Inferring native language from early bio-electrical activity

Biological Psychology

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 52-63

  Proverbio, Alice Mado ^a   Adorni, Roberta ^a   Zani, Alberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; ERPs; Lexical access; Orthography; Proficiency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ITALY; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 58049208001     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2008.02.006     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Assadollahi R., and Pulvermüller F. Neuromagnetic evidence for early access to cognitive representations. Neuroreport 12 (2001) 207-213
2. Assadollahi R., and Pulvermüller F. Early influences of word length and frequency: a group study using MEG. Neuroreport 14 (2003) 1183-1187
3. Bates E., and MacWhinney B. Functionalism and the competition model. In: Mac Whinney B., and Bates E. (Eds). The Cross-Linguistic Study of Sentence Processing (1989), Cambridge University Press, New York 3-73
4. Bentin S., Mouchetant-Rostaing Y., Giard M.H., Echallier J.F., and Pernier J. ERP manifestations of processing printed words at different psycholinguistic levels: time course and scalp distribution. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 11 (1999) 35-60
5. Chee M.W.L., Soon C.S., and Lee H.L. Common and segregated neuronal networks for different languages revealed using functional magnetic resonance adaptation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 15 1 (2003) 85-97
6. Chee M.W., Soon C.S., Lee H.L., and Pallier C. Left insula activation: a marker for language attainment in bilinguals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 42 (2004) 15265-15270
7. Crinion J., Turner R., Grogan A., Hanakawa T., Noppeney U., Devlin J.T., Aso T., Urayama S., Fukuyama H., Stockton K., Usui K., Green D.W., and Price C.J. Language control in the bilingual brain. Science 312 5779 (2006) 1537-1540
8. Dehaene S., Dupoux E., Mehler J., Cohen L., Paulesu E., Perani D., van de Moortele P.F., Lehericy S., and Le Bihan D. Anatomical variability in the cortical representation of first and second language. Neuroreport 8 17 (1997) 3809-3815
9. Dufour R., and Kroll J.F. Matching words to concepts in two languages: a test of the concept mediation model of bilingual representation. Memory and Cognition 23 2 (1995) 166-180
10. Eades D., Fraser H., Siegel J., McNamara T., and Baker B. Linguistic identification in the determination of nationality: a preliminary report. Language policy 2 (2003) 179-199
11. Fabbro F., Gran L., Basso G., and Bava A. Cerebral lateralization in simultaneous interpretation. Brain & Language 39 1 (1990) 69-89
12. Federmeier K.D., Kluender R., and Kutas M. Aligning linguistic and brain views on language comprehension. In: Zani A., and Proverbio A.M. (Eds). The Cognitive Electrophysiology of Mind and Brain (2002), Academic Press, San Diego 115-140
13. Flowers D.L., Jones K., Noble K., VanMeter J., Zeffiro T.A., Wood F.B., and Eden G.F. Attention to single letters activates left extrastriate cortex. Neuroimage 21 (2004) 829-839
14. Gomez-Tortosa E., Martin E.M., Gaviria M., Charbel F., and Ausman J.I. Selective deficit of one language in a bilingual patient following surgery in the left perisylvian area. Brain & Language 48 3 (1995) 320-325
15. Green A., Nicholson N.S., Vaid J., White N., and Steiner R. Hemispheric involvement in shadowing vs. interpretation: a time-sharing study of simultaneous interpreters with matched bilingual and monolingual controls. Brain & Language 39 1 (1990) 107-133
16. Hauk O., Davis M.H., Ford M., Pulvermüller F., and Marslen-Wilson W. The time course of visual word-recognition as revealed by linear regression analysis of ERP data. Neuroimage 23 (2006) 811-821
17. Hauk O., and Pulvermüller F. Effects of word length and frequency on the human ERP. Clinical Neurophysiology 115 (2004) 1090-1103
18. Helenius P., Tarkiainen A., Cornelissen P., Hansen P.C., and Salmelin R. Dissociation of normal feature analysis and deficient processing of letter-strings in dyslexic adults. Cerebral Cortex 9 (1999) 476-483
19. Hernandez A.E., Martinez A., and Kohnert K. In search of the language switch: an fMRI study of picture naming in Spanish-English bilinguals. Brain & Language 73 3 (2000) 421-431
20. Hernandez A., Li P., and MacWhinney B. The emergence of competing modules in bilingualism. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 9 5 (2005) 220-225
21. Illes J., Francis W.S., Desmond J.E., Gabrieli J.D., Glover G.H., Poldrack R., Lee C.J., and Wagner A.D. Convergent cortical representation of semantic processing in bilinguals. Brain & Language 70 3 (1999) 347-363
22. Kronbichler M., Hutzler F., Wimmer H., Mair A., Staffen W., and Ladurner G. The visual word form area and the frequency with which words are encountered: evidence from a parametric fMRI study. Neuroimage 21 (2004) 946-953
