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Processing figurative language: Evidence from native and non-native speakers of English
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 In recent research on figurative phrases, factors (e.g., familiarity, transparency, meaning, and decomposability) have played a significant influence on how native and non-native English speakers (various L1 and L1 Arabic) acquire, process, and ...
Reem Alkhammash
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Pupillary dilation response reflects surprising moments in music
Journal of Eye Movement Research, 2018 There are indications that the pupillary dilation response (PDR) reflects surprising moments in an auditory sequence such as the appearance of a deviant noise against repetitively presented pure tones (Liao, Yoneya, Kidani, Kashino, & Furukawa, 2016 ...
Hsin-I Liao +3 more
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Neuron, 2010 Work by Agus and colleagues in this issue of Neuron defines a human mechanism for the rapid learning of novel noises. The noises do not have a verbal label, and are stored accurately for weeks.
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, 2009 In this paper, we describe the design and development of a social game called Familiars. Inspired by the daemons in Pullman's "Dark Material" trilogy, Familiars are animal companions that sit on your Facebook profile and change into different animal forms based on your social activity within the social network of Facebook.Familiars takes advantage of ...
Ben Kirman +5 more
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The Parish and the World in Irish Poetry [PDF]
University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series, 2019 Starting with Patrick Kavanagh's distinction between the parish and the province as source and audience for poetry, the essay goes on to Seamus Heaney's essay 'The Sense of Place', to revisit his question of how particular to Irish writing these ...
Bernard O'Donoghue
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The perception of English-accented polish – a pilot study [PDF]
, 2012 •Does familiarity with a specific foreign language facilitate the recognition and identification of that accent in foreign-accented ...
Radomski Marek +1 more
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Free recall test experience potentiates strategy-driven effects of value on memory. [PDF]
, 2017 People tend to show better memory for information that is deemed valuable or important. By one mechanism, individuals selectively engage deeper, semantic encoding strategies for high value items (Cohen, Rissman, Suthana, Castel, & Knowlton, 2014). By
Castel, Alan D +4 more
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Social familiarity affects Diana monkey (Cercopithecus diana diana) alarm call responses in habitat-specific ways [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 Male Diana monkeys produce loud and acoustically distinct alarm calls to leopards and eagles that propagate over long distances, much beyond the immediate group.
Claudia Stephan, Klaus Zuberbühler
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Familiar and unfamiliar face recognition in crested macaques (Macaca nigra) [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2015 Many species use facial features to identify conspecifics, which is necessary to navigate a complex social environment. The fundamental mechanisms underlying face processing are starting to be well understood in a variety of primate species.
Jérôme Micheletta +5 more
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Roles of familiarity and novelty in visual preference judgments are segregated across object categories [PDF]
, 2009 Understanding preference decision making is a challenging problem because the underlying process is often implicit and dependent on context, including past experience.
Park, Junghyun +2 more
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