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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"semantic associations"”.
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Making a Better Query: Find Good Feedback Documents and Terms via Semantic Associations
… documents are relevant if they contain terms semantically similar to the query. To retrieve these documents, a classic way is to expand the original query with more related terms. Pseudo relevance feedback (PRF) has proven to be effective to expand origin queries and improve the performance of …
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Memory for Positive, Negative, and Comparison Ads: Studying Semantic Associations Between Candidates and Issues Using EEG
… of political knowledge used here tests for associations between candidates and issues in participants’ memory. By examining memory linkages between candidates and issues, this measure captures a critical and fundamental aspect of knowledge, and also focuses on information that citizens may …
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Effects of Contextual and Individual Difference Factors on Perceptions of Victims
… world beliefs, trauma exposure, and cognitive semantic associations) factors in relation to victim blame. Ingroup membership predicted greater character praise in females, while outgroup membership predicted greater praise in males. Victim praise was also greater when the environment was safe …
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Modeling False Memory in the Deese-Roediger-McDermott Paradigm: An Approach Using Holographic Declarative Memory
… (DRM) paradigm demonstrates how semantic associations can induce false recall and recognition (Roediger & McDermott, 1995). While cognitive architectures are able to model control processes, they often struggle with large-scale semantic representations which are required for …
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Some Like It Hot: The Effect of Serving Temperature on Perceived Caloric Content and Intent to Purchase Complementary Food
… bias. This belief is grounded in the conceptual associations between warm foods and beverages and consumers’ affiliative semantic associations regarding home and hearth - concepts captured by the phrase “homelike.” Specifically, hot foods and beverages are perceived to be labor of love and …
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Do Baseline Language Impairment Measures Predict Anomia Treatment Outcome?
… people with aphasia include a phonological or semantic focus; many studies have examined the effectiveness of these approaches. Some studies have sought to determine if patients' impairment level is associated with treatment outcome following administration of a specific treatment approach. …
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The role of retrieval during study: from self-paced study time and overt rehearsal
… mediated the benefit to memory engendered by semantic associations across items. These two different on-line measures of reminding at study help establish a causal link between the action of reminding at study and later consequences at test.
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Neural correlates of temporal context retrieval
… of events or inferring temporal order from the semantic associations among events. The purpose of present study is to investigate the brain regions that support temporal context retrieval in the absence of such non-temporal strategies (i.e. pure temporal context memory). We used three word …
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The Analysis of Selective Information Processing and Neuropsychological Functioning in Individuals At-Risk for Eating Disorders: The Use of a Pictorial Adaptation to the Stroop Paradigm, Using Print Media Advertisements
… presentation of verbal information with strong semantic associations to eating disorder concerns, and in response to a battery of neuropsychological tasks designed to measure executive function.</p> <p>Results of this study provide additional converging evidence suggesting that women with …
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Understanding Semantic Implicit Learning through distributional linguistic patterns: A computational perspective
… provides a computational perspective on Semantic Implicit Learning (SIL). It puts forward the idea that SIL does not depend on semantic knowledge as classically conceived but upon semantic-like knowledge gained through distributional analysis of massive linguistic input. Using methods …
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Deep Learning Based Methods for Automatic Extraction of Syntactic Patterns and their Application for Knowledge Discovery
Semantic pairs, which consist of related entities or concepts, serve as the foundation for comprehending the meaning of language in both written and spoken forms. These pairs enable to grasp the nuances of relationships between words, phrases, or ideas, forming the basis for more advanced language …
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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 …