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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Animacy"”.
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Exploring animacy as a mnemonic dimension
… deal of evidence across cognitive science that animacy, or more generally, the features that make up what it means to be a living thing, is a foundational dimension of human cognition. In perception, animates both capture attention (Pratt, Radulescu, Guo, & Abrams, 2010) and are relatively …
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ADAPTIVE MEMORY: ANIMACY AND THE METHOD OF LOCI
… of animate or inanimate objects. I manipulated animacy by using animate or inanimate words (Experiments 1 and 4) or by using animate or inanimate images (Experiments 2, 3, and 4). In Experiment 1, memory for animate and inanimate words was tested in either the method of loci or a pleasantness …
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The concept of animacy versus the object bias principle in 18-month-olds' word learning
Researchers have postulated word-learning biases to explain infants' effortless acquisition of object words. One such bias, the whole object assumption, helps infants acquire new words by narrowing the referent of a novel label to an entire object, rather than to actions, spatial relations or parts …
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Governmentality/Animacy/Mythology: A Biopolitical and Rhetorical Mosaic of HIV Stigma in a Time of PrEP-aration
<p>Since 1981, roughly 35 million people have died from the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), the end stages of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), and an estimated 39 million are living with HIV today. While various factors such as poverty, lack of education, and poor access to …
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The effects of word order, noun animacy, and verb reversibility on the syllogistic processing of children and adults
… (NVN) and Noun-Noun-Verb; two levels of noun animacy, Animate-Inanimate (AI) and Animate-Animate (AnAn), and two levels of verb reversibility, nonreversible (NR) and reversible (R). These 24 syllogisms in written form bound in a test booklet were presented to individual subjects tested as a …
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Action-related organization of object representations in human visual cortex and topographic models
… maps structured by properties such as animacy and real-world size. In parallel, recent work has proposed a functional dissociation within OTC, with a ventral pathway supporting object recognition and a lateral pathway supporting action-related processing. However, how these functional …
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Looking for Dandelions: On Finding Care in the Wastelands of Settler Colonialism
… Wall Kimmerer’s and Mel Chen’s interventions on animacy and Mishuana Goeman’s (re)mapping of embodied geographies, tracing histories and ideologies of herbalism and pharmaceutical industries, of lawns and weed science, of property and aesthetics of space, in order to demonstrate how settler …
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The Genitive Ratio and its Applications
… is strongly influenced by the possessor's animacy. A corpus analysis that counts each genitive construction in three conditions (definite, indefinite and no article) confirms that occurrences of possessive-s decline as the animacy hierarchy progresses from animate through concrete to …
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Word learning strategies in early childhood : mutual exclusivity across language backgrounds
… mutual exclusivity (Chapter 2), and the role of animacy when novel labels were applied to familiar stimuli (Chapter 3). These experiments also investigated the interaction between mutual exclusivity, animacy and syntax (Chapter 4) and between mutual exclusivity, gaze direction and speaker …
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Processing of English relative clauses by adult L2 learners
… (SRs and ORs) in English were tested with the animacy of nouns systematically manipulated. The effect of individual differences in WMC was also explored. The results from L1 speakers corroborated previous findings (i) that ORs are more difficult to comprehend than SRs, indicating greater …
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Inanimating Matter: The Aesthetics of Putrefaction in Early Modern English Literature, 1580-1660
… a paradoxical awareness of matter’s inorganic animacy—an ontological and aesthetic generativity immanent in matter’s very formlessness. Drawing on recent scholarship emphasising the profoundly embodied nature of early modern interiority, I place the period’s fascination with processes of …
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Sentence processing in Spanish as a second language: A study of context, background knowledge and word order
… speakers tend to prefer a lexical semantic (animacy) strategy over a word-order (first noun) strategy (Bates and MacWhinney, 1984). These speakers tend to identify the animate second noun as the subject or agent.
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A Girl Is a Thing: Dramaturgies of Objects and Nature in Contemporary Choreography
… foregrounding the role of autonomy alongside animacy.</p>
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Age of acquisition and semantic typicality effects
… processing tasks (category verifications and animacy decisions) by means of behavioural and partly electrophysiological (ERP) data and in different populations (healthy young and elderly participants and in semantically impaired individuals with aphasia (IWA)). The behavioural and …
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Tracing language variation in Spanish: A multidisciplinary approach
… all direct objects based on hierarchies such as animacy or referentiality (Aissen, 2008). In Spanish, the language that is the subject of this dissertation, animate and specific objects are marked with DOM, as in Juan ve a María ‘Juan sees DOM María’. However, as suggested by several recent …
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On development and perception of theomorphic robots: the uncanny valley effect to Artificial Intelligence (AI)
… across Godspeed dimensions of anthropomorphism, animacy, likability, perceived intelligence, and safety. By applying an AI-based lens to questions traditionally addressed through human evaluation, this research also investigates whether machine perception aligns with the Uncanny Valley effect. …
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Form and function of expressive morphology: a case study of Russian
… from its inflectional class (combined with animacy and natural gender of the base). One implication of this analysis is that I show that the formal properties of expressives are no different from those of non-expressives (descriptives), as both expressives and descriptives can attach as …
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"YO DIGO 'ESTÁ' PORQUE... ": THE DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF THE SPANISH COPULA IN A STUDY ABROAD VARIETY IN CHILE
… both linguistic factors (Adjective Class, Animacy, Experience With the Referent, Frame of Reference, Resultant State, and Susceptibility to Change) and extralinguistic factors (Age, Gender, Grammar Score, Previous Experience Abroad, Parent Origin, Spanish Major/Minor, Study Abroad Site, and …
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Early reasoning about moral obligations and rights
… reduced moral rights if they display defective animacy cues, such as behaving in an irrational manner. Together, these findings indicate that early human moral cognition is remarkably sophisticated and provides a rich foundation for infants’ adaptation to their social worlds.
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Towards expressive mobile robots
… these systems, that in turn engender likability, animacy, acceptance, trust and adoption. This paper approaches this problem by proposing a design methodology that can be used to abstract archetypal characters across the system, including form factor, user instructions, and interactive modalities. …
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