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Hu, Zhonghua; Zhang, Ruiling; Zhang, Qinglin; Liu, Qiang; Li, Hong – Brain and Language, 2012
Previous studies have found a late frontal-central audiovisual interaction during the time period about 150-220 ms post-stimulus. However, it is unclear to which process is this audiovisual interaction related: to processing of acoustical features or to classification of stimuli? To investigate this question, event-related potentials were recorded…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Semantics, Interaction, Semiotics
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Rama, Pia; Relander-Syrjanen, Kristiina; Carlson, Synnove; Salonen, Oili; Kujala, Teija – Brain and Language, 2012
This fMRI study was conducted to investigate whether language semantics is processed even when attention is not explicitly directed to word meanings. In the "unattended" condition, the subjects performed a visual detection task while hearing semantically related and unrelated word pairs. In the "phoneme" condition, the subjects made phoneme…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Semantics, Attention, Language Processing
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Thompson, Cynthia K.; Cho, Soojin; Price, Charis; Wieneke, Christina; Bonakdarpour, Borna; Rogalski, Emily; Weintraub, Sandra; Mesulam, M-Marsel – Brain and Language, 2012
This study examined the time course of object naming in 21 individuals with primary progressive aphasia (PPA) (8 agrammatic (PPA-G); 13 logopenic (PPA-L)) and healthy age-matched speakers (n=17) using a semantic interference paradigm with related and unrelated interfering stimuli presented at stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs) of -1000, -500, -100…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Semantics, Aphasia, Patients
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Vergara-Martinez, Marta; Perea, Manuel; Gomez, Pablo; Swaab, Tamara Y. – Brain and Language, 2013
The encoding of letter position is a key aspect in all recently proposed models of visual-word recognition. We analyzed the impact of lexical frequency on letter position assignment by examining the temporal dynamics of lexical activation induced by pseudowords extracted from words of different frequencies. For each word (e.g., BRIDGE), we created…
Descriptors: Semantics, Word Recognition, Stimuli, Diagnostic Tests
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Henderson, Lisa M.; Baseler, Heidi A.; Clarke, Paula J.; Watson, Sarah; Snowling, Margaret J. – Brain and Language, 2011
Using event-related potentials (ERPs), we investigated the N400 (an ERP component that occurs in response to meaningful stimuli) in children aged 8-10 years old and examined relationships between the N400 and individual differences in listening comprehension, word recognition and non-word decoding. Moreover, we tested the claim that the N400…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Stimuli, Semantics, Word Recognition
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Menenti, Laura; Segaert, Katrien; Hagoort, Peter – Brain and Language, 2012
Models of speaking distinguish producing meaning, words and syntax as three different linguistic components of speaking. Nevertheless, little is known about the brain's integrated neuronal infrastructure for speech production. We investigated semantic, lexical and syntactic aspects of speaking using fMRI. In a picture description task, we…
Descriptors: Sentences, Speech Communication, Semantics, Syntax
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Newman, Sharlene D.; Ikuta, Toshikazu; Burns, Thomas, Jr. – Brain and Language, 2010
The sentences we process in normal conversation tend to refer to information that we are familiar with rather than abstract, unrelated information. This allows for the use of knowledge stores to help facilitate comprehension processes. In many sentence comprehension studies, the stimuli are designed such that the use of world knowledge is limited.…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Nouns, Short Term Memory
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Hocking, Julia; Price, Cathy J. – Brain and Language, 2009
This fMRI study investigates how audiovisual integration differs for verbal stimuli that can be matched at a phonological level and nonverbal stimuli that can be matched at a semantic level. Subjects were presented simultaneously with one visual and one auditory stimulus and were instructed to decide whether these stimuli referred to the same…
Descriptors: Verbal Stimuli, Semantics, Cognitive Processes, Diagnostic Tests
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Knuepffer, C.; Murdoch, B. E.; Lloyd, D.; Lewis, F. M.; Hinchliffe, F. J. – Brain and Language, 2012
The immediate and long-term neural correlates of linguistic processing deficits reported following paediatric and adolescent traumatic brain injury (TBI) are poorly understood. Therefore, the current research investigated event-related potentials (ERPs) elicited during a semantic picture-word priming experiment in two groups of highly functioning…
Descriptors: Priming, Control Groups, Semantics, Linguistics
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Welcome, Suzanne E.; Joanisse, Marc F. – Brain and Language, 2012
We used fMRI to examine patterns of brain activity associated with component processes of visual word recognition and their relationships to individual differences in reading skill. We manipulated both the judgments adults made on written stimuli and the characteristics of the stimuli. Phonological processing led to activation in left inferior…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Visual Stimuli, Semantics, Sight Vocabulary
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Hsiao, Esther Y.; Schwartz, Myrna F.; Schnur, Tatiana T.; Dell, Gary S. – Brain and Language, 2009
When unimpaired participants name pictures quickly, they produce many perseverations that bear a semantic relation to the target, especially when the pictures are blocked by category. Evidence suggests that the temporal properties of these "semantic perseverations" may differ from typical lexical perseverations in aphasia. To explore this, we…
Descriptors: Intervals, Semantics, Aphasia, Reaction Time
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Rogalsky, Corianne; Pitz, Eleanor; Hillis, Argye E.; Hickok, Gregory – Brain and Language, 2008
Auditory word comprehension was assessed in a series of 289 acute left hemisphere stroke patients. Participants decided whether an auditorily presented word matched a picture. On different trials, words were presented with a matching picture, a semantic foil, or a phonemic foil. Participants had significantly more trouble with semantic foils…
Descriptors: Phonemics, Semantics, Patients, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Bastiaansen, Marcel C. M.; Oostenveld, Robert; Jensen, Ole; Hagoort, Peter – Brain and Language, 2008
An influential hypothesis regarding the neural basis of the mental lexicon is that semantic representations are neurally implemented as distributed networks carrying sensory, motor and/or more abstract functional information. This work investigates whether the semantic properties of words partly determine the topography of such networks. Subjects…
Descriptors: Topography, Semantics, Nouns, Musicians
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Dikker, Suzanne; Pylkkanen, Liina – Brain and Language, 2011
There exists an increasing body of research demonstrating that language processing is aided by context-based predictions. Recent findings suggest that the brain generates estimates about the likely physical appearance of upcoming words based on syntactic predictions: words that do not physically look like the expected syntactic category show…
Descriptors: Stimulation, Semantics, Form Classes (Languages), Prediction
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Guo, Yi; Burgund, E. Darcy – Brain and Language, 2010
The left mid-fusiform gyrus is repeatedly reported to be involved in visual word processing. Nevertheless, it is controversial whether this area responds to orthographic processing of reading. To examine this idea, neural activity was measured using functional magnetic resonance imaging in the present study while subjects performed phonological,…
Descriptors: Semantics, Romanization, Chinese, Language Processing
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