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At the group level, the expected disadvantage for action language emerged only in HSP-SPG4 patients, restricted to literal language, with no limb differences. At the single-case level, literal action-language impairment affected up to 50% of HSP-SPG4 patients, with the expected disadvantage for lower-limb verbs, but was negligible in ALS. Figurative action language was impaired in 20% of ALS and 40% of HSP-SPG4 patients, but somatotopic effects were limited. Findings support the motor simulation account at literal and figurative levels. Yet they also highlight the gradual nature of motor grounding disruption in motor neuron diseases, depending on linguistic contexts and clinical profiles.", "publicationTitle": "Language, Cognition and Neuroscience", "publisher": "Routledge", "place": "", "date": "2026-03-30", "volume": "0", "issue": "0", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "1-30", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "Lang. 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Anatomical, clinical, and neuroimaging studies, however, have also firmly established that the cerebellum holds an important role in cognition. Even though this topic has received considerable attention, we still do not know the exact nature of this contribution. This Unsolved Mystery reviews known facts about how the cerebellum contributes to cognition and identifies roadblocks that have prevented the development of a unified theory. Addressing these key questions should help the field develop the testable, falsifiable hypotheses that are needed to solve this intriguing question.", "publicationTitle": "PLoS Biology", "publisher": "Public Library of Science", "place": "", "date": "Mar 23, 2026", "volume": "24", "issue": "3", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "e3003688", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "PLOS Biology", "DOI": "10.1371/journal.pbio.3003688", "citationKey": "", "url": "https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003688", "accessDate": "2026-03-26T19:01:45Z", "PMID": "", "PMCID": "", "ISSN": "1545-7885", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "", "language": "en", "libraryCatalog": "PLoS Journals", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "", "tags": [ { "tag": "Cerebellum", "type": 1 }, { "tag": "Learning and memory" }, { "tag": "Marco@neurolanguage" } ], "collections": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2026-03-27T16:00:17Z", "dateModified": "2026-03-27T16:00:17Z" } }, { "key": "9Y4DQGU4", "version": 2481, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 66799, "name": "neurolanguage", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/neurolanguage", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/66799/items/9Y4DQGU4", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/neurolanguage/items/9Y4DQGU4", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 896785, "username": "marcotettamanti", "name": "Marco Tettamanti", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/marcotettamanti", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Epihova et al.", "parsedDate": "2026-02-18", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "9Y4DQGU4", "version": 2481, "itemType": "journalArticle", "title": "The Fronto-Temporal Cortex Has Increased Subcortical Connectivity In Utero and Plasticity in Adulthood", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Gabriela", "lastName": "Epihova" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Dimitar Z.", "lastName": "Epihov" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Danyal", "lastName": "Akarca" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Duncan E.", "lastName": "Astle" } ], "abstractNote": "The adult cerebral cortex is a heterogeneous structure with prominent functional differences between regions. However, less is known about how different regions acquire and maintain their functionality. Here, we leveraged connectomes and brain transcriptomes from human fetal and adult brains of both sexes to investigate early and late differences between cortical regions. We show that at 24 postgestational weeks fronto-temporal regions are disproportionally connected to subcortical regions, highlighting their role in early integrative cortical-subcortical communication. In adulthood, fronto-temporal cortex has lower myelin content and exhibits lower expression of marker genes of perineuronal nets, while showing higher expression of undifferentiated progenitor cells markers. These results suggest that in the adult brain the function of fronto-temporal regions reflects a heightened state of plasticity, possibly to maximize flexible neural responses. In contrast, the function of parietal and occipital regions aligns with decreased plasticity needed to support stable neural dynamics. Linking physiology to pathology, we show that the greater plasticity of the fronto-temporal cortex is coupled to higher oncogenic vulnerability—frontal and temporal regions have greater incidence of gliomas and express higher levels of genes upregulated in glioma even in the absence of malignancy, suggesting a greater glioma-like normative expression state. Together, these findings highlight the divergent patterns of connectivity in utero and plasticity in adulthood between cortical regions and provide a framework in which functional differences across cortical regions reflect differences in connectivity and plasticity.", "publicationTitle": "Journal of Neuroscience", "publisher": "Society for Neuroscience", "place": "", "date": "2026/02/18", "volume": "46", "issue": "7", "section": "Research Articles", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "J. Neurosci.", "DOI": "10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0832-25.2025", "citationKey": "", "url": "https://www.jneurosci.org/content/46/7/e0832252025", "accessDate": "2026-02-18T19:41:24Z", "PMID": "41565475", "PMCID": "", "ISSN": "0270-6474, 1529-2401", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "", "language": "en", "libraryCatalog": "www.jneurosci.org", "callNumber": "", "rights": "Copyright © 2026 Epihova et al.. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.", "extra": "", "tags": [ { "tag": "Brain plasticity" }, { "tag": "Fetal development" }, { "tag": "Fronto-temporal circuits" }, { "tag": "Functional connectivity" }, { "tag": "Marco@neurolanguage" } ], "collections": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2026-03-02T08:36:01Z", "dateModified": "2026-03-02T08:36:01Z" } }, { "key": "INFF8UZB", "version": 2480, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 66799, "name": "neurolanguage", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/neurolanguage", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/66799/items/INFF8UZB", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/neurolanguage/items/INFF8UZB", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 896785, "username": "marcotettamanti", "name": "Marco Tettamanti", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/marcotettamanti", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Klimovich-Gray et al.", "parsedDate": "2026-02-01", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "INFF8UZB", "version": 2480, "itemType": "journalArticle", "title": "Dyslexia: a window into the cortical mechanisms of adaptive speech analysis", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Anastasia", "lastName": "Klimovich-Gray" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Mirjana", "lastName": "Bozic" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Nicola", "lastName": "Molinaro" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Marie", "lastName": "Lallier" } ], "abstractNote": "Atypical phonological processing is at the core of developmental dyslexia and is linked to aberrant tracking and analysis of auditory information in the cortex. Despite the importance of these mechanisms for speech processing and linguistic development, oral language comprehension in dyslexia remains largely intact. Recent findings suggest that dyslexia-linked atypical cortical processing patterns reflect both underlying deficits and compensatory strategies. This review synthesizes recent evidence linking atypical cortical tracking of auditory information in dyslexia, language development, and neurocognitive mechanisms of adaptive and resilient speech comprehension. We propose hemispheric rebalancing of linguistic analysis as a key compensatory mechanism in dyslexia, supported by interhemispheric connectivity within the distributed bilateral language network and greater reliance on lexico-semantic features during speech processing.", "publicationTitle": "Trends in Neurosciences", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "2026-02-01", "volume": "49", "issue": "2", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "111-124", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "Trends Neurosci.", "DOI": "10.1016/j.tins.2025.12.004", "citationKey": "", "url": "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166223625002619", "accessDate": "2026-02-10T16:10:46Z", "PMID": "", "PMCID": "", "ISSN": "0166-2236", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "Dyslexia", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "ScienceDirect", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "", "tags": [ { "tag": "Compensatory mechanisms" }, { "tag": "Dyslexia" }, { "tag": "Language processing" }, { "tag": "Marco@neurolanguage" }, { "tag": "Music" }, { "tag": "Neural tracking / entrainment" }, { "tag": "Reading" } ], "collections": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2026-02-13T15:43:14Z", "dateModified": "2026-02-13T15:43:14Z" } }, { "key": "R3G65DLL", "version": 