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One Way or Another: Cortical Language Areas Flexibly Adapt Processing Strategies to Perceptual And Contextual Properties of Speech
(Cerebral Cortex, 2021)
Cortical circuits rely on the temporal regularities of speech to optimize signal parsing for sound-to-meaning mapping. Bottom-up speech analysis is accelerated by top–down predictions about upcoming words. In everyday ...
How the COVID‐19 pandemic has changed our lives: A study of psychological correlates across 59 countries
(Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2021)
Objective: This study examined the impact of the COVID‐
19 pandemic and subsequent social restrictions or quarantines
on the mental health of the global adult population.
Method: A sample of 6,882 individuals (Mage = ...
Tracking second language immersion across time: Evidence from a bi-directional longitudinal cross-linguistic fMRI study
(Elsevier, 2021)
Parallel cohorts of Hebrew speakers learning English in the U.S., and American-English speakers learning Hebrew
in Israel were tracked over the course of two years of immersion in their L2. We utilised a functional MRI ...
Gradient Activation of Speech Categories Facilitates Listeners’ Recovery From Lexical Garden Paths, But Not Perception of Speech-in-Noise
(Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2021)
Listeners activate speech-sound categories in a gradient way, and this information is maintained and affects
activation of items at higher levels of processing (McMurray et al., 2002; Toscano et al., 2010). Recent ...
Inhibitory and facilitatory effects of phonological and orthographic similarity on L2 word recognition across modalities in bilinguals
(Scientific Reports, 2021)
Language perception studies on bilinguals often show that words that share form and meaning across languages (cognates) are easier to process than words that share only meaning. This facilitatory phenomenon is known as the ...
Altered effective connectivity in sensorimotor cortices is a signature of severity and clinical course in depression
(PNAS, 2021)
Functional neuroimaging research on depression has traditionally
targeted neural networks associated with the psychological
aspects of depression. In this study, instead, we focus on alterations
of sensorimotor function ...
Comprehension of Morse Code Predicted by Item Recall From Short-Term Memory
(Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021)
Purpose: Morse code as a form of communication became
widely used for telegraphy, radio and maritime communication,
and military operations, and remains popular with ham radio
operators. Some skilled users of Morse code ...
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- ...
Automaticity in the reading circuitry
(Brain and Language, 2021)
Skilled reading requires years of practice associating visual symbols with speech sounds. Over the course of the
learning process, this association becomes effortless and automatic. Here we test whether automatic activation ...
Does orthographic processing emerge rapidly after learning a new script?
(British Journal of Psychology, 2021)
Orthographic processing is characterized by location-invariant and location-specific processing (Grainger, 2018): (1) strings of letters are more vulnerable to transposition effects than the strings of symbols in same-different ...