All Relations between language understanding and semantics

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Xiangyue Xiao, Zhicai Dong, Mingyan Yu, Junhua Ding, Maolin Zhang, Sara Cruz, Zaizhu Han, Yan Che. White matter network underlying semantic processing: evidence from stroke patients. Brain communications. vol 6. issue 2. 2024-03-06. PMID:38444912. to identify the semantic-relevant connections of the semantic hub, we then correlated the white matter integrity values of each tract connected to the left fusiform gyrus separately with performance on general and modality-specific semantic processing. 2024-03-06 2024-03-08 human
Daria Gnedykh, Diana Tsvetova, Nadezhda Mkrtychian, Evgeny Blagovechtchenski, Svetlana Kostromina, Yury Shtyro. tDCS of right-hemispheric Wernicke's area homologue affects contextual learning of novel lexicon. Neurobiology of learning and memory. 2024-02-25. PMID:38403010. the results suggest an involvement of wernicke's right-hemispheric counterpart in initial encoding (but not consolidation) of abstract semantics, which may be explained either by the right hemisphere's direct role in lexical semantic processing or by an indirect impact of tdcs on contralateral cortical areas through cross-callosal connections. 2024-02-25 2024-02-28 human
Yury Shtyrov, Aleksei Efremov, Anastasia Kuptsova, Thomas Wennekers, Boris Gutkin, Max Garagnan. Breakdown of category-specific word representations in a brain-constrained neurocomputational model of semantic dementia. Scientific reports. vol 13. issue 1. 2023-11-10. PMID:37949997. these include semantic hubs (most notably, anterior temporal lobe, atl) that take part in semantic processing in general as well as sensorimotor areas that process specific aspects/categories according to their modality. 2023-11-10 2023-11-20 human
Amparo V Márquez-García, Bonnie K Ng, Grace Iarocci, Sylvain Moreno, Vasily A Vakorin, Sam M Doesbur. Atypical Associations between Functional Connectivity during Pragmatic and Semantic Language Processing and Cognitive Abilities in Children with Autism. Brain sciences. vol 13. issue 10. 2023-10-30. PMID:37891816. atypical associations between functional connectivity during pragmatic and semantic language processing and cognitive abilities in children with autism. 2023-10-30 2023-11-08 Not clear
Giuseppe Rabini, Silvia Ubaldi, Scott L Fairhal. Task-based activation and resting-state connectivity predict individual differences in semantic capacity for complex semantic knowledge. Communications biology. vol 6. issue 1. 2023-10-09. PMID:37813935. the role of these regions in semantic processing was validated by analysis of independent resting-state data, where increased connectivity between a left anterior pfc and the precuneus predict higher semantic aptitude, and increased connectivity between left anterior pfc and posterior dmpfc predict lower semantic aptitude. 2023-10-09 2023-10-15 human
Adi Brown, Danna Pinto, Ksenia Burgart, Yair Zvilichovsky, Elana Zion-Golumbi. Neurophysiological evidence for semantic processing of irrelevant speech and own-name detection in a virtual café. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 2023-06-19. PMID:37336758. we assessed the neurophysiological response-profile to these two probes in the task-irrelevant barista-stream by measuring participants' brain activity (eeg), galvanic skin response (gsr) and overt gaze-shifts.we found distinct neural and physiological responses to participants' own-name and semantic violations, indicating their incidental semantic processing despite being task-irrelevant. 2023-06-19 2023-08-14 human
S Ciampelli, A E Voppel, J N de Boer, S Koops, I E C Somme. Combining automatic speech recognition with semantic natural language processing in schizophrenia. Psychiatry research. vol 325. 2023-05-26. PMID:37236098. combining automatic speech recognition with semantic natural language processing in schizophrenia. 2023-05-26 2023-08-14 human
S Ciampelli, A E Voppel, J N de Boer, S Koops, I E C Somme. Combining automatic speech recognition with semantic natural language processing in schizophrenia. Psychiatry research. vol 325. 2023-05-26. PMID:37236098. natural language processing (nlp) tools are increasingly used to quantify semantic anomalies in schizophrenia. 2023-05-26 2023-08-14 human
Maxime Montembeault, Zachary A Miller, Amandine Geraudie, Peter Pressman, Antoine Slegers, Carly Millanski, Abigail Licata, Buddhika Ratnasiri, Maria Luisa Mandelli, Maya Henry, Yann Cobigo, Howard J Rosen, Bruce L Miller, Simona M Brambati, Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini, Giovanni Battistell. Spared speech fluency is associated with increased functional connectivity in the speech production network in semantic variant primary progressive aphasia. Brain communications. vol 5. issue 2. 2023-04-11. PMID:37038501. semantic variant primary progressive aphasia is a clinical syndrome characterized by marked semantic deficits, anterior temporal lobe atrophy and reduced connectivity within a distributed set of regions belonging to the functional network associated with semantic processing. 2023-04-11 2023-08-14 Not clear
Wentao Li, Masud Seya. Reading Epilepsy and Language Processing: A Proposed Role for Semantic Salience. Journal of clinical neurophysiology : official publication of the American Electroencephalographic Society. 2022-10-29. PMID:36308758. reading epilepsy and language processing: a proposed role for semantic salience. 2022-10-29 2023-08-14 Not clear
Felix Zahnert, Gunter Kräling, Leander Melms, Marcus Belke, Urs Kleinholdermann, Lars Timmermann, Martin Hirsch, Andreas Jansen, Peter Mross, Katja Menzler, Lena Habermehl, Susanne Knak. Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging connectome features are predictive of functional lateralization of semantic processing in the anterior temporal lobes. Human brain mapping. 2022-09-13. PMID:36098483. increased degree within the right pmtg as a right-sided homologue of a known semantic hub, and decreased hubness of the right pcc may form a structural basis for rightward-lateralized semantic processing. 2022-09-13 2023-08-14 human
