All Relations between language understanding and semantics

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Rose Bruffaerts, Simon De Deyne, Karen Meersmans, Antonietta Gabriella Liuzzi, Gert Storms, Rik Vandenbergh. Redefining the resolution of semantic knowledge in the brain: Advances made by the introduction of models of semantics in neuroimaging. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews. vol 103. 2020-03-13. PMID:31132379. as a future line of work, the same research strategy could be useful to study neurological conditions such as the semantic variant of primary progressive aphasia, which is characterized by pathological semantic processing. 2020-03-13 2023-08-13 human
Natalia Arias-Trejo, Armando Q Angulo-Chavira, Julia B Barrón-Martíne. Verb-mediated anticipatory eye movements in people with Down syndrome. International journal of language & communication disorders. vol 54. issue 5. 2020-03-04. PMID:30983122. individuals with down syndrome (ds) have weaknesses in language production and the domain of grammar but relative strengths in language comprehension and the domain of semantics. 2020-03-04 2023-08-13 Not clear
Melodie Yen, Andrew T DeMarco, Stephen M Wilso. Adaptive paradigms for mapping phonological regions in individual participants. NeuroImage. vol 189. 2020-01-23. PMID:30665008. in contrast, the semantic paradigm did not reveal supramarginal or precentral activations in most participants, suggesting that the recruitment of these regions is indeed driven by phonological encoding, not language processing in general. 2020-01-23 2023-08-13 human
Andrew James Anderson, Feng Li. How pattern information analyses of semantic brain activity elicited in language comprehension could contribute to the early identification of Alzheimer's Disease. NeuroImage. Clinical. vol 22. 2020-01-21. PMID:30991624. how pattern information analyses of semantic brain activity elicited in language comprehension could contribute to the early identification of alzheimer's disease. 2020-01-21 2023-08-13 Not clear
Joanna Sierpowska, Andreu Gabarrós, Alejandro Fernández-Coello, Àngels Camins, Sara Castañer, Montserrat Juncadella, Clément François, Antoni Rodríguez-Fornell. White-matter pathways and semantic processing: intrasurgical and lesion-symptom mapping evidence. NeuroImage. Clinical. vol 22. 2019-12-20. PMID:30743137. track-wise analyses confirmed the role of these left ventral pathways in semantic processing: a significant relationship was observed between the probability of inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus disconnection/damage and the semantic matching tasks, as well as the number of semantic paraphasias in naming. 2019-12-20 2023-08-13 Not clear
Timm B Poeppl, Maximilian R Donges, Andreas Mokros, Rainer Rupprecht, Peter T Fox, Angela R Laird, Danilo Bzdok, Berthold Langguth, Simon B Eickhof. A view behind the mask of sanity: meta-analysis of aberrant brain activity in psychopaths. Molecular psychiatry. vol 24. issue 3. 2019-12-02. PMID:30038232. data-driven functional characterization revealed associations with semantic language processing (left lateral prefrontal and fronto-insular cortex), action execution and pain processing (right lateral prefrontal and left fronto-insular), social cognition (dorsomedial prefrontal cortex), and emotional as well as cognitive reward processing (right amygdala and fronto-insular cortex). 2019-12-02 2023-08-13 Not clear
Erin L Meier, Melody Lo, Swathi Kira. Understanding semantic and phonological processing deficits in adults with aphasia: Effects of category and typicality. Aphasiology. vol 30. issue 6. 2019-11-20. PMID:27041784. semantic variables such as category and typicality have been found to influence semantic processing in healthy individuals and persons with aphasia but their influence on phonological processing is unknown. 2019-11-20 2023-08-13 Not clear
Sharon M Antonucc. What matters in semantic feature processing for persons with stroke-aphasia: Evidence from an auditory concept-feature verification task. Aphasiology. vol 28. issue 7. 2019-11-20. PMID:27642207. the relationship between object concept domains (living vs. nonliving) and their underlying feature structures is a frequent area of investigation regarding semantic processing in healthy individuals and some individuals with neuropsychological impairment resulting from herpes simplex encephalitis, semantic dementia and alzheimer's disease. 2019-11-20 2023-08-13 Not clear
Andrew K Conner, Robert G Briggs, Goksel Sali, Meherzad Rahimi, Cordell M Baker, Joshua D Burks, Chad A Glenn, James D Battiste, Michael E Sughru. A Connectomic Atlas of the Human Cerebrum-Chapter 13: Tractographic Description of the Inferior Fronto-Occipital Fasciculus. Operative neurosurgery (Hagerstown, Md.). vol 15. issue suppl_1. 2019-10-29. PMID:30260438. the inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus (ifof) is a large white matter tract of the human cerebrum with functional connectivity associated with semantic language processing and goal-oriented behavior. 2019-10-29 2023-08-13 human
Dimitrios Kasselimis, Constantin Potagas, Panagiotis Simos, Ioannis Evdokimidis, Harry Whitake. Mixed language dominance: insights from a case of unexpected fluent aphasia with semantic jargon resulting from massive left perisylvian lesion. Neurocase. vol 24. issue 1. 2019-09-09. PMID:29277135. he exhibited strikingly unexpected aphasia with semantic jargon and prominent comprehension deficits, suggesting that this is a case of mixed dominance: the right hemisphere likely controls motor speech and basic syntactic skills, while the severely damaged left hemisphere controls semantic processing, predictably severely impaired. 2019-09-09 2023-08-13 Not clear
