Download or read book Context Effects on the Representation of Meaning written by Emilie Matarasso Roth and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Context Effects on Embodied Representation of Language Concepts written by Jie Yang and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embodied theories claim that semantic representations are grounded in sensorimotor systems, but the contribution of sensorimotor brain areas in representing meaning is still controversial. One current debate is whether activity in sensorimotor areas during language comprehension is automatic. Numerous neuroimaging studies reveal activity in perception and action areas during semantic processing that is automatic and independent of context, but increasing findings show that involvement of sensorimotor areas and the connectivity between word-form areas and sensorimotor areas can be modulated by contextual information. Context Effects on Embodied Representation of Language Concepts focuses on these findings and discusses the influences from word, phrase, and sentential contexts that emphasize either dominant conceptual features or non-dominant conceptual features. - Reviews the findings about contextual modularity - Clarifies the invariant and flexible features of embodied lexical-semantic processing

Download or read book The Representation of Meaning in Memory PLE Memory written by Walter Kintsch and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1974, this volume presents empirical and theoretical investigations of the role of meaning in psychological processes. A theory is proposed for the representation of the meaning of texts, employing ordered lists of propositions. The author explores the adequacy of this representation, with respect to the demands made upon such formulations by logicians and linguists. A sufficiently large number of problems are encompassed by the propositional theory to justify its use in psychological research into memory and language comprehension. A number of different experiments are reported on a wide variety of topics, and these test central portions of this theory, and any that purports to deal with how humans represent meaning. Among the topics discussed are the role of lexical decomposition in comprehension and memory, propositions as the units of recall, and the effects of the number of propositions in a text base upon reading rate and recall. New problems are explored, such as inferential processes during reading, differences in levels of memory for text, and retrieval speed for textual information. On the other hand, a study of retrieval from semantic memory focusses on a problem of much current research. The final review chapter relates the present work to other current research in the area at the time.

Download or read book Context Effects in Semantic Interpretation written by Shu-Hong Zhu and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Attitude Strength written by Richard E. Petty and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social psychologists have long recognized the possibility that attitudes might differ from one another in terms of their strength, but only recently had the profound implications of this view been explored. Yet because investigators in the area were pursuing interesting but independent programs of research exploring different aspects of strength, there was little articulation of assumptions underlying the work, and little effort to establish a common research agenda. The goals of this book are to highlight these assumptions, to review the discoveries this work has produced, and to suggest directions for future work in the area. The chapter authors include individuals who have made significant contributions to the published literature and represent a diversity of perspectives on the topic. In addition to providing an overview of the broad area of attitude strength, particular chapters deal in depth with specific features of attitudes related to strength and integrate the diverse bodies of relevant theory and empirical evidence. The book will be of interest to graduate students initiating work on attitudes as well as to longstanding scholars in the field. Because of the many potential directions for application of work on attitude strength to amelioration of social problems, the book will be valuable to scholars in various applied disciplines such as political science, marketing, sociology, public opinion, and others studying attitudinal phenomena.

Download or read book Context Effects on Word Recognition written by Sharon L. Thompson-Schill and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Neurobiology of Attention written by Laurent Itti and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2005-03-31 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A key property of neural processing in higher mammals is the ability to focus resources by selectively directing attention to relevant perceptions, thoughts or actions. Research into attention has grown rapidly over the past two decades, as new techniques have become available to study higher brain function in humans, non-human primates, and other mammals. Neurobiology of Attention is the first encyclopedic volume to summarize the latest developments in attention research.An authoritative collection of over 100 chapters organized into thematic sections provides both broad coverage and access to focused, up-to-date research findings. This book presents a state-of-the-art multidisciplinary perspective on psychological, physiological and computational approaches to understanding the neurobiology of attention. Ideal for students, as a reference handbook or for rapid browsing, the book has a wide appeal to anybody interested in attention research.* Contains numerous quick-reference articles covering the breadth of investigation into the subject of attention* Provides extensive introductory commentary to orient and guide the reader* Includes the most recent research results in this field of study

Download or read book What is a Context written by Rita Finkbeiner and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Context is a core notion of linguistic theory. However, while there are numerous attempts at explaining single aspects of the notion of context, these attempts are rather diverse and do not easily converge to a unified theory of context. The present multi-faceted collection of papers reconsiders the notion of context and its challenges for linguistics from different theoretical and empirical angles. Part I offers insights into a wide range of current approaches to context, including theoretical pragmatics, neurolinguistics, clinical pragmatics, interactional linguistics, and psycholinguistics. Part II presents new empirical findings on the role of context from case studies on idioms, unarticulated constituents, argument linking, and numerically-quantified expressions. Bringing together different theoretical frameworks, the volume provides thought-provoking discussions of how the notion of context can be understood, modeled, and implemented in linguistics. It is essential for researchers interested in theoretical and applied linguistics, the semantics/pragmatics interface, and experimental pragmatics.

