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Frederick Benjamin Junker, Lara Schlaffke, Joachim Lange, Tobias Schmidt-Wilcke
Understanding encoded language, such as written words, requires multiple cognitive processes that act in a parallel and interactive fashion. These processes and their interactions, however, are not fully understood. Various conceptual and methodical approaches including computational modeling and neuroimaging have been…
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…
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…
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…
Maria Kaltsa, Despina Papadopoulou
The aim of the study is to examine the effect of sentential context on lexical ambiguity resolution in Greek adults and typically developing children. Context and word frequency are factors that can affect lexical processing, however, the role of them has not been thoroughly examined in Greek. To this aim, we assessed…
Jack E. Taylor, Guillaume A. Rousselet, Sara C. Sereno
Do early effects of predictability in visual word recognition reflect prediction error? Electrophysiological research investigating word processing has demonstrated predictability effects in the N1, or first negative component of the event-related potential (ERP). However, findings regarding the magnitude of effects…
Anna Czypionka, Laura Reimer, Mariya Kharaman, Carsten Eulitz + 1 more
'Masatoshi Koizumi'] The processing of context-dependent expressions has mostly been studied using metaphors, irony or indirect requests. We add to the literature by monitoring the processing of modal particles (MPs) like German ruhig. These lexemes are ambiguous between a modal particle reading and a counterpart…
Francesca M. Branzi, Clara D. Martin, Emmanuel Biau
The intention to name an object modulates neural responses during object recognition tasks. However, the nature of this modulation is still unclear. We established whether a core operation in language, i.e., lexical access, can be observed even when the task does not require language (size-judgment task), and whether…
Lenneke Doris Lichtenberg, Bien Klomberg, Joost Schilperoord, Neil Cohn
How do we interpret a lightbulb above a head in visual images to mean inspiration? We investigated the semantic processing of these “upfixes” like lightbulbs or gears that float above characters' heads. We examined the congruity of face-upfix dyads presented sequentially with words describing their literal…
Francesca M Branzi, Clara D Martin, Emmanuel Biau
The intention to name an object modulates neural responses during object recognition tasks. However, the nature of this modulation is still unclear. We established whether a core operation in language, i.e. lexical access, can be observed even when the task does not require language (size-judgment task), and whether…
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…
Yuannan Li, Shan Xu, Jia Liu
resemble that of spatial cognition more than natural language processing Authors: ['Yuannan Li' 'Shan Xu' 'Jia Liu'] encompassing tasks such as calculation, reasoning, and programming, is a cognitive skill arguably unique to humans. Considering the relatively recent emergence of this ability in human evolutionary…
Brice Brossette, Jonathan Grainger, Bernard Lété, Stéphane Dufau
Much prior research on reading has focused on a specific level of processing, with this often being letters, words, or sentences. Here, for the first time in adult readers, we provide a combined investigation of these three key component processes of reading comprehension. We did so by testing the same group of…
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…
Isabel Papadimitriou, Richard Futrell, Kyle Mahowald
Because meaning can often be inferred from lexical semantics alone, word order is often a redundant cue in natural language. For example, the words chopped, chef, and onion are more likely used to convey "The chef chopped the onion," not "The onion chopped the chef." Recent work has shown large language models to be…
Tim Joris Laméris, Katrina Kechun Li, Brechtje Post
Lexical tones are known to be a challenging aspect of speech to acquire in a second language, but several factors are known to affect tone learning facility, such as L1 tonal status (whether a learner’s L1 is tonal or not), tone type (the shape of the tones to be acquired), and individual extralinguistic factors (such…
Michaël Carl
Horizontal (automatic) and vertical (control) processes have been observed and reported for a long time in translation production. Schaeffer and Carl's Monitor Model integrates these two processes into one framework, assuming that priming mechanisms underlie horizontal/automatic processes, while vertical/monitoring…
Ajay Mangat, Alexander Taikh, Christina Gagne, Thomas L Spalding
The semantic priming effect refers to the finding that processing a target word is facilitated when it is preceded by a related prime compared to an unrelated prime, and the semantic priming paradigm has been a key way to examine how knowledge is organized and retrieved. Both automatic and strategic processing of the…
Francisco J. López
Linguistic errors are not merely deviations from normative grammar; they offer a unique window into the cognitive architecture of language and expose the current limitations of artificial systems that seek to replicate them. This project proposes an interdisciplinary study of linguistic errors produced by native…
Maria Heitmeier, Yu‐Ying Chuang, R. Harald Baayen
Trial-to-trial effects have been found in a number of studies, indicating that processing a stimulus influences responses in subsequent trials. A special case are priming effects which have been modelled successfully with error-driven learning (Marsolek, 2008), implying that participants are continuously learning…
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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…
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Machine olfaction—the artificial replication of the sense of smell—faces significant challenges due to the absence of large, standardized training datasets. Unlike vision, language, and audio models, which benefit from extensive corpora such as ImageNet, GLUE, and AudioSet, olfaction lacks scaled equivalents and…