MEG and Language

Suzanne Dikker (1) , M Florencia Assaneo (2) , Laura ​ Gwilliams (1) , Lin Wang (3) , Anne Kösem (4)

1 NYU Department of Psychology [New-York University]
2 NYU - New York University [New York]
3 Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, USA
4 CRNL - Centre de recherche en neurosciences de Lyon - Lyon Neuroscience Research Center

This text is adapted from MEG and Language by the same authors, submitted to an issue of Neuroimaging Clinics on Magnetoencephalography, edited by Drs. Roland Lee and Mingxiong Huang All authors contributed equally to this work Synopsis We provide an introductory overview of research that uses magnetoencephalography (MEG) to understand the brain basis of human language. The cognitive processes and brain networks that have been implicated in written and spoken language comprehension and production are discussed in relation to different methodologies: we briefly review event-related brain responses, research on the coupling of neural oscillations to speech, oscillatory coupling between brain regions (e.g., auditory-motor coupling), and neural decoding approaches in naturalistic language comprehension. We end with a short section on the clinical relevance of MEG language research, focusing on dyslexia and specific language impairment.

Domaines: Neurosciences; Linguistique; Psychologie; Sciences cognitives

Suzanne Dikker, M Florencia Assaneo, Laura ​ Gwilliams, Lin Wang, Anne Kösem. MEG and Language. 2019. ⟨hal-02265485⟩