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Vergara-Martinez, Marta; Perea, Manuel; Gomez, Pablo; Swaab, Tamara Y. – Brain and Language, 2013
The encoding of letter position is a key aspect in all recently proposed models of visual-word recognition. We analyzed the impact of lexical frequency on letter position assignment by examining the temporal dynamics of lexical activation induced by pseudowords extracted from words of different frequencies. For each word (e.g., BRIDGE), we created…
Descriptors: Semantics, Word Recognition, Stimuli, Diagnostic Tests
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Rapp, Alexander M.; Erb, Michael; Grodd, Wolfgang; Bartels, Mathias; Markert, Katja – Brain and Language, 2011
Metonymies are exemplary models for complex semantic association processes at the sentence level. We investigated processing of metonymies using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). During an 1.5 Tesla fMRI scan, 14 healthy subjects (12 female) read 124 short German sentences with either literal (like "Africa is arid"),…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Syntax, Cognitive Processes