Can a lexical decision task predict efficiency in the judgment of ambiguous sentences? [PDF]
Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 2018 The lexicon plays a fundamental role in reading, but little is known about how it influences reading efficiency. Thus, this study seeks to identify which lexical factors in a lexical decision task are relevant in a semantic decision test.
Paulo Guirro Laurence +3 more
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Event-related potential and lexical decision task in dyslexic adults: Lexical and lateralization effects [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Developmental dyslexia is a specific learning disorder that presents cognitive and neurobiological impairments related to different patterns of brain activation throughout development, continuing in adulthood.
Patrícia Botelho Silva +5 more
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Cross-linguistic influence in the bilingual mental lexicon: evidence of cognate effects in the phonetic production and processing of a vowel contrast [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 The present study examines cognate effects in the phonetic production and processing of the Catalan back mid-vowel contrast (/o/-/ɔ/) by 24 early and highly proficient Spanish-Catalan bilinguals in Majorca (Spain). Participants completed a picture-naming
Mark eAmengual
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An ERP study of effects of regularity and consistency in delayed naming and lexicality judgment in a logographic writing system [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Phonological access is an important component in theories and models of word reading. However, phonological regularity and consistency effects are not clearly separable in alphabetic writing systems.
Yen Na eYum +4 more
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Lexical Complexity of Decision-Making Writing Tasks: Form-focused Guided Strategic Planning [PDF]
, 2016 The present study is an attempt to investigate the effect of form-focused guided strategic planning on lexical complexity of learners' performance in writing tasks. The twenty intermediate level participants of the study performed an unplanned and then a
Mahdavirad, F. (Fatemeh)
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Semantic relations and compound transparency: A regression study in CARIN theory [PDF]
Psihologija, 2013 According to the CARIN theory of Gagné and Shoben (1997), conceptual relations play an important role in compound interpretation. This study develops three measures gauging the role of conceptual relations, and pits these measures against ...
Pham Hien, Baayen Harald R.
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Investigating the Effects of Valence, Arousal, Concreteness, and Humor on Words Unique to Singapore English [PDF]
Journal of CognitionSingapore English is a dialect of English spoken by individuals living in Singapore, whose colloquial form (i.e., Singapore Colloquial English) contains unique lexical items not found in dominant dialects of English.
Cynthia S. Q. Siew +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 This study explores the difficulties in distinguishing different lexical tone contrasts at both sub-lexical and lexical levels for beginning and advanced Dutch learners of Mandarin, using a sequence-recall task and an auditory lexical decision task.
Ting Zou +4 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 This study aimed to investigate the influence of task demand on the uni−/bi-hemispheric processing of lexical decision-making. Two types of nonwords were used in parafoveal and foveal lexical decision tasks (LDTs) to manipulate task demand. In Experiment
Sangyub Kim, Kichun Nam
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The scope of grammatical gender in Spanish: Transference to the conceptual level
Acta Psychologica, 2021 The aim of the present study was to explore under what circumstances we could observe a transference from grammatical gender to the conceptual representation of sex in Spanish, a two-gender language. The participants performed a lexical decision task and
Alba Casado +2 more
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