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Schwen Blackett, Deena; Harnish, Stacy M. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: Emotional stimuli have been shown to influence language processing (both language comprehension and production) in people with aphasia (PWA); however, this finding is not universally reported. Effects of emotional stimuli on language performance in PWA could have clinical and theoretical implications, yet the sparsity of studies and…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Emotional Response, Stimuli, Language Processing
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Gough, Joanna – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2019
The technologisation and industrialisation of the translation process have had an impact on translation practice and, consequently, on the way translators carry out their translation-related research. This necessitates a response from the research communities to examine this impact and the ensuing changes in translation practice, with the way…
Descriptors: Translation, Professional Personnel, Research, Change
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Collins, Sarah J.; Graham, Susan A.; Chambers, Craig G. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2012
We investigated how preschoolers use their understanding of the actions available to a speaker to resolve referential ambiguity. In this study, 58 3- and 4-year-olds were presented with arrays of eight objects in a toy house and were instructed to retrieve various objects from the display. The trials varied in terms of whether the speaker's hands…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Language Processing, Preschool Children, Experiments
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Webster, Janet; Whitworth, Anne – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2012
Background: In recent years there has been significant interest in the differential processing of nouns and verbs in people with aphasia, but more limited consideration about whether the differences have implications for therapy. It remains unclear whether verbs can be treated in a similar way to nouns or should be treated using approaches that…
Descriptors: Therapy, Verbs, Nouns, Aphasia
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Endress, Ansgar D.; Wood, Justin N. – Cognitive Psychology, 2011
When other individuals move, we interpret their movements as discrete, hierarchically-organized, goal-directed actions. However, the mechanisms that integrate visible movement features into actions are poorly understood. Here, we consider two sequence learning mechanisms--transitional probability-based (TP) and position-based encoding…
Descriptors: Memory, Probability, Sequential Learning, Visual Perception
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American Psychologist, 2012
Presents a short biography of one of the winners of the American Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology. The 2012 winner is Bob McMurray for pioneering research on speech and language processing in infants and adults. McMurray has conducted influential work on the graded nature of…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Recognition (Achievement), Psychology, Infants
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Holtgraves, Thomas – Brain and Language, 2012
In this research the role of the RH in the comprehension of speech acts (or illocutionary force) was examined. Two split-screen experiments were conducted in which participants made lexical decisions for lateralized targets after reading a brief conversation remark. On one-half of the trials the target word named the speech act performed with the…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Listening Skills, Experiments, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Huang, Koongliang; Itoh, Kosuke; Kwee, Ingrid L.; Nakada, Tsutomu – Neuropsychologia, 2012
Japanese and Chinese share virtually identical morphographic characters invented in ancient China. Whereas modern Chinese retained the original morphographic functionality of these characters (hanzi), modern Japanese utilizes these characters (kanji) as complex syllabograms. This divergence provides a unique opportunity to systematically…
Descriptors: Brain, Foreign Countries, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Sentences
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Bohrn, Isabel C.; Altmann, Ulrike; Jacobs, Arthur M. – Neuropsychologia, 2012
A quantitative, coordinate-based meta-analysis combined data from 354 participants across 22 fMRI studies and one positron emission tomography (PET) study to identify the differences in neural correlates of figurative and literal language processing, and to investigate the role of the right hemisphere (RH) in figurative language processing.…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Figurative Language, Semantics, Negative Attitudes
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Voyer, Daniel – Brain and Cognition, 2011
The present study quantified the magnitude of sex differences in perceptual asymmetries as measured with dichotic listening. This was achieved by means of a meta-analysis of the literature dating back from the initial use of dichotic listening as a measure of laterality. The meta-analysis included 249 effect sizes pertaining to sex differences and…
Descriptors: Effect Size, Language Processing, Gender Differences, Listening Skills
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Kuhl, Patricia K. – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2011
The last decade has produced an explosion in neuroscience research examining young children's early processing of language that has implications for education. Noninvasive, safe functional brain measurements have now been proven feasible for use with children starting at birth. In the arena of language, the neural signatures of learning can be…
Descriptors: Neurological Organization, Research, Young Children, Language Processing
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Wearden, J. H. – Language Learning, 2008
The article first discusses some recent work in time perception--in particular the distinction among prospective timing, retrospective timing, and passage of time judgments. The history and application of an "internal clock" model as an explanation of prospective timing performance is reviewed and contrasted with the different mechanisms needed…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Language Impairments, Time Perspective, Perception
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Leonard, Laurence B. – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2009
Purpose: To propose that the diagnostic category of "expressive language disorder" as distinct from a disorder of both expressive and receptive language might not be accurate. Method: Evidence that casts doubt on a pure form of this disorder is reviewed from several sources, including the literature on genetic findings, theories of language…
Descriptors: Delayed Speech, Language Impairments, Standardized Tests, Classification
Benasich, April A., Ed.; Fitch, R. Holly, Ed. – Brookes Publishing Company, 2012
Understanding the precursors and early indicators of dyslexia is key to early identification and effective intervention. Now there's a single research volume that brings together the very latest knowledge on the earliest stages of dyslexia and the diverse genetic, neurobiological, and cognitive factors that may contribute to it. Based on findings…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conferences (Gatherings), Animals, Reading Comprehension
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Rastle, Kathleen; Davis, Matthew H. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2008
Recent theories of morphological processing have been dominated by the notion that morphologically complex words are decomposed into their constituents on the basis of their semantic properties. In this article we argue that the weight of evidence now suggests that the recognition of morphologically complex words begins with a rapid morphemic…
Descriptors: Semantics, Morphology (Languages), Language Processing, Word Recognition
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