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Lip-Reading Enables the Brain to Synthesize Auditory Features of Unknown Silent Speech
(The Journal of Neuroscience, 2020)Lip-reading is crucial for understanding speech in challenging conditions. But how the brain extracts meaning from, silent, visual speech is still under debate. Lip-reading in silence activates the auditory cortices, but ... -
Listener expectations and the perceptual accommodation of talker variability: A pre-registered replication
(Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2021)Researchers have hypothesized that in order to accommodate variability in how talkers produce their speech sounds, listeners must perform a process of talker normalization. Consistent with this proposal, several studies ... -
Listeners beware: Speech production may be bad for learning speech sounds
(Journal of Memory and Language, 2016)Spoken language requires individuals to both perceive and produce speech. Because both processes access lexical and sublexical representations, it is commonly assumed that perception and production involve cooperative ... -
Listening to Accented Speech in a Second Language: First Language and Age of Acquisition Effects
(Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016)Bilingual speakers must acquire the phonemic inventory of 2 languages and need to recognize spoken words cross-linguistically; a demanding job potentially made even more difficult due to dialectal variation, an intrinsic ... -
Local Temporal Regularities in Child-Directed Speech in Spanish
(ASHA, 2022)Purpose: The purpose of this study is to characterize the local (utterance-level) temporal regularities of child-directed speech (CDS) that might facilitate phonological development in Spanish, classically termed a ... -
Localization accuracy of a common beamformer for the comparison of two conditions
(NeuroImage, 2021)The linearly constrained minimum variance beamformer is frequently used to reconstruct sources underpinning neuromagnetic recordings. When reconstructions must be compared across conditions, it is considered good prac- ... -
Location of navigation menus in websites: an experimental study with Arabic users
(Universal Access in the Information Society, 2017)While Arabic users represent by far the fastest growing language population on the Internet, research about how the peculiarities of Arabic language may shape users’ web interactions is still scarce. The preferences of ... -
Long-Range a-Synchronization as Control Signal for BCI: A Feasibility Study
(Society for Neuroscience, 2023)Shifts in spatial attention are associated with variations in α band (α, 8–14 Hz) activity, specifically in interhemispheric imbalance. The underlying mechanism is attributed to local α-synchronization, which regulates ... -
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Low or High-Level Motor Coding? The Role of Stimulus Complexity
(Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2019)Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) studies have shown that observing an action induces activity in the onlooker's motor system. In light of the muscle specificity and time-locked mirroring nature of the effect, this ... -
LSE-Sign: A lexical database for Spanish Sign Language
(Behavior Research Methods, 2016)The LSE-Sign database is a free online tool for selecting Spanish Sign Language stimulus materials to be used in experiments. It contains 2,400 individual signs taken from a recent standardized LSE dictionary, and a ... -
Maintenance cost in the processing of subject-verb dependencies
(APA American Psychological Association, 2022)Although research in sentence comprehension has suggested that processing long-distance dependencies involves maintenance between the elements that form the dependency, studies on maintenance of long-distance subject–verb ... -
Making It Harder to “See” Meaning: The More You See Something, the More Its Conceptual Representation Is Susceptible to Visual Interference
(Psychological Science, 2020)Does the perceptual system for looking at the world overlap with the conceptual system for thinking about it? We conducted two experiments (N = 403) to investigate this question. Experiment 1 showed that when people ... -
Making sense of social interaction: Emotional coherence drives semantic integration as assessed by event-related potentials
(Neuropsychologia, 2019)We compared event-related potentials during sentence reading, using impression formation equations of a model of affective coherence, to investigate the role of affective content processing during meaning making. The model ... -
Maternal Depression Affects Infants’ Lexical Processing Abilities in the Second Year of Life
(Brain sciences, 2020)Maternal depression and anxiety have been proposed to increase the risk of adverse outcomes of language development in the early years of life. This study investigated the e ects of maternal depression and anxiety on ... -
Matrices of the frequency and similarity of Arabic letters and allographs
(Behavior Research Methods, 2020)Indicators of letter frequency and similarity have long been available for Indo-European languages. They have not only been pivotal in controlling the design of experimental psycholinguistic studies seeking to determine ... -
Meaning-based attentional guidance as a function of foveal and task-related cognitive loads
(Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2019)The depth of parafoveal word processing depends on the amount of cognitive resources available. Whether this principle applies to the parafoveal semantic processing of multiple words remains, however, controversial. This ... -
MEANSP: How Many Channels are Needed to Predict the Performance of a SMR-Based BCI?
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2023)Predicting whether a particular individual would reach an adequate control of a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) has many practical advantages. On the one hand, participants with low predicted performance could be trained ... -
Measuring individual differences in statistical learning: Current pitfalls and possible solutions
(Behavior Research Methods, 2017)Most research in statistical learning (SL) has focused on the mean success rates of participants in detecting statistical contingencies at a group level. In recent years, however, researchers have shown increased interest ... -
Measuring the cortical tracking of speech with optically-pumped magnetometers
(NeuroImage, 2021)During continuous speech listening, brain activity tracks speech rhythmicity at frequencies matching with the repetition rate of phrases (0.2–1.5 Hz), words (2–4 Hz) and syllables (4–8 Hz). Here, we evaluated the applica- ...