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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Informational masking modulates semantic processing during recognition of syntactically complex speech: evidence from pupillometry [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionSpeech perception in adverse listening environments depends not only on the quality of the acoustic signal but also on listeners’ ability to recruit higher-level linguistic information.
Jing Shen, Gayle DeDe
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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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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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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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Touch deprivation in female adolescents: implications for semantic processing and cognition [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyAmjad Sohail, Salma Naz Khattak
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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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Brain Sciences, 2020 This study explores whether semantic processing in parafoveal reading in the Italian language is modulated by the perceptual and lexical features of stimuli by analyzing the results of the rapid parallel visual presentation (RPVP) paradigm experiment ...
Danila Rusich +4 more
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