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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Semantic Interference"”.
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Incremental lexical learning in speech production: a computational model and empirical evaluation
… the subsequent naming of a picture of a cat (semantic interference). Behavioral studies suggest that these effects derive from persistent changes in the way that words are activated and selected for production, and some have claimed that the findings are only understandable by positing a …
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A Novel Cognitive Stress Test for the Detection of Early Alzheimer’s Disease in African Americans
… stress test, the Loewenstein-Acevedo Scale of Semantic Interference and Learning (LASSI-L) and found that those with aMCI exhibit more impairment in their initial learning and storage of information and suffer from proactive semantic interference due to their inability to inhibit responses. …
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Planning Ahead: How Recent Experience With Structures and Words Changes the Scope of Linguistic Planning
… produced sentences beginning with two semantically related or unrelated objects in the same complex noun phrase (Experiments 1, 3, and 4) or in separate phrases (Experiment 2). To manipulate familiarity with sentence structure, target displays were preceded by prime displays that …
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Semantic and phonological context effects in visual search
… non-visual properties of the stimulus, such as semantic and name information, remains controversial (Wolfe & Horowitz, 1994). This thesis studied search for a target (e.g., baseball-bat) in the presence of semantically related (e.g., racquet), phonologically identical (homophones, e.g., …
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Match-to-Sample Stroop Task: A Systematic Manipulation of Sample and Response Option Onset
… competition hypothesis</em> posits that interference results from competing semantic processes associated with the word and color dimensions of the stimulus prior to response selection. The <em>response competition hypothesis </em>posits that interference results from competing responses …
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Stress and Suicidal Behavior: A Cognitive, Behavioral, and Biological Integrative Approach
… levels), measures of executive functioning, and semantic interference from suicide-related stimuli among suicide attempters and non-attempters following a social rejection task. However, there was a positive association between suicide attempt history and negative urgency, lack of perseverance, …
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Anglo-Saxon Medicine and Disease: A Semantic Approach
As a semantic investigation into Anglo-Saxon medicine, this thesis investigates the ways in which the Old English language was adapted to the technical discipline of medicine, with an emphasis on semantic interference between Latin medical terminology and Old English medical terminology. The main …
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Comprehension and Production of Contrastive Reference in Autism
… compared to neurotypical peers. The presence of semantic interference affected children’s performance in production but not comprehension, with both groups being less underinformative in its presence. Performance was also influenced mainly by age and general linguistic abilities. In the …
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On the structure and neural correlates of the numerical magnitude representation and its influence in the assessment of verbal working memory
… to gain a better understanding of unit-specific interference effects. In the remaining two experiments, the salience of the unit digits was increased. Most importantly, Study 1 shows that attentional and strategic factors exert some influence of the magnitude representation of two-digit numbers, …
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Interference control in language processing: the effects of age and working memory
… levels of analysis, involving activation of semantic and perceptual features of concepts, binding of concepts, and understanding of the overall situation. Older adults or individuals with less working memory capacity have often been reported to have more difficulties in binding individual …
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The impact of semantic relatedness on speaking durations in sentences
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-04-12 without embargo terms