Brain and Language
Overview
Brain and Language is a reputable interdisciplinary journal that focuses on the intricate relationship between the brain and language. It publishes cutting-edge research on various aspects of language processing, acquisition, and disorders, shedding light on the neural mechanisms underlying language production, comprehension, and representation. The journal serves as a valuable resource for linguists, psychologists, neuroscientists, and clinicians interested in understanding the complex interplay between the brain and language.
Details
Details
Abbr.
Brain Lang
Publisher
Elsevier
Start
1974
End
Continuing
Frequency
Twelve no. a year, 2001-
p-ISSN
0093-934X
e-ISSN
1090-2155
Country
Netherlands
Language
English
Specialties
Neurology
Psychiatry
Otorhinolaryngology
Psychiatry
Otorhinolaryngology
Metrics
Metrics
h-index / Ranks: 1640
140
SJR / Ranks: 4604
881
CiteScore / Ranks: 5670
4.60
JIF / Ranks: 4316
2.5
Recent Articles
1.
Qin Q, Wu R, Zhang C
Brain Lang
. 2025 Mar;
265:105568.
PMID: 40086423
This study investigates whether daytime naps facilitate perceptual learning of Cantonese tones and how prior knowledge mediates the consolidation effect. Ninety Mandarin native speakers were pseudo-randomly assigned to either a...
2.
Li L, Tang J, Chen X, Xiang L, Taft M, Feng X
Brain Lang
. 2025 Mar;
265:105567.
PMID: 40064064
Sentences conveying abstract meanings are crucial tools for high-level thinking and communication. Previous research has sparked a debate on whether abstract concepts rely on the representation of the sensory-motor brain...
3.
Nakamura M, Rossi E
Brain Lang
. 2025 Feb;
264:105550.
PMID: 39983637
Working memory (WM) is essential for language comprehension. It enables us to retain and manipulate information, track context, and recall key details. While WM's role in syntactic processing is well-established,...
4.
Remon A, Mascheretti S, Voronin I, Feng B, Ouellet-Morin I, Brendgen M, et al.
Brain Lang
. 2025 Feb;
264:105552.
PMID: 39983636
Although individual differences in reading-related skills are largely influenced by genetic variation, the molecular basis of the heritability of this phenotype is far from understood. Functional single-nucleotide polymorphisms spanning reading-candidate...
5.
Yeaton J
Brain Lang
. 2025 Feb;
264:105549.
PMID: 39983635
Although there is a sizeable body of literature on sentence comprehension and processing both in healthy and disordered language users, the literature on sentence production remains much more sparse. Linguistic...
6.
Gu J, Wang X, Liu C, Zhuang K, Fan L, Zhang J, et al.
Brain Lang
. 2025 Feb;
264:105551.
PMID: 39955819
Associative theories of creativity posit that high-creativity individuals possess flexible semantic memory structures that allow broad access to varied information. However, the semantic memory structure characteristics and neural substrates of...
7.
Kaganovich N, Ragheb R, Christ S, Schumaker J
Brain Lang
. 2025 Feb;
263:105547.
PMID: 39954391
Siblings of children with developmental language disorder (DLD) often have weaker language skills compared to peers with typical development (TD). However, whether their language-relevant audiovisual skills are also atypical is...
8.
Li J, Li M, Zhou W, Qu Q
Brain Lang
. 2025 Feb;
263:105546.
PMID: 39914062
Existing studies demonstrate that comprehenders can predict semantic information during language comprehension. Most evidence comes from a highly constraining context and it is less investigated that whether individuals predict following...
9.
Stekelenburg J, Limpens J, Baart M, Vroomen J
Brain Lang
. 2025 Jan;
263:105545.
PMID: 39870049
Selective speech adaptation refers to the phenomenon where repeated exposure to identical speech sounds temporarily reduces sensitivity to that sound. We used EEG to track the time-course of this effect....
10.
Zhu M, Cai Q
Brain Lang
. 2025 Jan;
262:105537.
PMID: 39862750
Hemispheric specialization of different functions is proposed to confer evolutionary benefits, yet the behavioral impacts of lateralization and its cognitive and neural mechanisms remain unclear. This study investigated the effect...