Mikael Roll
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View article: Neurophysiological evidence of rapid holistic tone-based lexical access
Neurophysiological evidence of rapid holistic tone-based lexical access Open
Word accents are restricted by a word's morphological structure but also distinguish lexical meanings in minimal pairs. We investigated how early tonal information carried by morphophonemic word accents influences rapid lexical access in n…
View article: Extended high-frequency hearing sensitivity facilitates predictive speech perception
Extended high-frequency hearing sensitivity facilitates predictive speech perception Open
Speech signal decoding relies on both cognitive performance and the ability to perceive the acoustic signal in sufficient detail. In everyday communication, natural speech is often rapid, spatially and spectrally complex, and accompanied b…
View article: Heschl’s gyrus and the temporal pole: The cortical lateralization of language
Heschl’s gyrus and the temporal pole: The cortical lateralization of language Open
The left lateralization of language has been attributed to hemispheric specialization for processing rapidly changing information. While interhemispheric differences in auditory cortex organization support this view, the macrostructure of …
View article: Temporal dynamics of coarticulatory cues to prediction
Temporal dynamics of coarticulatory cues to prediction Open
The temporal dynamics of the perception of within-word coarticulatory cues remain a subject of ongoing debate in speech perception research. This behavioral gating study sheds light on the unfolding predictive use of anticipatory coarticul…
View article: COGNITIVE AND NEURAL CONSTRAINTS ON TIMING AND RHYTHM IN LANGUAGE
COGNITIVE AND NEURAL CONSTRAINTS ON TIMING AND RHYTHM IN LANGUAGE Open
In this chapter, we discuss research from behavior, event-related brain potentials, and neural oscillations which suggests that cognitive and neural constraints affect the timing of speech processing and language comprehension. Some of the…
View article: Neural semantic effects of tone accents
Neural semantic effects of tone accents Open
This study investigated whether the brain utilizes morphologically induced tones for semantic processing during online speech perception. An auditory comprehension task was conducted while measuring event-related potentials (ERPs). The stu…
View article: Neurophysiological signatures of prediction in language: A critical review of anticipatory negativities
Neurophysiological signatures of prediction in language: A critical review of anticipatory negativities Open
Recent event-related potential (ERP) studies in language comprehension converge in finding anticipatory negativities preceding words or word segments that can be pre-activated based on either sentence contexts or phonological cues. We revi…
View article: Swift Prosodic Modulation of Lexical Access: Brain Potentials From Three North Germanic Language Varieties
Swift Prosodic Modulation of Lexical Access: Brain Potentials From Three North Germanic Language Varieties Open
Purpose: According to most models of spoken word recognition, listeners probabilistically activate a set of lexical candidates, which is incrementally updated as the speech signal unfolds. Speech carries segmental (speech sound) as well as…
View article: Neural Representation of Lexical Pitch Accents
Neural Representation of Lexical Pitch Accents Open
View article: Neurophysiological Evidence of Rapid Tone-Based Lexical Access
Neurophysiological Evidence of Rapid Tone-Based Lexical Access Open
View article: Pre-activation negativity (PrAN): A neural index of predictive strength of phonological cues
Pre-activation negativity (PrAN): A neural index of predictive strength of phonological cues Open
We propose that a recently discovered event-related potential (ERP) component—the pre-activation negativity (PrAN)—indexes the predictive strength of phonological cues, including segments, word tones, and sentence-level tones. Specifically…
View article: Phonetic and phonological cues to prediction: Neurophysiology of Danish stød
Phonetic and phonological cues to prediction: Neurophysiology of Danish stød Open
A corpus study and a combined behavioural and neurophysiological study tested how phonetic and phonological features of the Danish creaky voice feature ‘stød’ influence predictive processing. Being associated with certain word endings, stø…
View article: The predictive function of Swedish word accents
The predictive function of Swedish word accents Open
Swedish lexical word accents have been repeatedly said to have a low functional load. Even so, the language has kept these tones ever since they emerged probably over a thousand years ago. This article proposes that the primary function of…
View article: Native language experience shapes pre‐attentive foreign tone processing and guides rapid memory trace build‐up: An <scp>ERP</scp> study
Native language experience shapes pre‐attentive foreign tone processing and guides rapid memory trace build‐up: An <span>ERP</span> study Open
Language experience, particularly from our native language (L1), shapes our perception of other languages around us. The present study examined how L1 experience moulds the initial processing of foreign (L2) tone during acquisition. In par…
View article: Cortical and white matter correlates of language‐learning aptitudes
Cortical and white matter correlates of language‐learning aptitudes Open
People learn new languages with varying degrees of success but what are the neuroanatomical correlates of the difference in language‐learning aptitude? In this study, we set out to investigate how differences in cortical morphology and whi…
View article: Phonological transfer effects in novice learners: A learner's brain detects grammar errors only if the language sounds familiar
Phonological transfer effects in novice learners: A learner's brain detects grammar errors only if the language sounds familiar Open
Many aspects of a new language, including grammar rules, can be acquired and accessed within minutes. In the present study, we investigate how initial learners respond when the rules of a novel language are not adhered to. Through spoken w…