2478, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 66799, "name": "neurolanguage", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/neurolanguage", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/66799/items/R3G65DLL", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/neurolanguage/items/R3G65DLL", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 896785, "username": "marcotettamanti", "name": "Marco Tettamanti", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/marcotettamanti", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Mechtenberg et al.", "parsedDate": "2026-02-01", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "R3G65DLL", "version": 2478, "itemType": "journalArticle", "title": "Measuring brain sensitivity to semantic distance in spoken narrative comprehension", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Hannah", "lastName": "Mechtenberg" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Jamie", "lastName": "Reilly" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Jonathan E.", "lastName": "Peelle" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Emily B.", "lastName": "Myers" } ], "abstractNote": "Discourse comprehension requires simultaneous integration of local and global constituents. When hearing a narrative, for example, listeners must link the meaning of each incoming word to the preceding word (local context) while also assimilating its meaning into the broader gist of a story (global context). Thus, the brain simultaneously constructs meaning at different time scales and with different levels of granularity. Our understanding of the brain's division of labor in processing local versus global semantic distance relationships is limited. In this study we ask specifically how the semantic distance between a word and its prior context drives activity in the brain during naturalistic listening. We used fMRI data collected while participants (n = 79) listened to a podcast interview. Using a novel method for estimating semantic distance between a word and prior contexts computed at multiple grain sizes, we conducted an amplitude-modulated regression to identify brain regions that were sensitive to semantic distance. Results show that semantic distance drives activation in a broad frontotemporal network including the left and right superior and middle temporal gyrus and left inferior frontal gyrus, as well as the bilateral cerebellum. The right anterior superior temporal gyrus was particularly sensitive to the increase in context window size, consistent with a right hemisphere specialization for gist processing and for the anterior temporal lobes' purported role in semantic integration. This study demonstrates a promising method for investigating neural sensitivity to semantic movement in naturalistic language.", "publicationTitle": "Cortex", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "2026-02-01", "volume": "195", "issue": "", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "28-42", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "Cortex", "DOI": "10.1016/j.cortex.2025.12.004", "citationKey": "", "url": "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001094522500317X", "accessDate": "2026-01-31T14:40:44Z", "PMID": "", "PMCID": "", "ISSN": "0010-9452", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "ScienceDirect", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "", "tags": [ { "tag": "#BLOD" }, { "tag": "Conceptual semantics" }, { "tag": "Marco@neurolanguage" }, { "tag": "Narrative language processing" }, { "tag": "Semantic distance" }, { "tag": "Speech processing" } ], "collections": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2026-02-07T14:15:39Z", "dateModified": "2026-02-07T14:15:39Z" } }, { "key": "PBPN3E2R", "version": 2477, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 66799, "name": "neurolanguage", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/neurolanguage", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/66799/items/PBPN3E2R", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/neurolanguage/items/PBPN3E2R", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 896785, "username": "marcotettamanti", "name": "Marco Tettamanti", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/marcotettamanti", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Goble et al.", "parsedDate": "2026-01-28", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "PBPN3E2R", "version": 2477, "itemType": "journalArticle", "title": "Tracking Acquisition of Language in Kids (TALK) study protocol: A longitudinal investigation of infants at high vs. low risk for atypical speech and language development", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Gina", "lastName": "Goble" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Victoria", "lastName": "Hennessy" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Tzu-Han Zoe", "lastName": "Cheng" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Amy", "lastName": "Rodda" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Samu", "lastName": "Taulu" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Reyna L.", "lastName": "Gordon" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "T. Christina", "lastName": "Zhao" } ], "abstractNote": "The sensitive period for phonetic learning, normally considered to be between 6–12 months of age, has been demonstrated as one of the earliest milestones for language development. Infant speech processing towards the end of the sensitive period has been shown to predict individual language development trajectories up to school entry and most recently, risk of speech and language disorders, suggesting its potential clinical relevance. Yet, this literature is largely limited to typically developing infants with regard to their family histories of speech and language delays or disorders. The current study begins to fill the gap by investigating associations between neural markers of the sensitive period, family history risk factors, and language outcomes by gathering extensive information from a large group of infants. Specifically, family information includes an extensive parental survey of family background and clinical history, a comprehensive assessment of language skills for one older sibling by a research speech-language pathologist (SLP), and a daylong audio recording in infants’ homes for assessing their language environment. The study design focuses on comparing neural predictors of language development in infants with or without first-degree family history of speech and language delays and disorders (i.e., High vs. Low-Risk infants). Infants’ neural speech processing is measured three times using Magnetoencephalography at 6 months, 12 months, and 14 months of age. Infants’ language development is tracked until school entry by both parental surveys and the same comprehensive assessment protocol with a research SLP. This protocol documents the study design and methodological details for data collection and preprocessing. This study will allow our research team to start tackling important questions regarding early predictors of speech and language delays and disorders (e.g., late-talking, Developmental Language Disorder) and contribute significant value to the broader field.", "publicationTitle": "PLoS ONE", "publisher": "Public Library of Science", "place": "", "date": "Jan 28, 2026", "volume": "21", "issue": "1", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "e0335596", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "PLoS ONE", "DOI": "10.1371/journal.pone.0335596", "citationKey": "", "url": "https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0335596", "accessDate": "2026-01-29T07:37:43Z", "PMID": "", "PMCID": "", "ISSN": "1932-6203", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "Tracking Acquisition of Language in Kids (TALK) study protocol", "language": "en", "libraryCatalog": "PLoS Journals", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "", "tags": [ { "tag": "Developmental language disorders" }, { "tag": "Familial risk" }, { "tag": "Language acquisition", "type": 1 }, { "tag": "Marco@neurolanguage" }, { "tag": "Speech", "type": 1 } ], "collections": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2026-01-30T14:59:31Z", "dateModified": "2026-01-30T14:59:45Z" } }, { "key": "DXLLAP73", "version": 2476, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 66799, "name": "neurolanguage", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/neurolanguage", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/66799/items/DXLLAP73", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/neurolanguage/items/DXLLAP73", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 896785, "username": "marcotettamanti", "name": "Marco Tettamanti", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/marcotettamanti", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Lebkuecher et al.", "parsedDate": "2026-01-01", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "DXLLAP73", "version": 2476, "itemType": "journalArticle", "title": "The cognitive neuropsychology of action semantics: A review", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Amy L.", "lastName": "Lebkuecher" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "H. Branch", "lastName": "Coslett" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Laurel J.", "lastName": "Buxbaum" } ], "abstractNote": "The conceptual knowledge that mediates our ability to use familiar objects, understand viewed actions, and engage in communication about actions is often termed “action