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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Semantic processing"”.
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Semantic Processing of Digital Documents
… we present a novel approach to modelling and processing digital documents that uses semantic technologies. In contrast to other modelling approaches, we model the structure of documents as indicated by the content, not as defined by technical attributes like the file format. Additionally, our …
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Phonological and Semantic Processing of Chinese Characters
… for a number of factors, including the semantic indices and phonological variables, and the relevance of these factors that had not been previously considered or adequately controlled for in previous reaction time studies. These studies also indicate the complexity of Chinese character …
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Semantic Processing in Adults with High Functioning Autism
This study examined the semantic processing of 19 adults with high-functioning autism (HFA) and 18 age and verbal-IQ matched controls using language tasks that varied in the demand for simple or integrative processing. On standardized measures, the individuals with autism had relatively intact …
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Image memorability is linked to facilitated perceptual and semantic processing
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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Hemispheric differences in orthographic and semantic processing as revealed by event-related potentials
… effects on both the N250, a component reflecting processing at the level of visual form (orthography), and on the N400, which has been linked to semantic access. In contrast, in the RH/LVF, repetition effects were biased toward irregular items on the N250 and were similar in size across item types …
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Lexico-semantic processing in adult monolingual Russian and bilingual Russian (L1) - English (L2) Speakers
The aim of the research was to examine lexico-semantic processes in monolingual Russian and bilingual Russian (L1) – English (L2) speaking adults. This has been achieved via two main approaches: The classic semantic priming paradigm in naming tasks and free recall tasks which take into account the …
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Deriving meaning from print: The role of sensorimotor information and context in semantic processing
… from these theories were tested by examining semantic richness effects in a semantic decision task (SDT) across two conditions. EEG was recorded while participants categorized words rated high or low for body-object interaction (BOI), a sensorimotor semantic richness dimension that measures …
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Age of acquisition and semantic typicality effects
… rates) in tasks that require lexical and semantic processing. Its origin is – unlike the origin of semantic typicality (TYP), which is assumed at the semantic level – controversially discussed. Different theories propose AOA effects to originate either at the semantic level or at the link …
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Linguistic relativity: Loci and conditions of emergence
… only attentional but also preattentive visual processing of motion event (in)transitivity as indexed by event-related potential (ERP) patterns compared to a control group naïve to this novel system in Study 2). Regarding conditions of emergence, I only studied them in relation to linguistic …
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Semantically Based Lexical Processing Yields Unique Topographic Contributions to the Speech Bereitschaftspotential
… it was proposed that articulatory complexity and semantic processing each contribute to observed variations in the speech BP topography. Eighteen healthy volunteers performed 3 speech tasks, designed to distinguish semantic and articulatory contributions to the BP topography. The findings …
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Regular Right Part Grammars and Maintained and Constructor Attributes in Language Based Editors
… to regular right part grammars for static semantic processing. Finally, attribute grammars are extended with external data structures which improve the performance of the editor in some important instances and provide a framework for interaction between the attributed tree and the …
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Network Dynamics of Visual Naming
… behavior. During visual naming, sensory and semantic processing are carried out by dedicated cortical substrates in the temporal and occipital lobes, while response selection and articulatory planning are handled by prefrontal cortex. Despite decades of research using lesion analysis, …
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Using a Delayed Match-to-Samples Task to Investigate the Isolated Processing of Geometric Shapes and Their Corresponding Shape Words
… suggests an isolated system dedicated to processing geometric information (Spelke, Lee, & Izard, 2010), but isolating geometric processing from semantic processing has remained difficult. Recently, Sturz, Edwards, and Boyer (2014) utilized a delayed match-to-sample (DMTS) task to present …
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Semantic activation abnormalities in disorganized schizotypy.
… schizotypy and loose associations, we calculated semantic distances between successive responses on the Category Fluency Test (CFT), using WINDSORS (Windsor Improved Norms of Distance and Similarity of Representations of Semantics; Durda & Buchanan, 2008). We expected that disorganized schizotypy …
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The Effect of Levels of Processing on Event-Related-Potentials
… could be observed across three levels of processing. It was hypothesized that physiological correlates of encoding and retrieval would be observed at electrode sites near Cz with the semantic processing condition yielding the most positive going event-related-potential, the phonological …
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The semantic link: action & language : an investigation of relations between different cognitive domains in early development
The processing of language may derive, in part, from the ability to make sense of others’ actions or gestures. Therefore, in order to understand the emergence of cognitive structures supporting language, an understanding is required of the basic aspects of semantic expectations related to …
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Examining Age-related Enhancement of Multisensory Gain: The Role of Sensory Decline and Inverse Effectiveness
… and speech-perception, and higher levels of processing like semantic processing. Critically, when accounting for individual differences in perception, I found no age-related enhancements. Together, these findings suggest that sensory decline paired with existing mechanisms such as inverse …
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The influence of proficiency and age of acquisition on second language processing: An fMRI study of Mandarin-English bilinguals
… the neural correlates of second language (L2) processing has usually studied age of acquisition (AoA) and proficiency separately. Presently, we examined both in parallel, treated as continuous variables. We used fMRI to study neural activity for L2 processing in adult native Mandarin speakers …
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Associative Memory Processes in Schizophrenia
… in schizophrenia, suggesting that a strategic processing deficit may underlie memory impairment in schizophrenia. Additionally, the provision of beneficial encoding strategies increases encoding-related brain activity in key memory processing regions in schizophrenia participants, although such …
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A New Eye On Semantics: Probing the Spatiotemporal Brain Dynamics Underlying Natural Reading
… the influence of task and context on the semantic processing of single words in isolation and in a sentence context. In one study, I considered task effects on single-word semantic representations using multivariate pattern analysis. In two further studies, I tested whether sentence …
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