Event-related brain potential evidence for animacy processing asymmetries during sentence comprehension [PDF]
, 2013 The animacy distinction is deeply rooted in the language faculty. A key example is differential object marking, the phenomenon where animate sentential objects receive specific marking.
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Parkinson's Disease, 2011 Coexistent impairments in executive functions and language comprehension in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) have been repeatedly observed. In this study, the aim was to provide insights into the interaction between linguistic representation and ...
Katrien S. F. Colman +4 more
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Size Does Matter: Implied Object Size is Mentally Simulated During Language Comprehension [PDF]
, 2016 Embodied theories of language comprehension propose that readers construct a mental simulation of described objects that contains perceptual characteristics of their real-world referents.
Bos, L.T. (Lisanne) +3 more
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Processing strategies in sentence comprehension [PDF]
Memory & Cognition, 1976 Response latencies in sentence-picture verification tasks were compared as a function of whether a mismatch was located in the logical subject (LS), verb (V), or logical object (LO) of the sentence. Sentences were presented auditorily and varied in voice and reversibility.
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The Role of Emotioncy in Cognitive Load and Sentence Comprehension of Language Learners [PDF]
Issues in Language Teaching, 2020 Emotion and cognition are both considered influential factors in language learning. In this study, the role of "emotioncy" (which is a combination of emotion and frequency) in the cognitive load and sentence comprehension of a group of language learners ...
Nazanin Azamnouri +2 more
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A bilingual advantage in controlling language interference during sentence comprehension [PDF]
, 2012 This study compared the comprehension of syntactically simple with more complex sentences in Italian–English adult bilinguals and monolingual controls in the presence or absence of sentence-level interference.
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The Relations Between Children's Comprehension Monitoring and Their Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Knowledge: An Eye-Movement Study. [PDF]
, 2019 Poor reading comprehension may be due to having ineffective comprehension monitoring, the metacognitive process of evaluating and regulating comprehension.
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The role of executive control in resolving grammatical number conflict in sentence comprehension [PDF]
, 2017 In sentences with a complex subject noun phrase, like “The key to the cabinets is lost”, the grammatical number of the head noun (key) may be the same or different from the modifier noun phrase (cabinets).
Desmet, Timothy +3 more
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Age‐Related Characteristics of SYT1‐Associated Neurodevelopmental Disorder
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objectives We describe the clinical manifestations and developmental abilities of individuals with SYT1‐associated neurodevelopmental disorder (Baker‐Gordon syndrome) from infancy to adulthood. We further describe the neuroradiological and electrophysiological characteristics of the condition at different ages, and explore the associations ...
Sam G. Norwitz +3 more
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Reliability of Visual-World Eyetracking for Lexical and Sentence Comprehension Tasks
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Introduction Relatively little is known about the processing changes that support treatment-induced recovery in aphasia. Visual-world eyetracking has been used to detail language processing deficits in aphasia (Meyer, Mack, & Thompson, 2012; Mirman, Yee,
Jennifer E. Mack +2 more
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