The cocktail-party problem revisited: early processing and selection of multi-talker speech

AW Bronkhorst - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2015 - Springer
How do we recognize what one person is saying when others are speaking at the same
time? This review summarizes widespread research in psychoacoustics, auditory scene …

Mismatch negativity (MMN) as an index of cognitive dysfunction

R Näätänen, ES Sussman, D Salisbury, VL Shafer - Brain topography, 2014 - Springer
Cognition is often affected in a variety of neuropsychiatric, neurological, and
neurodevelopmental disorders. The neural discriminative response, reflected in mismatch …

The role of domain-general cognitive control in language comprehension

E Fedorenko - Frontiers in psychology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
What role does domain-general cognitive control play in understanding linguistic input?
Although much evidence has suggested that domain-general cognitive control and working …

The genesis of syntactic complexity

T Givón - The Genesis of Syntactic Complexity, 2009 - torrossa.com
It took a while to convince myself that I was ready for this book. In a way, I have been writing
it for most of my linguistic life. In the beginning it all seemed disarmingly simple, with …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding in an instant: neurophysiological evidence for mechanistic language circuits in the brain

F Pulvermüller, Y Shtyrov, O Hauk - Brain and language, 2009 - Elsevier
How long does it take the human mind to grasp the idea when hearing or reading a
sentence? Neurophysiological methods looking directly at the time course of brain activity …

Can late L2 learners acquire new grammatical features? Evidence from ERPs and eye-tracking

A Foucart, C Frenck-Mestre - Journal of Memory and Language, 2012 - Elsevier
We report a series of ERP and eye-tracking experiments investigating,(a) whether English–
French learners can process grammatical gender online,(b) whether cross-linguistic …

Grammatical gender processing in L2: Electrophysiological evidence of the effect of L1–L2 syntactic similarity

A Foucart, C Frenck-Mestre - Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2011 - cambridge.org
This study examines the effect of proficiency and similarity between the first and the second
language on grammatical gender processing in L2. In three experiments, we manipulated …

Linguistic processing of task-irrelevant speech at a cocktail party

P Har-shai Yahav, E Zion Golumbic - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Paying attention to one speaker in a noisy place can be extremely difficult, because to-be-
attended and task-irrelevant speech compete for processing resources. We tested whether …

Differential cortical contribution of syntax and semantics: An fMRI study on two-word phrasal processing

M Schell, E Zaccarella, AD Friederici - Cortex, 2017 - Elsevier
Linguistic expressions consist of sequences of words combined together to form phrases
and sentences. The neurocognitive process handling word combination is drawing …

Automatic auditory intelligence: An expression of the sensory–cognitive core of cognitive processes

R Näätänen, P Astikainen, T Ruusuvirta… - Brain research …, 2010 - Elsevier
In this article, we present a new view on the nature of cognitive processes suggesting that
there is a common core, viz., automatic sensory–cognitive processes that form the basis for …