View article: Cortical thickness and surface area of left anterior temporal areas affects processing of phonological cues to morphosyntax
Cortical thickness and surface area of left anterior temporal areas affects processing of phonological cues to morphosyntax Open
Lack of methods to experimentally assess the perceptual processing of sound features and allow one to measure differences in phonological proficiency has been a limitation for speech processing studies in native speakers. Tonal features as…
View article: The role of affective meaning, semantic associates, and orthographic neighbours in modulating the N400 in single words
The role of affective meaning, semantic associates, and orthographic neighbours in modulating the N400 in single words Open
The N 400 has been seen to be larger for concrete than abstract words, and for pseudowords than real words. Using a word vector analysis to calculate semantic associates (SA), as well as ratings for emotional arousal (EA), and a measure of…
View article: Different neural mechanisms for rapid acquisition of words with grammatical tone in learners from tonal and non-tonal backgrounds: ERP evidence
Different neural mechanisms for rapid acquisition of words with grammatical tone in learners from tonal and non-tonal backgrounds: ERP evidence Open
Initial second language acquisition proceeds surprisingly quickly. Foreign words can sometimes be used within minutes after the first exposure. Yet, it is unclear whether such rapid learning also takes place for more complex, multi-layered…
View article: Brain responses to morphologically complex verbs: An electrophysiological study of Swedish regular and irregular past tense forms
Brain responses to morphologically complex verbs: An electrophysiological study of Swedish regular and irregular past tense forms Open
The present electrophysiological study investigated irregular versus regular verb form processing in Swedish during reading. In line with previous results from other languages, overregularized verbs, i.e. incorrect irregular stem + regular…
View article: Swedish word accents, intonation and L2 English: Aligning tonal, metrical and morphosyntactic structure during L2 processing
Swedish word accents, intonation and L2 English: Aligning tonal, metrical and morphosyntactic structure during L2 processing Open
Mastering a new language (L2) implies the need to readjust the associations between different components (phonology, lexicon, grammar) in the native language (L1). L2 speakers have often been observed to apply prosodic patterns from their …
View article: Data for: Cortical Thickness of Broca’s Area and Right Homologue Predict Grammar Learning Aptitude and Pitch Discrimination Proficiency
Data for: Cortical Thickness of Broca’s Area and Right Homologue Predict Grammar Learning Aptitude and Pitch Discrimination Proficiency Open
Background data, freesurfer subject repositories, and qdec table files used in Cortical Thickness of Broca’s Area and Right Homologue Predict Grammar Learning Aptitude and Pitch Discrimination Proficiency.
View article: Cortical thickness of Broca’s area and right homologue is related to grammar learning aptitude and pitch discrimination proficiency
Cortical thickness of Broca’s area and right homologue is related to grammar learning aptitude and pitch discrimination proficiency Open
Aptitude for and proficiency in acquiring new languages varies in the human population but their neural bases are largely unknown. We investigated the influence of cortical thickness on language learning predictors measured by the LLAMA te…
View article: Rapid syntactic pre-activation in Broca’s area: Concurrent electrophysiological and haemodynamic recordings
Rapid syntactic pre-activation in Broca’s area: Concurrent electrophysiological and haemodynamic recordings Open
View article: A dual complexity gradient theory of speech perception
A dual complexity gradient theory of speech perception Open
This article proposes a Dual Complexity Gradient theory of speech perception in the brain. The theory unifies a previously proposed phonetic-to-phonological complexity gradient along the ventral auditory processing stream in the temporal l…
View article: Cortical thickness of planum temporale and pars opercularis in native language tone processing
Cortical thickness of planum temporale and pars opercularis in native language tone processing Open
The present study investigated the relationship between linguistic tone processing and cortical thickness of bilateral planum temporale (PT) and pars opercularis of the inferior frontal gyrus (IFGpo). Swedish tones on word stems function a…
View article: Neural processing of morphosyntactic tonal cues in second-language learners
Neural processing of morphosyntactic tonal cues in second-language learners Open
The morphosyntactic nature of word accents in Swedish makes them a perfect candidate for the study of predictive processing in language. The association of word stem accents with upcoming suffixes allows native listeners to pre-activate a …
View article: Tone-grammar association within words: Concurrent ERP and fMRI show rapid neural pre-activation and involvement of left inferior frontal gyrus in pseudoword processing
Tone-grammar association within words: Concurrent ERP and fMRI show rapid neural pre-activation and involvement of left inferior frontal gyrus in pseudoword processing Open
Using a concurrent ERP/fMRI paradigm, we investigated how listeners take advantage of morphologically relevant tonal information at the beginning of words to predict and pre-activate likely word endings. More predictive, low tone word stem…
View article: Forehearing words: Pre-activation of word endings at word onset
Forehearing words: Pre-activation of word endings at word onset Open
View article: Training predictive L2 processing with a digital game: Prototype promotes acquisition of anticipatory use of tone-suffix associations
Training predictive L2 processing with a digital game: Prototype promotes acquisition of anticipatory use of tone-suffix associations Open
The present article introduces the concept of an educational game application aimed at providing training in predictive second language (L2) processing. The prototype of the game, focusing on Swedish tone-suffix associations, was tested du…