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Eszter Ronai – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Scalar inference, the process by which we infer meanings stronger than what was explicitly said, has long been a central topic of investigation in theoretical semantics-pragmatics, as well as in psycholinguistics. Upon encountering the sentence "Mary ate some of the deep dish", for instance, hearers regularly compute the pragmatic…
Descriptors: Inferences, Semantics, Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics
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Bürki, Audrey; Madec, Sylvain – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2022
The picture-word interference paradigm (participants name target pictures while ignoring distractor words) is often used to model the planning processes involved in word production. The participants' naming times are delayed in the presence of a distractor (general interference). The size of this effect depends on the relationship between the…
Descriptors: Pictorial Stimuli, Interference (Learning), Reaction Time, Naming
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Mohamed A. Mekheimer; A. I. Fageeh – Discover Education, 2025
This study investigated the impact of information density on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) listening comprehension, testing the hypothesis that listeners prioritize message understanding in information-rich discourse over grammar-focused analysis in rhetorical discourse. A quasi-experimental design was employed with 26 EFL college students,…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Kiefer, Markus; Harpaintner, Marcel; Rohr, Michaela; Wentura, Dirk – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
Ratings of perceptual experience on a trial-by-trial basis are increasingly used in masked priming studies to assess prime awareness. It is argued that such subjective ratings more adequately capture the content of phenomenal consciousness compared to the standard objective psychophysical measures obtained in a session after the priming…
Descriptors: Priming, Semantics, Comparative Analysis, Decision Making
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Shi, Xinyuan; Wu, Shanshan; Liang, Dandan – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: Children with cochlear implants (CIs) have less experience accessing spoken language. Mandarin Chinese uses pitch information to contrast word meaning, and the signal that the CI devices provide is degraded. Thus, Mandarin-speaking children with CIs may face more challenges in the development of language skills. This study examines…
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Assistive Technology, Preschool Children, Mandarin Chinese
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Yuxin Chen; Yaqiong Wang – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
This study investigates how academic disciplines impact second language (L2) lexical competencies. Prior L2 research has often overlooked the broader effects of disciplinary backgrounds on lexical development. To address this gap, this study utilized lexical decision, memory, and semantic fluency tasks to examine lexicon recognition, memory, and…
Descriptors: Semantics, Second Language Learning, Reaction Time, Accuracy
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Williot, Alexandre; Blanchette, Isabelle – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2020
Threat detection is an important skill for police officers, but few studies have examined the impact of processing strategies on this ability. The first aim of our study was to compare the visual detection of threatening and neutral targets in 38 police trainees and 53 police officers. The other aims were to examine the effect of emotional or…
Descriptors: Police Education, Police, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis
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Maxfield, Nathan D. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: Some psycholinguistic theories of stuttering propose that language production operates along a different time course in adults who stutter (AWS) versus typically fluent adults (TFA). However, behavioral evidence for such a difference has been mixed. Here, the time course of semantic and phonological encoding in picture naming was compared…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Adults, Stuttering, Semantics
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Moberly, Aaron C.; Reed, Jessa – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: Speech recognition relies upon a listener's successful pairing of the acoustic--phonetic details from the bottom-up input with top-down linguistic processing of the incoming speech stream. When the speech is spectrally degraded, such as through a cochlear implant (CI), this role of top-down processing is poorly understood. This study…
Descriptors: Adults, Assistive Technology, Hearing Impairments, Acoustics
Lyon, Bethany Alice – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Prospective memory (PM) refers to memory for future intentions (e.g. remembering to press a button when you see an animal word). Researchers classify PM intentions in the laboratory as focal or nonfocal primarily in two ways. One way, task-appropriateness, refers to how the processing for the intention relates to the processing required for an…
Descriptors: Cues, Task Analysis, Memory, Intention
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Vincent, Irena – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: Research on language planning in adult stuttering is relatively sparse and offers diverging arguments about a potential causative relationship between semantic and phonological encoding and fluency breakdowns. This study further investigated semantic and phonological encoding efficiency in adults who stutter (AWS) by means of silent…
Descriptors: Semantics, Phonology, Cognitive Processes, Adults
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Shikhare, Sailee; Heim, Stefan; Klein, Elise; Huber, Stefan; Willmes, Klaus – Cognitive Science, 2015
Quantifier expressions like "many" and "at least" are part of a rich repository of words in language representing magnitude information. The role of numerical processing in comprehending quantifiers was studied in a semantic truth value judgment task, asking adults to quickly verify sentences about visual displays using…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Language Processing, Semantics, Task Analysis
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Schneider, Darryl W. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
Response congruency effects in task switching reflect worse performance for incongruent targets associated with different responses across tasks than for congruent targets associated with the same response. In the present study, the author investigated whether the effects can be produced solely by a mediated route for response selection, whereby…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Cognitive Processes, Semantics, Cognitive Ability
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Schmidtke, Daniel; Matsuki, Kazunaga; Kuperman, Victor – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
The current study addresses a discrepancy in the psycholinguistic literature about the chronology of information processing during the visual recognition of morphologically complex words. "Form-then-meaning" accounts of complex word recognition claim that morphemes are processed as units of form prior to any influence of their meanings,…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Reaction Time, Eye Movements, Language Processing
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Heyman, Tom; Van Rensbergen, Bram; Storms, Gert; Hutchison, Keith A.; De Deyne, Simon – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
The present research examines the nature of the different processes that have been proposed to underlie semantic priming. Specifically, it has been argued that priming arises as a result of "automatic target activation" and/or the use of strategies like prospective "expectancy generation" and "retrospective semantic…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Semantics, Priming, Cognitive Processes
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