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Socialness effects in lexical–semantic processing.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
Contemporary theories of semantic representation posit that social experience is an important source of information for deriving meaning. However, there is a lack of behavioural evidence in support of this proposal. The aim of present work was to test whether words’ degree of social relevance, or socialness, influences lexical-semantic processing.
Veronica Diveica, Emiko Joanne Muraki, Richard J. Binney, Penny M. Pexman   +3 more
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Lexical Decision in Children: Sublexical Processing or Lexical Search? [PDF]

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2012
Length effects in the lexical decision latencies of children might indicate that children rely on sublexical processing and essentially approach the task as a naming task. We examined this possibility by means of the effects of neighbourhood size and articulatory suppression on lexical decision performance.
van den Boer, M., de Jong, P.F., Haentjens-van Meeteren, M.M.   +2 more
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Auditory Verb Generation Performance Patterns Dissociate Variants of Primary Progressive Aphasia

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a clinical syndrome in which patients progressively lose speech and language abilities. Three variants are recognized: logopenic (lvPPA), associated with phonology and/or short-term verbal memory deficits accompanied ...
Sladjana Lukic, Sladjana Lukic, Abigail E. Licata, Abigail E. Licata, Elizabeth Weis, Rian Bogley, Rian Bogley, Buddhika Ratnasiri, Ariane E. Welch, Leighton B. N. Hinkley, Z. Miller, Z. Miller, Adolfo M. Garcia, Adolfo M. Garcia, Adolfo M. Garcia, Adolfo M. Garcia, John F. Houde, Srikantan S. Nagarajan, Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini, Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini, Valentina Borghesani, Valentina Borghesani   +21 more
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Ongoing Sign Processing Facilitates Written Word Recognition in Deaf Native Signing Children

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
Signed and written languages are intimately related in proficient signing readers. Here, we tested whether deaf native signing beginning readers are able to make rapid use of ongoing sign language to facilitate recognition of written words.
Barbara Hänel-Faulhaber, Margriet Anna Groen, Brigitte Röder, Claudia K. Friedrich   +3 more
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Orthographic and Phonological Processing in Chinese Character Copying – A Preliminary Report

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
In the current study, the effects of orthographic and phonological processing in Chinese character copying were investigated using a data set extracted from a database containing handwriting data of 856 stimuli; the responses of which were collected from
Dustin Kai-Yan Lau
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Cross-Dialectal Novel Word Learning and Borrowing

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
The objective of this paper was to study the cognitive processes underlying cross-dialectal novel word borrowing and loanword establishment in a Standard-Chinese-to-Shanghainese (SC-SH) auditory lexical learning and borrowing experiment.
Junru Wu, Junru Wu, Wei Zheng, Mengru Han, Niels O. Schiller, Niels O. Schiller   +5 more
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Effects of social experience on abstract concepts in semantic priming

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
Humans can understand thousands of abstract words, even when they do not have clearly perceivable referents. Recent views highlight an important role of social experience in grounding of abstract concepts and sub-kinds of abstract concepts, but empirical
Zhao Yao, Yu Chai, Peiying Yang, Rong Zhao, Fei Wang   +4 more
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The timing and effort of lexical access in natural and degraded speech

Frontiers in Psychology, 2016
Understanding speech is effortless in ideal situations, and although adverse conditions, such as caused by hearing impairment, often render it an effortful task, they do not necessarily suspend speech comprehension.
Anita Eva Wagner, Anita Eva Wagner, Paolo eToffanin, Deniz eBașkent, Deniz eBașkent   +4 more
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Morpho-semantic properties of Serbian nouns: Animacy and gender pairs [PDF]

Psihologija, 2011
In this study we investigated whether and how the cognitive system uses morphological markedness of animacy and gender pairs. In the Serbian language masculine nouns are marked for animacy (i.e., genitive-accusative syncretism), while for feminine ...
Radanović Jelena, Milin Petar
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Can children with speech difficulties process an unfamiliar accent? [PDF]

, 2001
This study explores the hypothesis that children identified as having phonological processing problems may have particular difficulty in processing a different accent. Children with speech difficulties (n = 18) were compared with matched controls on four
Nathan, L., Wells, B.
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