Publications of Angela D. Friederici

Friederici, A. D., & Becker, Y. (2025). The core language network separated from other networks during primate evolution. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 26, 131–132.

Wu, J., Cheng , Y., Qu, X., Kang, T., Cai, Y., Wang, P., … Chen, L. (2024). Continuous theta-burst stimulation on the left posterior inferior frontal gyrus perturbs complex syntactic processing stability in Mandarin chinese. Neurobiology of Language, 5, 608–627.

Eichner, C., Paquette, M., Müller-Axt, C., Bock, C., Budinger, E., Gräßle, T., … Anwander, A. (2024). Detailed mapping of the complex fiber structure and white matter pathways of the chimpanzee brain. Nature Methods, 21, 1122–1130.

Eichner, C., Berger, P., Klein, C. C., & Friederici, A. D. (2024). Lateralization of dorsal fiber tract targeting Broca's area concurs with language skills during development. Progress in Neurobiology, 236. doi:10.1016/j.pneurobio.2024.102602

Amunts, K., Axer, M., Banerjee, S., Bitsch, L., Bjaalie, J. G., Brauner, P., … Zaborszky, L. (2024). The coming decade of digital brain research: A vision for neuroscience at the intersection of technology and computing. Imaging Neuroscience, 2, 1–35.

Mueller, J. L., Weyers, I., Friederici, A. D., & Männel, C. (2024). Individual differences in auditory perception predict learning of non-adjacent tone sequences in 3-year-olds. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 18. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2024.1358380

Mamashli, F., Khan, S., Hatamimajoumerd, E., Jas, M., Uluç, I., Lankinen, K., … Ahveninen, J. (2024). Characterizing directional dynamics of semantic prediction based on inter-regional temporal generalization. The Journal of Neuroscience. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0230-24.2025

Papitto, G., Friederici, A. D., & Zaccarella, E. (2024). Distinct neural mechanisms for action access and execution in the human brain: Insights from an fMRI study. Cerebral Cortex, 34. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhae163

Wei, X., Gunter, T. C., Adamson, H., Schwendemann, M., Friederici, A. D., Goucha, T., & Anwander, A. (2024). White matter plasticity during second language learning within and across hemispheres. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121. doi:10.1073/pnas.2306286121

Friederici, A. D., Wittig, R. M., Anwander, A., Eichner, C., Gräßle, T., Jäger, C., … EBC Consortium. (2024). Brain structure and function: A multidisciplinary pipeline to study hominoid brain evolution. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 17. doi:10.3389/fnint.2023.1299087

van der Burght, C. L., Friederici, A. D., Maran, M., Papitto, G., Pyatigorskaya, E., Schroen, J., … Zaccarella, E. (2023). Cleaning up the brickyard: How theory and methodology shape experiments in cognitive neuroscience of language. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 35, 2067–2088.

Bortolato, T., Friederici, A. D., Girard-Buttoz, C., Wittig, R. M., & Crockford, C. (2023). Chimpanzees show the capacity to communicate about concomitant daily life events. IScience, 26. doi:10.1016/j.isci.2023.108090

Schroen, J., Gunter, T. C., Numssen, O., Kroczek, L. O. H., Hartwigsen, G., & Friederici, A. D. (2023). Causal evidence for a coordinated temporal interplay within the language network. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120. doi:10.1073/pnas.2306279120

Friederici, A. D. (2023). Evolutionary neuroanatomical expansion of Broca's region serving a human-specific function. Trends in Neurosciences, 46, 786–796.

Graessner, A., Duchow, C., Zaccarella, E., Friederici, A. D., Obrig, H., & Hartwigsen, G. (2023). Electrophysiological correlates of basic semantic composition in people with aphasia. NeuroImage: Clinical, 40. doi:10.1016/j.nicl.2023.103516

Gallardo, G., Eichner, C., Sherwood, C. C., Hopkins, W. D., Anwander, A., & Friederici, A. D. (2023). Morphological evolution of language-relevant brain areas. PLoS Biology, 21. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3002266

Gräßle, T., Crockford, C., Eichner, C., Girard-Buttoz, C., Jäger, C., Kirilina, E., … Wittig, R. M. (2023). Sourcing high tissue quality brains from deceased wild primates with known socio-ecology. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14, 1906–1924.

Liu, Y., Gao, C., Wang, P., Friederici, A. D., Zaccarella, E., & Chen, L. (2023). Exploring the neurobiology of Merge at a basic level: Insights from a novel artificial grammar paradigm. Frontiers in Psychology, 14. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1151518

Chen, L., Gao, C., Li, Z., Zaccarella, E., Friederici, A. D., & Feng, L. (2023). Frontotemporal effective connectivity revealed a language-general syntactic network for Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 66. doi:10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101127

Schaadt, G., Werwach, A., Obrig, H., Friederici, A. D., & Männel, C. (2023). Maturation of consonant perception, but not vowel perception predicts lexical skills at 12 months. Child Development, 94, e166–e180.