Semantic processing of verbal narratives compared to semantic processing of visual narratives: an ERP study of school-aged children [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 There is a misconception that pictures are easy to comprehend, which is problematic in pedagogical practices that include pictures. For example, if a child has difficulties with verbal narration to picture sequences, it may be interpreted as specific to ...
Hanna Lindfors +4 more
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Neural Coupling between Interhemispheric and Frontoparietal Functional Connectivity during Semantic Processing [PDF]
Brain Sciences, 2023 Interhemispheric and frontoparietal functional connectivity have been reported to increase during explicit information processing. However, it is unclear how and when interhemispheric and frontoparietal functional connectivity interact during explicit ...
Takahiro Soshi
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Automatic for the kids: assessment of cognitive efficiency in elementary school children’s auditory semantic processing [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyThe present study examined time on task effects in semantic processes of listening comprehension on the word and sentence levels. The aim was to investigate whether response times in auditory semantic tasks show systematic relations with accuracy, and ...
Patrick Dahdah +2 more
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Improvement of semantic processing ability of Chinese characters in school children: A comparative study based on 2009 and 2019 data [PDF]
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2023 To explore the characteristics of semantic cognitive development of school children by observing the development changes over 10 years, a retrospective event-related potential (ERP) study was conducted on the semantic processing characteristics of ...
Qinfen Zhang +6 more
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When politeness processing encounters failed syntactic/semantic processing
Acta Psychologica, 2021 Previous studies have elucidated the neural mechanism of syntactic/semantic processing and pragmatic processing. However, the exact mechanisms by which these two aspects of processing interact during language comprehension remain unknown.
Liyan Ji
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Similarities in semantic processing across verbal and pictorial domains in school children with developmental language disorder [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyThis study investigates whether Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) is a specific language impairment or a domain-general disorder, thereby addressing the broader question of whether language processing is distinct from or comparable to cognitive ...
Hanna Lindfors +3 more
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Touch deprivation in female adolescents: implications for semantic processing and cognition [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyAmjad Sohail, Salma Naz Khattak
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Crowdsourcing Ecologically-Valid Dialogue Data for German
Frontiers in Computer Science, 2021 Despite their increasing success, user interactions with smart speech assistants (SAs) are still very limited compared to human-human dialogue. One way to make SA interactions more natural is to train the underlying natural language processing modules on
Yannick Frommherz, Alessandra Zarcone
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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 +21 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Second language (L2) learners experience challenges when word meanings differ across L1 and L2, and often display crosslinguistic influence (CLI) in speech production. In contrast, studies of online comprehension show more mixed results.
Annika Andersson, Marianne Gullberg
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