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Fritsch, Nathalie; Kuchinke, Lars – Brain and Language, 2013
The present study examined how contextual learning and in particular emotionality conditioning impacts the neural processing of words, as possible key factors for the acquisition of words' emotional connotation. 21 participants learned on five consecutive days associations between meaningless pseudowords and unpleasant or neutral pictures using an…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Emotional Response, Cognitive Processes, Word Recognition
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Cho, Yong Won; Song, Hui-Jin; Lee, Jae Jun; Lee, Joo Hwa; Lee, Hui Joong; Yi, Sang Doe; Chang, Hyuk Won; Berl, Madison M.; Gaillard, William D.; Chang, Yongmin – Brain and Language, 2012
Older adults perform much like younger adults on language. This similar level of performance, however, may come about through different underlying brain processes. In the present study, we evaluated age-related differences in the brain areas outside the typical language areas among adults using a category decision task. Our results showed that…
Descriptors: Semantics, Age Differences, Language Processing, Decision Making
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Klepousniotou, Ekaterini; Pike, G. Bruce; Steinhauer, Karsten; Gracco, Vincent – Brain and Language, 2012
Event-related potentials (ERPs) were used to investigate the time-course of meaning activation of different types of ambiguous words. Unbalanced homonymous ("pen"), balanced homonymous ("panel"), metaphorically polysemous ("lip"), and metonymically polysemous words ("rabbit") were used in a visual single-word priming delayed lexical decision task.…
Descriptors: Priming, Figurative Language, Vocabulary, Diagnostic Tests
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Yu, Xi; Bi, Yanchao; Han, Zaizhu; Zhu, Chaozhe; Law, Sam-Po – Brain and Language, 2012
This paper reports a conjunction analysis between semantic relatedness judgment and semantic associate generation of Chinese nouns and verbs with concrete or abstract meanings. The results revealed a verb-specific task-independent region in LpSTG&MTG, and task-dependent activation in a left frontal region in semantic judgment and the left SMG in…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Nouns, Morphology (Languages)
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Kiefer, Markus; Trumpp, Natalie; Herrnberger, Barbel; Sim, Eun-Jin; Hoenig, Klaus; Pulvermuller, Friedemann – Brain and Language, 2012
Modality-specific models of conceptual memory propose close links between concepts and the sensory-motor systems. Neuroimaging studies found, in different subject groups, that action-related and sound-related concepts activated different parts of posterior middle temporal gyrus (pMTG), suggesting a modality-specific representation of conceptual…
Descriptors: Neurology, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Acoustics, Correlation
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Arciuli, Joanne; McMahon, Katie; de Zubicaray, Greig – Brain and Language, 2012
What helps us determine whether a word is a noun or a verb, without conscious awareness? We report on cues in the way individual English words are spelled, and, for the first time, identify their neural correlates via functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). We used a lexical decision task with trisyllabic nouns and verbs containing…
Descriptors: Spelling, Grammar, Brain, Word Recognition
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Liu, Hongyan; Hu, Zhiguo; Peng, Danling; Yang, Yanhui; Li, Kuncheng – Brain and Language, 2010
The brain activity associated with automatic semantic priming has been extensively studied. Thus far there has been no prior study that directly contrasts the neural mechanisms of semantic and affective priming. The present study employed event-related fMRI to examine the common and distinct neural bases underlying conceptual and affective priming…
Descriptors: Semantics, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Processes, Diagnostic Tests
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Van der Haegen, Lise; Brysbaert, Marc; Davis, Colin J. – Brain and Language, 2009
It has recently been shown that interhemispheric communication is needed for the processing of foveally presented words. In this study, we examine whether the integration of information happens at an early stage, before word recognition proper starts, or whether the integration is part of the recognition process itself. Two lexical decision…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Language Processing, Task Analysis
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Moore-Parks, Erin Nicole; Burns, Erin L.; Bazzill, Rebecca; Levy, Sarah; Posada, Valerie; Muller, Ralph-Axel – Brain and Language, 2010
Lexical-semantic knowledge is a core language component that undergoes prolonged development throughout childhood and is therefore highly amenable to developmental studies. Most previous lexical-semantic functional MRI (fMRI) studies have been limited to single-word or word-pair tasks, outside a sentence context. Our objective was to investigate…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Cognitive Processes, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Kast, Monika; Bezzola, Ladina; Jancke, Lutz; Meyer, Martin – Brain and Language, 2011
The present functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study was designed, in order to investigate the neural substrates involved in the audiovisual processing of disyllabic German words and pseudowords. Twelve dyslexic and 13 nondyslexic adults performed a lexical decision task while stimuli were presented unimodally (either aurally or…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Metabolism, Stimuli, Stimulation
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Peleg, Orna; Eviatar, Zohar – Brain and Language, 2008
The present study examined the manner in which both hemispheres utilize prior semantic context and relative meaning frequency during the processing of homographs. Participants read sentences biased toward the dominant or the subordinate meaning of their final homograph, or unbiased neutral sentences, and performed a lexical decision task on…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Figurative Language, Language Processing
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Pylkkanen, Liina; Martin, Andrea E.; McElree, Brian; Smart, Andrew – Brain and Language, 2009
To study the neural bases of semantic composition in language processing without confounds from syntactic composition, recent magnetoencephalography (MEG) studies have investigated the processing of constructions that exhibit some type of syntax-semantics mismatch. The most studied case of such a mismatch is "complement coercion;" expressions such…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Semantics, Nouns, Syntax
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Sato, Marc; Mengarelli, Marisa; Riggio, Lucia; Gallese, Vittorio; Buccino, Giovanni – Brain and Language, 2008
Recent neurophysiological and brain imaging studies have shown that the motor system is involved in language processing. However, it is an open question whether this involvement is a necessary requisite to understand language or rather a side effect of distinct cognitive processes underlying it. In order to clarify this issue we carried out three…
Descriptors: Science Activities, Semantics, Verbs, Neurology
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Vigliocco, Gabriella; Vinson, David P.; Arciuli, Joanne; Barber, Horacio – Brain and Language, 2008
The double dissociation between noun and verb processing, well documented in the neuropsychological literature, has not been supported in imaging studies. Recent imaging studies, in fact, suggest that once confounding with semantics is eliminated, grammatical class effects only emerge as a consequence of building frames. Here we assess this…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Grammar, Word Recognition
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Wible, Cynthia G.; Han, S. Duke; Spencer, Magdalena H.; Kubicki, Marek; Niznikiewicz, Margaret H.; Jolesz, Ferenc A.; McCarley, Robert W.; Nestor, Paul – Brain and Language, 2006
Semantic priming refers to a reduction in the reaction time to identify or make a judgment about a stimulus that has been immediately preceded by a semantically related word or picture and is thought to result from a partial overlap in the semantic associates of the two words. A semantic priming lexical decision task using spoken words was…
Descriptors: Semantics, Diagnostic Tests, Reaction Time, Brain Hemisphere Functions