semantics”. The underlying format, cognitive organization, and neural substrates of these representations are matters of active scientific investigation. This review synthesizes the large and diverse literature on action semantics in individuals with neurological disorders characterized by prominent motor deficits (e.g., Parkinson's disease and Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), as well as those for whom motor deficits are often less prominent (e.g., Alzheimer's disease, Frontotemporal Dementia, stroke). Research in these two groups of disorders is strikingly “siloed” and offers many contradictory findings with respect to whether action semantic representations are abstract (i.e., “disembodied”) or grounded in sensory and motor features that reflect the way knowledge was acquired. Findings across these populations also disagree as to whether action semantic representations are organized somatotopically or with a semantic feature-based architecture, and mediated by anterior motor-related or relatively posterior sensory-related brain regions. Many of these disparate findings can be reconciled with consideration of a multidimensional, multimodal representational architecture mediated by a distributed left-lateralized network of brain regions. We provide suggestions for specific methodological approaches for research with neurological populations that may further our understanding of the format, organization, and neural substrates of action semantics.", "publicationTitle": "Cortex", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "2026-01-01", "volume": "194", "issue": "", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "159-190", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "Cortex", "DOI": "10.1016/j.cortex.2025.11.008", "citationKey": "", "url": "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010945225002977", "accessDate": "2026-01-10T14:36:02Z", "PMID": "", "PMCID": "", "ISSN": "0010-9452", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "The cognitive neuropsychology of action semantics", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "ScienceDirect", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "", "tags": [ { "tag": "Action representation" }, { "tag": "Action-related concepts" }, { "tag": "Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)" }, { "tag": "Conceptual semantics" }, { "tag": "Fronto-temporal dementia (FTD)" }, { "tag": "Marco@neurolanguage" }, { "tag": "Parkinson's Disease (PD)" }, { "tag": "Stroke", "type": 1 } ], "collections": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2026-01-16T16:29:21Z", "dateModified": "2026-01-16T16:29:21Z" } }, { "key": "28F5EQ2C", "version": 2473, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 66799, "name": "neurolanguage", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/neurolanguage", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/66799/items/28F5EQ2C", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/neurolanguage/items/28F5EQ2C", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 896785, "username": "marcotettamanti", "name": "Marco Tettamanti", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/marcotettamanti", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Agmon et al.", "parsedDate": "2025-09-05", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "28F5EQ2C", "version": 2473, "itemType": "journalArticle", "title": "Challenges and Methods in Annotating Natural Speech for Neurolinguistic Research", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Galit", "lastName": "Agmon" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Manuela", "lastName": "Jaeger" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Ella", "lastName": "Magen" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Danna", "lastName": "Pinto" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Yuval", "lastName": "Perelmuter" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Elana", "lastName": "Zion Golumbic" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Martin G.", "lastName": "Bleichner" } ], "abstractNote": "Spoken language is central to human communication, influencing cognition, learning, and social interactions. Despite its spontaneous nature, characterized by disfluencies, fillers, self-corrections and irregular syntax, it effectively serves its communicative purpose. Understanding how the brain processes natural language offers valuable insights into the neurobiology of language. Recent neuroscience advancements allow us to study neural processes in response to ongoing speech, requiring detailed, time-locked descriptions of speech material to capture the nuances of spoken language. While there are many speech-to-text tools available, obtaining a time-locked true verbatim transcript, reflecting everything that was uttered, requires additional effort to achieve an accurate representation. We demonstrate the challenges involved in the process of obtaining time-resolved annotation of spontaneous speech, by presenting two semi-automatic pipelines, developed for German and Hebrew but adaptable to other languages. The outputs of these pipelines enable analyses of the neural representation and processing of key linguistic features. We discuss the methodological challenges and opportunities posed by current state-of-the-art pipelines, and advocate for new lines of natural language processing research aimed at advancing our understanding of how the brain processes everyday language.", "publicationTitle": "Neurobiology of Language", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "2025-09-05", "volume": "6", "issue": "", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "nol.a.12", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "Neurobiol. Lang.", "DOI": "10.1162/nol.a.12", "citationKey": "", "url": "https://doi.org/10.1162/nol.a.12", "accessDate": "2026-01-07T09:01:02Z", "PMID": "", "PMCID": "", "ISSN": "2641-4368", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "Silverchair", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "", "tags": [ { "tag": "#BLOD" }, { "tag": "Language" }, { "tag": "Marco@neurolanguage" }, { "tag": "Narrative language processing" }, { "tag": "Tagging" } ], "collections": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2026-01-09T10:39:38Z", "dateModified": "2026-01-09T10:39:38Z" } }, { "key": "ABVDN7FA", "version": 2473, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 66799, "name": "neurolanguage", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/neurolanguage", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/66799/items/ABVDN7FA", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/neurolanguage/items/ABVDN7FA", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 896785, "username": "marcotettamanti", "name": "Marco Tettamanti", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/marcotettamanti", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Rowland et al.", "parsedDate": "2026-01-01", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "ABVDN7FA", "version": 2473, "itemType": "journalArticle", "title": "Constructing language: a framework for explaining acquisition", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Caroline F.", "lastName": "Rowland" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Gert", "lastName": "Westermann" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Anna L.", "lastName": "Theakston" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Julian M.", "lastName": "Pine" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Padraic", "lastName": "Monaghan" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Elena V. M.", "lastName": "Lieven" } ], "abstractNote": "Explaining how children build a language system is a central goal of research in language acquisition, with broad implications for language evolution, adult language processing, and artificial intelligence (AI). Here, we propose a constructivist framework for future theory-building in language acquisition. We describe four components of constructivism, drawing on wide-ranging evidence to argue that theories based on these components will be well suited to explaining developmental change. We show how adopting a constructivist framework both provides plausible answers to old questions (e.g., how children build linguistic representations from their input) and generates new questions (e.g., how children adapt to the affordances provided by different cultures and languages).", "publicationTitle": "Trends in Cognitive Sciences", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "2026-01-01", "volume": "30", "issue": "1", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "26-39", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "Trends Cogn. Sci.", "DOI": "10.1016/j.tics.2025.05.015", "citationKey": "", "url": "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661325001421", "accessDate": "2026-01-06T16:25:37Z", "PMID": "", "PMCID": "", "ISSN": "1364-6613", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "Constructing language", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "ScienceDirect", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "", "tags": [ { "tag": "Constructivism" }, { "tag": "Language acquisition" }, { "tag": "Language development" }, { "tag": "Language-ready brain" }, { "tag": "Marco@neurolanguage" } ], "collections": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2026-01-09T10:38:06Z", "dateModified": "2026-01-09T10:38:06Z" } }, { "key": "MVVHAJTH", "version": 2476, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 