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Effects of speech rate and practice on the allocation of visual attention in multiple object naming

Frontiers in Psychology, 2012
Earlier studies had shown that speakers naming several objects typically look at each object until they have retrieved the phonological form of its name and therefore look longer at objects with long names than at objects with shorter names.
Antje eMeyer, Linda Ruth Wheeldon, Agnieszka eKonopka   +2 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, Christine eFawcett, Ulf eLiszkowski, Ulf eLiszkowski   +3 more
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The island of time: Yélî Dnye, the language of Rossel Island

Frontiers in Psychology, 2013
This paper describes the linguistic description of time, the accompanying gestural system and the mental time lines found in the speakers of Yélî Dnye, an isolate language spoken offshore from Papua New Guinea. Like many indigenous languages, Y&
Stephen C Levinson, Stephen C Levinson, Asifa eMajid, Asifa eMajid   +3 more
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Psycholinguistics

, 2014
Apresentação do Dossiê de Linguística ...
Buchweitz, Augusto, Limberger, Bernardo Kolling, Kramer, Rossana   +2 more
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Using Psychometric Network Analysis to Examine the Components of Spoken Word Recognition

Journal of Cognition
Using language requires access to domain-specific linguistic representations, but also draws on domain-general cognitive skills. A key issue in current psycholinguistics is to situate linguistic processing in the network of human cognitive abilities ...
Florian Hintz, James M. McQueen, Antje S. Meyer   +2 more
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Turn-taking in human communicative interaction

Frontiers in Psychology, 2015
Judith eHoller, Kobin H. Kendrick, Marisa eCasillas, Stephen eLevinson   +3 more
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Structural models of genome-wide covariance identify multiple common dimensions in autism

Nature Communications
Common genetic variation has been associated with multiple phenotypic features in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). However, our knowledge of shared genetic factor structures contributing to this highly heterogeneous phenotypic spectrum is limited.
Lucía de Hoyos, Maria T. Barendse, Fenja Schlag, Marjolein M. J. van Donkelaar, Ellen Verhoef, Chin Yang Shapland, Alexander Klassmann, Jan Buitelaar, Brad Verhulst, Simon E. Fisher, Dheeraj Rai, Beate St Pourcain   +11 more
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Vocal usage learning and vocal comprehension learning in harbor seals

BMC Neuroscience
Background Which mammals show vocal learning abilities, e.g., can learn new sounds, or learn to use sounds in new contexts? Vocal usage and comprehension learning are submodules of vocal learning.
Diandra Duengen, Yannick Jadoul, Andrea Ravignani   +2 more
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Linguistic structure and language familiarity sharpen phoneme encoding in the brain

Communications Biology
How does the brain turn a physical signal like speech into meaning? It draws on two key sources: linguistic structure (e.g., phonemes, syntax) and statistical regularities from experience.
Filiz Tezcan, Sanne Ten Oever, Fan Bai, Noémie te Rietmolen, Andrea E. Martin   +4 more
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Preschool musicality is associated with school-age communication abilities through genes related to rhythmicity

npj Science of Learning
Early-life abilities involved in perceiving, producing and engaging with music (musicality) may shape later (social) communication and language abilities.
Lucía de Hoyos, Ellen Verhoef, Aysu Okbay, Janne R. Vermeulen, Celeste Figaroa, Miriam Lense, Simon E. Fisher, Reyna L. Gordon, Beate St Pourcain   +8 more
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