Download or read book Semantic Priming Within and Across Cerebral Hemispheres as a Function of SOA written by Adele S. Hutchinson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Role of Semantic Features in Hemispheric Specialization and Language written by Ruth Ann Atchley and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Right Hemisphere Language Comprehension written by Mark Jung Beeman and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The statement, "The Right Hemisphere (RH) processes language"--while not exactly revolutionary--still provokes vigorous debate. It often elicits the argument that anything the RH does with language is not linguistic but "paralinguistic." The resistance to the notion of RH language processing persists despite the fact that even the earliest observers of Left Hemisphere (LH) language specialization posited some role for the RH in language processing, and evidence attesting to various RH language processes has steadily accrued for more than 30 years. In this volume, chapters pertain to a wide, but by no means, exhaustive set of language comprehension processes for which RH contributions have been demonstrated. The sections are organized around these processes, beginning with initial decoding of written or spoken input, proceeding through semantic processing of single words and sentences, up to comprehension of more complex discourse, as well as problem solving. The chapters assembled here should begin to melt this resistance to evidence of RH language processing. This volume's main goal is to compile evidence about RH language function from a scattered literature. The editorial commentaries concluding each section highlight the relevance of these phenomena for psycholinguistic and neuropsychological theory, and discuss similarities and apparent discrepancies in the findings reported in individual chapters. In the final chapter, common themes that emerge from the enterprise of studying RH language and future challenge for the field are reviewed. Although all chapters focus only on "typical" laterality of right handed people, this work provides a representative sample of the current state of the art in RH language research. Important features include: * a wide range of coverage from speech perception and reading through complex discourse comprehension and problem-solving; * research presented from both empirical and theoretical perspectives; and * commentaries and conclusions integrating findings and theories across sub-domains, and speculating on future directions of the field.

Download or read book Semantic Priming in the Cerebral Hemispheres written by Mika Koivisto and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Semantic Priming written by Timothy P. McNamara and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005-09-08 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Semantic priming - the improvement in speed or accuracy to respond to a word when it is preceded by a semantically related word - is addressed in this volume, which provides a succinct and in-depth overview of this important phenomenon.

Download or read book Right Hemisphere Contributions to Lexical Semantics written by Christine Chiarello and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language depends on a normally functioning left hemisphere. This central fact of human cerebral dominance was well established by 19th century aphasiologists and has been repeatedly confirmed by subsequent investiga tions. Predominance, however, does not imply exclusivity. As demonstrated by the commissurotomy patients studied by Eran Zaidel and associates, the right hemisphere is also capable of subserving some linguistic functions. The question, then, is not whether the right hemisphere can process language, but how and when it does so. This volume focuses on the right hemisphere's contribution to one important aspect oflanguage, lexical semantics. Although the right hemisphere may well be involved in other linguistic functions, such as prosody, the greatest evidence for right hemisphere language competence has been obtained for the processing of word meanings. In addition, cognitive psychology and psycho linguistics have provided us with well-developed models of the lexicon and lexical access to guide our inquiry. Finally, there are techniques available for studying lateralized lexical processing in the normal as well as in the brain injured hemispheres. For these reasons, a focus on the lexicon is likely to yield the greatest number of insights about right-hemisphere language processing.

Download or read book Semantic and Associative Priming in Aphasic Subjects written by Ingrid Scholten and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bilateral Semantic Priming in the Cerebral Hemispheres written by Christine L. Colgan and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Priming of Semantic Relations and Anagram Solutions written by Brian Arthur Sundermeier and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Masked Priming written by Sachiko Kinoshita and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004-06-02 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book showcases the advantages of masked priming as an alternative to more standard methods of studying language.

Download or read book Lateralized Effects of Semantic Priming in Lexical Decision Tasks written by Chikashi Michimata and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Basic Processes in Reading written by Derek Besner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1991 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Download or read book Right Hemisphere and Verbal Communication written by Yves Joanette and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Semantic Associative and Phonolgical Priming in the Cerebral Hemispheres written by Marjorie Abernethy and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lexical Ambiguity Resolution written by Steven L. Small and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most frequently used words in English are highly ambiguous; for example, Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary lists 94 meanings for the word "run" as a verb alone. Yet people rarely notice this ambiguity. Solving this puzzle has commanded the efforts of cognitive scientists for many years. The solution most often identified is "context": we use the context of utterance to determine the proper meanings of words and sentences. The problem then becomes specifying the nature of context and how it interacts with the rest of an understanding system. The difficulty becomes especially apparent in the attempt to write a computer program to understand natural language. Lexical ambiguity resolution (LAR), then, is one of the central problems in natural language and computational semantics research. A collection of the best research on LAR available, this volume offers eighteen original papers by leading scientists. Part I, Computer Models, describes nine attempts to discover the processes necessary for disambiguation by implementing programs to do the job. Part II, Empirical Studies, goes into the laboratory setting to examine the nature of the human disambiguation mechanism and the structure of ambiguity itself. A primary goal of this volume is to propose a cognitive science perspective arising out of the conjunction of work and approaches from neuropsychology, psycholinguistics, and artificial intelligence--thereby encouraging a closer cooperation and collaboration among these fields. Lexical Ambiguity Resolution is a valuable and accessible source book for students and cognitive scientists in AI, psycholinguistics, neuropsychology, or theoretical linguistics.

Download or read book Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Semantic Priming in Individuals with Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum written by Joy Elizabeth DeJong and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum (ACC) results in a unique pattern of deficits, including impairment on complex or novel tasks of cognitive functioning, and higher-order language tasks, such as the comprehension of non-literal language and humor. These deficits are presumably the result of decreased interhemispheric transfer. Lateralized priming tasks have been used to examine the semantic networks in both hemispheres, and the relation of semantic priming to creativity. The present study employed a task of lateralized semantic priming in order to examine semantic networks in both hemispheres, and the profile that emerges from a lack of transfer in individuals with ACC. It was hypothesized that individuals with ACC would exhibit similar levels of subordinate priming to targets in the RVF/LH than controls, but reduced or no priming to subordinate targets presented in the LVF/RH. The current study compared the performance of three groups on the task, 11 participants with ACC (ages 17-37, FSIQ range 83-119), 18 matched control participants (ages 18-51, FSIQ range 85-111), and 11 graduate student controls. ANOVAs analyzing mean vocal reaction times for associate strength of word pairs (dominant or subordinate), prime-target relatedness (related or unrelated), and visual field presentation (left visual field or right visual field) were run on each individual group, and across groups. Although dominant priming was found, the hypotheses could not be adequately tested due to lack of subordinate priming in any group. The only significant group difference regarding ACC was a visual field difference, such that individuals with ACC had longer vocal RTs to targets presented in the LVF/RH compared to the RVF/LH, suggesting reduced access of LH vocal expressive systems to RH information.