensory prediction indexed by occipital cortex activation to the unexpected absence of a visual stimulus previously paired with an auditory stimulus. The magnitude of the neural response to the unexpected omission of a visual stimulus was assessed at the age of 6 months with functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) and vocabulary scores were obtained using the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (MCDI) when infants reached the age of 12 months and 18 months, respectively. Results indicated significant positive correlations between this predictive neural signal at 6 months and MCDI expressive vocabulary scores at 12 and 18 months. These findings provide additional and robust support for the hypothesis that top-down prediction at the neural level plays a key role in infants’ language development.

Key words fNIRS, Infant, Top-down prediction, Vocabulary, Language development

Event related potential exploration of the organizational structure of abstract versus concrete words in neurologically intact younger adults

Chaleece W. Sandberg, Penn State University, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, United States

Erika Exton, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, United States

Kelly L. Coburn, Penn State University, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, United States

Soyeon Chun, Penn State University, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, United States

Carol Miller, Penn State University, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, United States

Abstract The purpose of this study was to test the effects of concreteness and relationship type (similarity vs. association) on semantic processing using event-related potentials (ERP). Neurophysiological evidence has been found for the concreteness effect and for an effect of relationship type. This study replicated and extended these findings by investigating the interaction of concreteness and relationship type. Twenty-four neurologically healthy young adults performed lexical decision and semantic relatedness tasks while continuous scalp EEG was recorded. Larger N400 effects were found for concrete words in associative relationships than for concrete words in similarity relationships and abstract words in either type of relationship. The results are discussed in relation to the different representational frameworks account for abstract and concrete word processing.

Key words ERP, N400, Concreteness effect, Taxonomic, Thematic

期刊简介

An interdisciplinary journal, Brain and Language publishes articles that elucidate the complex relationships among language, brain, and behavior. The journal covers the large variety of modern techniques in cognitive neuroscience, including functional and structural brain imaging, electrophysiology, cellular and molecular neurobiology, genetics, lesion-based approaches, and computational modeling. All articles must relate to human language and be relevant to the understanding of its neurobiological and neurocognitive bases. Published articles in the journal are expected to have significant theoretical novelty and/or practical implications, and use perspectives and methods from psychology, linguistics, and neuroscience along with brain data and brain measures.

《大脑与语言》是一本跨学科杂志，发表文章阐明语言、大脑和行为之间的复杂关系。该杂志涵盖了认知神经科学的多种现代技术，包括功能和结构脑成像、电生理学、细胞和分子神经生物学、遗传学、基于病变的方法和计算建模。所有文章必须与人类语言相关，并与对其神经生物学和神经认知基础的理解相关。该杂志上发表的文章预计将具有重大的理论新颖性和/或实践意义，并使用心理学、语言学和神经科学的观点和方法以及大脑数据和大脑测量。

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