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Sarenne Wallbridge, Peter Bell, Catherine Lai
People convey information extremely effectively through spoken interaction using multiple channels of information transmission: the lexical channel of what is said, and the non-lexical channel of how it is said. We propose studying human perception of spoken communication as a means to better understand how information…
Frederick Benjamin Junker, Lara Schlaffke, Christian Bellebaum, Marta Ghio + 3 more
Resembling letter-by-letter translation, Morse code can be used to investigate various linguistic components by slowing down the cognitive process of language decoding. Using fMRI and Morse code, we investigated patterns of brain activation associated with decoding three-letter words or non-words and making a lexical…
Elliot Murphy
In order to design strong paradigms for isolating lexical access and semantics, we need to know what a word is. Surprisingly few linguists and philosophers have a clear model of what a word is, even though words impact basically every aspect of human life. Researchers that regularly publish academic papers about…
Xiaorong Cheng, Graham Schafer, Patricia M. Riddell, Kevin Paterson
ERPs were elicited to (1) words, (2) pseudowords derived from these words, and (3) nonwords with no lexical neighbors, in a task involving listening to immediately repeated auditory stimuli. There was a significant early (P200) effect of phonotactic probability in the first auditory presentation, which discriminated…
Azalea Reyes-Aguilar, Giovanna Licea-Haquet, Brenda I. Arce, Magda Giordano
Language comprehension requires sub-lexical (e.g., phonological) and lexical-semantic processing. We designed a task to compare the sub-lexical and lexical-semantic processing of verbs during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Likewise, we were interested in the dichotomous representation of concrete-motor…
Yotaro Sueoka, Alexander Paunov, Anna Ivanova, Alyx Tanner + 2 more
The language network, comprised of brain regions in the left frontal and temporal cortex, responds robustly and reliably during language comprehension but shows little or no response during many non-linguistic cognitive tasks (e.g., 21). However, one domain whose relationship with language remains debated is…
Julia Hocking, Cathy J. Price
This fMRI study investigates how audiovisual integration differs for verbal stimuli that can be matched at a phonological level and nonverbal stimuli that can be matched at a semantic level. Subjects were presented simultaneously with one visual and one auditory stimulus and were instructed to decide whether these…
Birgitta Dresp
> Abstract: Scientific studies have shown that non-conscious stimuli and representations influence information processing during conscious experience. In the light of such evidence, questions about potential functional links between non-conscious brain representations and conscious experience arise. This article…
Muge Ozker, Atsuko Takashima, Laura Giglio, Florian Hintz + 2 more
Language processing is supported by distributed neural systems. Yet most research examines these systems at the population-average level, obscuring how individual cognitive differences shape language-related brain activity. In this study, we combined comprehensive cognitive assessments and task-based fMRI in a large…
Evelina Fedorenko, Zachary Mineroff, Matthew Siegelman, Idan Blank
To understand what you are reading now, your mind retrieves the meanings of words from a linguistic knowledge store (lexico-semantic processing) and identifies the relationships among them to construct a complex meaning (syntactic or combinatorial processing). Do these two sets of processes rely on distinct…
Philippe Blache, Emmanuele Chersoni, Giulia Rambelli, Alessandro Lenci
'Alessandro Lenci'] The mechanisms of comprehension during language processing remains an open question. Classically, building the meaning of a linguistic utterance is said to be incremental, step-by-step, based on a compositional process. However, many different works have shown for a long time that noncompositional…
Friedemann Pulvermüller, Yury Shtyrov, Olaf Hauk
How long does it take the human mind to grasp the idea when hearing or reading a sentence? Neurophysiological methods looking directly at the time course of brain activity indexes of comprehension are critical for finding the answer to this question. As the dominant cognitive approaches, models of serial/cascaded and…
Włodzisław Duch
Informatics studies all aspects of the structure of natural and artificial information systems. Theoretical and abstract approaches to information have made great advances, but human information processing is still unmatched in many areas, including information management, representation and understanding.…
Benjamin Gagl, Fabio Richlan, Philipp Ludersdorfer, Jona Sassenhagen + 3 more
To characterize the left-ventral occipito-temporal cortex (lvOT) role during reading in a quantitatively explicit and testable manner, we propose the lexical categorization model (LCM). The LCM assumes that lvOT optimizes linguistic processing by allowing fast meaning access when words are familiar and filter out…
Ekaterina Stupina, Andriy Myachykov, Yury Shtyrov
Language processing has been suggested to be partially automatic, with some studies suggesting full automaticity and attention independence of at least early neural stages of language comprehension, in particular, lexical access. Existing neurophysiological evidence has demonstrated early lexically specific brain…
Erik D. Reichle, Eyal M. Reingold
Several current computational models of eye-movement control in reading posit a tight link between the eye and mind, with lexical processing directly triggering most “decisions” about when to start programming a saccade to move the eyes from one word to the next. One potential problem with this theoretical assumption…
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Natural language processing with the help of large language models such as ChatGPT has become ubiquitous in many software applications and allows users to interact even with complex hardware or software in an intuitive way. The recent concepts of Self-Driving Labs and Material Acceleration Platforms stand to benefit…
Dafydd Gibbon, Sascha Griffiths
Multilinear Grammar provides a framework for integrating the many different syntagmatic structures of language into a coherent semiotically based Rank Interpretation Architecture, with default linear grammars at each rank. The architecture defines a Sui Generis Condition on ranks, from discourse through utterance and…