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Kittredge, Audrey; Davis, Lissa; Blumstein, Sheila E. – Brain and Language, 2006
In a series of experiments, the effect of white noise distortion and talker variation on lexical access in normal and Broca's aphasic participants was examined using an auditory lexical decision paradigm. Masking the prime stimulus in white noise resulted in reduced semantic priming for both groups, indicating that lexical access is degraded by…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Acoustics, Auditory Stimuli, Patients
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Friederici, Angela D.; Alter, Kai – Brain and Language, 2004
Spoken language comprehension requires the coordination of different subprocesses in time. After the initial acoustic analysis the system has to extract segmental information such as phonemes, syntactic elements and lexical-semantic elements as well as suprasegmental information such as accentuation and intonational phrases, i.e., prosody.…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Language Processing, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Syntax
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Indefrey, Peter; Hellwig, Frauke; Herzog, Hans; Seitz, Rudiger J.; Hagoort, Peter – Brain and Language, 2004
Following up on an earlier positron emission tomography (PET) experiment (Indefrey et al., 2001), we used a scene description paradigm to investigate whether a posterior inferior frontal region subserving syntactic encoding for speaking is also involved in syntactic parsing during listening. In the language production part of the experiment,…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Auditory Stimuli, Syntax, Speech Communication
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Van Strien, Jan W. – Brain and Language, 2004
To investigate whether concurrent nonverbal sound sequences would affect visual-hemifield lexical processing, lexical-decision performance of 24 strongly right-handed students (12 men, 12 women) was measured in three conditions: baseline, concurrent neutral sound sequence, and concurrent emotional sound sequence. With the neutral sequence,…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Hypothesis Testing, Cognitive Processes