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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionFree recall tends to be better for names of animate concepts such as animals than for names of inanimate objects. In Popp and Serra’s 2016 article, the authors replicated this “animacy effect” in free recall but when participants studied ...
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Facilitating animacy perception by manipulating stimuli exposure time
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Animacy perception—discriminating between animate and inanimate visual stimuli—is the basis for engaging in social cognition and for our survival (e.g., avoiding potential danger).
Toshiki Saito +4 more
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PLoS ONE, 2023 Animacy plays an important role in cognition (e.g., memory and language). Across languages, a processing advantage for animate words (representing living beings), comparatively to inanimate words (i.e., non-living things), has been found mostly in young ...
Sara B Félix +2 more
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The Effects of Animacy and Syntax on Priming: A Developmental Study
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 Sentence production relies on the activation of semantic information (e.g., noun animacy) and syntactic frames that specify an order for grammatical functions (e.g., subject before object).
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Animacy in early New Zealand english [PDF]
, 2012 The literature suggests that animacy effects in present-day spoken New Zealand English (NZE) differ from animacy effects in other varieties of English. We seek to determine if such differences have a history in earlier NZE writing or not.
Hundt, Marianne, Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt
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Event-related brain potential evidence for animacy processing asymmetries during sentence comprehension [PDF]
, 2013 The animacy distinction is deeply rooted in the language faculty. A key example is differential object marking, the phenomenon where animate sentential objects receive specific marking.
Carreiras, M. +5 more
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Animals, animacy and anthropocentrism [PDF]
, 2018 This paper explores various ways in which contemporary British English depicts degrees of animacy among nonhuman animals, and demonstrates the anthropocentric qualities of much discourse about animals.
Sealey, Alison Jean
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Animacy perception in aphantasia
, 2022 Perceiving animacy from simple, abstract motion displays (Schultz & Bülthoff, 2013, 2019) is a perceptual cognitive process that might involve mental imagery. As people with aphantasia (aphantasics) are defined as having very little mental imagery or
Martin Reuter +2 more
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Okara: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra, 2023 In second language learning, relative clauses are widely studied. However, research comparing Indonesian and foreign learners’ clauses based on animacy has not been widely done.
Arti Prihatini +3 more
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Disentangling five dimensions of animacy in human brain and behaviour
Communications Biology, 2022 An EEG, fMRI, and behavioural investigation of five object dimensions related to animacy provides insights into how distinct dimensions (and animacy) are represented in the brain and behaviour.
Kamila M. Jozwik +5 more
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