Encoding and navigating linguistic representations in memory

Topic Editors:
Claudia Felser, University of Potsdam, Germany
Colin Phillips, University of Maryland, USA
Matthew Wagers, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

Successful speaking and understanding requires mechanisms for reliably encoding structured linguistic representations in memory and for effectively accessing information...

Deadline for abstract submission: 30 Jun 2014

Deadline for full article submission: 31 Dec 2014

The variable mind? How apparently inconsistent effects might inform model building

Topic Editors:
Simona Amenta, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy
Davide Crepaldi, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

Model building is typically based on the identification of a set of established facts in any given field of research, insofar as the model is then evaluated on how well...

Deadline for abstract submission: 10 Jul 2013

Deadline for full article submission: 15 Jan 2014

Phonological and phonetic competence: between grammar, signal processing, and neural activity

Topic Editors:
Ulrike Domahs, University of Marburg, Germany, Germany
Hubert Truckenbrodt, Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS), Germany
Richard Wiese, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany

The starting point for this Research Topic was a Priority Programme on experimental research in phonology and phonetics, which was funded by the German Science Foundation...

Deadline for abstract submission: 30 Jun 2013

Deadline for full article submission: 10 Jan 2014

Language by mouth and by hand

Topic Editors:
Iris Berent, Northeastern University, USA
Susan Goldin-Meadow, University of Chicago, USA

While most natural languages rely on speech, humans can spontaneously generate comparable linguistic systems that utilize manual gestures. This collection of papers...

Deadline for abstract submission: 15 Aug 2013

Deadline for full article submission: 01 Dec 2013

What's to be Learned from Speaking Aloud? - Advances in the Neurophysiological Measurement of Overt Language Production

Topic Editors:
Lesya Ganushchak, Max Planck Institute, Netherlands
Daniel Acheson, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands

Researchers have long avoided neurophysiological experiments of overt speech production due to the suspicion that artifacts caused by muscle activity may lead to a bad...

Deadline for abstract submission: 31 Aug 2013

Deadline for full article submission: 30 Nov 2013

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Multilingualism

Topic Editors:
Suzanne Curtin, University of Calgary, Canada
Manuel Carreiras, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, Spain
Mary G. O'Brien, University of Calgary, Canada
Rahat Naqvi, University of Calgary, Canada

This research topic stems from the IAM interdisciplinary conference, the first of its kind, which will bring together the work of researchers, educators, and policy...

Deadline for full article submission: 15 Nov 2013

Insights to the study of Language from Network Science

Topic Editors:
Michael S. Vitevitch, University of Kansas, USA
Thomas Hills, University of Basel, Switzerland

Network Science—an emerging field drawing from Computer Science, Physics, Sociology, Mathematics and a number of other disciplines—uses networks to model complex systems....

Deadline for abstract submission: 01 Apr 2013

Deadline for full article submission: 01 Jun 2013

Audiovisual Speech Recognition: Correspondence between Brain and Behavior

Topic Editors:
Nicholas Altieri, Idaho State University, USA

Perceptual processes mediating recognition, including the recognition of objects and spoken words, is inherently multisensory. This is true in spite of the fact that...

Deadline for abstract submission: 01 Jan 2013

Deadline for full article submission: 01 Mar 2013

Extended deadline for full article submission: 30 May 2013

50 years after the perceptron, 25 years after PDP: Neural computation in language sciences

Topic Editors:
Julien Mayor, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Pablo Gomez, DePaul, USA
Franklin Chang, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
Gary Lupyan, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

The special issue aims to showcase the state of the art in language research while celebrating the 25th anniversary of the tremendously influential work of the PDP group,...

Deadline for full article submission: 30 Apr 2013

Extended deadline for full article submission: 30 May 2013

Does Language Production Shape Language Form and Comprehension?

Topic Editors:
Manuel Carreiras, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, Spain
Charles Jr Clifton, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

MacDonald’s Hypothesis and Theory paper, How language production shapes language form and comprehension, is the core of this Topic. MacDonald proposes that language...

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Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Language Processing in the Brain: Challenges to Traditional Models.

Topic Editors:
Gina Kuperberg, Tufts University, USA
Tamara Swaab

The study of language in the brain has a long and rich history. Traditional neuroanatomical models were inspired by Broca’s and Wernicke’s ground-breaking studies of...

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Brain Oscillations during Language Processing: from Perception to Production

Topic Editors:
Marcela Pena, Catholic University of Chile, Chile
Lucia Melloni, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany

Language processing is a seemingly effortless task that requires the integration of speech units (e.g., phonemes, syllables, words, etc.) occurring at different rates. In...

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The naïve language expert: How infants discover units and regularities in speech

Topic Editors:
Jutta L. Mueller, University of Osnabrueck, Germany
Claudia Männel, Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Germany

The advent of behavior-independent measures of cognition and major progress in experimental designs have led to substantial advances in the investigation of infant...

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At the doors of lexical access: The importance of the first 250 milliseconds in reading

Topic Editors:
Jon Andoni Dunabeitia, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, Spain
Nicola Molinaro, BCBL, Basque center on Cognition, Brain and Language, Spain

Correct word identification and processing is a prerequisite for accurate reading, and decades of psycholinguistic and neuroscientific research have shown that the...

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The Dynamics of Lexical Selection in Speech Production

Topic Editors:
Bradford Mahon, University of Rochester, USA
Eduardo Navarrete, Universita di Padova, Italy
Niels Janssen, Universidad de La Laguna, Spain

A critical issue psycholinguistic research is developing a model of how words are selected from the mental lexicon in speech production. This Research Topic of Frontiers...

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The cognitive and brain reorganization of language by literacy in typical and atypical populations

Topic Editors:
Regine Kolinsky, Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique-FNRS, Belgium
Chotiga Pattamadilok, CNRS, France
José J. Morais, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Learning to read induces changes in cognitive function, brain organization and structure, especially within the language system. These changes mainly result from the...

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The neurocognition of language production

Topic Editors:
Albert Costa, University Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Kristof Strijkers, CNRS - Universite Aix-Marseille, France

Over the last decades neuroscience has passed beyond mere "phrenology" and "erpology" and has become an important tool for investigating the spatial, temporal and...

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Neurobilingualism: How brain function informs bilingual functioning and vice versa.

Topic Editors:
Guillaume Thierry, Bangor University, United Kingdom
Clara D. Martin, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

The main aim of this special issue is to capitalise on the new interest in bilingualism by neuroscientists and the interest of bilingualism researchers in neuroscientific...

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Near-Infrared Spectroscopy: Recent Advances in Infant Speech Perception and Language Acquisition Research

Topic Editors:
Judit Gervain, CNRS - Universite Paris Descartes, France

Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) is a novel and increasingly popular optical imaging technique that has revolutionarized brain research in the youngest developmental...

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