23. Lennenberg E. Biological Foundations of Language (1967), Wiley, New York
24. Lucas T.H., McKhann G.M., and Ojemann G.A. Functional separation of languages in the bilingual brain: a comparison of electrical stimulation language mapping in 25 bilingual patients and 117 monolingual control patients. Journal of Neurosurgery 101 3 (2004) 449-457
25. Martin C.D., Nazir T., Thierry G., Paulignan Y., and Démonet J.F. Perceptual and lexical effects in letter identification: an event-related potential study of the word superiority effect. Brain Research 1098 1 (2006) 153-160
26. Martín-Loeches M., Hinojosa J.A., Casado P., Muñoz F., and Fernández-Frías C. Electrophysiological evidence of an early effect of sentence context in reading. Biological Psychology 65 (2004) 265-280
27. Maurer U., Brem S., Bucher K., and Brandeis D. Emerging neurophysiological specialization for letter strings. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 7 10 (2005) 1532-1552
28. Mechelli A., Gorno-Tempini M.L., and Price C.J. Neuroimaging studies of word and pseudoword reading: consistencies, inconsistencies and limitations. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 15 (2003) 260-271
29. Newport E.L. Maturational constraints on language learning. Cognitive Science 14 (1990) 147-172
30. Paradis M. Selective deficit in one language is not a demonstration of different anatomical representation. Comments on Gomez-Tortosa et al., 1995. Brain & Language 54 (1996) 170-173
31. Pallier C., Dehaene S., Poline J.B., LeBihan D., Argenti A.M., Dupoux E., and Mehler J. Brain imaging of language plasticity in adopted adults: can a second language replace the first?. Cerebral Cortex 13 (2003) 155-161
32. Penolazzi B., Hauk O., and Pulvermüller F. Early semantic context integration and lexical access as revealed by event-related brain potentials. Biological Psychology 74 3 (2007) 374-388
33. Perani D., and Abutalebi J. The neural basis of first and second language processing. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 15 2 (2005) 202-206
34. Perani D., Paulesu E., Galles N.S., Dupoux E., Dehaene S., Bettinardi V., Cappa S.F., Fazio F., and Mehler J. The bilingual brain. Proficiency and age of acquisition of the second language. Brain 121 (1998) 1841-1852
35. Proverbio A.M., Adorni R., and Zani A. The organization of multiple languages in polyglots: interference or independence?. Journal of Neurolinguistics 20 1 (2007) 25-49
36. Proverbio A.M., Wiedemann F., Adorni R., Rossi V., Del Zotto M., and Zani A. Dissociating object familiarity from linguistic properties in mirror word reading. Behavioral and Brain functions 20 3 1 (2007) 43
37. Proverbio A.M., Del Zotto M., and Zani A. Greek language processing in naive and skilled readers: functional properties of the VWFA investigated with ERPs. Cognitive Neuropsychology 21 (2006) 355-375
38. Proverbio A.M., Čok B., and Zani A. Electrophysiological measures of language processing in bilinguals. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 14 7 (2002) 994-1017
39. Proverbio A.M., Leoni G., and Zani A. Language switching mechanisms in simultaneous interpreters: an ERP study. Neuropsychologia 42 12 (2004) 1636-1656
40. Pulvermüller F., Assadollahi R., and Elbert T. Neuromagnetic evidence for early semantic access in word recognition. The European Journal of Neuroscience 13 1 (2001) 201-205
41. Rinne J.O., Tommola J., Laine M., Krause B.J., Schmidt D., Kaasinen V., Teras M., Sipila H., and Sunnari M. The translating brain: cerebral activation patterns during simultaneous interpreting. Neuroscience Letters 294 2 (2000) 85-88
42. Roux F.E., Lubrano V., Lauwers-Cances V., Trémoulet M., Mascott C.R., and Démonet J.F. Intra-operative mapping of cortical areas involved in reading in mono- and bilingual patients. Brain 127 Pt 8 (2004) 1796-1810
43. Rüschemeyer S.A., Zysset S., and Friederici A.D. Native and non-native reading of sentences: an fMRI experiment. Neuroimage 31 1 (2006) 354-365
44. Salmelin R., Service E., Kiesila P., Uutela K., and Salonen O. Impaired visual word processing in dyslexia revealed with magnetoencephalography. Annals of Neurology 40 (1996) 57-162
45. Salmaso D., and Longoni A.M. Problems in the assessment of hand preference. Cortex 21 (1985) 533-549
46. Sebastian-Galles N., Rodriguez-Fornells A., de Diego-Balaguer R., and Diaz B. First- and second-language phonological representations in the mental lexicon. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 8 8 (2006) 1277-1291
47. Sereno S.C., Rayner K., and Posner M.I. Establishing a time-line of word recognition: evidence from eye movements and event-related potentials. Neuroreport 13 9 10 (1998) 2195-2200
48. Yokoyama S., Okamoto H., Miyamoto T., Yoshimoto K., Kim J., Iwata K., Jeong H., et al. Cortical activation in the processing of passive sentences in L1 and L2: an fMRI study. Neuroimage 30 2 (2006) 570-579