The role of orthography in the semantic activation of neighbors

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasushi Hino ◽  
Stephen J. Lupker ◽  
Tamsen E. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Activation

The role of orthography in the semantic activation of neighbors.

2012 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 1259-1273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasushi Hino ◽  
Stephen J. Lupker ◽  
Tamsen E. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Activation

scholarly journals If I Cry, Do You Care?

2013 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Lockwood ◽  
Abigail Millings ◽  
Erica Hepper ◽  
Angela C. Rowe
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Lexical Decision Task ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Reaction Times ◽  
Cognitive Empathy ◽  
Decision Task ◽  
Semantic Activation ◽  
Emotional Empathy

Crying is a powerful solicitation of caregiving, yet little is known about the cognitive processes underpinning caring responses to crying others. This study examined (1) whether crying (compared to sad and happy) faces differentially elicited semantic activation of caregiving, and (2) whether individual differences in cognitive and emotional empathy moderated this activation. Ninety participants completed a lexical decision task in which caregiving, neutral, and nonwords were presented after subliminal exposure (24 ms) to crying, sad, and happy faces. Individuals low in cognitive empathy had slower reaction times to caregiving (vs. neutral) words after exposure to crying faces, but not after sad or happy faces. Results are discussed with respect to the role of empathy in response to crying others.

scholarly journals An ERP Study on the Role of Phonological Processing in Reading Two-Character Compound Chinese Words of High and Low Frequency

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuling Wang ◽  
Minghu Jiang ◽  
Yunlong Huang ◽  
Peijun Qiu
Keyword(s):  
Phonological Processing ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Judgment Task ◽  
Event Related Potential ◽  
Semantic Activation ◽  
Unrelated Control ◽  
Semantic Judgment ◽  
Phonological Activation

Unlike in English, the role of phonology in word recognition in Chinese is unclear. In this event-related potential experiment, we investigated the role of phonology in reading both high- and low-frequency two-character compound Chinese words. Participants executed semantic and homophone judgment tasks of the same precede-target pairs. Each pair of either high- or low-frequency words were either unrelated (control condition) or related semantically or phonologically (homophones). The induced P200 component was greater for low- than for high-frequency word-pairs both in semantic and phonological tasks. Homophones in the semantic judgment task and semantically-related words in the phonology task both elicited a smaller N400 than the control condition, word frequency-independently. However, for low-frequency words in the phonological judgment task, it was found that the semantically related pairs released a significantly larger P200 than the control condition. Thus, the semantic activation of both high- and low-frequency words may be no later than phonological activation.

scholarly journals Interlingual two-to-one mapping of tonal categories

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 813-833 ◽  
Author(s):  
JUNRU WU ◽  
YIYA CHEN ◽  
VINCENT J. VAN HEUVEN ◽  
NIELS O. SCHILLER
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Priming ◽  
Lexical Access ◽  
Mental Lexicon ◽  
Semantic Activation ◽  
Real Word ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Lexical Activation ◽  
Standard Chinese

Both Standard Chinese (SC) high- and low-rising tones sound like the rising tone in Jinan Mandarin (JM) Chinese. Acoustically (Experiment 1), the JM rising tone overlaps with both SC rising tones, but more with the high-rising tone than with the low-rising tone. Perceptually (Experiment 2), the JM rising tone was more likely identified as the SC high-rising tone by SC monolinguals. Experiment 3 examined the role of this two-to-one interlingual tonal mapping in bilingual lexical access. Final high-rising SC pseudo-words were more frequently and more quickly accepted as JM real words than final low-rising SC pseudo-words were. However, both high- and low-rising SC pseudo-words triggered equivalent facilitatory semantic priming on JM real-word targets. The results suggest that different tones are represented in the bilinguals’ mental lexicon in terms of fine-grained and sometimes overlapping acoustic specifications. Lexical activation and semantic activation are partially independent.

scholarly journals The limited role of hippocampal declarative memory in transient semantic activation during online language processing

2020 ◽  
pp. 107730
Author(s):  
Sarah Brown-Schmidt ◽  
Sun-Joo Cho ◽  
Nazbanou Nozari ◽  
Nathaniel Klooster ◽  
Melissa Duff
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Declarative Memory ◽  
Semantic Activation ◽  
Limited Role

Role of dactinomycin in the improved survival of children with Wilms' tumor

JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 195 (12) ◽  
pp. 1005-1009 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Fernbach
Keyword(s):  
Wilms Tumor
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