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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"linguistic processing"”.
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Indicators of Linguistic Processing Constraints in the Narratives of Individuals with High-Functioning Autism
… proposes that it is a disorder of information processing. The purpose of this study was to compare the language production of adults with high-functioning autism (HFA) to that of age and Verbal IQ-matched controls with respect to speech disruptions and formulaic expressions, features which …
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Asymmetry in hemi-attention and auditory-linguistic processing as measured by focused-attention dichotic listening: a comparison of reading- disabled and non-disabled children
… technique was used to investigate auditory-linguistic and hemi-attentional asymmetries in reading-disabled (RD) and non reading-disabled (nonRD) children. Subjects were defined as RD according to a statistical formula which determined whether IQ and reading achievement scores were …
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The Mechanisms and Consequences of Cerebral Lateralization
… is a clearly established division of functional processing between left and right hemispheres of the brain, with the pattern showing robust consistency across individuals. The finding of functional differences between the hemispheres of the brain raises two important questions: First, what …
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FMRI studies of the relationship between language and theory of mind in adult cognition
… nature of the relationship between language processing and Theory of Mind (ToM), and their neural substrates. On the one hand, the two domains share an intimate connection given that a) language appears to have been shaped by communicative pressures; b) pragmatic inference is prevalent in …
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The Dynamic Cerebral Laterality Effect: Group Differences in Hostility, Cardiovascular Regulation, and Sensory Recognition
… in response to pain (cold pressor) and emotional linguistic processing was measured. Low- and high-hostile participants were identified using the Cook Medley Hostility Scale (CMHS). All participants completed either the negative affective verbal learning test (Experiment 1) or the cold pressor …
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The scene superiority effect: object recognition in the context of natural scenes
… current study takes advantage of a paradigm from linguistic processing known as the Word Superiority Effect. Humans can better discriminate letters (e.g., D vs. K) in the context of a word (WORD vs. WORK) than in a non-word context (e.g., WROD vs. WROK) even when the context is non-predictive of …
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The processing of stereotype-relevant information during reading
I examined the processing of stereotype-relevant information during reading, in particular the degree to which stereotype-mismatch detection and resolution are resource-dependent. In addition I investigated the effects of stereotype-relevant episodic representations on subsequent linguistic and …
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The Effect of Language on Cognition in an Acculturated American Sample of Healthy Older Adults
… aging on the domains of executive functioning, linguistic processing, attention, memory, and visuospatial functioning. Methods: Participants were 312 healthy older adults (68% female) from the Walnuts and Healthy Aging study at Loma Linda University (Age range = 64-75; M = 69.42, SD = 3.31). Of …
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Effects of Facial and Vocal Emotion on Word Recognition in 11-to-13-month-old infants
… communication of emotion and highlighting linguistic aspects of speech. However, these two functions are most often studied separately so that the influence of emotional prosody (the changes in intonation and vocal quality that relate to emotion) on linguistic processing in infants has …
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The role of aging and emotion in processing health-related framed messages
… responses can interact with the cognitive processing of framed messages, especially as a function of aging, are not well-understood. Experiment 1 was conducted to investigate the affective reactions evoked by framed messages, specifically those related to exercise, and their relationship to …
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Bilingualism and cognition: exploring the bilingual cognitive advantage across the lifespan
… juggle two languages have better controlled processing and enhanced executive function (Bialystok, 2001; Bialystok & Martin, 2004). These findings have also been extended to adults whereby bilingual adults across the lifespan were found to have smaller interference effects than monolingual …
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Imaging neural correlates of syntactic complexity in a naturalistic context
… word and at that of the phrase) based on current linguistic and psycholinguistic theory and with the use of a computationally implemented probabilistic parser. By correlating these measures with observed brain activity, we are able to identify the different brain networks that support linguistic …
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Resting-state and task functional magnetic resonance imaging correlates of early language development in temporal and frontal lobe
… do remarkably well in only a few short years. Linguistic processing is known to be lateralized to the left hemisphere in the majority of the population. The exact mechanism by which this lateralization emerges is not fully understood. In this dissertation, I use functional neuroimaging to …
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A Cognitive Linguistic Study of Categorisation and Uncertain Reasoning in the Representation of Degree Modifiers.
… is to moderate the perceived strength of the linguistic form on which they act, making them a useful and versatile tool of expression and emphasis. However, the cognitive mechanisms that underlie the conceptualisation of degree modifiers and the linguistic aspects of their use in combination …
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A study into the effectiveness of pushed/non-pushed spoken output tasks focussing on upper intermediate students in the EFL classroom
… activities can increase instances in which linguistic processing, and subsequently interlanguage development, may occur.
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Grammatical Gender Representation and Processing in Advanced Second Language Learners of French
… and how their storage system relates to processing of grammatical gender in terms of the ability to realize accurate gender agreement throughout a sentence. First, a gender priming task investigated whether advanced L2 learners have developed a gender-nodal system in which gender …
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The Functional architecture of language comprehension mechanisms : fundamental principles revealed with fMRI
… 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 employing functional MRI to study the neural implementation of comprehension processes. My experimental …
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Individual differences in sentence processing
… shared mechanisms between retrieval in sentence processing and memory retrieval processes in nonlinguistic domains using an individual differences approach. Prior research in individual differences in sentence processing has provided conflicting evidence as to whether the same memory mechanisms …
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Toward an integrated model of sentence processing in reading
In experiments investigating sentence processing, eye movement measures such as fixation durations and regression proportions while reading are commonly used to draw conclusions about processing difficulties. However, these measures are the result of an interaction of multiple cognitive levels and …
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Memory for actions that are done, imagined, or promised in text
… results are discussed within models of discourse processing, and memory.
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