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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Ambiguity Resolution"”.
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Electrophysiological investigations of lexical ambiguity resolution
… advantage of a very common phenomenon, lexical ambiguity, to address the question of how human brains resolve the one-to-many mapping problems in language comprehension (e.g. whether the word 'watch' should be interpreted as a timing device or an action). Specifically, in a series of studies, I …
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Ambiguity resolution of adults with low literacy
… high-literacy adults were less affected by the ambiguity, but the low-literacy adults showed larger ambiguity effects that tended to get larger with age. Collectively, these results suggest that uncontrolled activation of word meanings can impact online comprehension among older adults.
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Ambiguity resolution and constraints on syntactic processing
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 1993.
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Verbal Creativity and Ambiguity Resolution in the Cerebral Hemispheres
This study examined hemispheric differences in ambiguity resolution in subjects who vary on measures of creativity. Subjects were classified as either low, moderate, or high creative based on the results of convergent and divergent thinking tests as well as a personality inventory. Two experiments …
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The Impact of Low-Earth-Orbit Satellites on GNSS Ambiguity Resolution
… (LEO) satellites on carrier phase ambiguity resolution is demonstrated through a global covariance simulation and a hardware in-the-loop simulation. Dedicated LEO constellations for GNSS are expected to become operational within the next few years and bring with them many changes to …
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Syntactic and Referential Ambiguity Resolution Under Cue Competition in Silent Reading: Effects of Implicit Prosodic Cues, L1-L2 and Individual Differences
… be key determinants of syntactic and referential ambiguity resolution, whereas other cues may be less influential. Similarly, not all comprehenders exhibit equal cue sensitivity; research focusing on L1-L2 differences has typically reported absent, weaker or delayed effects in L2 populations. …
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Effects of efficient fronto-temporal circuitry on lexical ambiguity resolution: converging evidence from cross-age comparisons in eye-tracking and ERP data
Eye-tracking was used to examine how younger and older adults use syntactic and semantic information to disambiguate noun/verb (NV) homographs (e.g., park). We find that young adults exhibit inflated first fixations to NV-homographs when only syntactic cues are available for disambiguation (i.e., …
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Reconfigurable Resonant Cubic HF Phased Array for In-Space Assembly Operation
… and dramatically improve direction of arrival ambiguity resolution is investigated. Both beamforming and direction of arrival simulations are performed in MATLAB and 4nec2 simulation environments for cubic phased arrays of various sizes and at different frequencies and demonstrate that the …
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Prosody and syntactic processing
… boundaries, play a primary role in attachment ambiguity resolution. Chapter 2 provides empirical evidence that resolves these conflicting views in the literature by examining what factors underlie previously established accent attachment effects. The results from four experiments show that …
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Methods for enhancing carrier phase GNSS positioning and attitude determination performance.
… This is done by improving the integer ambiguity resolution performance and carrier phase error modeling. CDGNSS is considered for a broad range of real-time applications which require both a high precision relative positioning and attitude determination system. This is because of the …
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The Malleability of Cognitive Control and its Effects on Language Skills
… of language processing tasks including syntactic ambiguity resolution and verbal fluency. Separate work demonstrates that EF abilities are malleable with extensive practice, such that training improvements transfer across domains to novel tasks that rely on the same underlying EF mechanisms (an …
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Looking Through the Lens of Individual Differences: Relationships Between Personality, Cognitive Control, Language Processing, and Genes
… traits, cognitive control, and linguistic ambiguity resolution abilities. In Chapter 2, we investigated the relationship between motivational personality traits and cognitive control abilities. The results demonstrated that individual differences in the personality traits of approach and …
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Neurocognitive plasticity in verb bias learning in children and adults
… usage of newly learned verb bias during sentence ambiguity resolution across different age ranges. The other set of studies examined the neural stages of verb bias learning as well as the individual differences of verb bias retrieval during online sentence reading with event-related brain …
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Online estimation of inter-frequency/system phase biases in precise positioning
… precise positioning is the instantaneous integer ambiguity resolution. However, some of the biases in carrier phase observations cannot be removed by differencing between either stations or satellites, so the integer nature of the double-differenced ambiguities is destroyed and thus the …
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Knowledge integration in machine reading
… text interpretation. Our approach is to delay ambiguity resolution to enable a machine-reading system to maintain multiple candidate interpretations. This is useful because typically, as the system reads through texts, evidence accumulates to help the knowledge integration system resolve …
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On the disambiguation of meaning: the effects of perceptual focus and cognitive load
… selection. An updated conceptualization of ambiguity resolution is proposed.</p>
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Use of plausibility information and structural preference in resolving sentence ambiguity in Korean
… and syntactic preferences during the resolution of temporary ambiguities in Korean. The processing load of information on syntactic preferences and semantic plausibility and the final interpretations of the two Korean RC constructions were measured by using a self-paced word-by-word …
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Underspecification and parallel processing in sentence comprehension
… phenomenon in this regard is the so-called ambiguity advantage, which is the finding that ambiguous sentences can be easier to process than unambiguous sentences. This finding may appear counterintuitive, because more meanings should be associated with a higher computational effort. …
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Disambiguating Biased Ambiguous Words: An Eye Movement Investigation
… results invite us to extend the study of ambiguity resolution beyond the study of the earliest moments of meaning access to include mechanisms such as monitoring, regulation and reanalysis strategies, in meaning integration. That is, in everyday reading tasks, readers face text integration …
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Comprehending counterfactuals
… process briefly interferes at the point of ambiguity resolution in cases where world knowledge has been violated (e.g. ‘Families could feed their cat a bowl of fish/ carrots’). The effects are compared across the different experimental paradigms used, including eye- tracking, event- related …
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