[HTML][HTML] Syntax through the looking glass: A review on two-word linguistic processing across behavioral, neuroimaging and neurostimulation studies

M Maran, AD Friederici, E Zaccarella - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2022 - Elsevier
In recent years a growing number of studies on syntactic processing has employed basic
two-word constructions (eg,“the tree”) to characterize the fundamental aspects of linguistic …

[图书][B] The oscillatory nature of language

E Murphy - 2020 - books.google.com
" Introduction There are numerous neurobiological models of language, ranging from those
concerned with speech perception, white matter structure, and the function of dorsal and …

[HTML][HTML] Frontotemporal effective connectivity revealed a language-general syntactic network for Mandarin Chinese

L Chen, C Gao, Z Li, E Zaccarella, AD Friederici… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Human language is proposed to be hierarchically constructed according to syntactic
information. Studies on languages with overt morphosyntactic markers (eg, German) have …

Hierarchical syntactic processing is beyond mere associating: Functional magnetic resonance imaging evidence from a novel artificial grammar

L Chen, T Goucha, C Männel, AD Friederici… - Human Brain …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Grammar is central to any natural language. In the past decades, the artificial grammar of the
AnBn type in which a pair of associated elements can be nested in the other pair was …

The role of a critical left fronto-temporal network with its right-hemispheric homologue in syntactic learning based on word category information

L Chen, J Wu, G Hartwigsen, Z Li, P Wang… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Word category information (WCI) is proposed to be fundamental for syntactic learning and
processing. However, it remains largely unclear how left-hemispheric key regions for …

Mandarin Chinese L1 and L2 complex sentence reading reveals a consistent electrophysiological pattern of highly interactive syntactic and semantic processing: An …

L Chen, M Yang, F Gao, Z Fang, P Wang… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction A hallmark of the human language faculty is processing complex hierarchical
syntactic structures across languages. However, for Mandarin Chinese, a language typically …

Online neurostimulation of Broca's area does not interfere with syntactic predictions: A combined TMS-EEG approach to basic linguistic combination

M Maran, O Numssen, G Hartwigsen… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Categorical predictions have been proposed as the key mechanism supporting the fast pace
of syntactic composition in language. Accordingly, grammar-based expectations are formed …

[HTML][HTML] Transcranial photobiomodulation on the left inferior frontal gyrus enhances Mandarin Chinese L1 and L2 complex sentence processing performances

M Yang, Y Liu, Z Yue, G Yang, X Jiang, Y Cai… - Brain and …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study investigated the causal enhancing effect of transcranial photobiomodulation
(tPBM) over the left inferior frontal gyrus (LIFG) on syntactically complex Mandarin Chinese …

Continuous Theta-Burst Stimulation on the Left Posterior Inferior Frontal Gyrus Perturbs Complex Syntactic Processing Stability in Mandarin Chinese

J Wu, Y Cheng, X Qu, T Kang, Y Cai, P Wang… - Neurobiology of …, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
The structure of human language is inherently hierarchical. The left posterior inferior frontal
gyrus (LpIFG) is proposed to be a core region for constructing syntactic hierarchies …

Brain mechanism underlying learning Chinese as a second language

C ZHANG, J YE, J YANG - Advances in Psychological Science, 2023 - journal.psych.ac.cn
With the fast growth of the Chinese economy, the Chinese language has become one of the
most widely spoken world languages. There is a steady growth of empirical studies on the …