All Relations between language understanding and semantics

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Anila M D'Mello, Peter E Turkeltaub, Catherine J Stoodle. Cerebellar tDCS Modulates Neural Circuits during Semantic Prediction: A Combined tDCS-fMRI Study. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. vol 37. issue 6. 2017-07-27. PMID:28069925. these data are consistent with a role for the cerebellum in semantic processing and semantic prediction. 2017-07-27 2023-08-13 human
Meytal Wilf, Michal Ramot, Edna Furman-Haran, Anat Arzi, Yechiel Levkovitz, Rafael Malac. Diminished Auditory Responses during NREM Sleep Correlate with the Hierarchy of Language Processing. PloS one. vol 11. issue 6. 2017-07-10. PMID:27310812. in addition to an overall activation decrease in language processing regions in superior temporal gyrus and ifg, those areas manifested a loss of semantic selectivity during nrem sleep. 2017-07-10 2023-08-13 human
Nikola Vukovic, Matteo Feurra, Anna Shpektor, Andriy Myachykov, Yury Shtyro. Primary motor cortex functionally contributes to language comprehension: An online rTMS study. Neuropsychologia. vol 96. 2017-05-12. PMID:28122198. while many studies support a broadly distributed model of language and semantics grounded, among other things, in the general modality-specific systems, theories disagree as to whether motor and sensory cortex activity observed during language processing is functional or epiphenomenal. 2017-05-12 2023-08-13 human
Luigi Grisoni, Felix R Dreyer, Friedemann Pulvermülle. Somatotopic Semantic Priming and Prediction in the Motor System. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991). vol 26. issue 5. 2016-12-23. PMID:26908635. the recognition of action-related sounds and words activates motor regions, reflecting the semantic grounding of these symbols in action information; in addition, motor cortex exerts causal influences on sound perception and language comprehension. 2016-12-23 2023-08-13 human
Jordyn A Sims, Kushal Kapse, Peter Glynn, Chaleece Sandberg, Yorghos Tripodis, Swathi Kira. The relationships between the amount of spared tissue, percent signal change, and accuracy in semantic processing in aphasia. Neuropsychologia. vol 84. 2016-12-16. PMID:26775192. this study included 14 persons with aphasia in the chronic stage of recovery (six or more months post stroke), along with normal controls, who performed semantic processing tasks of determining whether a written semantic feature matched a picture or whether two written words were related. 2016-12-16 2023-08-13 Not clear
Akihiro Shimotake, Riki Matsumoto, Taiji Ueno, Takeharu Kunieda, Satoru Saito, Paul Hoffman, Takayuki Kikuchi, Hidenao Fukuyama, Susumu Miyamoto, Ryosuke Takahashi, Akio Ikeda, Matthew A Lambon Ralp. Direct Exploration of the Role of the Ventral Anterior Temporal Lobe in Semantic Memory: Cortical Stimulation and Local Field Potential Evidence From Subdural Grid Electrodes. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991). vol 25. issue 10. 2016-07-01. PMID:25491206. the implantation of subdural electrode grids over this subregion, for the presurgical assessment of patients with partial epilepsy or brain tumor, offers the dual yet rare opportunities to record cortical local field potentials while participants complete semantic tasks and to stimulate the functionally identified regions in the same participants to evaluate the necessity of these areas in semantic processing. 2016-07-01 2023-08-13 human
Marco Guidi, Lucia Paciaroni, Susy Paolini, Osvaldo Scarpino, David J Bur. Semantic profiles in mild cognitive impairment associated with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Functional neurology. vol 30. issue 2. 2016-06-22. PMID:26415783. the temporal and the prefrontal cortices have different roles in semantic information processing: the temporal lobe is where knowledge is stored (graham and hodges, 1997), whereas the prefrontal cortex is more specifically involved in executive aspects of semantic processing. 2016-06-22 2023-08-13 human
Hannah E Thompson, Holly Robson, Matthew A Lambon Ralph, Elizabeth Jefferie. Varieties of semantic 'access' deficit in Wernicke's aphasia and semantic aphasia. Brain : a journal of neurology. vol 138. issue Pt 12. 2016-05-04. PMID:26454668. comprehension deficits are common in stroke aphasia, including in cases with (i) semantic aphasia, characterized by poor executive control of semantic processing across verbal and non-verbal modalities; and (ii) wernicke's aphasia, associated with poor auditory-verbal comprehension and repetition, plus fluent speech with jargon. 2016-05-04 2023-08-13 Not clear
Claudia Repetto, Rosa Manenti, Stefano Cappa, Carlo Miniussi, Giuseppe Riv. Semantic and gender priming in frontotemporal dementia. Studies in health technology and informatics. vol 144. 2016-04-23. PMID:19592771. the present experiment tests at the same time semantic and syntactic aspects of language processing in patients with frontotemporal dementia, using an online paradigm that allows researchers to evaluate the real linguistic competence of the patients. 2016-04-23 2023-08-12 Not clear