David A Vogelsang, Matthias Gruber, Zara M Bergström, Charan Ranganath, Jon S Simon. Alpha Oscillations during Incidental Encoding Predict Subsequent Memory for New "Foil" Information. Journal of cognitive neuroscience. vol 30. issue 5. 2019-04-22. PMID:29324072. across participants, left frontal alpha power elicited by semantic processing during the study phase correlated significantly with left frontal alpha power associated with semantic foil encoding during the memory test. 2019-04-22 2023-08-13 human
Kiran Vodrahalli, Po-Hsuan Chen, Yingyu Liang, Christopher Baldassano, Janice Chen, Esther Yong, Christopher Honey, Uri Hasson, Peter Ramadge, Kenneth A Norman, Sanjeev Aror. Mapping between fMRI responses to movies and their natural language annotations. NeuroImage. vol 180. issue Pt A. 2019-02-01. PMID:28648889. the key ingredients underlying this high level of performance are (a) the use of the shared response model (srm) and its variant srm-ica (chen et al., 2015; zhang et al., 2016) to aggregate fmri data from multiple subjects, both of which are shown to be superior to standard pca in producing low-dimensional representations for the tasks in this paper; (b) a sentence embedding technique adapted from the natural language processing (nlp) literature (arora et al., 2017) that produces semantic vector representation of the annotations; (c) using previous timestep information in the featurization of the predictor data. 2019-02-01 2023-08-13 human
Nestor Viñas-Guasch, Yan Jing W. The role of the putamen in language: a meta-analytic connectivity modeling study. Brain structure & function. vol 222. issue 9. 2018-06-25. PMID:28585051. based on previous evidence, we hypothesized that left putamen coactivations would include brain regions directly associated with language processing, whereas right putamen coactivations would encompass regions involved in broader semantic processes, such as memory and visual imagery. 2018-06-25 2023-08-13 Not clear
Stefan Schulz, Jean-Marie Rodrigues, Alan Rector, Christopher G Chut. Interface Terminologies, Reference Terminologies and Aggregation Terminologies: A Strategy for Better Integration. Studies in health technology and informatics. vol 245. 2018-06-04. PMID:29295238. whereas language processing relies on human interface terminologies, which represent clinical jargon, their link to reference terminologies such as snomed ct is essential to guarantee semantic interoperability. 2018-06-04 2023-08-13 human
Zubaida Shebani, Karalyn Patterson, Peter J Nestor, Lara Z Diaz-de-Grenu, Kate Dawson, Friedemann Pulvermülle. Semantic word category processing in semantic dementia and posterior cortical atrophy. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior. vol 93. 2018-05-03. PMID:28624681. there is general agreement that perisylvian language cortex plays a major role in lexical and semantic processing; but the contribution of additional, more widespread, brain areas in the processing of different semantic word categories remains controversial. 2018-05-03 2023-08-13 Not clear
Junhua Ding, Keliang Chen, Weibin Zhang, Ming Li, Yan Chen, Qing Yang, Yingru Lv, Qihao Guo, Zaizhu Ha. Topological Alterations and Symptom-Relevant Modules in the Whole-Brain Structural Network in Semantic Dementia. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD. vol 59. issue 4. 2018-04-12. PMID:28731453. semantic dementia (sd) is characterized by a selective decline in semantic processing. 2018-04-12 2023-08-13 Not clear
William W Graves, Olga Boukrina, Samantha R Mattheiss, Edward J Alexander, Sylvain Baille. Reversing the Standard Neural Signature of the Word-Nonword Distinction. Journal of cognitive neuroscience. vol 29. issue 1. 2017-11-20. PMID:27574917. instead of activating default mode network areas often associated with semantic processing, words activated task-positive areas such as the inferior pfc and sma, along with multifunctional ventral occipitotemporal cortices related to reading, whereas nonwords activated default mode areas previously associated with semantics. 2017-11-20 2023-08-13 Not clear
Vered Kronfeld-Duenias, Ofer Amir, Ruth Ezrati-Vinacour, Oren Civier, Michal Ben-Shacha. Dorsal and ventral language pathways in persistent developmental stuttering. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior. vol 81. 2017-11-07. PMID:27179916. these data provide neuroanatomical support for the view that stuttering involves an impairment in the bidirectional mapping between auditory and articulatory cortices supported by the dorsal pathways, not in lexical access and semantic aspects of language processing which are thought to rely more heavily on the left ventral pathways. 2017-11-07 2023-08-13 Not clear
Y Chen, A Shimotake, R Matsumoto, T Kunieda, T Kikuchi, S Miyamoto, H Fukuyama, R Takahashi, A Ikeda, M A Lambon Ralp. The 'when' and 'where' of semantic coding in the anterior temporal lobe: Temporal representational similarity analysis of electrocorticogram data. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior. vol 79. 2017-09-26. PMID:27085891. in keeping with convergent evidence for the importance of the atl in semantic processing, these results provide the first direct evidence of semantic coding from the surface of the ventral atl and its time-course. 2017-09-26 2023-08-13 Not clear
Judith Koppehele-Gossel, Robert Schnuerch, Henning Gibbon. A brain electrical signature of left-lateralized semantic activation from single words. Brain and language. vol 157-158. 2017-09-11. PMID:27156035. lesion and imaging studies consistently indicate a left-lateralization of semantic language processing in human temporo-parietal cortex. 2017-09-11 2023-08-13 human