Tracking nonliteral language processing using audiovisual scenarios.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathrin Rothermich ◽  
Elizabeth Schoen Simmons ◽  
Pavitra Rao Makarla ◽  
Lauren Benson ◽  
Emma Plyler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Nonliteral Language

scholarly journals Theoretical Considerations for Understanding “Understanding” by Adults With Right Hemisphere Brain Damage

2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Connie A. Tompkins
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Right Hemisphere ◽  
Word Meanings ◽  
Right Cerebral Hemisphere ◽  
Contextual Constraint ◽  
Nonliteral Language ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Coarse Coding ◽  
The Right ◽  
Right Hemisphere Brain Damage

Abstract This article reviews and evaluates leading accounts of narrative comprehension deficits in adults with focal damage to the right cerebral hemisphere (RHD). It begins with a discussion of models of comprehension, which explain how comprehension proceeds through increasingly complex levels of representation. These models include two phases of comprehension processes, broad activation of information as well as pruning and focusing interpretation of meaning based on context. The potential effects of RHD on each processing phase are reviewed, focusing on factors that range from relatively specific (e.g., how the right versus the left hemisphere activate word meanings; how the right hemisphere is involved in inferencing) to more general (the influence of cognitive resource factors; the role of suppression of contextually-irrelevant information). Next, two specific accounts of RHD comprehension difficulties, coarse coding and suppression deficit, are described. These have been construed as opposing processes, but a possible reconciliation is proposed related to the different phases of comprehension and the extent of meaning activation. Finally, the article addresses the influences of contextual constraint on language processing and the continuity of literal and nonliteral language processing, two areas in which future developments may assist our clinical planning.

scholarly journals Nonliteral language processing across the lifespan

2021 ◽  
Vol 212 ◽  
pp. 103213
Author(s):  
Kathrin Rothermich ◽  
Cristal Giorio ◽  
Sharon Falkins ◽  
Lindsay Leonard ◽  
Angela Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Nonliteral Language

scholarly journals Figurative Language Processing: Irony. Introduction to the Issue

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 193-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Bokus ◽  
Piotr Kałowski
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Figurative Language ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Language And Communication ◽  
Nonliteral Language ◽  
Figurative Language Processing

Abstract Processing of figurative (nonliteral) language is the focus of this special issue of Psychology of Language and Communication. The main theme is irony, which has been called “the ethos of our times” (Wampole, 2012). The texts presented here consider irony from many different angles, thus expanding the psycholinguistic perspective to include problems of key importance for understanding the phenomenon. All of these texts open up new questions on irony comprehension and production. The next special issue (to be published in 2017) will discuss research on a different type of nonliteral language: metaphors.

Language processing is not a race against time

2016 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giosuè Baggio ◽  
Carmelo M. Vicario
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Human Brain ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Cognitive Functions ◽  
Memory Systems ◽  
Language System ◽  
Moderating Factors

AbstractWe agree with Christiansen & Chater (C&C) that language processing and acquisition are tightly constrained by the limits of sensory and memory systems. However, the human brain supports a range of cognitive functions that mitigate the effects of information processing bottlenecks. The language system is partly organised around these moderating factors, not just around restrictions on storage and computation.

Cognitive Processing of Miscommunication in Interactive Listening: An Evaluation of Listener Indecision and Cognitive Effort

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Roche ◽  
Arkady Zgonnikov ◽  
Laura M. Morett
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Cognitive Effort ◽  
Mouse Tracking ◽  
Computer Mouse ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Computer Mouse Tracking ◽  
Listening Task ◽  
Processing Effort

Purpose The purpose of the current study was to evaluate the social and cognitive underpinnings of miscommunication during an interactive listening task. Method An eye and computer mouse–tracking visual-world paradigm was used to investigate how a listener's cognitive effort (local and global) and decision-making processes were affected by a speaker's use of ambiguity that led to a miscommunication. Results Experiments 1 and 2 found that an environmental cue that made a miscommunication more or less salient impacted listener language processing effort (eye-tracking). Experiment 2 also indicated that listeners may develop different processing heuristics dependent upon the speaker's use of ambiguity that led to a miscommunication, exerting a significant impact on cognition and decision making. We also found that perspective-taking effort and decision-making complexity metrics (computer mouse tracking) predict language processing effort, indicating that instances of miscommunication produced cognitive consequences of indecision, thinking, and cognitive pull. Conclusion Together, these results indicate that listeners behave both reciprocally and adaptively when miscommunications occur, but the way they respond is largely dependent upon the type of ambiguity and how often it is produced by the speaker.

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