The five myths of MMN: redefining how to use MMN in basic and clinical research

ES Sussman, S Chen, J Sussman-Fort, E Dinces - Brain Topography, 2014 - Springer
The goal of this review article is to redefine what the mismatch negativity (MMN) component
of event-related potentials reflects in auditory scene analysis, and to provide an overview of …

Vowels and consonants in the brain: Evidence from magnetoencephalographic studies on the N1m in normal-hearing listeners

AD Manca, M Grimaldi - Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Speech sound perception is one of the most fascinating tasks performed by the human
brain. It involves a map** from continuous acoustic waveforms onto the discrete …

Assimilation of L2 vowels to L1 phonemes governs L2 learning in adulthood: a behavioral and ERP study

M Grimaldi, B Sisinni, B Gili Fivela, S Invitto… - Frontiers in human …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
According to the Perceptual Assimilation Model (PAM), articulatory similarity/dissimilarity
between sounds of the second language (L2) and the native language (L1) governs L2 …

Dialect variation influences the phonological and lexical-semantic word processing in sentences. Electrophysiological evidence from a cross-dialectal comprehension …

M Lanwermeyer, K Henrich, MJ Rocholl… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
This event-related potential (ERP) study examines the influence of dialectal competence
differences (merged vs. unmerged dialect group) on cross-dialectal comprehension …

Lexical competition between spoken and literary Arabic: A new look into the neural basis of diglossia using fMRI

A Abou-Ghazaleh, A Khateb, M Nevat - Neuroscience, 2018 - Elsevier
Diglossia in the Arabic language refers to the socio-linguistic situation in which Spoken
Arabic (SA), which is the first to be acquired, is used for everyday communications, while …

Influence of dialect use on speech perception: A mismatch negativity study

JC Bühler, S Schmid, U Maurer - Language, Cognition and …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Using an electroencephalography (EEG)-based mismatch negativity (MMN) paradigm, we
investigated whether higher familiarity with a dialectal variety of German (Swiss German …

Context and perceptual asymmetry effects on the mismatch negativity (MMNm) to speech sounds: an MEG study

A Højlund, L Gebauer, WB McGregor… - Language, Cognition …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The mismatch negativity (MMN) of the auditory ERP/ERF has been shown to be sensitive to
both phonetic and phonological contrasts. However, potential asymmetry effects and effects …

Auditory predictions are phonological when phonetic information is variable

R Rhodes, E Avcu, C Han, A Hestvik - Language, Cognition and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
An emerging body of studies has claimed that exposure to phonetically varying speech
sounds results in strictly phonological representations of speech sounds by the brain's …

Allophonic familiarity differentiates word representations in the brain of native speakers of regional linguistic varieties

G Di Dona, F Mantione, B Alber, S Sulpizio… - Brain and …, 2022 - Elsevier
This study aims to shed light on the issue whether familiar allophonic variation is encoded in
word representations. Both Italian speakers born in Trentino and speakers born in the …

The phonetics-phonology relationship in the neurobiology of language

M Grimaldi, R Petrosino, P Cerrone… - From sounds to …, 2018 - degruyter.com
In the beginning, phonetics and phonology did not constitute independent disciplines and
their underlying notions were mutually interchangeable. With the emergence of the …