Listening effort is not the same as speech intelligibility score

MB Winn, KH Teece - Trends in Hearing, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Listening effort is a valuable and important notion to measure because it is among the
primary complaints of people with hearing loss. It is tempting and intuitive to accept speech …

The state of cognitive control in language processing

T Ness, VJ Langlois, AE Kim… - Perspectives on …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Understanding language requires readers and listeners to cull meaning from fast-unfolding
messages that often contain conflicting cues pointing to incompatible ways of interpreting …

Interactional context mediates the consequences of bilingualism for language and cognition.

AL Beatty-Martínez, CA Navarro-Torres… - Journal of …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Proficient bilinguals use two languages actively, but the contexts in which they do so may
differ dramatically. The present study asked what consequences the contexts of language …

fMRI reveals language-specific predictive coding during naturalistic sentence comprehension

C Shain, IA Blank, M van Schijndel, W Schuler… - Neuropsychologia, 2020 - Elsevier
Much research in cognitive neuroscience supports prediction as a canonical computation of
cognition across domains. Is such predictive coding implemented by feedback from higher …

Robust effects of working memory demand during naturalistic language comprehension in language-selective cortex

C Shain, IA Blank, E Fedorenko, E Gibson… - Journal of …, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
To understand language, we must infer structured meanings from real-time auditory or visual
signals. Researchers have long focused on word-by-word structure building in working …

Monitoring and control in language production

N Nozari, J Novick - Current Directions in Psychological …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Language research has provided insight into how speakers translate a thought into a
sequence of sounds that ultimately becomes words, phrases, and sentences. Despite the …

Cognitive control ability mediates prediction costs in monolinguals and bilinguals

M Zirnstein, JG van Hell, JF Kroll - Cognition, 2018 - Elsevier
In this study, we examined the role that cognitive control and language regulation ability play
in mediating readers' susceptibility to prediction error costs when reading in the native …

A robust dissociation among the language, multiple demand, and default mode networks: Evidence from inter-region correlations in effect size

Z Mineroff, IA Blank, K Mahowald, E Fedorenko - Neuropsychologia, 2018 - Elsevier
Complex cognitive processes, including language, rely on multiple mental operations that
are carried out by several large-scale functional networks in the frontal, temporal, and …

Does integrating a code-switch during comprehension engage cognitive control?

RM Adler, JR Valdés Kroff… - Journal of Experimental …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
We investigated whether bilinguals' integration of a code-switch during real-time
comprehension, which involves resolving among conflicting linguistic representations …

Incremental language comprehension difficulty predicts activity in the language network but not the multiple demand network

L Wehbe, IA Blank, C Shain, R Futrell, R Levy… - Cerebral …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
What role do domain-general executive functions play in human language comprehension?
To address this question, we examine the relationship between behavioral measures of …