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Yu-Ying Chuang, Marie Lenka Vollmer, Elnaz Shafaei-Bajestan, Susanne Gahl + 2 more
'Susanne Gahl' 'Peter Hendrix' 'R. Harald Baayen'] Pseudowords have long served as key tools in psycholinguistic investigations of the lexicon. A common assumption underlying the use of pseudowords is that they are devoid of meaning: Comparing words and pseudowords may then shed light on how meaningful linguistic…
Joanna Daria Dołżycka, Jan Nikadon, Magdalena Formanowicz
Pseudowords allow researchers to investigate multiple grammatical or syntactic aspects of language processing. In order to serve that purpose, pseudoword stimuli need to preserve certain properties of real language. We provide a Python-based pipeline for the generation of pseudoword stimuli that sound/read naturally in…
Celia Martínez-Tomás, Marc Guasch, Pilar Ferré, Miguel Lázaro + 1 more
Most research using pseudowords has focused on the contribution of sublexical properties to the study of word processing. However, recent evidence suggests that pseudowords can also provide insights into the semantic and emotional aspects of language processing. Research in this field would greatly benefit from…
M. Oberhuber, T. M. H. Hope, M. L. Seghier, O. Parker Jones + 3 more
'S. Prejawa' 'D. W. Green' 'C. J Price'] We used fMRI in 85 healthy participants to investigate whether different parts of the left supramarginal gyrus (SMG) are involved in processing phonological inputs and outputs. The experiment involved 2 tasks (speech production (SP) and one-back (OB) matching) on 8 different…
Kelly McCormick, Simon Lacey, Randall Stilla, Lynne C. Nygaard + 1 more
Sound symbolism refers to the association between the sounds of words and their meanings, often studied using the crossmodal correspondence between auditory pseudowords, e.g. ‘takete’ or ‘maluma’, and pointed or rounded visual shapes, respectively. In a functional magnetic resonance imaging study, participants were…
Susanne Eisenhauer, Christian J. Fiebach, Benjamin Gagl
Visual word recognition is facilitated by word knowledge (i.e., word familiarity) and predictive context, as reflected in faster reading times and reduced neuronal activation for highly familiar or predictable words. Previous studies could not dissociate whether knowledge- and context-based facilitation requires…
Jacob Pohaku Momsen, Alyson D. Abel
During language processing, people make rapid use of contextual information to promote comprehension of upcoming words. When new words are learned implicitly, information contained in the surrounding context can provide constraints on their possible meaning. In the current study, EEG was recorded as participants…
Yun-Fei Liu, Brenda Rapp, Marina Bedny
Blind readers use a tactile reading systems consisting of raised dot arrays: braille/⠃⠗⠇. How does the human brain implement reading by touch? The current study looked for signatures of reading-specific orthographic processes in braille, separate from low-level somatosensory responses and semantic retrieval. Of…
Taelin Karidi, Yichu Zhou, Nathan Schneider, Omri Abend + 1 more
'Vivek Srikumar'] By inducing a contextualized "pseudoword" as a stand-in for a static embedding in the input layer, and then performing masked prediction of a word in the sentence, we are able to investigate the geometry of the BERT-space in a controlled manner around individual instances. Using our method on a set of…
Marie Lubineau, Cassandra Potier Watkins, Hervé Glasel, Stanislas Dehaene
Which processes induce variations in reading speed in young readers with the same amount of education, but different levels of reading fluency? Here, we tested a prediction of the dual-route model: as fluency increases, these variations may reflect a decreasing reliance on decoding and an increasing reliance on the…
Susanne Eisenhauer, Benjamin Gagl, Christian J. Fiebach
The efficiency of reading, to a crucial extent, results from the fact that visual word recognition is faster in predictive contexts (like sentences or texts). This observation is consistent with predictive coding models, but it is so far not sufficiently understoo d which aspects of the rich set of linguistic…
Ya-Ning Chang, Steve Furber, Matthew Lambon Ralph, Stephen Welbourne
Lexical decision is an important paradigm in studies of visual word recognition yet the underlying mechanisms supporting the activity are not well understood. While most models of visual word recognition focus on orthographic processing as the primary locus of the lexical decision, a number of behavioural studies have…