Rebecca L Jackson, Matthew A Lambon Ralph, Gorana Pobri. The timing of anterior temporal lobe involvement in semantic processing. Journal of cognitive neuroscience. vol 27. issue 7. 2016-02-22. PMID:25633648. to test the timing of the atl involvement in semantic processing, we studied the effect of double-pulse tms on behavioral responses in semantic and difficulty-matched control tasks. 2016-02-22 2023-08-13 Not clear
Hannah L Golden, Laura E Downey, Philip D Fletcher, Colin J Mahoney, Jonathan M Schott, Catherine J Mummery, Sebastian J Crutch, Jason D Warre. Identification of environmental sounds and melodies in syndromes of anterior temporal lobe degeneration. Journal of the neurological sciences. vol 352. issue 1-2. 2016-01-27. PMID:25843288. here we investigated semantic processing in two key nonverbal auditory domains - environmental sounds and melodies - in patients with semantic dementia (sd group; n=9) and in patients with anterior temporal lobe atrophy presenting with behavioural decline (tl group; n=7, including four cases with mapt mutations) in relation to healthy older controls (n=20). 2016-01-27 2023-08-13 Not clear
Michael Walsh Dickey, Tessa Warre. The influence of event-related knowledge on verb-argument processing in aphasia. Neuropsychologia. vol 67. 2016-01-04. PMID:25484306. the participants with aphasia naturally split into two groups: group 1 (n = 4) had conceptual-semantic impairments (evidenced by poor performance on tasks like pyramids & palm trees) but reasonably intact language processing (higher western aphasia battery aphasia quotients), while group 2 (n = 4) had intact conceptual semantics but poorer language processing. 2016-01-04 2023-08-13 human
Karine Gravel-Laflamme, Sonia Routhier, Joël Macoi. [Non-pharmacological therapies of language deficits in semantic dementia]. Geriatrie et psychologie neuropsychiatrie du vieillissement. vol 10. issue 4. 2015-11-23. PMID:23250023. semantic dementia (sd) is a neurodegenerative condition characterised by a progressive disorder of semantic processing, word comprehension and anomia. 2015-11-23 2023-08-12 Not clear
Alfredo Ardil. A proposed reinterpretation of Gerstmann's syndrome. Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists. vol 29. issue 8. 2015-07-17. PMID:25377466. it has been also suggested that semantic aphasia is always associated with acalculia; as a matter of fact, left angular gyrus has a significant involvement in semantic processing. 2015-07-17 2023-08-13 Not clear
Martin Ulrich, Sarah C Adams, Markus Kiefe. Flexible establishment of functional brain networks supports attentional modulation of unconscious cognition. Human brain mapping. vol 35. issue 11. 2015-06-15. PMID:24954512. subliminal semantic priming was significantly greater after semantic compared to perceptual induction in ventral occipito-temporal (vot) and inferior frontal cortex, brain areas known to be involved in semantic processing. 2015-06-15 2023-08-13 Not clear
Mona Moisala, Viljami Salmela, Emma Salo, Synnöve Carlson, Virve Vuontela, Oili Salonen, Kimmo Alh. Brain activity during divided and selective attention to auditory and visual sentence comprehension tasks. Frontiers in human neuroscience. vol 9. 2015-03-06. PMID:25745395. areas involved in semantic language processing were revealed predominantly in the left lateral prefrontal cortex by contrasting incongruent with congruent sentences. 2015-03-06 2023-08-13 human
Tatsunobu Natsubori, Ryu-Ichiro Hashimoto, Noriaki Yahata, Hideyuki Inoue, Yosuke Takano, Norichika Iwashiro, Shinsuke Koike, Wataru Gonoi, Hiroki Sasaki, Hidemasa Takao, Osamu Abe, Kiyoto Kasai, Hidenori Yamasu. An fMRI study of visual lexical decision in patients with schizophrenia and clinical high-risk individuals. Schizophrenia research. vol 157. issue 1-3. 2015-02-26. PMID:24893907. disturbances in semantic and phonological aspects of language processing are indicated in patients with schizophrenia, and in high-risk individuals for schizophrenia. 2015-02-26 2023-08-13 human
Ekaterini Klepousniotou, Vincent L Gracco, G Bruce Pik. Pathways to lexical ambiguity: fMRI evidence for bilateral fronto-parietal involvement in language processing. Brain and language. vol 131. 2015-02-05. PMID:24183467. the role of these areas in the right hemisphere in language processing is not understood and, although there is evidence from lesion studies that the right hemisphere is involved in the appreciation of semantic relations, no specific anatomical substrate has yet been identified. 2015-02-05 2023-08-12 Not clear
Olga Boukrina, Stephen Jose Hanson, Catherine Hanso. Modeling activation and effective connectivity of VWFA in same script bilinguals. Human brain mapping. vol 35. issue 6. 2014-12-09. PMID:24038636. considering that frontal cortex has been implicated in semantic processing, a direct connection to this area could signal a fast and automatic access to meaning and would facilitate early semantic influences in visual word recognition. 2014-12-09 2023-08-12 Not clear
Richard Tzong-Han Tsai, Po-Ting La. A resource-saving collective approach to biomedical semantic role labeling. BMC bioinformatics. vol 15. 2014-11-17. PMID:24884358. biomedical semantic role labeling (biosrl) is a natural language processing technique that identifies the semantic roles of the words or phrases in sentences describing biological processes and expresses them as predicate-argument structures (pas's). 2014-11-17 2023-08-13 Not clear