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Kuhlen, Anna K.; Abdel Rahman, Rasha – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2021
This study investigates in a joint action setting a well-established effect in speech production, cumulative semantic interference, an increase in naming latencies when naming a series of semantically related pictures. In a joint action setting, two task partners take turns naming pictures. Previous work in this setting has demonstrated that…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Naming, Semantics
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Aleksandrov, Aleksander A.; Memetova, Kristina S.; Stankevich, Lyudmila N.; Knyazeva, Veronika M.; Shtyrov, Yury – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2020
Lexical ERPs (event-related potentials) obtained in an oddball paradigm were suggested to be an index of the formation of new word representations in the brain in the learning process: with increased exposure to new lexemes, the ERP amplitude grows, which is interpreted as a signature of a new memory-trace build-up and activation. Previous…
Descriptors: Semantics, Word Frequency, Familiarity, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Rose, Sebastian Benjamin; Aristei, Sabrina; Melinger, Alissa; Abdel Rahman, Rasha – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2019
Heterogeneous effects of semantic distance in language production have sparked a debate on the central assumption of many language production models, namely that lexical selection is a competitive process. In the present ERP study, we manipulated semantic distance in the picture word interference (PWI) paradigm systematically within taxonomic…
Descriptors: Semantics, Attention Control, Pictorial Stimuli, Interference (Learning)
Melebari, Alaa – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The topic of this dissertation concerns the ways that (IN)ANIMACY distinctions interact with various sub-systems of the human language faculty, in particular, morpho-syntax. In Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), morpho-syntax and ANIMACY can be pit against each other directly on the same set of target words, allowing a close inspection of the…
Descriptors: Nouns, Morphology (Languages), Semitic Languages, Syntax
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Bauer, Patricia J.; Jackson, Felicia L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
Like language, semantic memory is productive: It extends itself through self-derivation of new information through logical processes such as analogy, deduction, and induction, for example. Though it is clear these productive processes occur, little is known about the time course over which newly self-derived information becomes incorporated into…
Descriptors: Semantics, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Concept Formation, Diagnostic Tests
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Brunye, Tad T.; Gagnon, Stephanie A.; Paczynski, Martin; Shenhav, Amitai; Mahoney, Caroline R.; Taylor, Holly A. – Cognition, 2013
Several studies have demonstrated that affective states influence the number of associations formed between remotely related concepts. Someone in a neutral or negative affective state might draw the association between "cold" and "hot", whereas someone in a positive affective state might spontaneously form the more distant association between…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Semantics, Psychological Patterns, Correlation
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Sachs, Olga; Weis, Susanne; Zellagui, Nadia; Sass, Katharina; Huber, Walter; Zvyagintsev, Mikhail; Mathiak, Klaus; Kircher, Tilo – Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2011
Semantic priming, a well-established technique to study conceptual representation, has thus far produced variable fMRI results, both regarding the type of priming effects and their correlation with brain activation. The aims of the current study were (a) to investigate two types of semantic relations--categorical versus associative--under…
Descriptors: Priming, Brain, Semantics, Responses
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Grosvald, Michael; Gutierrez, Eva; Hafer, Sarah; Corina, David – Brain and Language, 2012
A fundamental advance in our understanding of human language would come from a detailed account of how non-linguistic and linguistic manual actions are differentiated in real time by language users. To explore this issue, we targeted the N400, an ERP component known to be sensitive to semantic context. Deaf signers saw 120 American Sign Language…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Deafness, Probability
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Lovseth, Kyle; Atchley, Ruth Ann – Brain and Cognition, 2010
A divided visual field (DVF) experiment examined the semantic processing strategies employed by the cerebral hemispheres to determine if strategies observed with written word stimuli generalize to other media for communicating semantic information. We employed picture stimuli and vary the degree of semantic relatedness between the picture pairs.…
Descriptors: Pictorial Stimuli, Semantics, Semiotics, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Havas, Viktoria; Rodriguez-Fornells, Antoni; Clahsen, Harald – Brain and Language, 2012
This study investigates brain potentials to derived word forms in Spanish. Two experiments were performed on derived nominals that differ in terms of their productivity and semantic properties but are otherwise similar, an acceptability judgment task and a reading experiment using event-related brain potentials (ERPs) in which correctly and…
Descriptors: Semantics, Morphemes, Spanish, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Boulenger, Veronique; Hoen, Michel; Jacquier, Caroline; Meunier, Fanny – Brain and Language, 2011
When listening to speech in everyday-life situations, our cognitive system must often cope with signal instabilities such as sudden breaks, mispronunciations, interfering noises or reverberations potentially causing disruptions at the acoustic/phonetic interface and preventing efficient lexical access and semantic integration. The physiological…
Descriptors: Sentences, Phonetics, Semantics, Language Processing
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Kandhadai, Padmapriya; Federmeier, Kara D. – Neuropsychologia, 2010
This study examined how the two cerebral hemispheres recruit semantic processing mechanisms by combining event-related potential measures and visual half-field methods in a word priming paradigm in which semantic strength and predictability were manipulated using lexically associated word pairs. Activation patterns on the late positive complex…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Phonology, Semantics, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Arsalidou, Marie; Barbeau, Emmanuel J.; Bayless, Sarah J.; Taylor, Margot J. – Brain and Cognition, 2010
We encounter many faces each day but relatively few are personally familiar. Once faces are familiar, they evoke semantic and social information known about the person. Neuroimaging studies demonstrate differential brain activity to familiar and non-familiar faces; however, brain responses related to personally familiar faces have been more rarely…
Descriptors: Psychological Studies, Mothers, Semantics, Brain
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de Zubicaray, Greig; Postle, Natasha; McMahon, Katie; Meredith, Matthew; Ashton, Roderick – Brain and Language, 2010
Previous neuroimaging research has attempted to demonstrate a preferential involvement of the human mirror neuron system (MNS) in the comprehension of effector-related action word (verb) meanings. These studies have assumed that Broca's area (or Brodmann's area 44) is the homologue of a monkey premotor area (F5) containing mouth and hand mirror…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Neurology, Primatology, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Bouaffre, Sarah; Faita-Ainseba, Frederique – Brain and Cognition, 2007
To investigate hemispheric differences in the timing of word priming, the modulation of event-related potentials by semantic word relationships was examined in each cerebral hemisphere. Primes and targets, either categorically (silk-wool) or associatively (needle-sewing) related, were presented to the left or right visual field in a go/no-go…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Semantics, Language Processing, Reaction Time
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