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Lexical representation explains cortical entrainment during speech comprehension [PDF]

, 2018
Results from a recent neuroimaging study on spoken sentence comprehension have been interpreted as evidence for cortical entrainment to hierarchical syntactic structure.
Frank, Stefan, Yang, Jinbiao
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Cognitive Status in People With Epilepsy in the Republic of Guinea: A Prospective, Case–Control Study

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective People with epilepsy (PWE) may experience cognitive deficits but fail to undergo formal evaluation. This study compares cognitive status between PWE and healthy controls in the West African Republic of Guinea. Methods A cross‐sectional, case–control study was conducted in sequential recruitment phases (July 2024–July 2025) at Ignace ...
Maya L. Mastick, Cheick O. Soumah, Malé Doré, Oumar Mara, Desiré Neldje, Fodé A. Cissé, Toure M. Lamine, Aminata Diallo, Seungwon Lee, Siddharth Satish, Alexander J. X. Chen, Alice Liu, Nomin Enkhtsetseg, Farrah J. Mateen, The Guinea Epilepsy Project   +14 more
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The Impact of Affixes on EFL Students' Sentence Comprehension

مجلة الآداب
From the first sight, the relation between the morphological units, i.e., affixes, and sentence comprehension seems to be remote, yet deep scrutiny reveals that the relation is quite close as these units, in addition to other factors, have a crucial ...
Adil Jouda
doaj   +1 more source

Using Theory-Based Test Construction to Develop a New Curriculum-Based Measurement for Sentence Reading Comprehension

Frontiers in Education, 2018
Reading comprehension at sentence level is a core component in the students' comprehension development, but there is a lack of comprehension assessments at the sentence level, which respect the theory of reading comprehension.
Jana Jungjohann, Jeffrey M. DeVries, Andreas Mühling, Markus Gebhardt   +3 more
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A Span-Extraction Dataset for Chinese Machine Reading Comprehension

, 2019
Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) has become enormously popular recently and has attracted a lot of attention. However, the existing reading comprehension datasets are mostly in English. In this paper, we introduce a Span-Extraction dataset for Chinese
Che, Wanxiang, Chen, Zhipeng, Cui, Yiming, Hu, Guoping, Liu, Ting, Ma, Wentao, Wang, Shijin, Xiao, Li   +7 more
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Semantic indeterminacy in object relative clauses [PDF]

, 2008
This article examined whether semantic indeterminacy plays a role in comprehension of complex structures such as object relative clauses. Study 1 used a gated sentence completion task to assess which alternative interpretations are dominant as the ...
Altmann, Altmann, Baird, Belletti, Bock, Boland, Boland, Caplan, Chierchia, Chierchia, Clifton, Cupples, Dowty, Dowty, Ferreira, Ferreira, Ferretti, Field, Ford, Frazier, Frazier, Frazier, Gibson, Gordon, Gordon, Grimshaw, Grodner, Grodner, Haegeman, Hale, Jackendoff, Jurafsky, Just, King, Levin, Lewis, MacDonald, MacDonald, MacDonald, MacDonald, MacDonald, MacWhinney, MacWhinney, MacWhinney, Mak, Mak, Maryellen C. MacDonald, McRae, Mitchell, O’Grady, Pearlmutter, Pickering, Race, Reali, Roland, Saffran, Sheldon, Silvia P. Gennari, Spivey-Knowlton, Tabor, Tanenhaus, Tanenhaus, Traxler, Traxler, Traxler, Trueswell, Trueswell, Trueswell, van Dyke, van Dyke, Wanner, Warren, Waters, Waters, Waters   +74 more
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Time representation in sentence comprehension

Acta Psychologica, 1985
Abstract In this study we have attempted to demonstrate the validity of certain hypotheses based on the assumption that in some cases we represent time by means of a linear vector. A verification task in which the subject had to judge the correctness of sentences such as ‘he arrived yesterday’, ‘they will speak tomorrow’ was used to test predictions ...
RUMIATI, RINO, Roncato S.
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A 73‐Year‐Old Man With Several Years of Difficulty Climbing Stairs and Frequent Tripping

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A 73‐year‐old man presented with progressive weakness and atrophy predominantly affecting the distal finger flexors and quadriceps muscles. Electrophysiological studies demonstrated mixed myogenic and neurogenic features. Muscle MRI showed inflammatory changes, and muscle biopsy revealed granulomatous myositis with histologic features ...
Mehmet Can Sari, Arens Taga, Sonya Ulrike Steele, Ahmet Hoke   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Memory and comprehension deficits in spatial descriptions of children with non-verbal and reading disabilities [PDF]

, 2015
open4The present study investigated the difficulties encountered by children with non-verbal learning disability (NLD) and reading disability (RD) when processing spatial information derived from descriptions, based on the assumption that both groups ...
Cesare eCornoldi, Chiara eMeneghetti, Francesca ePazzaglia, Irene Cristina Mammarella   +3 more
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Information structure expectations in sentence comprehension [PDF]

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2009
In English, new information typically appears late in the sentence, as does primary accent. Because of this tendency, perceivers might expect the final constituent or constituents of a sentence to contain informational focus. This expectation should in turn affect how they comprehend focus-sensitive constructions such as ellipsis sentences.
Katy, Carlson, Michael Walsh, Dickey, Lyn, Frazier, Charles, Clifton   +3 more
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