66799, "name": "neurolanguage", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/neurolanguage", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/66799/items/MVVHAJTH", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/neurolanguage/items/MVVHAJTH", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 896785, "username": "marcotettamanti", "name": "Marco Tettamanti", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/marcotettamanti", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Amelink et al.", "parsedDate": "2024-09-28", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "MVVHAJTH", "version": 2476, "itemType": "journalArticle", "title": "Imaging genetics of language network functional connectivity reveals links with language-related abilities, dyslexia and handedness", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Jitse S.", "lastName": "Amelink" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Merel C.", "lastName": "Postema" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Xiang-Zhen", "lastName": "Kong" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Dick", "lastName": "Schijven" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Amaia", "lastName": "Carrión-Castillo" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Sourena", "lastName": "Soheili-Nezhad" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Zhiqiang", "lastName": "Sha" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Barbara", "lastName": "Molz" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Marc", "lastName": "Joliot" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Simon E.", "lastName": "Fisher" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Clyde", "lastName": "Francks" } ], "abstractNote": "Language is supported by a distributed network of brain regions with a particular contribution from the left hemisphere. A multi-level understanding of this network requires studying its genetic architecture. We used resting-state imaging data from 29,681 participants (UK Biobank) to measure connectivity between 18 left-hemisphere regions involved in multimodal sentence-level processing, as well as their right-hemisphere homotopes, and interhemispheric connections. Multivariate genome-wide association analysis of this total network, based on genetic variants with population frequencies  >1%, identified 14 genomic loci, of which three were also associated with asymmetry of intrahemispheric connectivity. Polygenic dispositions to lower language-related abilities, dyslexia and left-handedness were associated with generally reduced leftward asymmetry of functional connectivity. Exome-wide association analysis based on rare, protein-altering variants (frequencies <1%) suggested 7 additional genes. These findings shed new light on genetic contributions to language network organization and related behavioural traits.", "publicationTitle": "Communications Biology", "publisher": "Nature Publishing Group", "place": "", "date": "2024-09-28", "volume": "7", "issue": "1", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "1209", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "Commun. Biol.", "DOI": "10.1038/s42003-024-06890-3", "citationKey": "", "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-024-06890-3", "accessDate": "2025-12-30T14:21:46Z", "PMID": "", "PMCID": "", "ISSN": "2399-3642", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "", "language": "en", "libraryCatalog": "www.nature.com", "callNumber": "", "rights": "2024 The Author(s)", "extra": "", "tags": [ { "tag": "Dyslexia" }, { "tag": "Functional connectivity" }, { "tag": "Handedness" }, { "tag": "Language" }, { "tag": "Language and genes" }, { "tag": "Marco@neurolanguage" } ], "collections": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2026-01-09T10:35:07Z", "dateModified": "2026-01-09T10:35:07Z" } }, { "key": "UDIVTB6H", "version": 2476, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 66799, "name": "neurolanguage", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/neurolanguage", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/66799/items/UDIVTB6H", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/neurolanguage/items/UDIVTB6H", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 896785, "username": "marcotettamanti", "name": "Marco Tettamanti", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/marcotettamanti", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Liaw et al.", "parsedDate": "2026-01", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "UDIVTB6H", "version": 2476, "itemType": "journalArticle", "title": "Developing Associations to the Sounds of a Name", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Peggy", "lastName": "Liaw" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "David M.", "lastName": "Sidhu" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Lorraine D.", "lastName": "Reggin" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Penny M.", "lastName": "Pexman" } ], "abstractNote": "Sound symbolism refers to associations between language sounds and certain perceptual or semantic properties. One well‐studied example is the maluma/takete effect, in which individuals tend to associate round‐sounding nonwords like maluma with round shapes, and spiky‐sounding nonwords like takete with spiky shapes. This phenomenon suggests that certain sounds are perceived as better suited to particular visual shapes, and it provides a means by which language can be non‐arbitrary. Research has demonstrated that sound symbolism further extends from nonwords to real first names, a phenomenon known as name sound symbolism. In addition to phonological cues, research on name sound symbolism reveals an association between a name's perceived gender and shape: femaleness is associated with roundness, whereas maleness is associated with spikiness. However, previous studies have focused on adults, leaving open the question of whether children also show these associations. The present study examined the emergence of name sound symbolism in children, considering individual differences such as age and language ability. Results indicated that adults exhibit stronger sensitivity to both name sound symbolism and gender‐shape associations than children. Although the gender‐shape association is present in 5‐ to 7‐year‐olds, name sound symbolism may emerge at a later age. Our results point to the possibility that the presence of semantic meanings or sociolinguistic information like gender may compete with phonological cues when processing real words, thus attenuating the sound symbolic effect. These findings have important implications on how sound symbolism operates in nonwords versus in real words., \nAlthough adults showed sensitivity to name sound symbolism, the effect is still developing in children and may emerge after 7 years of age.Gender‐shape association exists for both adults and children, and the association is stronger in adults than in children.Adults showed stronger effects of both name sound symbolism and gender‐shape association than children, indicating adults’ ability to attend to both sources of information simultaneously.Sound symbolism is attenuated in real words due to additional cues like semantic meanings. This suggests non‐phonological factors may override phonological information in real words.", "publicationTitle": "Developmental Science", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "2026-1", "volume": "29", "issue": "1", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "e70107", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "Dev. Sci.", "DOI": "10.1111/desc.70107", "citationKey": "", "url": "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12713333/", "accessDate": "2025-12-22T08:47:21Z", "PMID": "41410280", "PMCID": "PMC12713333", "ISSN": "1363-755X", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "PubMed Central", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "", "tags": [ { "tag": "Associative learning" }, { "tag": "Conceptual semantics" }, { "tag": "Language development" }, { "tag": "Marco@neurolanguage" }, { "tag": "Phonology" }, { "tag": "Sound symbolism" } ], "collections": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2026-01-09T10:31:43Z", "dateModified": "2026-01-09T10:31:43Z" } }, { "key": "NBAJVH8H", "version": 2476, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 66799, "name": "neurolanguage", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/neurolanguage", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/66799/items/NBAJVH8H", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/neurolanguage/items/NBAJVH8H", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 896785, "username": "marcotettamanti", "name": "Marco Tettamanti", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/marcotettamanti", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Lyu et al.", "parsedDate": "2025-12-16", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "NBAJVH8H", "version": 2476, "itemType": "journalArticle", "title": "Building hierarchically nested structure by rapid neural sequences", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Bingjiang", "lastName": "Lyu" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Lang", "lastName": "Qin" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Xiongfei", "lastName": "Wang" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Jianxin", "lastName": "Ou" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Matthew M.", "lastName": "Nour" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Nai", "lastName": "Ding" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Jia-Hong", "lastName": "Gao" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Yunzhe", "lastName": "Liu" } ], "abstractNote": "Hierarchically nested structures are fundamental