Lei Wang, Leon Wong, Zhu-Hong You, De-Shuang Huang, Xiao-Rui Su, Bo-Wei Zha. NSECDA: Natural Semantic Enhancement for CircRNA-Disease Association Prediction. IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics. vol PP. 2022-08-17. PMID:35976848. in practical terms, we first recognize the circrna sequence as a biological language, and analyze its natural semantic properties through the natural language understanding theory; then integrate it with disease attributes, circrna and disease gaussian interaction profile (gip) kernel attributes, and use graph attention network (gat) to focus on the influential attributes, so as to mine the deeply hidden features; finally, the rotation forest (rof) classifier was used to accurately determine cda. 2022-08-17 2023-08-14 Not clear
Mansour Al Sulaiman, Abdullah M Moussa, Sherif Abdou, Hebah Elgibreen, Mohammed Faisal, Mohsen Rashwa. Semantic textual similarity for modern standard and dialectal Arabic using transfer learning. PloS one. vol 17. issue 8. 2022-08-11. PMID:35951673. sts is an important task in natural language processing because it has many applications in different domains such as information retrieval, machine translation, plagiarism detection, document categorization, semantic search, and conversational systems. 2022-08-11 2023-08-14 human
Fei Gao, Ruien Wang, Paulo Armada-da-Silva, Meng-Yun Wang, Hai Lu, Chantat Leong, Zhen Yua. How the brain encodes morphological constraints during Chinese word reading: An EEG-fNIRS study. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior. vol 154. 2022-07-05. PMID:35780754. electrophysiological data showed that semantic processing occurred earlier (n400, 300-450 msec) than morphological processing (450-570 msec), while brain activation patterns revealed a differentiation between morphological parsing (specified in the left inferior frontal gyrus) and semantic analysis (in a broader fronto-temporal network). 2022-07-05 2023-08-14 Not clear
William W Graves, Hillary Levinson, Linsah Coulanges, Shannon Cahalan, Daniel Cruz, Catherine Sancimino, Vanessa H Bal, Miriam Rosenberg-Le. Neural differences in social and figurative language processing on the autism spectrum. Neuropsychologia. 2022-04-24. PMID:35461878. neural systems for social cognition and language comprehension overlap in areas involved in retrieving linguistic meaning (semantics), such as the anterior temporal lobe (atl), ventro-medial prefrontal cortex (vmpfc), posterior cingulate cortex (pcc), and posterior middle temporal gyrus (pmtg). 2022-04-24 2023-08-13 human
Guangyao Zhang, Jinyi Hung, Nan Li. Coexistence of the social semantic effect and non-semantic effect in the default mode network. Brain structure & function. 2022-04-08. PMID:35394555. four different views have been proposed: (1) the general semantic view holds that the dmn contains several hub regions supporting general semantic processes; (2) the non-semantic view holds that the semantic effects observed in the dmn (especially the ventral angular gyrus) are confounded by difficulty and do not reflect semantic processing per se; (3) the multifunction view holds that the same areas in the dmn can support both semantic and non-semantic functions; and (4) the multisystem view holds that the dmn contains multiple subnetworks supporting different aspects of semantic processes separately. 2022-04-08 2023-08-13 Not clear
Hehui Li, Junjie Wu, Rebecca A Marks, Huiya Huang, Lina Li, Lin Dong, Yue-Jia Luo, Wuhai Tao, Guosheng Din. Functional mapping and cooperation between the cerebellum and cerebrum during word reading. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991). 2022-02-25. PMID:35213687. by comparing the cerebellar activation across three localization tasks targeting orthographic, phonological, and semantic processing, we first identified three different reading-related areas in the cerebellum, biased toward orthography, phonology, and semantics, respectively. 2022-02-25 2023-08-13 Not clear
Zarina R Bilgrami, Cansu Sarac, Agrima Srivastava, Shaynna N Herrera, Matilda Azis, Shalaila S Haas, Riaz B Shaik, Muhammad A Parvaz, Vijay A Mittal, Guillermo Cecchi, Cheryl M Corcora. Construct validity for computational linguistic metrics in individuals at clinical risk for psychosis: Associations with clinical ratings. Schizophrenia research. 2022-01-31. PMID:35094918. natural language processing (nlp) metrics of semantic coherence and syntactic complexity have been used to discriminate schizophrenia patients from healthy controls (hc) and predict psychosis onset in individuals at clinical high-risk (chr) for psychosis. 2022-01-31 2023-08-13 Not clear
Seyedeh-Rezvan Farahibozorg, Richard N Henson, Anna M Woollams, Olaf Hau. Distinct Roles for the Anterior Temporal Lobe and Angular Gyrus in the Spatiotemporal Cortical Semantic Network. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991). 2022-01-30. PMID:35094061. in this study, we explored distinct aspects that define a semantic hub, as reflected in the spatiotemporal modulation of neural activity and connectivity by semantic variables, from the earliest stages of semantic processing. 2022-01-30 2023-08-13 Not clear
Seyedeh-Rezvan Farahibozorg, Richard N Henson, Anna M Woollams, Olaf Hau. Distinct Roles for the Anterior Temporal Lobe and Angular Gyrus in the Spatiotemporal Cortical Semantic Network. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991). 2022-01-30. PMID:35094061. our results support a single semantic hub view, with atl showing sustained modulation of neural activity by semantics, and both atl and ag underlying connectivity depending on the stage of semantic processing. 2022-01-30 2023-08-13 Not clear