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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"naturalistic language"”.
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Decoding Neural Processing of Linguistic Features From Large-Scale Intracranial Recordings and Naturalistic Language Stimuli
… we fit Generalized Linear Models (GLM) to map language and vision stimuli to induced brain activity. This framework allows us to localize processing areas in the brain per feature, as well as explore the temporal dynamics of this processing. Findings include maps relating neural activity across …
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The effectiveness of a brief home-based naturalistic language intervention on the spoken language abilities of children with autism in the Western Cape
Background: Naturalistic Developmental Behavioural Interventions (NDBIs) have shown to have a positive effect on cognitive and social outcomes of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) though very few NDBIs have been implemented in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Challenges in …
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Functional Unexpectedness: Reframing the role of predictability in language comprehension
… the role 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 …
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Scoring Sentences Developmentally: An Analog of Developmental Sentence Scoring
… to assist in the quantification and analysis of naturalistic language samples. In recent years, computer technology has been employed in language sample analysis. This study compares a new automated index, Scoring Sentences Developmentally (SSD), to two existing measures. Eighty samples from …
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Untangling the complexity of nature: Machine-learning for accelerated life-sciences
… the Brain TreeBank, a multi-modal dataset of naturalistic language aligned to intracranial neural recordings. The TreeBank provides the resolution and breadth required to probe the spatio-temporal dynamics of language context dependence and representation in the brain. Second, we argue for the …
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Discourses of language acquisition and identity in the life histories of four white South African men, fluent in isiXhosa
… 1976; Weedon, 1997) is used to explore language acquisition and identity construction in the life histories of four multilingual white South African men, who became fluent in the African language of isiXhosa in the racially-divided world of Apartheid South Africa, at a time when law and …
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Expectation-based comprehension of linguistic input: facilitation from visual context
Context fundamentally shapes real-time human language processing, creating linguistic expectations that drive efficient processing and accurate disambiguation (Kuperberg and Jaeger, 2016). In naturalistic language understanding, the visual scene often provides crucial context (Ferreira et al., …
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Evaluation of Wee Read Club+, an Early Speech and Language Intervention for Toddlers and Their Caregivers
Language delays in early childhood are prominent and are likely to negatively impact the child in a variety of areas including their future learning, relationships, and overall emotional development. Caregivers are known to be an integral component of children’s early language development, and …