Download or read book Contextual Priming Effects in the Reception and Evaluation of News Events written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Memory and Control of Action written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2011-10-10 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memory and Control of Action

Download or read book Context Effects on Visual Attention During Sentence Comprehension written by Peter Anthony Lucas and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Adding Sense written by Mary Kalantzis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a wide range of examples, from literature to social media, the book explores how meaning and communication interact.

Download or read book Reading Complex Words written by Egbert M.H. Assink and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together current research findings on the involvement of word-internal structure for the purpose of word reading (especially morphological structure). The central theme of reading complex words is approached from several angles, such that the chapters span a wide variety of topics where this issue is important. It is a valuable resource for all researchers studying the mental lexicon and to those who teach advanced courses in the psychology of language.

Download or read book Technical Report Improving memory for prose the relationship between depth of processing and context written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Context Effects in Movement Judgment written by Graham J. Fishburne and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of seven experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of context on the recall and recognition of movement distance. Movements were made with a cursor attached to a linear slide, and vision was eliminated. The effect of anchor movements on criterion movement recognition was to cause directional biasing in recognition judgment. The direction of the biasing was toward the magnitude of the anchor stimulus. Interpretation of the directional biasing effects on recognition judgment are discussed in terms of retroactive assimilation theory (Helson, 1964). The indication is that the anchor movement interferes with the memorial representation of the criterion movement, and hence causes a directional bias in recognition judgment. The effect of anchor movements on reproduction accuracy of a criterion movement were dependent upon both the size of the anchor movement and the size of the criterion movement. Reproduction accuracy of the small criterion movements were not significantly biased by anchor movements. Reproduction accuracy of long movements were significantly biased by the inclusion of anchor movements. The resistance of short movements to directional biasing is discussed in terms of the theory of differential encoding according to movement length (Laabs, 1977, 1980). The direction of the bias in reproduction accuracy was dependent upon the length of the anchor movement. Anchors longer and shorter than the criterion movement caused directional biasing toward the magnitude of the anchor movement. Extremely long and extremely short anchor movements caused directional biasing effects in a direction away from the magnitude of the anchor movement. The differential biasing effects associated with the relative length of the anchor stimulus, are discussed in terms of retroactive assimilation theory (Helson, 1964) and proactive contrast theory (Ellis, 1971, 1973a). The indication is that anchors in general cause interference effects with the memorial representation of the criterion movement (assimilation). However, extremely long and extremely short anchor movements cause a perceptual illusion and consequently affect the reception of a subsequent stimulus (contrast).Recognition judgments were found to be unbiased when an empty time interval was included between a standard and comparison movement. Recognition judgments of movement length do not appear to be subject to the normal time-error effects frequently associated with perceptual judgments. The effectiveness of a recognition paradigm known by the acronym KAK, to detect directional biasing effects in a movement context situation, was assessed. The KAK recognition paradigm proved effective in detecting directional biasing due to anchor stimuli.

Download or read book Knowledge in Context written by Sandra Jovchelovitch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic edition of her groundbreaking text Knowledge in Context, Sandra Jovchelovitch revisits her influential work on the societal and cultural processes that shape the development of representational processes in humans. Through a novel analysis of processes of representation, and drawing on dialogues between psychology, sociology and anthropology, Jovchelovitch argues that representation, a social psychological construct relating Self, Other and Object-world, is at the basis of all knowledge. Exploring the dominant assumptions of western conceptions of knowledge and the quest for a unitary reason free from the ‘impurities’ of person, community and culture, Jovchelovitch recasts questions related to historical comparisons between the knowledge of adults and children, ‘civilised’ and ‘primitive’ peoples, scientists and lay communities and examines the ambivalence of classical theorists such as Piaget, Vygotsky, Freud, Durkheim and Lévy-Bruhl in addressing these issues. Featuring a new introductory chapter, the author evaluates the last decade of research since Knowledge in Context first appeared and reassesses the social psychology of the contemporary public sphere, exploring how challenges to the dialogicality of representations reconfigure both community and selfhood in this early 21st century. This book will make essential reading for all those wanting to follow debates on knowledge and representation at the cutting edge of social, cultural and developmental psychology, sociology, anthropology, development and cultural studies.

Download or read book Improving Memory for Prose written by Diane L. Schallert and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: