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Word imageability affects the hippocampus in recognition memory. [PDF]

, 2005
Contains fulltext : 47942.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)Concrete words, whose meanings are readily imagined, are better remembered than abstract words. However, the neural correlates of this effect are poorly understood. Here,
Dietl, T., Schaller, C., Elger, C.E., Fernandez, G.S.E., Schur, S., Klaver, P., Fell, J., Elger, C. E., Fernandez, G.   +8 more
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Introducing GEOBIA to Landscape Imageability Assessment: A Multi-Temporal Case Study of the Nature Reserve “Kózki”, Poland

Remote Sensing, 2020
Geographic object-based image analysis (GEOBIA) is a primary remote sensing tool utilized in land-cover mapping and change detection. Land-cover patches are the primary data source for landscape metrics and ecological indicator calculations; however ...
Szymon Chmielewski, Andrzej Bochniak, Asya Natapov, Piotr Wężyk   +3 more
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Language Difficulty and Prior Learning Influence Foreign Vocabulary Acquisition

Languages, 2019
When learning a foreign language, words that are the hardest to learn are often the easiest to forget. Yet, there is also evidence that more challenging learning contexts can lead to greater long-term retention.
Sayuri Hayakawa, James Bartolotti, Aimee van den Berg, Viorica Marian   +3 more
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KAJIAN KONSEP IMAGEABILITY DAN PERMEABILITY DALAM PENGEMBANGAN KAWASAN PUSAT KOTA KOWLOON HONGKONG

JAUR (Journal of Architecture and Urbanism Research), 2021
Kawasan Kowloon Hongkong merupakan kawasan perkotaan di Hongkong yang terdiri dari Semenanjung Kowloon and New Kowloon, Kawasan ini merupakan pusat kota dari negara hongkong yang mempunyai mobilitas tinggi.
Putra Fajar, Ari Widyati Purwantiasning
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Children's computation of complex linguistic forms: a study of frequency and imageability effects. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
This study investigates the storage vs. composition of inflected forms in typically-developing children. Children aged 8-12 were tested on the production of regular and irregular past-tense forms. Storage (vs.
Cristina D Dye, Matthew Walenski, Elizabeth L Prado, Stewart Mostofsky, Michael T Ullman   +4 more
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The Role of Semantics in Spanish Word Recognition: an Insight from Lexical Decision and Categorization Tasks

Open Linguistics, 2017
This study examines the factors affecting word recognition in a language with a consistent system to map letters into sounds; Spanish. The influence of semantics on the recognition of words in languages with inconsistent mappings, such as English, is ...
Izura Cristina, Hernández-Muñoz Natividad   +1 more
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How Are the Parallel Channels of Visual Appearance and Social Vitality Helpful in Generating the Imageability of Characteristic Districts? An Empirical Study Grounded in the S-O-R Framework and Integrated Multi-Source Data

Buildings
Imageability is a cognitive measure of environmental differentiation and place memory. However, the existing literature focuses mainly on static morphological descriptions or subjective perception, without systematic quantitative studies of how physical ...
Wenlong Lan, Yibo Zheng, Ze He, Qingwen Rong   +3 more
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Home away from Home: Imageability and Way finding in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s The Thing Around Your Neck

ES Review, 2023
This essay explores the process of orientation in migratory space in three of the twelve stories that make up Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s collection The Thing around Your Neck— “Imitation,” “On Monday of Last Week,” and “The Thing around Your Neck”—from ...
Svetlana Stefanova
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Encoding Imagism? Measuring Literary Imageability, Visuality and Concreteness via Multimodal Word Embeddings

Journal of Computational Literary Studies
This paper addresses the challenge of measuring "Imageability" in literary texts – a concept from psycholinguistics that describes how words evoke sensory experiences.
Kristoffer L. Nielbo, Pascale Feldkamp, Yuri Bizzoni   +2 more
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Cyber-Imageability [PDF]

lo Squaderno, 2011
Experiencing an environment triggers a two-way exchange between the environment and its observer, a process that bridges materiality and immateriality by creating what Kevin Lynch calls an “environmental image”.
Simone Ferracina
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