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Context Effects in Differential Loudness Judgments
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Context Effects in Sentence Comprehension With Schizophrenics.
… meaning of individual words is determined in the context of a sentence is an important part of sentence comprehension and more generally communication. There are numerous words in the English language with two or more different meanings (i.e., polysemous words) and in fact, relatively common words …
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Context Effects on the Representation of Meaning
… were conducted to examine the effect of context on the representation accessed for category terms. The first experiment employed an on-line reading time paradigm to establish that context affects the representation accessed for a category term at the time of comprehension.
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Semantic and phonological context effects in visual search
Visual search requires participants to search for a pre-specified target amongst a number of distractors. According to theories of visual search, attention is directed towards the target through a combination of stimulus-driven (bottom-up) and goal-driven (top-down) means. For example, when …
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Context effects in lexical access and lexical recognition
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Psychology, 1985.
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CONTEXT EFFECTS IN THE COMPREHENSION AND PRODUCTION OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
… proverbs following either a figurative discourse context or one of two literal contexts. Materials from Ferretti, Schwint and Katz (2007) were adapted for a cloze task. Data were collected for 42 proverbs from 240 participants. Booklets presented a series of context paragraphs each followed by a …
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Choice modeling and recommendation optimization in presence of context effects
… probability for each option. In the presence of context effects, the utility perceived from individual options is not fixed and depends on other options that are offered beside them. While context effects are well explored in the marketing and psychology literature, very little work has been done …
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Environmental Context Effects on Impulsivity and Subjective Craving in Caffeinated Alcohol Users
… the influence on impulsivity. Thus, a bar context may elicit greater impulsivity, which in turn, increases one’s craving for alcohol or CAB. Consequently, the present study sought: (1) to determine the influence of an environmental context (i.e., bar simulated lab) on subjective ratings of …
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Context Effects on Sublexical Processing in Older and Younger Neurologically Typical Adults
… that processing may be influenced by contextual factors such as real word/non-word status, and sentence context. Older adults are susceptible to biased perception at the single word level, while younger adults are not, but sentence level context effects as a function of age have yet to …
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Investigations of DNA sequence content and context effects on DNA stability and reactivity.
Investigations of DNA sequence content and context effects on DNA stability and reactivity.
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Learning vocabulary from context: Effects of focusing attention on individual words during reading
… of the research on learning vocabulary from context have been mixed, only sometimes have students clearly demonstrated learning from context. Several explanations have been posited in the attempt to explain the inconsistencies in this research--differences attributable to the distinctions …
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Let It Go: Cognitive Strategy Use Selectively Changes Temporal Context Effects in Risky Monetary Decision-Making
… stable, trait-like preferences, invariant to contextual influences such as recent events. Recent research has challenged this assumption, demonstrating that decisions under risk, even when values and their probabilities are explicit and known, are contextually sensitive, affected by recent …
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A MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS OF CONTEXT EFFECTS ON ADOLESCENT CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: THE ROLE OF FAMILY, PEERS, SCHOOL, AND NEIGHBORHOOD
The relations between multiple contexts of influence and adolescents' civic engagement were examined in order to facilitate understanding of how adolescents are being prepared for citizenship. This study extends previous research by simultaneously examining the family, peer, school, and …
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Three Essays on Price Framing and Price Perceptions
This dissertation focuses on contextual frames that influence how consumers perceive prices and how that in turn affects their product evaluations and consumption decisions. This research consists of three essays and attempts to further the understanding of contextual factors that affect how …
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Drift Diffusion Analyses Of Preferential Choice
… process. Chapter 3 examines the impact of context effects on decisions; factors such as option presentation format, preference-elicitation procedures, as well as incidental affect, social belief, and cognitive capacity. We use data from two large-scale choice experiments to construct a …
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