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Morphosyntactic prediction in automatic neural processing of spoken language: EEG evidence
Brain Research. 2024. Article 1836.
Automatic parsing of syntactic information by the human brain is a well-established phenomenon, but its mechanisms remain poorly understood. Its best-known neurophysiological reflection is the so-called early left-anterior negativity (ELAN) component of event-related potentials (ERPs), with two alternative hypotheses for its origin: (1) error detection, or (2) morphosyntactic prediction/priming. To test these alternatives, we conducted two experiments using a non-attend passive design with visual distraction and recorded ERPs to spoken pronoun-verb phrases with/without agreement violations and to the same critical verbs presented in isolation without preceding pronouns. The results revealed an ELAN at ∼130-220 ms for pronoun-verb gender agreement violations, confirming a high degree of automaticity in early morphosyntactic parsing. Critically, the strongest ELAN was elicited by verbs outside phrasal context, which suggests that the typical ELAN pattern is underpinned by a reduction of ERP amplitudes for felicitous combinations, reflecting syntactic priming/predictability between related words/morphemes (potentially mediated by associative links formed during previous linguistic experience) rather than specialised error-detection processes.
Сизикова Т. Э., Леонов С. В., Polikanova I., Сибирский психологический журнал 2026 № 101 С. 127–145
This work aims to investigate the impact of a transformational psychological game on changes in psychological parameters of coping behavior and to identify electrophysiological correlates, taking into account the age characteristics of the subjects. The intervention was carried out using the transformational psychological game "Shambhala – 5" (by T.E. Sizikova). The article analyzes psychologist views on transformation, ...
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Monahhova E., Morozova A., Gorodnicheva Y. et al., Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2026 No. 20 Article 1867901
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Source credibility is fundamental to how medical information is processed,yet the underlying neurocognitive mechanisms remain poorly understood. We investigated how two credibility cues — a doctor’s expertise (years of work experience) and aggregate patient ratings (star ratings) — modulate brain responses to veracity cues (‘True’ vs. ‘False’) presented after health- related headlines.
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We recorded EEG from ...
Added: September 18, 2026
Rogachev A.O., Sysoeva O. V., Cognitive Systems Research 2024 Vol. 86 Article 101236
Receptive speech is the ability to understand speech addressed to a person. It is a crucial process for a child’s cognitive development. We examine the relationship between receptive speech and neural tracking of natural speech in 52 children aged 3–8 years to infer the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying speech development. We registered a 32-channel electroencephalogram (EEG) ...
Added: September 17, 2026
Koriakina M., Ntoumanis I., Blagoveshchensky E. et al., Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2026 Vol. 20 Article 1754368
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Understanding how we perceive and interpret the movements of other living beings is fundamental to social interaction, survival, and navigating our dynamic environment. Traditional studies of biological motion perception have predominantly employed simplified stimuli, such as point-light displays, which sacrifice ecological validity for experimental control.
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To overcome this limitation, we created a novel stimulus set featuring ...
Added: September 15, 2026
Bursov K., Slioussar N., Kokhova M. et al., Brain and Language 2026 Vol. 275 Article 105719
Previous EEG studies demonstrated ample evidence for a major influence of morphological regularity on inflectional processing. However, regularity effects may be attributed to different properties of inflectional classes: to type frequency, to productivity, or to defaultness (assumed only in some models). In many languages, these factors cannot be teased apart, but it is possible in ...
Added: September 13, 2026
Oknina L. B., Podlepich V. V., Sieber I. et al., Human Physiology 2026 Vol. 52 No. 3 P. 295–301
The aim of this study was to evaluate the potential use of the frequency-following response (FFR) for assessing preserved perception of simple speech stimuli in humans. To this end, event-related potentials (ERPs) elicited by isolated Russian syllables were recorded and analyzed in 29 healthy subjects in two frequency ranges, the standard range (1—40 Hz) and ...
