刊讯｜SSCI 期刊《大脑与语言》2022年第226卷
BRAIN AND LANGUAGE
Volume 226, Issue 3, March 2022
BRAIN AND LANGUAGE（SSCI一区，2020 IF：2.381）2022年第226卷共发文6篇。研究论文涉及语音障碍、ERP、隐喻、语言感知灵活性、感知灵活性、语言系统的神经调节等方面。
目录
ARTICLES
■ Is phonological deficit a necessary or sufficient condition for Chinese reading disability?, by Wai Ting Siok, Li Hai Tan
■Cursed Concepts: New insights on combinatorial processing from ERP correlates of swearing in context
, by Stanley A. Donahoo, Valeria Pfeifer, Vicky Tzuyin Lai
■ Impact of motor stroke on novel and conventional action metaphor comprehension, by Eleonora Borelli, Christiana Butera, Andrew Katirai, Thomas C.E. Adams, Lisa Aziz-Zadeh
■Reliability and validity for perceptual flexibility in speech
, by Christopher C. Heffner, Pamela Fuhrmeister, Sahil Luthra, Hannah Mechtenberg, Emily B. Myers
■ Perceptual flexibility in word learning: Preschoolers learn words with speech sound variability
, by Conor I. Frye, Sarah C. Creel
■Neuromodulation of the language system: A critical advance in understanding language processing and treating disorders of communication, by Roy H. Hamilton, Denise Y. Harvey
摘要
Is phonological deficit a necessary or sufficient condition for Chinese reading disability?
Wai Ting Siok
Li Hai Tan
Abstract While phonological skills have been found to be correlated with reading across different writing systems, recent findings have shown that developmental dyslexia in Chinese individuals has multiple deficits, and no single factor has ever been identified as crucial for learning this writing system. To examine whether a deficit in the phonological or another cognitive domain is a necessary or sufficient condition for Chinese reading disability, this study examined the cognitive profiles of 521 good readers and 502 dyslexic readers in Chinese primary schools using a battery of behavioral measures covering phonological, visual, orthographic, visual-motor coordination and working memory skills. The results showed that among all cognitive measures, phonological skills correlated more strongly with character reading performance but that poor phonological skills did not necessarily or sufficiently lead to poor reading performance in Chinese.
Cursed Concepts: New insights on combinatorial processing from ERP correlates of swearing in context
Stanley A. Donahoo,
Valeria Pfeifer
Vicky Tzuyin Lai
Abstract Expressives (damn) convey speaker attitude and when used in context (Tom lost the damn dog) can be flexibly applied locally to the noun (dog) or globally to the whole sentence (the situation). We used ERPs to explore brain responses to expressives in sentences. Participants read expressive, descriptive, and pseudoword adjectives followed by nouns in sentences (The damn/black/flerg dog peed on the couch). At the adjective late-positivity-component (LPC), expressives and descriptives showed no difference, suggesting reduced social threat and that readers employ a ‘wait-and-see’ strategy to interpret expressives. Nouns preceded by expressives elicited a larger frontal P200, as well as reduced N400 and LPC than nouns preceded by descriptives. We associated the frontal P200 with emotional salience, the frontal N400 with mental imagery, and the LPC with cognitive load for combinatorics. We suggest that expressive adjectives are not bound to conceptual integration and conclude that parsers wait-and-see what is being damned.
Impact of motor stroke on novel and conventional action metaphor comprehension
Eleonora Borelli
Christiana Butera
Andrew Katirai
Thomas C.E. Adams
Lisa Aziz-Zadeh
Abstract Previous studies indicate that damage to motor brain regions impacts comprehension of literal action-related language. However, whether such damage also impacts comprehension of action-metaphors remains unknown. Such a finding would support the notion that metaphors are grounded in sensorimotor representations. Here we tested this hypothesis by comparing comprehension of novel, conventional, and frozen action and non-action metaphors in 14 right-handed adults with right-sided mild to moderate paresis following left hemisphere motor stroke and 23 neurotypical participants. Consistent with our hypothesis, results indicated that only in the stroke group, accuracy for action metaphors was significantly lower than for non-action metaphors. Further, in the stroke group, accuracy was significantly worse in the following pattern: novel < conventional < frozen action metaphors. These results strongly support the notion that motor-related brain regions are important not only for literal action-related language comprehension, but also for action-related metaphor comprehension, especially for less familiar metaphors.
Reliability and validity for perceptual flexibility in speech
Christopher C. Heffner
Pamela Fuhrmeister
Sahil Luthra
Hannah Mechtenberg
Emily B. Myers
Abstract The study of perceptual flexibility in speech depends on a variety of tasks that feature a large degree of variability between participants. Of critical interest is whether measures are consistent within an individual or across stimulus contexts. This is particularly key for individual difference designs that are deployed to examine the neural basis or clinical consequences of perceptual flexibility. In the present set of experiments, we assess the split-half reliability and construct validity of five measures of perceptual flexibility: three of learning in a native language context (e.g., understanding someone with a foreign accent) and two of learning in a non-native context (e.g., learning to categorize non-native speech sounds). We find that most of these tasks show an appreciable level of split-half reliability, although construct validity was sometimes weak. This provides good evidence for reliability for these tasks, while highlighting possible upper limits on expected effect sizes involving each measure.
Perceptual flexibility in word learning: Preschoolers learn words with speech sound variability
Conor I. Frye
Sarah C. Creel
Abstract Children’s language input is rife with acoustic variability. Much of this variability may facilitate learning by highlighting unvarying, criterial speech attributes. But in many cases, learners experience variation in those criterial attributes themselves, as when hearing speakers with different accents. How flexible are children in the face of this variability? The current study taught 3–5-year-olds new words containing speech-sound variability: a single picture might be labeled both deev and teev. After learning, children’s knowledge was tested by presenting two pictures and asking them to point to one. Picture-pointing accuracy and eye movements were tracked. While children pointed less accurately and looked less rapidly to dual-label than single-label words, they robustly exceeded chance. Performance was weaker when children learned two distinct labels, such as vayfe and fosh, for a single object. Findings suggest moderate learning even with speech-sound variability. One implication is that neural representations of speech contain rich gradient information.
期刊简介
《Brain and Language》创刊于1974年， 20期/年, 目前被PubMed、SCI收录，影响因子为3.115, 其研究领域为: 脑、语言、心理语言学、言语障碍。该杂志 在 AUDIOLOGY & SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY (听力&语言病理学) 同类期刊中的影响因子排名第 2 位。
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