Brain Signatures of Embodied Semantics and Language: A Consensus Paper

Bechtold, Laura; Cosper, Samuel H.; Malyshevskaya, Anastasia; Montefinese, Maria; Morucci, Piermatteo; Niccolai, Valentina; Repetto, Claudia; Zappa, Ana; Shtyrov, Yury

doi:10.5334/joc.237

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“…For the testing phase, musicians showed a positive cluster of electrodes for the processing of violated over matching sound-pseudoword pairs. Although the latency of this effect generally aligns with the expectation of an N400 (Bechtold et al, 2023; Cosper et al, 2022; Kutas & Federmeier, 2000, 2011), given absolute latency and time window limitations of cluster-based permutation analyses (Sassenhagen & Draschkow, 2019), the polarity is reversed and does not mirror the polarity for the elicited component to be an N400. We suggest that the elicited effect is a reflection of the late positive component (LPC), which is typically found in musicians as a response to incongruous elements in musical melody and rhythm, increasing with familiarity and musical expertise (cf.…”

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Auditory associative word learning in adults: the effects of musical experience and stimulus ordering

Cosper,

Männel,

Mueller

2023

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Evidence for sequential associative word learning in the auditory domain has been identified in infants, but adults have proven to have difficulties in this type of word learning. To investigate the role of auditory expertise and auditory stimuli salience in the association of auditory objects and their labels, we tested in the first experiment auditorily-trained musicians versus athletes as a high-level control group and in the second experiment stimulus ordering, contrasting object-label versus label-object presentation. Learning was evaluated from electrophysiological (EEG) recordings during training and subsequent testing phases, as well as accuracy-judgement responses during test. Results revealed for musicians a late positive component in the EEG during testing, neither N400 nor behavioral effects were found at test, while athletes did not show any effect of learning. Moreover, the object-label-ordering group only exhibited emerging association effects during training, while the label-object-ordering group showed an EEG effect during test as well as above chance accuracy-judgement scores. Thus, our results suggest an advantage of musical expertise and more salient label-object-ordering in auditory associative word learning in adults. Implications with respect to developmental differences in auditory word learning are discussed.

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Auditory associative word learning in adults: the effects of musical experience and stimulus ordering

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2023

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“…Findings in the current study contribute to our knowledge concerning sensorimotor representations in language processing. According to the mirror neuron hypothesis (Rizzolatti & Sinigaglia, 2016) and the embodied semantics (Bechtold et al, 2023; Della Putta, 2018), the mirror property of the motor system supports understanding action semantics by activating neural representations of relevant motor action (Hauk et al, 2004). The present results extend the embodied semantics to a more general sense by demonstrating that the frontocentral beta activity responds to the context-dependent social information beyond the semantic meaning of the speaker’s words.…”

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Causal role of frontocentral beta oscillation in comprehending linguistic communicative functions

Chang,

Zhao,

Wang

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Linguistic communication is often considered as an action serving the function of conveying the speaker’s goal to the addressee. Although neuroimaging studies have suggested a role of the motor system in comprehending communicative functions, the underlying mechanism is yet to be specified. Here, by 2 EEG experiments and a tACS experiment, we demonstrate that the frontocentral beta oscillation, which represents action states, plays a crucial part in linguistic communication understanding. Participants read scripts involving 2 interlocutors and rated the interlocutors’ attitudes. Each script included a critical sentence uttered by the speaker expressing a context-dependent function of either promise, request, or reply to the addressee’s query. These functions were behaviorally discriminated, with higher addressee’s will rating for the promise than for the reply and higher speaker’s will rating for the request than for the reply. EEG multivariate analyses showed that different communicative functions were represented by different patterns of frontocentral beta activity but not by patterns of alpha activity. Further tACS results showed that, relative to alpha tACS and sham stimulation, beta tACS improved the predictability of communicative functions of request or reply, as measured by the speaker’s will rating. These results convergently suggest a causal role of the frontocentral beta activities in comprehending linguistic communications.

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Auditory associative word learning in adults: The effects of musical experience and stimulus ordering

Cosper,

Männel,

Mueller

2024

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Brain Signatures of Embodied Semantics and Language: A Consensus Paper

Cited by 7 publications

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Auditory associative word learning in adults: the effects of musical experience and stimulus ordering

Auditory associative word learning in adults: the effects of musical experience and stimulus ordering

Causal role of frontocentral beta oscillation in comprehending linguistic communicative functions

Auditory associative word learning in adults: The effects of musical experience and stimulus ordering

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