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Renoult, Louis; Debruille, J. Bruno – Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2011
The N400 ERP is an electrophysiological index of semantic processing. Its amplitude varies with the semantic category of words, their concreteness, or whether their meaning matches that of a preceding context. The results of a number of studies suggest that these effects could be markedly reduced or suppressed for stimuli that are repeated.…
Descriptors: Semantics, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Diagnostic Tests, Language Processing
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Perruchet, Pierre; Cleeremans, Axel; Destrebecqz, Arnaud – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
After repeated associations between two events, E1 and E2, responses to E2 can be facilitated either because participants consciously expect E2 to occur after E1 or because E1 automatically activates the response to E2, or because of both. In this article, the authors report on 4 experiments designed to pit the influence of these 2 factors against…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Influences, Expectation, Associative Learning
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Fennell, Christopher T.; Werker, Janet F. – Language and Speech, 2003
Several recent studies from our laboratory have shown that 14-month-old infants have difficulty learning to associate two phonetically similar new words to two different objects when tested in the Switch task. Because the infants can discriminate the same phonetic detail that they fail to use in the associative word-learning situation, we have…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Infants, Child Development, Language Acquisition