Guillaume Thierry

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..Thus, the N190 generalizes to some degree to schematic depictions of the human form. Overall, our findings are consistent with intertwined, but functionally distinct, neural representations of the human face and body...

..Thus, the neuroanatomical basis of a verbal/nonverbal conceptual processing dissociation is established...

..We conclude that affective environmental sounds spontaneously capture human attention but fail to modulate early perceptual processing when sound peak intensity is controlled...

..Finally, we replicated this pattern of results in the auditory modality by using a listening comprehension task. These findings demonstrate that native-language activation is an unconscious correlate of second-language comprehension...

..These findings establish an implicit effect of language-specific terminology on human color perception...

..We propose that this dissociation between syntactic and semantic evaluation enabled Shakespeare to create dramatic effects without diverting his public away from meaning...

..These results demonstrate early ERP category effects in the visual domain, call into question the face selectivity of the N170 and establish ISPV as a critical factor to control in experiments relying on multitrial averaging...

..The results suggest relative insensitivity on the part of the right hemisphere in registering the negative emotional valence of written words...

..These findings demonstrate that Chinese participants unconsciously translate words into Chinese while reading English...

..While semantic processing involves widely distributed networks in both hemispheres, our results support the hypothesis of a dual access route specific for verbal and nonverbal material, respectively...

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..A significant modulation of the first negative peak (N200), known to index implicit change detection in adults, was induced by word familiarity in the infants...

..These results suggest that processing second language activates the sound, but not the spelling, of native language translations...

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..Furthermore, we found evidence for category selectivity and task dependence in the P1 range. These results support the idea that N170 face selectivity is formally questionable...

..e., during the extraction of letter-shape information. In addition, we show that this facilitatory top-down effect is sensitive to stimulus exposure duration...

..Overall, highly proficient bilinguals appear to detect language changes very early on during speech perception and to consciously monitor language changes when they occur...

..The results suggest that lexical alternatives from both languages compete for selection in the process of L2 speech planning in a predominantly L2 context...

..These results support the hypothesis that conceptual and emotional processes are functionally independent regardless of the specific cognitive focus of the comprehender...

..Potential face-sensitivity in the N170 range may therefore rely on topographic differences and effects of inversion, rather than amplitude differences...

..We conclude that morphological effects can be accounted for by the conjunction of orthography and semantics in a priming experiment...

..Critically, written word primes resulted in the largest P3b amplitudes whether elicited by written word or picture targets, suggesting a semantic priming supremacy of written words...

..We interpret these findings as evidence for EBA as the primary generator of the body-selective N1 component. Our results are an example of the use of functional criteria to distinguish among the possible neural sources of ERP markers...

..In light of previous P3a differences, these results suggest an important role for attention allocation in the manifestation of phonological deficits in developmental dyslexia...

..quot; These findings show that emotion conveyed by words determines language activation in bilinguals, where potentially disturbing stimuli trigger inhibitory mechanisms that block access to the native language...

..This shows that phonological access during silent reading, which is critical for literacy acquisition, remains active in adulthood...

..Meanwhile, early differences in perceptual processing of phonological information may be driven by the strength of engagement with orthographic information...

..This result suggests that dyslexic adults fail to make shifts of attention to phonological cues in the same way that normal adult readers do...

..In closing, we consider future developments for language research using functional imaging...

..These results suggest that although bilingual individuals are sensitive to phonemic language cues already from an early age, language awareness and language monitoring mechanisms probably develop later in life...

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..These results suggest fast and unconscious language nonselective access even when no language task is being performed...

..Some theoretical issues arising from these results are discussed...

..An important implication of our findings is that AoA may need to be controlled in ERP studies of lexical processing, especially in designs in which it is likely to be a confound (e.g., studies of lexical category effects)...

..This differential pattern of development between temporal and spatial attention is discussed in relation to visual working memory development, clinical populations, and general mechanisms of cortical development...

..Critically, in all three experiments, P1 amplitude was modulated in a face-sensitive fashion independent of cropping or morphing. Therefore, P1 is a reliable event sensitive to face processing as early as 100 ms after picture onset...

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..In our view, this result is consistent with deficiency in reading occurring from the point at which attention is oriented to phonological analysis, which may underlie broader difficulties in sublexical decoding...

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..These results demonstrate that second language production hinders, but does not seal off, activation of the first language, whereas native language production appears immune to competition from the second language...

..This has implications for domain- vs. process-specific cognitive models, and for the relative importance of segregation and integration in functional anatomy...

..IHTT was marginally shorter in control participants as compared to participants with developmental dyslexia, and the faster transfer to the left hemisphere seen in the former was not found in the latter...

..To examine the association between predefined adverse events (AE) (including nosocomial infections) and intensive care unit (ICU) mortality, controlling for multiple adverse events in the same patient and confounding variables...