to human cognition, enabling complex behaviors across domains including language, planning, and mathematics. However, the neural mechanisms that enable the flexible construction of these hierarchical structures are poorly understood. Here, we designed a task where participants mentally built sequences with nested, multidepth structures by recursively applying a fixed set of rules. Using magnetoencephalography, we find that the brain constructs nested hierarchies through rapid neural sequences that perform two recurring generative operations. The first operation identifies the hierarchy depth of a symbol and is associated with increased ripple-band power; while the second arranges the symbol into its correct order at that level, a process that scales with the number of depths, also positively correlated with planning time. These results reveal a fundamental neural computation for transforming sensory information into structured representations, which is essential for higher-order cognition.", "publicationTitle": "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A.", "publisher": "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences", "place": "", "date": "2025-12-16", "volume": "122", "issue": "50", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "e2507417122", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.", "DOI": "10.1073/pnas.2507417122", "citationKey": "", "url": "https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2507417122", "accessDate": "2025-12-17T09:04:58Z", "PMID": "", "PMCID": "", "ISSN": "", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "pnas.org (Atypon)", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "", "tags": [ { "tag": "Hierarchical cognitive structures" }, { "tag": "Marco@neurolanguage" }, { "tag": "Syntax" } ], "collections": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2025-12-19T14:26:36Z", "dateModified": "2025-12-19T14:26:36Z" } }, { "key": "6SMBMLQY", "version": 2470, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 66799, "name": "neurolanguage", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/neurolanguage", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/66799/items/6SMBMLQY", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/neurolanguage/items/6SMBMLQY", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 896785, "username": "marcotettamanti", "name": "Marco Tettamanti", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/marcotettamanti", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Marino et al.", "parsedDate": "2025-12-01", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "6SMBMLQY", "version": 2470, "itemType": "journalArticle", "title": "Do newborns detect prosodic violations in an unfamiliar language at birth?", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Caterina", "lastName": "Marino" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Jessica", "lastName": "Gemignani" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Marcela", "lastName": "Peña" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Anna", "lastName": "Martinez-Alvarez" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Luca", "lastName": "Bonadies" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Eugenio", "lastName": "Baraldi" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Judit", "lastName": "Gervain" } ], "abstractNote": "Experience with language starts prenatally, as the intrauterine environment allows speech prosody to get through. Martinez-Alvarez and colleagues (2023) demonstrated that newborns detect utterance-level prosodic violations in the language they heard prenatally, French. It remains unknown, however, whether this discrimination ability requires prenatal experience with a given language or whether newborns have an early sensitivity to the shapes of prosodic contours that extends beyond prenatal experience. To this purpose, we tested infants exposed prenatally to Italian with the French stimuli of Martinez-Alvarez et al. (2023), and we measured their brain responses with fNIRS. We found that Italian-exposed newborns discriminate between standard and deviant prosodic contours in French, activating right hemispheric areas specialized for the processing of prosody in adults. However, the time course and the localization of the effect were different from those found in French newborns. This suggests that an early sensitivity to prosodic contours may be modulated by prenatal experience at birth.", "publicationTitle": "Brain and Language", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "2025-12-01", "volume": "271", "issue": "", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "105640", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "Brain Lang.", "DOI": "10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105640", "citationKey": "", "url": "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0093934X25001099", "accessDate": "2025-12-11T14:09:08Z", "PMID": "", "PMCID": "", "ISSN": "0093-934X", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "ScienceDirect", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "", "tags": [ { "tag": "Marco@neurolanguage" }, { "tag": "Newborns", "type": 1 }, { "tag": "Prenatal language exposure" }, { "tag": "Prosody", "type": 1 }, { "tag": "Speech perception", "type": 1 } ], "collections": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2025-12-12T14:07:48Z", "dateModified": "2025-12-12T14:07:48Z" } }, { "key": "3BKX48XB", "version": 2476, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 66799, "name": "neurolanguage", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/neurolanguage", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/66799/items/3BKX48XB", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/neurolanguage/items/3BKX48XB", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 896785, "username": "marcotettamanti", "name": "Marco Tettamanti", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/marcotettamanti", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Jessen et al.", "parsedDate": "2025-12-10", "numChildren": 1 }, "data": { "key": "3BKX48XB", "version": 2476, "itemType": "journalArticle", "title": "Neural Tracking of the Maternal Voice in the Infant Brain", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Sarah", "lastName": "Jessen" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Martin", "lastName": "Orf" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Jonas", "lastName": "Obleser" } ], "abstractNote": "Infants preferentially process familiar social signals, but the neural mechanisms underlying continuous processing of maternal speech remain unclear. Using EEG-based neural encoding models based on temporal response functions, we investigated how 7-month-old human infants track maternal versus unfamiliar speech and whether this affects simultaneous face processing. Infants (13 boys, 12 girls) showed stronger neural tracking of their mother's voice, independent of acoustic properties, suggesting an early neural signature of voice familiarity. Furthermore, central encoding of unfamiliar faces was diminished when infants heard their mother's voice and face tracking accuracy at central electrodes increased with earlier occipital face tracking, suggesting heightened attentional engagement. However, we found no evidence for differential processing of happy versus fearful faces, contrasting previous findings on early emotion discrimination. Our results reveal interactive effects of voice familiarity on multimodal processing in infancy: while maternal speech enhances neural tracking, it may also alter how other social cues, such as faces, are processed. The findings suggest that early auditory experiences shape how infants allocate cognitive resources to social stimuli, emphasizing the need to consider cross-modal influences in early development.", "publicationTitle": "Journal of Neuroscience", "publisher": "Society for Neuroscience", "place": "", "date": "2025/12/10", "volume": "45", "issue": "50", "section": "Research Articles", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "J. Neurosci.", "DOI": "10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0646-25.2025", "citationKey": "", "url": "https://www.jneurosci.org/content/45/50/e0646252025", "accessDate": "2025-12-10T19:57:32Z", "PMID": "41213804", "PMCID": "", "ISSN": "0270-6474, 1529-2401", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "", "language": "en", "libraryCatalog": "www.jneurosci.org", "callNumber": "", "rights": "Copyright © 2025 the authors. SfN exclusive license.", "extra": "", "tags": [ { "tag": "Child language acquisition" }, { "tag": "Early brain development" }, { "tag": "Face perception" }, { "tag": "Marco@neurolanguage" }, { "tag": "Neural tracking / entrainment" }, { "tag": "Voice" } ], "collections": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2025-12-12T14:07:23Z", "dateModified": "2025-12-12T14:07:23Z" } }, { "key": "45TW8GUF", "version": 2470, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 66799, "name": "neurolanguage", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/neurolanguage", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/66799/items/45TW8GUF", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/neurolanguage/items/45TW8GUF", "type": "text/html" }, "up": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/66799/items/3BKX48XB", "type": "application/json" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 896785, "username": "marcotettamanti", "name": "Marco Tettamanti", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/marcotettamanti", "type": "text/html" } } } }, "data": { "key": "45TW8GUF", "version": 