Added: September 6, 2026
Pavlova A., Малых С. Б., Адамович Т. В., Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2026 No. 20 Article 1843779
This study aimed to investigate resting-state neural correlates of math anxiety in high school students using a graph-theoretical approach. Sixty 10th-grade students (35 females; mean age = 16.15 years) participated in the study. Resting-state EEG data were acquired using a 32-channel wireless dry-sensor system (Cognionics Quick-32 series). Math anxiety was assessed using the Abbreviated Math Anxiety Scale. Mean ...
Added: September 3, 2026
Vlasenko D., Saranskaia I., Zakharov D., European Physical Journal: Special Topics 2026 P. 1–16
Hypergraphs provide a natural framework for representing neurophysiological interactions distributed across sets of sensors. A key methodological question is how hyperedges should be defined from frequency-resolved electroencephalography/magnetoencephalography (EEG/MEG) data. We demonstrate a construction strategy in which hyperedges are obtained from canonical coherence (caCOH), an extension of coherence that estimates coupling between multidimensional signal spaces. To ...
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Badarin A., Ratnikov F., Andreev A., European Physical Journal: Special Topics 2026 P. 1–10
EEG recordings are often affected by the loss or corruption of individual channels due to electrode detachment, poor scalp contact, or external interference. Such channels must be accurately reconstructed before further analysis. In this study, we investigate Next-Generation Reservoir Computing (NG-RC) as a data-driven approach for reconstructing corrupted EEG channels and compare its performance with ...
Added: August 12, 2026
A. Radygina, S. Kulikova, Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2025 Vol. 95 No. 6 P. 963–970
Musical training has a significant impact on brain organization, leading to functional and structural
adaptations that enhance auditory, visual, motor, and cognitive processes. This study investigates how
extensive musical training shapes functional brain connectivity by comparing professional musicians and
non-musicians. Using EEG phase-locking value (PLV) analysis, we examined neural synchronization across
alpha, beta, and gamma frequency ranges during music ...
Added: August 5, 2026
Mikhaylets E. V., Razorenova A. М., Chernyshev V. L. et al., Scientific Reports 2026 Vol. 16 Article 23560
Meditation offers a naturalistic paradigm for studying introspection, yet the neural dynamics of advanced tantric practices remain largely unexplored. Buddhist Highest Yoga Tantra (BHYT) comprises a sequence of eight dissolution stages culminating in the “clear light” state. We recorded EEG during eyes-closed BHYT meditation performed in monasteries and hermitages (51 sessions from 36 male practitioners; ...
Added: July 29, 2026
Окнина Л. Б., Подлепич В. В., Sieber I. et al., Физиология человека 2026 Т. 52 № 3 С. 5–15
The aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency following response (FFR) for the analysis of the intact perception of syllables in humans. For this purpose, event-related potentials (ERPs) in response to isolated Russian syllables were recorded and analyzed in 29 healthy persons in two frequency ranges, standard (1-40 Hz) and high frequency (70-150 ...
Added: June 30, 2026
Chinn L., Momotenko D., Сукманова А. А. et al., Cortex 2023 Vol. 161 P. 93–115
Individuals raised in institutionalized care settings are more likely to demonstrate developmental deficits than those raised in biological families. One domain that is vulnerable to the impoverished environments characteristic of some institutionalized care facilities is language development. We used EEG to assess ERPs and source-localized event-related spectral perturbations (ERSPs) associated with semantic processing at different levels of picture-word conflict and low ...
Added: June 29, 2026
Alenina E., Kristina Terenteva, Kosonogov V., Frontiers in Neuroscience 2026 Vol. 20 Article 1837154
Anxiety, characterized by pervasive feelings of nervousness and worry, may differentially impact cognitive problem-solving across various domains, including spatial and social contexts. This study investigates the relationship between distinct types of anxiety and cognitive performance, aiming to elucidate the underlying neural mechanisms involved. Sixty participants (54 females, Mage = 22.46, SD = 4.50; 6 males, ...
Added: June 19, 2026
Zubov V., Осадчая М. А., Риехакайнен Е. И., Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Язык и литература 2026 Т. 23 № 1 С. 99–119
The article is a part of a comprehensive study of the linguistic characteristics of teacher’s speech, which contribute to the success of the pedagogical discourse. Based on a survey of secondary school students and an analysis of previous research in the field, non-syntactic pauses of hesitation were chosen as the object of the study, i. ...
