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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract This study explores how word frequency affects verb‐mediated prediction in L1 and L2 speakers, using a visual‐world eye‐tracking task. By manipulating frequency of nouns within subjects (higher; lower) and type of verbs used as predictive cues (semantically restrictive; neutral) in sentences (e.g., The {doctor/surgeon} {opened/moved} the box),
Haerim Hwang, Kitaek Kim
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Nested Selves: Self‐Organization and Shared Markov Blankets in Prenatal Development in Humans
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract The immune system is a central component of organismic function in humans. This paper addresses self‐organization of biological systems in relation to—and nested within—other biological systems in pregnancy. Pregnancy constitutes a fundamental state for human embodiment and a key step in the evolution and conservation of our species. While not
Anna Ciaunica +3 more
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Infants’ expectations about gestures and actions in third-party interactions
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 We investigated 14-month-old infants’ expectations toward a third party addressee of communicative gestures and an instrumental action. Infants’ eye-movements were tracked as they observed a person (the Gesturer) point, direct a palm-up request gesture,
Gudmundur Bjarki Thorgrimsson +3 more
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Self‐location in perceptual experience: A top‐down account
Mind &Language, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 157-173, April 2025.Perceptual experience is self‐locating. This claim aligns with our intuitions and is the dominant view in philosophy. To defend the claim, some philosophers have advanced perspectival accounts and others have advanced agentive accounts. Here, I explore tensions between the two accounts and propose a novel, integrative account: the top‐down view, which ...
Pablo Fernandez Velasco
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On the construction of the system for forensic psycholinguistics
Filozofia Publiczna i Edukacja Demokratyczna, 2019 Forensic psycholinguistics is an emerging interdisciplinary subject that makes use of the psychological methods to analyze the linguistic phenomena in legal activities and therefore it is of the multiple and cross-disciplinary nature.
Shaogang Yang, Zhuo Liu
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Mind &Language, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 233-238, April 2025.Favela and Machery conclude from their studies that neuroscientists' and psychologists' concept of representation is both unclear and confused. Rather than advocating reform or elimination of the concept, they suggest that it can serve various theoretical purposes precisely because it is unclear and confused. I challenge their claim that the concept of
Frances Egan
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Mind &Language, EarlyView.The article argues that, linguistically speaking, there is no uniform class of personal taste predicate. There is an F(un)‐type PPT that takes infinitive complements expressing events. In effect, these PPTs are predicates of events involving participants. There is also a T(asty)‐type that cannot take an infinitive complement and does not enter into the
John Collins
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The social significance of slang
Mind &Language, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 138-156, April 2025.It is well‐established within linguistics that slang serves a group‐identifying function. In this paper, a new understanding of the notion of lexical metadata is developed to provide a philosophical treatment of said function. The proposed account explains the group‐identifying function of slang in terms of certain inferences about a speaker's group ...
Alice Damirjian
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FOXP2 drives neuronal differentiation by interacting with retinoic acid signaling pathways
Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2014 FOXP2 was the first gene shown to cause a Mendelian form of speech and language disorder. Although developmentally expressed in many organs, loss of a single copy of FOXP2 leads to a phenotype that is largely restricted to orofacial impairment during ...
Paolo eDevanna +3 more
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The concept of representation in the brain sciences: The current status and ways forward
Mind &Language, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 215-225, April 2025.This article outlines the motivations and main findings of Favela and Machery's “Investigating the concept of representation in the neural and psychological sciences”, and discusses what to do with the concept of representation in the brain sciences moving forward.
Luis H. Favela, Edouard Machery
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