Studying musical and linguistic prediction in comparable ways: the melodic cloze probability method [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Prediction or expectancy is thought to play an important role in both music and language processing. However, prediction is currently studied independently in the two domains, limiting research on relations between predictive mechanisms in music and ...
Allison R. Fogel +6 more
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Sentence contexts and cloze probabilities for Brazilian Portuguese children and adolescents.
PLoS ONE, 2020 PurposeIn this study we investigated a set of 100 sentence contexts and their cloze probabilities to develop a database of linguistic stimuli for Brazilian Portuguese children and adolescents.
Natalia Freitas Rossi +6 more
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Linguistic Prediction in Autism Spectrum Disorder [PDF]
Brain SciencesBackground: Autism spectrum disorder has been argued to involve impairments in domain-general predictive abilities. There is strong evidence that individuals with ASD have trouble navigating the dynamic world due to an inability to predict the outcomes ...
Aimee O’Shea, Paul E. Engelhardt
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Thickness Is More Than Affective Valence: Evaluative Language Through the Lenses of Psycholinguistics. [PDF]
Cogn SciAbstract Thick terms like “courageous,” “smart,” and “tasty” combine description and evaluation, contrasting with purely evaluative terms like “good” and “bad,” and descriptive terms like “Italian” and “green.” Thick terms intuitively constitute a special class of evaluative language; but we currently do not know whether the psycholinguistic effects of
Cassani G, Colombo M.
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Chinese Readers Process Word Class of Parafoveal Words During Sentence Reading. [PDF]
Cogn SciAbstract The present study aimed to investigate the parafoveal processing of word class in Chinese reading, focusing on how grammatical category consistency affects word recognition. The gaze‐contingent boundary paradigm was adopted in an eye‐tracking study. In each sentence, a parafoveal target word was replaced with three types of previews: identical
Qi Z, Xi Y, Pan J.
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Chinese EFL learners’ processing of English binomials: the role of interlexical and intralexical factors [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyBinomials have been relatively understudied compared to other types of multiword expressions (MWEs) in second language research, such as collocations and idioms.
Zhuo Chen, Nan Fang
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Co-Registered Eye-Movements and Brain Potentials Reveal Multiple Effects of Context Across the Visual Field in Natural Reading. [PDF]
PsychophysiologyABSTRACT This study investigates how expectancy and plausibility influence behavioral and neural measures of language processing during naturalistic reading comprehension. Prior event‐related potential (ERP) studies show evidence of distinct post‐N400 positivities to violations of semantic expectancy and plausibility using artificial serial ...
Copeland A, Payne BR.
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Are Linguistic Prediction Deficits Characteristic of Adults with Dyslexia?
Brain Sciences, 2021 Individuals with dyslexia show deficits in phonological abilities, rapid automatized naming, short-term/working memory, processing speed, and some aspects of sensory and visual processing.
Paul E. Engelhardt +3 more
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Age-related reduction of adaptive brain response during semantic integration is associated with gray matter reduction. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 While aging is associated with increased knowledge, it is also associated with decreased semantic integration. To investigate brain activation changes during semantic integration, a sample of forty-eight 25-75 year-old adults read sentences with high ...
Zude Zhu +6 more
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Cloze enough? Hemodynamic effects of predictive processing during natural reading
NeuroImage, 2021 Evidence accrues that readers form multiple hypotheses about upcoming words. The present study investigated the hemodynamic effects of predictive processing during natural reading by means of combining fMRI and eye movement recordings.
Sarah Schuster +5 more
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