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Kashevnik A., Glekler E., Artemenko E. et al., Scientific data 2026 Vol. 13 Article 850
We present a multimodal dataset containing electroencephalography (EEG), electrocardiography (ECG), and video recordings from 49 participants. Each participant completed a single session lasting approximately 45 minutes. During each session they performed five tasks: resting state, inward concentration (focusing on the center of the forehead), outward concentration (visual search), and mind-wandering. EEG data were recorded from ...
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Осадчая М. А., Zubov V., Риехакайнен Е. И., Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Труды института лингвистических исследований 2025 Т. 21 № 3 С. 135–158
This study investigates the role of hesitation pauses in spoken teacher discourse and their duration in the perception and short-term memorization of lexical items. While previous research has suggested that certain disfluencies, including hesitation pauses, can facilitate comprehension and memorization, the specific conditions under which this occurs remain unclear. To address this gap, an experimental ...
Added: April 19, 2026
Momotenko D., Цепелевич М., Ткаченко И. et al., Психология. Психофизиология 2025 Т. 18 № 2 С. 34–46
Introduction. Video games constitute a special form of digital media characterized by dynamic environments that respond to players’ actions and integrated algorithms. Within psychological research, video games offer better validity compared to traditional automated assessment systems, enabling a naturalistic investigation of various phenomena. Furthermore, video games shape mental processes. These features are widely exploited in international psychological research and are critical ...
Added: April 17, 2026
Kochetkova E., Machinskaya R., Human Physiology 2025 Vol. 51 No. 6 P. 580–590
Growing evidence suggests the specific systems for emotional information maintenance and processing in working memory, highlighting the role of cognitive domains in emotional awareness. The question of neural basis of social-emotional processing in working memory remains open. We hypothesized that the neural systems supporting working memory for emotional processing may rely on shared ‘core’ networks ...
Added: April 15, 2026
Liaukovich K., Sazhin S., Pavel Bobrov et al., International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2022 Vol. 23 No. 19 Article 11785
This work aimed to study the recovery of consciousness during forced awakening from slow-wave sleep (SWS) and rapid eye movement sleep (REM) in healthy volunteers. To track the changes in the degree of awareness of the stimuli during the transition to wakefulness, event-related potentials (ERPs) and motor responses (MR) in the auditory local-global paradigm were ...
Added: March 18, 2026
Курганская М. Е., Исаев М. Р., Bobrov P., Журнал высшей нервной деятельности им. И.П. Павлова 2024 Т. 74 № 2 С. 210–222
The work investigates spatial and temporal EEG patterns during real and imagined execution of hand reaching. Six independent sources of electrical activity were identified in the EEG recordings. The sources corresponded to the premotor areas, supplementary motor area, primary motor areas, and posterior parietal cortex. Their activation patterns in the alpha and beta range were ...
Added: March 11, 2026
Mitiureva D., Pavel Bobrov, Rebreikina A. et al., International Journal of Psychophysiology 2023 Vol. 190 P. 42–55
Studying mu-rhythm in developmental disorders is crucial for identifying the origin of motor and social malfunctioning. However, the commonly used mu-rhythm experimental protocol, that requires following instructions, is challenging for children with motor and cognitive deficits. Here we present an inclusive experimental procedure that contains passive hand movement, closed and open eyes and hand movement ...
Added: March 11, 2026
Соловьева А. К., Исаев М. Р., Bobrov P. et al., Журнал высшей нервной деятельности им. И.П. Павлова 2025 Т. 75 № 6 С. 756–769
There is a need for empirical indicators that can monitor subtle changes in wakefulness levels with high temporal resolution. We aimed to assess the applicability in this regard of several indices based on the average spectral power of EEG rhythms, as well as the BIS index used in anesthesiology. 26 volunteers participated in an experiment involving forced awakenings ...
Added: March 6, 2026