language

The neurobiology of sentence production: A narrative review and meta-analysis

Although there is a sizeable body of literature on sentence comprehension and processing both in healthy and disordered language users, the literature on sentence production remains much more sparse. Linguistic and computational descriptions of …

Sentence superiority in the reading brain

When a sequence of written words is briefly presented and participants are asked to identify just one word at a post-cued location, then word identification accuracy is higher when the word is presented in a grammatically correct sequence compared …

Language lateralization

Is language really as left-lateralized as we think?

Language production in aphasia

How is language production impacted by brain damage?

Syntactic parallelism

Do expressive syntactic deficits predict receptive deficits?

Simple questions on simple associations: regularity extraction in non-human primates

When human and non-human animals learn sequences, they manage to implicitly extract statistical regularities through associative learning mechanisms. In two experiments conducted with a non-human primate species (Guinea baboons, Papio papio), we …

Gender-inclusive language as a Rational Speech Act in Spanish

Amidst social changes in gendered language use, there is pushback from institutions such as the Spanish Royal Academy, which claims that the use of the generic masculine (e.g., bomberos ‘firemen’) in describing a mixed-gender group is equally …

Parallel word reading revealed by fixation-related brain potentials

During reading, the brain is confronted with many relevant objects at once. But does lexical processing occur for multiple words simultaneously? Cognitive science has yet to answer this prominent question. Recently it has been argued that the issue …

The Neurobiology of Syntax

The literature regarding the neural basis of syntax is a varied landscape of mutually incompatible descriptions of how and where hierarchical structure is generated and processed. In this work, I first lay out the predominant neurobiological models …

Error detection and correction among adults with aphasia in a naming task

Slide slam talk about picture naming deficits in adults with aphasia at SNL21.