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2010
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Lexical Competition in Nonnative Speech Comprehension
Electrophysiological studies consistently find N400 effects of semantic incongruity in nonnative (L2) language comprehension. These N400 effects are often delayed compared with na...
Ian FitzPatrick, Peter Indefrey
JOCN
2010
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Functional Overlap between Regions Involved in Speech Perception and in Monitoring One's Own Voice during Speech Production
The fluency and the reliability of speech production suggest a mechanism that links motor commands and sensory feedback. Here, we examined the neural organization supporting such ...
Zane Z. Zheng, Kevin G. Munhall, Ingrid S. Johnsru...
JOCN
2010
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Formation of Category Representations in Superior Temporal Sulcus
The human brain contains cortical areas specialized in representing object categories. Visual experience is known to change the responses in these category-selective areas of the ...
Marieke van der Linden, Miranda van Turennout, Pet...
JOCN
2010
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The Interplay between Prosody and Syntax in Sentence Processing: The Case of Subject- and Object-control Verbs
This study addresses the question whether prosodic information can affect the choice for a syntactic analysis in auditory sentence processing. We manipulated the prosody (in the f...
Sara Bögels, Herbert Schriefers, Wietske Vonk...
JOCN
2010
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Refreshing and Integrating Visual Scenes in Scene-selective Cortex
■ Constructing a rich and coherent visual experience involves maintaining visual information that is not perceptually available in the current view. Recent studies suggest that ...
Soojin Park, Marvin M. Chun, Marcia K. Johnson
JOCN
2010
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Learning Shapes the Representation of Visual Categories in the Aging Human Brain
■ The ability to make categorical decisions and interpret sensory experiences is critical for survival and interactions across the lifespan. However, little is known about the h...
Stephen D. Mayhew, Sheng Li, Joshua K. Storrar, Ka...
JOCN
2010
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Behavioral and Neural Evidence for Item-specific Performance Monitoring
■ How cognitive control is recruited and implemented has become a major focus of researchers in cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Current theories posit that cognitive cont...
Chris Blais, Silvia A. Bunge
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2010
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Electrophysiological Correlates of Complement Coercion
■ This study examined the electrophysiological correlates of complement coercion. ERPs were measured as participants read and made acceptability judgments about plausible coerce...
Gina R. Kuperberg, Arim Choi, Neil Cohn, Martin Pa...
JOCN
2010
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A Single Brief Burst Induces GluR1-dependent Associative Short-term Potentiation: A Potential Mechanism for Short-term Memory
■ Recent work showed that short-term memory (STM) is selectively reduced in GluR1 knockout mice. This raises the possibility that a form of synaptic modification dependent on Gl...
Martha A. Erickson, Lauren A. Maramara, John Lisma...
JOCN
2010
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Developmental Specialization in the Right Intraparietal Sulcus for the Abstract Representation of Numerical Magnitude
or the Abstract Representation of Numerical Magnitude Ian D. Holloway1,2 and Daniel Ansari1,2 use number is an abstract quality of a set, the way in which a number is externally r...
Ian D. Holloway, Daniel Ansari