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Showing 1 to 20 of 104 for “"Language comprehension"”.
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A comparison of three language comprehension tests
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Foreign Language Comprehension: Understanding the Centrality Deficit
… study was to determine how reading in a foreign language (L2) affects one's mental representation of the text and the ability to recognize and recall the text's important information. Using a within-participants design, the proportion of central and peripheral ideas recalled by participants …
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Precursors and downstream consequences of prediction in language comprehension
During language comprehension, the brain rapidly integrates incoming linguistic stimuli to not only incrementally build a contextual representation, but also predict upcoming information. This predictive mechanism leads to behavioral facilitation of processing of expected words, as well as a …
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Functional Unexpectedness: Reframing the role of predictability in language comprehension
… of unexpected information during naturalistic language comprehension to determine if decreased predictability supported improved communication outcomes. Individuals listened to 12 short stories while measuring their electroencephalography, then were tested on their contextual understanding of …
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Experimental studies of syntactic and lexical processes in language comprehension.
Thesis. 1976. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Psychology.
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Individual and Joint Contributions of the Cerebral Hemispheres to Language Comprehension
Normal language comprehension requires contributions from and cooperation of many parts of the brain, ranging from sensory areas that receive the initial physical input, through frontal and temporal areas associated with oft-characterized language subprocesses, to brain areas involved in …
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Language Comprehension, Production, and Reasoning in Humans and Neural Language Models
How closely do neural language models mirror human language processing, and what can this alignment teach us about cognition? This dissertation presents convergent evidence in comprehension, production, and reasoning that neural language models (LMs) can serve as productive instruments for …
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Multi-level models of language comprehension in the mind and brain
… the mental and neural representations that drive language understanding and acquisition? This thesis presents a two-part suite of methods for addressing these questions, rooted in the idea that representational claims must jointly assert a content — what a mental representation is about — but also …
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Time Windows for Indexing Language Comprehension in Adults With and Without Aphasia
… useful by previous researchers who have studied language processing of spoken and written input. Researchers found that language processing is a time-locked activity that can be based on eye movements. However, the ideal time windows for capturing when a person comprehends verbal stimuli have not …
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The Functional architecture of language comprehension mechanisms : fundamental principles revealed with fMRI
A key requirement from cognitive models of language comprehension is that they specify the distinct computational mechanisms that are engaged in language processing and the division of linguistic labor across them. Here, I address this requirement from a cognitive neuroscience perspective by …
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Explorations of beta-band neural oscillations during language comprehension: Sentence processing and beyond
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The effects of verbal working memory training on language comprehension in older adulthood
Effective language understanding is crucial to maintaining cognitive abilities and learning new information through adulthood. However, age-related changes in cognitive abilities such as working memory (WM) have a profound influence on the products of language comprehension (e.g., problem solving, …
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Examining age-related changes in knowledge use during language comprehension using brain electrophysiology
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms
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Reading between the lines: psycholinguistic indices of prediction and formulaicity in language comprehension
A comprehensive model of language processing must account for not only how people process literal language, but also how nonliteral language is processed. Further, of theoretical interest to psycholinguists is the role that prediction plays in language processing, namely the conditions under which …
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System-level attention links cognition, perception and action: Evidence from language comprehension and eye movements
… issues: a) whether representations activated by language comprehension can compete with representations involved in eye movement control; and b) whether this competition creates attentional conflict within the system and thus modulates the oculomotor response. The effects of two types of words, …
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Second Language Comprehension and Processing Grammatical Form: The Effects of Topic Familiarity, Mode, and Pausing
… second principle of input processing, second language (L2) learners are able to process grammatical form in the input only if they are able to process the informational content at little cost to attentional resources. Using this principle of input processing as a point of departure, this study …
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Language Growth of Day Care Children: Long Term Enrollment Effects on Vocabulary, Language Comprehension and Language Production
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