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Patience Stevens; David C. Plaut – Grantee Submission, 2022
The morphological structure of complex words impacts how they are processed during visual word recognition. This impact varies over the course of reading acquisition and for different languages and writing systems. Many theories of morphological processing rely on a decomposition mechanism, in which words are decomposed into explicit…
Descriptors: Written Language, Morphology (Languages), Word Recognition, Reading Processes
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Lin Chen; Charles Perfetti – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
Learning new words is fundamental in both first and second-language reading. There are, however, divided opinions on the best instructional approaches. Two widely used approaches across languages are whole-word focus and word-constituent focus. The appropriateness of each approach has varied historically, even within a single language (e.g., the…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Patience Stevens; David Plaut – Grantee Submission, 2020
The statistical structure of a given language likely drives our sensitivity to words' morphological structure. The current work begins to investigate to what degree morphological processing effects observed in visual word recognition can be attributed to statistical regularities between orthography and semantics in English, without any prior…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Word Recognition, Semantics, Written Language
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Yang, Jianfeng; Shu, Hua; McCandliss, Bruce D.; Zevin, Jason D. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2013
Learning to read in any language requires learning to map among print, sound and meaning. Writing systems differ in a number of factors that influence both the ease and the rate with which reading skill can be acquired, as well as the eventual division of labor between phonological and semantic processes. Further, developmental reading disability…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Semantics, Reading Difficulties, Chinese
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Shook, Anthony; Marian, Viorica – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2013
During speech comprehension, bilinguals co-activate both of their languages, resulting in cross-linguistic interaction at various levels of processing. This interaction has important consequences for both the structure of the language system and the mechanisms by which the system processes spoken language. Using computational modeling, we can…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Language Processing, Bilingualism, Oral Language
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Lu, Hongjing; Chen, Dawn; Holyoak, Keith J. – Psychological Review, 2012
How can humans acquire relational representations that enable analogical inference and other forms of high-level reasoning? Using comparative relations as a model domain, we explore the possibility that bottom-up learning mechanisms applied to objects coded as feature vectors can yield representations of relations sufficient to solve analogy…
Descriptors: Inferences, Thinking Skills, Comparative Analysis, Models
Rouhi, Mehri; Mahand, Mohammad Rasekh – Online Submission, 2011
The phenomenon of AM (animal metaphor) can be discussed based on the class-inclusion model in cognitive linguistics. In this article, we try to prove that this kind of metaphor accords more with this model than with correspondence model of Lakoff. It does not mean that the correspondence model is not valid in this regard, but we argue that…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Figurative Language, Animals, Psycholinguistics
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Sumner, Meghan – Cognition, 2011
Phonetic variation has been considered a barrier that listeners must overcome in speech perception, but has been proved beneficial in category learning. In this paper, I show that listeners use within-speaker variation to accommodate gross categorical variation. Within the perceptual learning paradigm, listeners are exposed to p-initial words in…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Auditory Perception, Native Speakers, Speech Communication
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Kroll, Judith F.; van Hell, Janet G.; Tokowicz, Natasha; Green, David W. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2010
Brysbaert and Duyck (this issue) suggest that it is time to abandon the Revised Hierarchical Model (Kroll and Stewart, 1994) in favor of connectionist models such as BIA+ (Dijkstra and Van Heuven, 2002) that more accurately account for the recent evidence on non-selective access in bilingual word recognition. In this brief response, we first…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Models, Language Acquisition, Bilingualism
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Lew, Adina R. – Psychological Bulletin, 2011
Since the proposal of Tolman (1948) that mammals form maplike representations of familiar environments, cognitive map theory has been at the core of debates on the fundamental mechanisms of animal learning and memory. Traditional formulations of cognitive map theory emphasize relations between landmarks and between landmarks and goal locations as…
Descriptors: Evidence, Cognitive Mapping, Geometric Concepts, Performance Factors
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Palmer, Shekeila D.; van Hooff, Johanna C.; Havelka, Jelena – Neuropsychologia, 2010
The purpose of this investigation was to test the assumption of asymmetric mapping between words and concepts in bilingual memory as proposed by the Revised Hierarchical Model (RHM, Kroll & Stewart, 1994). Twenty four Spanish-English bilinguals (experiment 1) and twenty English-Spanish bilinguals (experiment 2) were presented with pairs of words,…
Descriptors: Semantics, Translation, Memory, Bilingualism
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Picard, Delphine; Pry, Rene – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2009
This study assessed the efficiency of a model of a familiar urban area for enhancing knowledge of the spatial environment by adults with visual impairments. It found a significant improvement in knowledge of spatial configuration after exposure to the model, suggesting that models are powerful means of developing cognitive mapping in people who…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Urban Areas, Cognitive Mapping, Urban Environment
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Mayor, Julien; Plunkett, Kim – Psychological Review, 2010
We present a neurocomputational model with self-organizing maps that accounts for the emergence of taxonomic responding and fast mapping in early word learning, as well as a rapid increase in the rate of acquisition of words observed in late infancy. The quality and efficiency of generalization of word-object associations is directly related to…
Descriptors: Generalization, Vocabulary Development, Classification, Language Acquisition
von Wodtke, Mark – School Library Media Annual (SLMA), 1994
Presents concepts from von Wodtke's book, "Mind over Media," to suggest ways to teach thinking skills important for the electronic information age. Topics covered include how to use media interactively, navigating information environments, developing cognitive maps of media space, visualization, creative thinking, and collaboration. (KRN)
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Computer Graphics, Concept Teaching, Cooperation
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Moen, Ed M. J. C.; Boersma, Kerst Th. – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 1997
Explores the significance of concept mapping for education and curriculum development. Discusses two main streams in curriculum paradigms and important processes, and the functions which concept mapping can have in education and curriculum development. Examines why students in educational institutions don't yet make systematic use of concept maps,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Cognitive Processes, Concept Mapping, Curriculum Development
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