2470, "parentItem": "3BKX48XB", "itemType": "attachment", "linkMode": "linked_url", "title": "PubMed entry", "accessDate": "2025-12-10T19:57:33Z", "url": "http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/41213804", "note": "", "contentType": "text/html", "charset": "", "tags": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2025-12-12T14:07:23Z", "dateModified": "2025-12-12T14:07:23Z" } }, { "key": "2FN479LF", "version": 2468, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 66799, "name": "neurolanguage", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/neurolanguage", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/66799/items/2FN479LF", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/neurolanguage/items/2FN479LF", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 896785, "username": "marcotettamanti", "name": "Marco Tettamanti", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/marcotettamanti", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Olson et al.", "parsedDate": "2025-12-01", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "2FN479LF", "version": 2468, "itemType": "journalArticle", "title": "Utilizing functional neuroimaging to study early language development", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Halie A.", "lastName": "Olson" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Trevor K. M.", "lastName": "Day" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Kelly J.", "lastName": "Hiersche" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Brittany L.", "lastName": "Manning" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Holly", "lastName": "Bradley" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Soujin", "lastName": "Choi" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Gavkhar", "lastName": "Abdurokhmonova" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Sarah A.", "lastName": "McCormick" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Amy L.", "lastName": "Conrad" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Dustin", "lastName": "Scheinost" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Kelly A.", "lastName": "Vaughn" } ], "abstractNote": "Language develops rapidly over the infant and toddler period and has been a key area of research within the field of developmental cognitive neuroscience. Understanding the neural basis of early language development may help us predict delays or disorders, recommend early interventions, and provide a deeper mechanistic understanding of how the brain supports language learning. While the ontogeny of many cognitive functions can be studied in animal models, language development can only be studied in human children. Thus, functional neuroimaging is critical for uncovering the neural basis of language in early development. The purpose of this review is to take stock of some examples of what we have learned so far, and to explore some of the biggest open questions for the next phase of fetal, infant, and toddler neuroimaging research of language development.", "publicationTitle": "Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "2025-12-01", "volume": "76", "issue": "", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "101641", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "Dev. Cogn. Neurosci.", "DOI": "10.1016/j.dcn.2025.101641", "citationKey": "", "url": "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878929325001379", "accessDate": "2025-12-04T08:21:46Z", "PMID": "", "PMCID": "", "ISSN": "1878-9293", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "ScienceDirect", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "", "tags": [ { "tag": "Early brain development" }, { "tag": "Fetal MRI" }, { "tag": "Fetal brain development" }, { "tag": "Language development" }, { "tag": "Marco@neurolanguage" } ], "collections": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2025-12-05T15:26:49Z", "dateModified": "2025-12-05T15:26:49Z" } }, { "key": "ZB3Q6H88", "version": 2468, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 66799, "name": "neurolanguage", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/neurolanguage", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/66799/items/ZB3Q6H88", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/neurolanguage/items/ZB3Q6H88", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 896785, "username": "marcotettamanti", "name": "Marco Tettamanti", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/marcotettamanti", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Thye et al.", "parsedDate": "2025-11-01", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "ZB3Q6H88", "version": 2468, "itemType": "journalArticle", "title": "Functional connectivity of semantic and default mode networks during narrative comprehension", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Melissa", "lastName": "Thye" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Junhua", "lastName": "Ding" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Paul", "lastName": "Hoffman" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Daniel", "lastName": "Mirman" } ], "abstractNote": "Understanding narratives requires at least transient access to the semantic system, to decode incoming content, and prolonged access to the default mode network to maintain and manipulate the narrative model. Subregions within the integrative semantic hubs in bilateral anterior temporal lobe appear differentially sensitive to the need to rapidly decode external input (exogenous processing) versus reflecting on context stored in the narrative model (endogenous processing). The latter is most consistently reported in the middle temporal gyrus portion of the hub, suggesting that this region serves as a critical hinge point, dynamically interacting with the default mode network to facilitate endogenous processing. The present study investigated this by characterizing the functional connectivity profiles of anterior temporal lobe subregions during movie-viewing and examining content-evoked changes in these profiles. Compared to other anterior temporal lobe subregions, middle temporal gyrus was more functionally connected to the default mode network, and these connections were strengthened during moments with limited incoming information, providing viewers with a chance to reflect on the content. Rather than being functionally distinct networks, the semantic and default mode systems dynamically interact to facilitate reflection or endogenous semantic processing. Future work should further characterize how neural systems dynamically shift from integrated to segregated states in response to everyday processing demands.", "publicationTitle": "Cerebral Cortex", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "2025-11-01", "volume": "35", "issue": "11", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "bhaf289", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "Cereb. Cortex", "DOI": "10.1093/cercor/bhaf289", "citationKey": "", "url": "https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaf289", "accessDate": "2025-11-30T17:31:39Z", "PMID": "", "PMCID": "", "ISSN": "1460-2199", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "Silverchair", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "", "tags": [ { "tag": "#BLOD" }, { "tag": "Conceptual semantics" }, { "tag": "Default mode network" }, { "tag": "Marco@neurolanguage" }, { "tag": "Narrative language processing" }, { "tag": "Semantic processing" } ], "collections": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2025-12-05T15:23:18Z", "dateModified": "2025-12-05T15:23:18Z" } }, { "key": "LNF96IAH", "version": 2467, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 66799, "name": "neurolanguage", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/neurolanguage", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/66799/items/LNF96IAH", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/neurolanguage/items/LNF96IAH", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 896785, "username": "marcotettamanti", "name": "Marco Tettamanti", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/marcotettamanti", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Casto et al.", "parsedDate": "2025-11-24", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "LNF96IAH", "version": 2467, "itemType": "preprint", "title": "What does it mean to understand language?", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Colton", "lastName": "Casto" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Anna", "lastName": "Ivanova" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Evelina", "lastName": "Fedorenko" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Nancy", "lastName": "Kanwisher" } ], "abstractNote": "Language understanding entails not just extracting the surface-level meaning of the linguistic input, but constructing rich mental models of the situation it describes. Here we propose that because processing within the brain's core language system is fundamentally limited, deeply understanding language requires exporting information from the language system to other brain regions that compute perceptual and motor representations, construct mental models, and store our world knowledge and autobiographical memories. We review the existing evidence for this hypothesis, and argue that recent progress in cognitive neuroscience provides both the conceptual foundation and the methods to directly test it, thus opening up a new strategy to reveal what it means, cognitively and neurally, to understand