Word classes in the brain: Implications of linguistic typology for cognitive neuroscience

D Kemmerer - Cortex, 2014 - Elsevier
Although recent research on the neural substrates of word classes has generated some
valuable findings, significant progress has been hindered by insufficient attention to …

Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Action Naming in Aphasia Rehabilitation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

M Spigarelli, A Lalancette, H Massé-Alarie, MA Wilson - Brain sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
Anomia, characterized by difficulty in word retrieval, particularly action verbs, poses a
significant challenge in post-stroke aphasia. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation …

Shindigs, brunches, and rodeos: The neural basis of event words

M Bedny, S Dravida, R Saxe - Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral …, 2014 - Springer
Abstract Events (eg,“running” or “eating”) constitute a basic type within human cognition and
human language. We asked whether thinking about events, as compared to other …

A double dissociation in sensitivity to verb and noun semantics across cortical networks

GV Elli, C Lane, M Bedny - Cerebral Cortex, 2019 - academic.oup.com
What is the neural organization of the mental lexicon? Previous research suggests that
partially distinct cortical networks are active during verb and noun processing, but what …

Nouns and verbs in Chinese are processed differently: Evidence from an ERP study on monosyllabic and disyllabic word processing

Q **a, L Wang, G Peng - Journal of Neurolinguistics, 2016 - Elsevier
This event-related potential (ERP) study aims to investigate the neural processing of nouns
and verbs in Chinese, especially the processing of monosyllabic nouns (MNs) and verbs …

Dissociable intrinsic functional networks support noun-object and verb-action processing

H Yang, Q Lin, Z Han, H Li, L Song, L Chen, Y He… - Brain and language, 2017 - Elsevier
The processing mechanism of verbs-actions and nouns-objects is a central topic of
language research, with robust evidence for behavioral dissociation. The neural basis for …

Neural representation of word categories is distinct in the temporal lobe: An activation likelihood analysis

Y Faroqi‐Shah, R Sebastian… - Human brain …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The distinction between nouns and verbs is a language universal. Yet, functional
neuroimaging studies comparing noun and verb processing have yielded inconsistent …

Neural specialization for 'visual'concepts emerges in the absence of vision

M Hauptman, G Elli, R Pant, M Bedny - Cognition, 2025 - Elsevier
Abstract The 'different-body/different-concepts hypothesis' central to some embodiment
theories proposes that the sensory capacities of our bodies shape the cognitive and neural …

Effects of context and word class on lexical retrieval in Chinese speakers with anomic aphasia

SP Law, APH Kong, LWS Lai, C Lai - Aphasiology, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Differences in processing nouns and verbs have been investigated intensely in
psycholinguistics and neuropsychology in past decades. However, the majority of studies …

An fMRI study of grammatical morpheme processing associated with nouns and verbs in Chinese

X Yu, Y Bi, Z Han, SP Law - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
This study examined whether the degree of complexity of a grammatical component in a
language would impact on its representation in the brain through identifying the neural …