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Yangwen Xu, Yong He, Yanchao Bi
Humans process the meaning of the world via both verbal and nonverbal modalities. It has been established that widely distributed cortical regions are involved in semantic processing, yet the global wiring pattern of this brain system has not been considered in the current neurocognitive semantic models. We review…
Hanna Lindfors, Kristina Hansson, Eric Pakulak, Neil Cohn + 1 more
'Annika Andersson'] There is a misconception that pictures are easy to comprehend, which is problematic in pedagogical practices that include pictures. For example, if a child has difficulties with verbal narration to picture sequences, it may be interpreted as specific to spoken language even though the child may have…
Penny M. Pexman, Paul D. Siakaluk, Melvin J. Yap
The ultimate goal of reading is to extract meaning from printed words. However, the mechanisms that mediate orthography and semantics are not well-understood, and have rarely been implemented in computational models. To address this puzzle, one of the strategies cognitive scientists have begun to use is to examine…
Jamie Reilly, Cory Shain, Valentina Borghesani, Philipp Kuhnke + 48 more
'Gabriella Vigliocco' 'Jonathan E. Peelle' 'Bradford Z. Mahon' 'Laurel J. Buxbaum' 'Asifa Majid' 'Marc Brysbaert' 'Anna M. Borghi' 'Simon De Deyne' 'Guy Dove' 'Liuba Papeo' 'Penny M. Pexman' 'David Poeppel' 'Gary Lupyan' 'Paulo Boggio' 'Gregory Hickok' 'Laura Gwilliams' 'Leonardo Fernandino' 'Daniel Mirman' 'Evangelia…
Qianwen Chang, Elizabeth Jefferies, Rebecca L. Jackson
The relationship between semantics and syntax is highly contested. Neuroimaging evidence has offered conflicting views on whether these domains are neurally separable, in part because prior work has not distinguished two key components of semantic cognition: semantic representation and semantic control. In this study…
Annekathrin Schacht, Manuel Martín-Loeches, Pilar Casado, Rasha Abdel Rahman + 3 more
'Rasha Abdel Rahman' 'Alejandra Sel' 'Werner Sommer' 'Jan Lauwereyns'] Background A crucial question for understanding sentence comprehension is the openness of syntactic and semantic processes for other sources of information. Using event-related potentials in a dual task paradigm, we had previously found that…
Sangyub Kim, Kichun Nam, Eun-Ha Lee
The current study investigated the hemispheric dynamics underlying semantic and syntactic priming in lexical decision tasks. Utilizing primed-lateralized paradigms, we observed a distinct pattern of semantic priming contingent on the priming hemisphere. The right hemisphere (RH) exhibited robust semantic priming…
Ensie Abbassi, Isabelle Blanchette, Ana I. Ansaldo, Habib Ghassemzadeh + 1 more
'Habib Ghassemzadeh' 'Yves Joanette'] Emotional words are processed rapidly and automatically in the left hemisphere (LH) and slowly, with the involvement of attention, in the right hemisphere (RH). This review aims to find the reason for this difference and suggests that emotional words can be processed superficially…
Yan Liu, Chuanbin Ni
Recent years have witnessed much research on semantic analysis and syntactic anatomy in ordinary language processing. However, it is still a matter of considerable debate about when and how the semantic integration of single word meanings works and interacts with syntax during on-line comprehension. This study, in an…
Dorothee J. Chwilla
Semantics and syntax are core components of language. The prevailing view was that processing of word meaning and syntactic processing happens in isolation from other systems. In light of proofed interactions between language and other systems, especially with perception, action and emotion, this view became untenable.…
Logan A. Gaudet, Lena Rybka, Emmanuel Mandonnet, Emmanuelle Volle + 3 more
'Marion Barberis' 'Roel Jonkers' 'Adrià Rofes'] Title: Abstract Understanding lexico-semantic processing is crucial for dissecting the complexities of language and its disorders. Relatedness-based measures, or those which investigate the degree of relatedness in meaning between either task items or items produced by…
Melissa Thye, Paul Hoffman, Daniel Mirman
Decoding social environments and engaging meaningfully with other people are critical aspects of human cognition. Multiple cognitive systems, including social and semantic cognition, work alongside each other to support these processes. This study investigated shared processing between social and semantic systems using…
Ian FitzPatrick, Peter Indefrey
Systematic investigations into the role of semantics in the speech production process have remained elusive. This special issue aims at moving forward toward a more detailed account of how precisely conceptual information is used to access the lexicon in speaking and what corresponding format of conceptual…
Natalia Egorova, Yury Shtyrov, Friedemann Pulvermüller
Although language is a tool for communication, most research in the neuroscience of language has focused on studying words and sentences, while little is known about the brain mechanisms of speech acts, or communicative functions, for which words and sentences are used as tools. Here the neural processing of two types…
Maria M. Piñango
I explore the hypothesis that the experience of meaning discreteness when we think about the “meaning” of a word is a “communicative” illusion. The illusion is created by processing-contextual constraints that impose disambiguation on the semantic input making salient a specific interpretation within a conceptual space…
John Towse, Mark Hurlstone, Amy Atkinson, Satoru Saito + 4 more
'Robert Logie' 'Rebecca Hart' 'Robert H. Logie' 'Louise A. Brown Nicholls'] Working memory is the system that supports the temporary storage and processing of information. It is generally agreed that working memory is a mental workspace, with a combination of resources operating together to maintain information in mind…
Jason Geller, Jon-Frederick Landrigan, Daniel Mirman
Semantic cognition includes taxonomic and thematic relationships, as well as control systems to retrieve and manipulate semantic knowledge to suit specific tasks or contexts. A recent report ([27]) suggested that retrieving thematic relationships (i.e., relations based on participation in the same event or scenarios)…
James T. Enns, Paul Hoffman, Anna M. Woollams
Semantic ambiguity has often been divided into 2 forms: homonymy, referring to words with 2 unrelated interpretations (e.g., bark), and polysemy, referring to words associated with a number of varying but semantically linked uses (e.g., twist). Typically, polysemous words are thought of as having a fixed number of…
Suzan Nouwens, Margriet A. Groen, Ludo Verhoeven
Working memory is considered a well-established predictor of individual variation in reading comprehension in children and adults. However, how storage and processing capacities of working memory in both the phonological and semantic domain relate to reading comprehension is still unclear. In the current study, we…