language.", "genre": "", "repository": "arXiv", "archiveID": "arXiv:2511.19757", "place": "", "date": "2025-11-24", "series": "", "seriesNumber": "", "DOI": "10.48550/arXiv.2511.19757", "citationKey": "", "url": "http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.19757", "accessDate": "2025-11-28T08:12:50Z", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "arXiv.org", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "arXiv:2511.19757 [cs]\nversion: 1", "tags": [ { "tag": "Language" }, { "tag": "Language comprehension" }, { "tag": "Marco@neurolanguage" }, { "tag": "Narrative situation models" } ], "collections": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2025-11-28T15:36:26Z", "dateModified": "2025-11-28T15:36:26Z" } }, { "key": "JZ3DH29H", "version": 2467, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 66799, "name": "neurolanguage", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/neurolanguage", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/66799/items/JZ3DH29H", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/neurolanguage/items/JZ3DH29H", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 896785, "username": "marcotettamanti", "name": "Marco Tettamanti", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/marcotettamanti", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Berni et al.", "parsedDate": "2025-11-26", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "JZ3DH29H", "version": 2467, "itemType": "journalArticle", "title": "Together we sync: a systematic qualitative and quantitative review of fMRI hyperscanning studies", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Tommaso", "lastName": "Berni" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Lucia Maria", "lastName": "Sacheli" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Maria", "lastName": "Cicirello" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Marco", "lastName": "Tettamanti" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Eraldo", "lastName": "Paulesu" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Laura", "lastName": "Zapparoli" } ], "abstractNote": "Social interaction relies on neurocognitive processes that support mutual prediction and coordination. Traditional neuroimaging investigates brain activity at the individual level, limiting insight into the reciprocal nature of social exchange. Hyperscanning overcomes this by simultaneously recording brain activity from interacting individuals.We conducted a systematic review of 28 fMRI hyperscanning studies examining inter-brain coupling during interactive tasks. We assessed study features and examined whether paradigms included four key properties that make the use of hyperscanning particularly valuable over single-brain designs: real-time reciprocity, mutual information flow, unpredictability, and irreproducibility. Substantial methodological heterogeneity was observed, and only a few studies incorporated all four theoretically relevant features.To identify consistent spatial neural patterns of inter-brain coupling, we performed coordinate-based hierarchical clustering on residual (task-independent) and task-evoked coupling data. The latter was further analysed in relation to the complexity of the interaction. Residual coupling consistently involved the right posterior superior temporal gyrus, overlapping with the anterior TPJ, suggesting a role in spontaneous alignment. Task-evoked coupling differed by interactional complexity, with posterior temporal regions involved in low-complexity tasks, and medial frontal, mid-cingulate, and insular areas in high-complexity ones.These findings support the relevance of fMRI hyperscanning for studying inter-brain dynamics and inform future methodological development.", "publicationTitle": "Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "2025-11-26", "volume": "", "issue": "", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "nsaf122", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "Soc. Cogn. Affect. 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A biocultural framework", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Inbal", "lastName": "Arnon" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Liran", "lastName": "Carmel" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Nicolas", "lastName": "Claidière" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "W. Tecumseh", "lastName": "Fitch" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Susan", "lastName": "Goldin-Meadow" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Simon", "lastName": "Kirby" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Kazuo", "lastName": "Okanoya" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Limor", "lastName": "Raviv" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Lucie", "lastName": "Wolters" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Simon E.", "lastName": "Fisher" } ], "abstractNote": "Explaining the origins of language is a key challenge in understanding ourselves as a species. We present an empirical framework that draws on synergies across fields to facilitate robust studies of language evolution. The approach is multifaceted, seeing language emergence as dependent on the convergence of multiple capacities, each with their own evolutionary trajectories. It is explicitly biocultural, recognizing and incorporating the importance of both biological preparedness and cultural transmission as well as interactions between them. We demonstrate this approach through three case studies that examine the evolution of different facets involved in human language (vocal production learning, linguistic structure, and social underpinnings).", "publicationTitle": "Science", "publisher": "American Association for the Advancement of Science", "place": "", "date": "2025-11-20", "volume": "390", "issue": "6775", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "eadq8303", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "Science", "DOI": "10.1126/science.adq8303", "citationKey": "", "url": "https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq8303", "accessDate": "2025-11-21T09:04:26Z", "PMID": "", "PMCID": "", "ISSN": "", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "What enables human language?", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "science.org (Atypon)", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "", "tags": [ { "tag": "Comparative cognition" }, { "tag": "Language" }, { "tag": "Language evolution" }, { "tag": "Language production" }, { "tag": "Linguistics" }, { "tag": "Marco@neurolanguage" } ], "collections": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2025-11-22T14:15:42Z", "dateModified": "2025-11-22T14:15:42Z" } }, { "key": "92AFYNWF", "version": 2476, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 66799, "name": "neurolanguage", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/neurolanguage", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/66799/items/92AFYNWF", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/neurolanguage/items/92AFYNWF", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 896785, "username": "marcotettamanti", "name": "Marco Tettamanti", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/marcotettamanti", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Bhaya-Grossman et al.", "parsedDate": "2025-11-19", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "92AFYNWF", "version": 2476, "itemType": "journalArticle", "title": "Shared and language-specific phonological processing in the human temporal lobe", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Ilina", "lastName": "Bhaya-Grossman" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Matthew K.", "lastName": "Leonard" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Yizhen", "lastName": "Zhang" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Laura", "lastName": "Gwilliams" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Keith", "lastName": "Johnson" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Junfeng", "lastName": "Lu" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Edward F.", "lastName": "Chang" } ], "abstractNote": "All spoken languages are produced by the human vocal tract, which defines the limited set of possible speech sounds. Despite this constraint, however, there exists incredible diversity in the world’s 7,000 spoken languages, each of which is learned through extensive experience hearing speech in language-specific contexts1. It remains unknown which elements of speech processing in the brain depend on daily language experience and which do not. In this study, we recorded high-density cortical activity from adult participants with diverse language backgrounds as they listened to speech in their native language and an unfamiliar foreign language. We found that, regardless of language experience, both native and foreign languages elicited similar cortical responses in the superior temporal gyrus (STG), associated with shared acoustic–phonetic processing of foundational speech sound features2,3, such as vowels and consonants. However, only during native language listening did we observe enhanced neural encoding in the STG for word boundaries, word frequency and language-specific sound sequence statistics. In a separate cohort of bilingual participants, this encoding of word- and sequence-level information appeared for both familiar languages in the same individual and in the same STG neural populations. These results indicate that experience-dependent language processing involves dynamic integration of both shared acoustic–phonetic and language-specific sequence- and word-level information in the STG.", "publicationTitle": "Nature", "publisher": "Nature Publishing