Biology & Life Sciences

Cognitive Neuroscience: Language

Published November 1, 2016 Curated Collections

Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system and is an interdisciplinary biological science that extends across multiple fields, including, chemistry, computer science, engineering, linguistics, mathematics, medicine, philosophy, physics, and psychology. This collection represents a first step in gathering under easily identifiable rubrics some of the most recent neuroscience research published across the PLOS journals. The collection has been organized into broad categories in response to the commonly articulated request from our users that we provide more structured and efficient access to papers of interest in the PLOS corpus. This section includes papers about Language.

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Language Research

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10.1371/journal.pbio.2000219

PLOS Biology Sequence learning modulates neural responses and oscillatory coupling in human and monkey auditory cortex
April 25, 2017 Yukiko Kikuchi, Adam Attaheri, Benjamin Wilson, Ariane E. Rhone, Kirill V. Nourski, Phillip E. Gander, Christopher K. Kovach, Hiroto Kawasaki, Timothy D. Griffiths, Matthew A. Howard III, Christopher I. Petkov
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10.1371/journal.pone.0140866

PLOS ONE A Cognitive Neural Architecture Able to Learn and Communicate through Natural Language
November 11, 2015 Bruno Golosio, Angelo Cangelosi, Olesya Gamotina, Giovanni Luca Masala
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10.1371/journal.pone.0141417

PLOS ONE Language and Memory Improvements following tDCS of Left Lateral Prefrontal Cortex
November 3, 2015 Erika K. Hussey, Nathan Ward, Kiel Christianson, Arthur F. Kramer
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10.1371/journal.pone.0138715

PLOS ONE Music Training Increases Phonological Awareness and Reading Skills in Developmental Dyslexia: A Randomized Control Trial
September 25, 2015 Elena Flaugnacco, Luisa Lopez, Chiara Terribili, Marcella Montico, Stefania Zoia, Daniele Schön
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10.1371/journal.pone.0095155

PLOS ONE Language Universals Engage Broca’s Area
April 17, 2014 Iris Berent, Hong Pan, Xu Zhao, Jane Epstein, Monica Bennett, Vibhas Deshpande, Ravi Seethamraju, Emily Stern
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10.1371/journal.pone.0091294

PLOS ONE Comprehending Body Language and Mimics: An ERP and Neuroimaging Study on Italian Actors and Viewers
March 7, 2014 Alice Proverbio, Marta Calbi, Mirella Manfredi, Alberto Zani
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10.1371/journal.pone.0089864

PLOS ONE Logopenic and Nonfluent Variants of Primary Progressive Aphasia Are Differentiated by Acoustic Measures of Speech Production
February 28, 2014 Kirrie Ballard, Sharon Savage, Cristian Leyton, Adam Vogel, Michael Hornberger, John Hodges
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10.1371/journal.pone.0088940

PLOS ONE Fast Dynamics of Cortical Functional and Effective Connectivity during Word Reading
February 14, 2014 Nicolas Bedo, Urs Ribary, Lawrence Ward
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10.1371/journal.pone.0086212

PLOS ONE Rules from Words: A Dynamic Neural Basis for a Lawful Linguistic Process
January 21, 2014 David Gow, A. Nied
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10.1371/journal.pbio.1001752

PLOS Biology Speech Rhythms and Multiplexed Oscillatory Sensory Coding in the Human Brain
December 31, 2013 Joachim Gross, Nienke Hoogenboom, Gregor Thut, Philippe Schyns, Stefano Panzeri, Pascal Belin, Simon Garrod
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10.1371/journal.pone.0081789

PLOS ONE Dynamics of the Anatomical Changes That Occur in the Brains of Schoolchildren as They Learn to Read
December 18, 2013 Gregory simon, Céline Lanoë, Nicolas Poirel, Sandrine Rossi, Amélie Lubin, Arlette Pineau, Olivier Houde
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10.1371/journal.pone.0080214

