A neurosurgical functional dissection of the middle precentral gyrus during speech production

AB Silva, JR Liu, L Zhao, DF Levy, TL Scott… - Journal of …, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
Classical models have traditionally focused on the left posterior inferior frontal gyrus (Broca's
area) as a key region for motor planning of speech production. However, converging …

The language network is not engaged in object categorization

Y Benn, AA Ivanova, O Clark, Z Mineroff… - Cerebral …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The relationship between language and thought is the subject of long-standing debate. One
claim states that language facilitates categorization of objects based on a certain feature (eg …

[HTML][HTML] Efficient functional localization of language regions in the brain

JJ Lee, TL Scott, TK Perrachione - NeuroImage, 2024 - Elsevier
Important recent advances in the cognitive neuroscience of language have been made
using functional localizers to demarcate language-selective regions in individual brains …

High-level language brain regions process sublexical regularities

TI Regev, HS Kim, X Chen, J Affourtit… - Cerebral …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
A network of left frontal and temporal brain regions supports language processing. This
“core” language network stores our knowledge of words and constructions as well as …

Interindividual variability and consistency of language mapping paradigms for presurgical use

G Thomas, KL McMahon, E Finch, DA Copland - Brain and Language, 2023 - Elsevier
Most functional MRI studies of language processing have focussed on group-level
inference, but for clinical use, the aim is to predict outcomes at an individual patient level …

Talker discontinuity disrupts attention to speech: Evidence from EEG and pupillometry

SJ Lim, YD Carter, JM Njoroge… - Brain and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Speech is processed less efficiently from discontinuous, mixed talkers than one consistent
talker, but little is known about the neural mechanisms for processing talker variability. Here …

Extended frontal networks for visual and auditory working memory

AL Noyce, RW Lefco, JA Brissenden… - Cerebral …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Working memory (WM) supports the persistent representation of transient sensory
information. Visual and auditory stimuli place different demands on WM and recruit different …

Apraxia of speech with phonological alexia and agraphia following resection of the left middle precentral gyrus: illustrative case

DF Levy, AB Silva, TL Scott, JR Liu, S Harper… - … of Neurosurgery: Case …, 2023 - thejns.org
BACKGROUND Apraxia of speech is a disorder of speech-motor planning in which
articulation is effortful and error-prone despite normal strength of the articulators …

Cortical and white matter correlates of language‐learning aptitudes

M Novén, H Olsson, G Helms, M Horne… - Human brain …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
People learn new languages with varying degrees of success but what are the
neuroanatomical correlates of the difference in language‐learning aptitude? In this study …

Spatiotemporal Neural Network for Sublexical Information Processing: An Intracranial SEEG Study

C Zhao, Y Liu, J Zeng, X Luo, W Sun, G Luan… - Journal of …, 2024 - jneurosci.org
Words offer a unique opportunity to separate the processing mechanisms of object
subcomponents from those of the whole object, because the phonological or semantic …