Research on bilingualism as discovery science

CA Navarro-Torres, AL Beatty-Martínez, JF Kroll… - Brain and language, 2021 - Elsevier
An important aim of research on bilingualism is to understand how the brain adapts to the
demands of using more than one language. In this paper, we argue that pursuing such an …

Turning the spotlight to cholinergic pharmacotherapy of the human language system

G Dávila, MJ Torres-Prioris, D López-Barroso… - CNS drugs, 2023 - Springer
Even though language is essential in human communication, research on pharmacological
therapies for language deficits in highly prevalent neurodegenerative and vascular brain …

Aphasia in multilingual patients

M Goral, Z Hejazi - Current neurology and neuroscience reports, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review We summarize recent published work concerning assessment
and treatment of aphasia in bilingual and multilingual people and review current related …

Reclaiming saliency: Rhythmic precision-modulated action and perception

A Anil Meera, F Novicky, T Parr, K Friston… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Computational models of visual attention in artificial intelligence and robotics have been
inspired by the concept of a saliency map. These models account for the mutual information …

Bistable perception, precision and neuromodulation

F Novicky, T Parr, K Friston, MB Mirza, N Sajid - Cerebral Cortex, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Bistable perception follows from observing a static, ambiguous,(visual) stimulus with two
possible interpretations. Here, we present an active (Bayesian) inference account of bistable …

Pharmacotherapy for post-stroke aphasia: what are the options?

ML Berthier, G Dávila - Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Aphasia is a common, long-lasting aftermath of stroke lesions. There is an
increased integration of pharmacotherapy as an adjunctive strategy to speech and language …

Simulating lesion-dependent functional recovery mechanisms

N Sajid, E Holmes, TM Hope, Z Fountas, CJ Price… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Functional recovery after brain damage varies widely and depends on many factors,
including lesion site and extent. When a neuronal system is damaged, recovery may occur …

A mixed generative model of auditory word repetition

N Sajid, E Holmes, LD Costa, C Price, K Friston - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
In this paper, we introduce a word repetition generative model (WORM), which—when
combined with an appropriate belief updating scheme—is capable of inferring the word that …

A critical role for cognitive translation and interpreting studies in the study of brain plasticity: Evidence from young bilingual adults

N Calvo - The Routledge Handbook of Translation, Interpreting …, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
A central issue in the bilingualism literature is understanding the cognitive processes
through which an individual adapts cognitive functions to speak and control the first (L1) and …

Turning the spotlight to cholinergic pharmacotherapy of the human language system

MG Dávila-Arias, MJ Torres-Prioris, D López-Barroso… - 2023 - riuma.uma.es
Even though language is essential in human communication, research on pharmacological
therapies for language deficits in highly prevalent neurodegenerative and vascular brain …