PLOS ONE Large Scale Brain Functional Networks Support Sentence Comprehension: Evidence from Both Explicit and Implicit Language Tasks
November 11, 2013 Zude Zhu, Yuanyuan Fan, Gangyi Feng, Ruiwang Huang, Suiping Wang
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10.1371/journal.pone.0076608

PLOS ONE Differential Entrainment of Neuroelectric Delta Oscillations in Developmental Dyslexia
October 18, 2013 Fruzsina Soltész, Denes Szűcs, Victoria Leong, Sonia White, Usha Goswami
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10.1371/journal.pone.0075183

PLOS ONE The Motor System Contributes to Comprehension of Abstract Language
September 26, 2013 Connie Guan, Wanjin Meng, Ru Yao, Arthur Glenberg
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PLOS ONE Functional Language Shift to the Right Hemisphere in Patients with Language-Eloquent Brain Tumors
September 17, 2013 Sandro Krieg, Nico Sollmann, Theresa Hauck, Sebastian Ille, Annette Foerschler, Bernhard Meyer, Florian Ringel
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10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003219

PLOS Computational Biology From Birdsong to Human Speech Recognition: Bayesian Inference on a Hierarchy of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
September 12, 2013 Izzet Yildiz, Katharina von Kriegstein, Stefan Kiebel
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10.1371/journal.pone.0068261

PLOS ONE Decoding Speech Perception by Native and Non-Native Speakers Using Single-Trial Electrophysiological Data
July 11, 2013 Alex Brandmeyer, Jason Farquhar, James McQueen, Peter Desain
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10.1371/journal.pone.0060676

PLOS ONE Tone Language Speakers and Musicians Share Enhanced Perceptual and Cognitive Abilities for Musical Pitch: Evidence for Bidirectionality between the Domains of Language and Music
April 2, 2013 Gavin Bidelman, Stefanie Hutka, Sylvain Moreno
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10.1371/journal.pone.0055454

PLOS ONE Cortical Signatures of Dyslexia and Remediation: An Intrinsic Functional Connectivity Approach
February 11, 2013 Maki Koyama, Adriana Di Martino, Clare Kelly, Devika Jutagir, Jessica Sunshine, Susan Schwartz, Francisco Castellanos, Michael Milham
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10.1371/journal.pone.0050665

PLOS ONE Segregation of Lexical and Sub-Lexical Reading Processes in the Left Perisylvian Cortex
November 30, 2012 franck-emmanuel roux, Jean-Baptiste Durand, Mélanie Jucla, Emilie Réhault, Marion Reddy, Jean-François Démonet
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10.1371/journal.pone.0050321

PLOS ONE The Dyslexia Candidate Locus on 2p12 Is Associated with General Cognitive Ability and White Matter Structure
November 28, 2012 Thomas Scerri, Fahimeh Darki, Dianne Newbury, Andrew Whitehouse, Myriam Peyrard-Janvid, Hans Matsson, Qi Ang, Craig Pennell, Susan Ring, John Stein, Andrew Morris, Anthony Monaco, Juha Kere, Joel Talcott, Torkel Klingberg, Silvia Paracchini
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10.1371/journal.pone.0044875

PLOS ONE Dyslexia Impairs Speech Recognition but Can Spare Phonological Competence
September 19, 2012 Iris Berent, Vered Vaknin-Nusbaum, Evan Balaban, Albert Galaburda
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10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002594

PLOS Computational Biology Sparse Codes for Speech Predict Spectrotemporal Receptive Fields in the Inferior Colliculus
July 12, 2012 Nicole Carlson, Vivienne Ming, Michael DeWeese
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10.1371/journal.pone.0036042

PLOS ONE Font Size Matters—Emotion and Attention in Cortical Responses to Written Words
May 9, 2012 Mareike Bayer, Werner Sommer, Annekathrin Schacht
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10.1371/journal.pbio.1001251

PLOS Biology Reconstructing Speech from Human Auditory Cortex
January 31, 2012 Brian Pasley, Stephen David, Nima Mesgarani, Adeen Flinker, Shihab Shamma, Nathan Crone, Robert Knight, Edward Chang