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The effect of animacy on metamemory [PDF]
Memory and Cognition, 2016 Previous research has shown that the animacy quality of materials affects basic cognitive processes such as memory (i.e., animate stimuli are remembered better than are inanimate stimuli). This is referred to as the animacy effect. Little research has examined, however, whether this effect can be extended to higher cognitive processes such as ...
, Li Weijian, Jia Xiaoyu
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Theoretical Linguistics, 2018 Abstract We examine the effects of morphosyntactic marking and selectional restrictions of predicates on conceptual and grammatical animacy. We argue in favour of animacy as an ontological category with human, animate and inanimate entities representing discrete subtypes in the domain of entities.
Helen de Hoop, Peter De Swart
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Brain Research, 2011 Animacy is often conceived as a special semantic feature because of its relevance to thematic and syntactic processing. This study uses event-related brain potentials to investigate whether violations of the expected animacy value of a noun are processed differently from semantic violations which preserve the expected animacy value in a situation in ...
Jakub Szewczyk, Herbert Schriefers
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Cognitive animacy and its relation to linguistic animacy: evidence from Japanese and Persian [PDF]
Language Sciences, 2021 Abstract Animacy, commonly defined as the distinction between living and non-living entities, is a useful notion in cognitive science and linguistics employed to describe and predict variation in psychological and linguistic behaviour. In the (psycho)linguistics literature we find linguistic animacy dichotomies which are (implicitly) assumed to ...
TERESA Angelina Kaluge +2 more
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Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2015 Algonquian languages are famous for their animacy-based grammatical properties—an animacy based noun classification system and direct/inverse system which gives rise to animacy hierarchy effects in the determination of verb agreement.
Elizabeth Ritter
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Implied object direction from eye location enhances animacy ratings but not detection of chasing behavior [PDF]
Scientific ReportsUnderstanding how humans perceive animacy in dynamic visual stimuli is fundamental to elucidating the mechanisms underlying visual social cognition. While both object geometry and eye-like features are known to independently influence animacy impressions,
Takahiro Kawabe
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Understanding biological motion through the lens of animate motion processing [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyBiological motion (BM), the movement generated by living entities, transmits signals of life and conveys vital cues for animacy perception. In this review, we synthesize empirical findings from human and non-human animal studies to reveal how BM enjoys a
Li Shen +7 more
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Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 2021 The aim of this paper is twofold: first, we intend to contribute to the debate on the identification of the features to which syntactic locality expressed in terms of the featural Relativized Minimality/ fRM principle appears to be sensitive (Rizzi 2004; Friedmann, Belletti & Rizzi 2009); second, we aim at providing a better characterization of
Belletti, Adriana, Manetti, Claudia
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionThe concept of animacy is often taken as a basic natural concept, in part I because most cases seem unambiguous. Most entities either are or are not animate. However, human animacy judgments do not reflect this binary classification.
Chris Westbury
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Since the seminal work of Heider and Simmel, and Michotte’s research, many studies have shown that, under appropriate conditions, displays of simple geometric shapes elicit rich and vivid impressions of animacy and intentionality.
Giulia Parovel
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