Highlights•Gradual accumulation of evidence, core to decision-making, can be studied in
rodents.•Pulse-based sensory evidence stimuli facilitate behavioral and neural …

Language is considered to be one of the most lateralized human brain functions. Left
hemisphere dominance for language has been consistently confirmed in clinical and …

Competitive accounts of lexical selection propose that the activation of competitors slows
down the selection of the target. Non-competitive accounts, on the other hand, posit that …

In this review, challenges related to the measurement of word durations in language
production are identified, highlighting gaps in current theoretical frameworks and the …

To improve the understanding of cognitive processing stages, we combined two prominent
traditions in cognitive science: evidence accumulation models and stage discovery methods …

Dating back to the 19th century, the discovery of processing stages has been of great
interest to researchers in cognitive science. The goal of this paper is to demonstrate the …

The associative manner by which thoughts follow one another has intrigued scholars for
decades. The process by which an association is generated in response to a cue can be …

Patients with lesions in the left prefrontal cortex (PFC) have been shown to be impaired in
lexical selection, especially when interference between semantically related alternatives is …

Extensive increases in cingulo-opercular frontal activity are typically observed during
speech recognition in noise tasks. This elevated activity has been linked to a word …

Purpose After stroke, how well do people with aphasia (PWA) adapt to the altered
functioning of their language system? When completing a language-dependent task, how …