Effects of individual differences in text exposure on sentence comprehension [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Linguistic experience plays a clear role in accounting for variability in sentence comprehension behavior across individuals and across sentence types.
Anastasia Stoops, Jessica L. Montag
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Lesion correlates of auditory sentence comprehension deficits in post-stroke aphasia [PDF]
NeuroImage: Reports, 2022 Auditory sentence comprehension requires coordination of multiple levels of processing: auditory-phonological perception, lexical-semantic comprehension, syntactic parsing and discourse construction, as well as executive functions such as verbal working ...
Erica Adezati +4 more
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Semantic Working Memory Predicts Sentence Comprehension Performance: A Case Series Approach [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Sentence comprehension involves maintaining and continuously integrating linguistic information and, thus, makes demands on working memory (WM). Past research has demonstrated that semantic WM, but not phonological WM, is critical for integrating word ...
Autumn Horne +4 more
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Syntactic complexity differentially affects auditory sentence comprehension performance for individuals with age-related hearing loss [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 ObjectivesThis study examined whether older adults with hearing loss (HL) experience greater difficulties in auditory sentence comprehension compared to those with typical-hearing (TH) when the linguistic burdens of syntactic complexity were ...
Junyoung Shin +3 more
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Fixel-Based White Matter Correlates of Sentence Comprehension in Post-Stroke Aphasia [PDF]
Brain SciencesBackground/Objectives: Auditory sentence comprehension often remains impaired in individuals with post-stroke aphasia despite recovery in word-level comprehension.
Dongxiang Fang +7 more
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Spoken sentence comprehension in Mandarin-English bilinguals: a case against the universal processing advantage of subject-relatives [PDF]
Frontiers in Language SciencesIntroductionThis study investigates sentence comprehension in Mandarin-English bilinguals, focusing on whether the widely reported, yet contested, subject-relative processing advantage extends to bilingual speakers. We evaluate which theoretical accounts,
Preeti Rishi +7 more
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Sentence comprehension in patients with dementia of the Alzheimer’s type [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Sentence comprehension is diminished in patients with dementia of the Alzheimer’s type (DAT). However, the underlying reason for such deficits is still not entirely clear. The Syntactic Deficit Hypothesis attributes sentence comprehension deficits in DAT
Xinmiao Liu +3 more
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The action-sentence compatibility effect in third person action sentence comprehension [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyThis study investigates the influence of object animacy and perspective priming on the Action-sentence Compatibility Effect (ACE) in third-person action sentences using the sentence sensibility judgment paradigm.
Zhiwei Cai, Bing Qi, Ning Fan
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Semantic Attraction in Sentence Comprehension [PDF]
Cognitive Science, 2020 Agreement attraction is a cross-linguistic phenomenon where a verb occasionally agrees not with its subject, as required by grammar, but instead with an unrelated noun (‘The key to the cabinets were . . . ’). Despite the clear violation of grammatical rules, comprehenders often rate these sentences as acceptable.
Anna Laurinavichyute +1 more
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Listy klinicke logopedie, 2022 Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) threatens a large percentage of the elderly population worldwide. Symptoms can also include language and speech difficulties.
Viktorie Hedvika Plawná +2 more
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