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Vocalic correlates of pitch in whispered versus normal speech

open access: yes, 2015
In whispered speech, the fundamental frequency is absent as a main cue to pitch. This study investigated how different pitch targets can acoustically be coded in whispered relative to normal speech.
UiL OTS Psycholinguistics   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Bridging the Gap Between L1 and L2: Enhanced Emotional Vocabulary Through Elaborative Processing in Spanish‐Speaking English Language Learners

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Foreign languages are often learnt in formal and disembodied environments which may limit the emotional resonance of their vocabulary and their pragmatic usage in real‐life communication. In a context of English as a foreign language (EFL), this study examines whether elaborative processing as a teaching strategy leads to changes in the ...
María Jesús Sánchez   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Introduction to Predictive Processing Models of Perception and Decision‐Making

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract The predictive processing framework includes a broad set of ideas, which might be articulated and developed in a variety of ways, concerning how the brain may leverage predictive models when implementing perception, cognition, decision‐making, and motor control.
Mark Sprevak, Ryan Smith
wiley   +1 more source

Unaddressed participants’ gaze in multi-person interaction: optimizing recipiency

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2015
One of the most intriguing aspects of human communication is its turn-taking system. It requires the ability to process on-going turns at talk while planning the next, and to launch this next turn without considerable overlap or delay.
Judith eHoller, Kobin H. Kendrick
doaj   +1 more source

The Role of Language Dominance in Congruency Effects on Multi‐Word Unit Processing: Evidence From Early Bilinguals

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how the learner‐related factors of language dominance, encompassing language history, proficiency, use, and attitude, modulate congruency effects in multi‐word unit (MWU) processing among early bilinguals. Seventy Cantonese–Putonghua bilinguals completed lexical decision tasks measuring reaction time and accuracy for ...
Mingjia Cai, Yuan Liang
wiley   +1 more source

What Dynamic Approaches Have Taught Us About Cognition and What They Have Not: On Values in Motion and the Importance of Replicable Forms

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Over the past several decades, research in the cognitive sciences has foregrounded the importance of active bodies and their continuous dependence on the changing environment, strengthening the relevance of dynamical models. These models have been steadily developed within the ecological psychology approach to cognition, which arguably ...
Joanna Rączaszek‐Leonardi
wiley   +1 more source

Exome-wide analysis implicates rare protein-altering variants in human handedness

open access: yesNature Communications
Handedness is a manifestation of brain hemispheric specialization. Left-handedness occurs at increased rates in neurodevelopmental disorders. Genome-wide association studies have identified common genetic effects on handedness or brain asymmetry, which ...
Dick Schijven   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Individual Differences in Sensitivity to Style During Literary Reading: Insights from Eye-Tracking

open access: yesCollabra: Psychology, 2016
Style is an important aspect of literature, and stylistic deviations are sometimes labeled foregrounded, since their manner of expression deviates from the stylistic default. Russian Formalists have claimed that foregrounding increases processing demands
Emiel van den Hoven   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Robust rhythm reporting will advance ecological and evolutionary research

open access: yesMethods in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
Rhythmicity in the millisecond to second range is a fundamental building block of communication and coordinated movement. But how widespread are rhythmic capacities across species, and how did they evolve under different environmental pressures ...
Taylor A. Hersh   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Introduction to Psycholinguistics—A Review

open access: yes, 2018
How the human mind constructs a thought and applies it into language is called psycholinguistics. The paper aims to flash a light on psycholinguistics for a beginner and tries to flash the area untouched so far on psycholinguistics, for a high end reader
Balamurugan, K., K. Balamurugan
core   +1 more source

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