The Cognitive Neuroscience of Stable and Flexible Semantic Typicality
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Typicality effects are among the most well-studied phenomena in the study of concepts. The classical notion of typicality is that typical concepts share many features with category co-members and few features with members of contrast categories. However,
Jonathan R. Folstein, Michael A. Dieciuc
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Automatic and controlled semantic retrieval: TMS reveals distinct contributions of posterior middle temporal gyrus and angular gyrus [PDF]
, 2015 Semantic retrieval involves both (1) automatic spreading activation between highly related concepts and (2) executive control processes that tailor this activation to suit the current context or goals.
Cornelissen, Piers +23 more
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Explaining semantic short-term memory deficits:evidence for the critical role of semantic control [PDF]
, 2011 Patients with apparently selective short-term memory (STM) deficits for semantic information have played an important role in developing multi-store theories of STM and challenge the idea that verbal STM is supported by maintaining activation in the ...
Paul Hoffman +7 more
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A study of the mystical poems of Mikha'il Nu'ayma based on the semantic sign approach [PDF]
نقد ادب معاصر عربی, 2023 Extended abstractThe present study analyzes the mystical poems of Mikhail Nu'ayma. Influenced by familiarity with the philosophical ideas and mysticism of India, Buddhism, Greek, Platonism, and, most importantly, Islamic mysticism, he was able to create ...
tahereh heydari
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Semantic diversity:A measure of contextual variation in word meaning based on latent semantic analysis [PDF]
, 2013 Semantic ambiguity is typically measured by summing the number of senses or dictionary definitions that a word has. Such measures are somewhat subjective and may not adequately capture the full extent of variation in word meaning, particularly for ...
Hoffman, Paul; id_orcid +5 more
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Image Feature Types and Their Predictions of Aesthetic Preference and Naturalness
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 Previous research has investigated ways to quantify visual information of a scene in terms of a visual processing hierarchy, i.e., making sense of visual environment by segmentation and integration of elementary sensory input.
Marc G. Berman +5 more
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Remembering 'zeal' but not 'thing':reverse frequency effects as a consequence of deregulated semantic processing [PDF]
, 2011 More efficient processing of high frequency (HF) words is a ubiquitous finding in healthy individuals, yet frequency effects are often small or absent in stroke aphasia.
Paul Hoffman +7 more
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IEEE Access, 2019 Text similarity measurement, which is a basic task in natural language processing, is widely used in text information mining, news classification and clustering, artificial intelligence, and other fields.
Shenghan Zhou +4 more
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Brain Sciences, 2023 Theories of embodied cognition suggest that hand motions and cognition are closely interconnected. An emerging technique of tracking how participants move a computer mouse (i.e., the mouse-tracking technique) has shown advantages over the traditional ...
Kunchen Xiao +5 more
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A quantitative philology of introspection
Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 2012 The cultural evolution of introspective thought has been recognized to undergo a drastic change during the middle of the first millennium BC. This period, known as the ``Axial Age'', saw the birth of religions and philosophies still alive in modern ...
Carlos eDiuk +4 more
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