Group", "place": "", "date": "2025-11-19", "volume": "", "issue": "", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "1-12", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "Nature", "DOI": "10.1038/s41586-025-09748-8", "citationKey": "", "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09748-8", "accessDate": "2025-11-20T12:44:22Z", "PMID": "", "PMCID": "", "ISSN": "1476-4687", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "", "language": "en", "libraryCatalog": "www.nature.com", "callNumber": "", "rights": "2025 The Author(s)", "extra": "", "tags": [ { "tag": "Cross-linguistic differences" }, { "tag": "Language" }, { "tag": "Marco@neurolanguage" }, { "tag": "Multilingualism" }, { "tag": "Phonological processing" } ], "collections": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2025-11-22T14:15:05Z", "dateModified": "2025-11-22T14:15:05Z" } }, { "key": "VB8844ZI", "version": 2465, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 66799, "name": "neurolanguage", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/neurolanguage", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/66799/items/VB8844ZI", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/neurolanguage/items/VB8844ZI", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 896785, "username": "marcotettamanti", "name": "Marco Tettamanti", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/marcotettamanti", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Sánchez et al.", "parsedDate": "2025", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "VB8844ZI", "version": 2465, "itemType": "journalArticle", "title": "From perceiving words to reading: Neural multivariate representations of sublexical vs. lexico-semantic processing during word-reading", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Abraham", "lastName": "Sánchez" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Pedro M.", "lastName": "Paz-Alonso" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Manuel", "lastName": "Carreiras" } ], "abstractNote": "While the neural underpinnings of semantic cognition have been extensively studied, the brain mechanisms that allow the extraction of meaning from the initially perceptual visual linguistic input are less understood. These mechanisms have typically been explored through the analysis of psycholinguistic properties that reflect key aspects of semantic processing (e.g., word frequency, familiarity or concreteness), and more recently, through natural language processing (NLP) models. However, both approaches lack a direct comparison of sublexical (i. e., phonological and orthographic) and lexico-semantic aspects of words, with NLP models. Understanding how sublexical and lexico-semantic systems interact and/or overlap is a current challenge in the field of neurobiology of language. In this fMRI study, 30 participants performed a lexical decision task in the MRI, where all aforementioned sublexical and lexico-semantic properties were carefully controlled. The resulting models reflected either sublexical, semantic, or NLP (word vector) relations, which were compared to multivariate brain patterns in representational similarity analysis. Our findings reveal that sublexical and lexico-semantic representations recruit different areas of the left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) and ventral occipitotemporal cortex (vOTC). The anterior IFG and vOTC represented semantic models, while regions posterior to the IFG, like supplementary motor area (SMA), or to the vOTC, like areas V3-V4, showed representations of sublexical models. Importantly, both semantic and NLP models converged in semantic hubs, including the inferior anterior temporal lobe (ATL), parahippocampal gyrus, or anterior IFG. 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The best-known neural organizational principle of information is topographical mapping of specific dimensions. Such maps have been shown for sensorimotor information within sensorimotor cortices (e.g., retinotopy). Here we ask whether there are topographic maps – by analogy, contentopic maps – for mid-level object-related dimensions. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging and population receptive field analysis to measure tuning of neural populations to selected manipulable object-related action-based dimensions. We show maps in dorsal and ventral occipital cortex that code for the score of each object on each target dimension in a linear progression following a particular direction along the cortical surface. Maps for each dimension are distinct, are consistent across individuals, and are not exhausted by participant-specific eccentricity maps, nor by high-definition eccentricity maps derived from available databases. Thus, object information is potentially coded in multiple topographical maps – i.e., contentopic maps. These contentopic maps refer to intermediate level visual and visuomotor representations, potentially computed from the interaction of lower-level visual features through non-linear transformation following gestalt principles. This suggests that topography is a widespread and non-incidental strategy for the organization of information in the brain that leads to greatly reduced connectivity-related metabolic costs and fast and efficient readouts of information for stimuli discrimination.", "publicationTitle": "NeuroImage", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "2025-11-01", "volume": "321", "issue": "", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "121514", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "NeuroImage", "DOI": "10.1016/j.neuroimage.2025.121514", "citationKey": "", "url": "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811925005178", "accessDate": "2025-11-04T08:28:32Z", "PMID": "", "PMCID": "", "ISSN": "1053-8119", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "Contentopic mapping in ventral and dorsal association cortex", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "ScienceDirect", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "", "tags": [ { "tag": "Brain decoding" }, { "tag": "Conceptual semantics" }, { "tag": "Experience" }, { "tag": "Manipulable objects", "type": 1 }, { "tag": "Marco@neurolanguage" }, { "tag": "Object recognition" } ], "collections": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2025-11-08T06:28:58Z", "dateModified": "2025-11-08T06:28:58Z" } }, { "key": "434FNZ7R", "version": 2461, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 66799, "name": "neurolanguage", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/neurolanguage", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/66799/items/434FNZ7R", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/neurolanguage/items/434FNZ7R", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 896785, "username": "marcotettamanti", "name": "Marco Tettamanti", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/marcotettamanti", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Mues et al.", "parsedDate": "2025-10-21", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "434FNZ7R", "version": 2461, "itemType": "preprint", "title": "Children with lower language skill engage additional brain mechanisms in both hemispheres during sentence comprehension", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Marjolein", "lastName": "Mues" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Avantika", "lastName": "Mathur" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "James R.", "lastName": "Booth" } ], "abstractNote": "Multi-voxel pattern analysis was used to determine whether a support vector machine (SVM) could distinguish between grammatically correct sentences and sentences with a morphological violation related to tense-marking in 7-year-old children (N&thinsp;=&thinsp;92) undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging. SVM classifier accuracy was examined in regions of interest (ROIs) related to phonological processing (inferior frontal gyrus, pars opercularis and posterior superior temporal gyrus) and semantic processing (inferior frontal gyrus, pars triangularis and posterior middle temporal gyrus) determined with independent functional localizers using sound and meaning judgments. In these ROIs, the classifier performed around chance indicating that grammatical sentences and sentences with a morphological violation have a similar underlying representation for the whole sample. We also investigated correlations of standardized measures of language skill with classifier accuracy in the ROIs and in the whole brain. Whole brain analyses showed lower skill was associated with higher classification accuracy in bilateral brain areas implicated in semantic processing, in articulation and phonological processing and in verbal working memory. Overall, children with lower language skill seem to use widespread mechanisms in both hemispheres for sentences comprehension, possibly indicating increasing use of rehearsal mechanisms and semantic compensation for detecting morphological errors.", "genre": "", "repository": "Research Square", "archiveID": "", "place": "", "date": "2025-10-21", "series": "", "seriesNumber": "", "DOI": "10.21203/rs.3.rs-7871439/v1", "citationKey": "", "url": "https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7871439/v1", "accessDate": "2025-10-31T15:03:10Z", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "Research Square", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "ISSN: 2693-5015", "tags": [ { "tag": "Developmental language disorders" }, { "tag": "Language acquisition" }, { "tag": "Marco@neurolanguage" } ], "collections": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2025-10-31T16:47:00Z", "dateModified": "2025-10-31T16:47:00Z" } } ]