Agnès Trébuchon, F.-Xavier Alario, & Catherine Liégeois-Chauvel, Front. Hum. Neurosci. 15:702773 The posterior part of the superior temporal gyrus (STG) has long been known to be a crucial hub for auditory and language processing, at the crossroad of the functionally defined ventral and dorsal pathways. Anatomical studies have shown that this “auditory cortex” is composed […]
Musical Expertise Is Associated with Improved Neural Statistical Learning in the Auditory Domain
Jacques Pesnot Lerousseau & Daniele Schön Cerebral Cortex, 31 (11), 4877–4890 It is poorly known whether musical training is associated with improvements in general cognitive abilities, such as statistical learning (SL). In standard SL paradigms, musicians have shown better performances than nonmusicians. However, this advantage could be due to differences in auditory discrimination, in memory […]
Oscillatory activity and EEG phase synchrony of concurrent word segmentation and meaning-mapping in 9-year-old children
Neus Ramos-Escobar, Emma Segura, Guillem Olivé, Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells, & Clément François Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 51: 101010 When learning a new language, one must segment words from continuous speech and associate them with meanings. These complex processes can be boosted by attentional mechanisms triggered by multi-sensory information. Previous electrophysiological studies suggest that brain oscillations are sensitive […]
The measurement, evolution, and neural representation of action grammars of human behavior
Dietrich Stout, Thierry Chaminade, Jan Apel, Ali Shafti & A. Aldo Faisal Scientific Reports, 11: 13720 Human behaviors from toolmaking to language are thought to rely on a uniquely evolved capacity for hierarchical action sequencing. Testing this idea will require objective, generalizable methods for measuring the structural complexity of real-world behavior. Here we present a […]
Strengths and challenges of longitudinal non-human primate neuroimaging
Xiaowei Song, Pamela García-Saldivar, Nathan Kindred, Yujiang Wang, Hugo Merchant, Adrien Meguerditchian, Yihong Yang, Elliot Stein, Charles Bradberry, Suliann Hamed, Hank Jedema, & Colline Poirier NeuroImage, 236, 118009. Longitudinal non-human primate neuroimaging has the potential to greatly enhance our understanding of primate brain structure and function. Here we describe its specific strengths, compared to both […]
Do you want /ʃoloka/ on a /bistɔk/? On the scope of transposed-phoneme effects with non-adjacent phonemes
Sophie Dufour, Jonathan Mirault, & Jonathan Grainger Psychon Bull Rev (2021) We conducted two lexical decision experiments and one replication study to examine the scope of transposed-phoneme effects when the transposition involves non-adjacent phonemes. The critical stimuli were non-words derived from a real word (the base-word) either by transposing two phonemes or by substituting the […]
The contribution of visual articulatory gestures and orthography to speech processing: Evidence from novel word learning
Chotiga Pattamadilok, Pauline Welby, & Michael Tyler Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Advance online publication. Auditory speech appears to be linked to visual articulatory gestures and orthography through different mechanisms. Yet, both types of visual information have a strong influence on speech processing. The present study directly compared their contributions to speech […]
The measurement, evolution, and neural representation of action grammars of human behavior
Dietrich Stout, Thierry Chaminade, Jan Apel, Ali Shafti, & A. Aldo Faisal Scientific Reports, 11, 13720 (2021). Human behaviors from toolmaking to language are thought to rely on a uniquely evolved capacity for hierarchical action sequencing. Testing this idea will require objective, generalizable methods for measuring the structural complexity of real-world behavior. Here we present […]
Corpus callosum morphology across the lifespan in baboons (Papio anubis): A cross-sectional study of relative mid-sagittal surface area and thickness
René Westerhausen, Adrien Meguerditchian Neuroscience Research, In Press The corpus callosum enables integration and coordination of cognitive processing between the cerebral hemispheres. In the aging human brain, these functions are affected by progressive axon and myelin deteriorations, reflected as atrophy of the midsagittal corpus callosum in old age. In non-human primates, these degenerative processes are […]
Neural processing of vision and language in kindergarten is associated with prereading skills and predicts future literacy
Johanna Liebig, Eva Froehlich, Teresa Sylvester, Mario Braun, Hauke R. Heekeren, Johannes C. Ziegler, Arthur M. Jacobs Human Brain Mapping, In Press The main objective of this longitudinal study was to investigate the neural predictors of reading acquisition. For this purpose, we followed a sample of 54 children from the end of kindergarten to the […]