{"title":"Timecourse of bottom-up and top-down language processing during a picture-based semantic priming task.","authors":"McCall E Sarrett, Bob McMurray","doi":"10.1080/23273798.2024.2409136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2024.2409136","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Understanding spoken language requires rapid analysis of incoming information at multiple levels. Information at lower levels (e.g. acoustic/phonetic) cascades forward to affect processing at higher levels (e.g. lexical/semantic), and higher-level information may feed back to influence lower-level processing. Most studies have sought to examine a single stage of processing in isolation. Consequently, there is a poor understanding of how different stages relate temporally. In the present study, we characterise multiple stages of linguistic processing simultaneously as they unfold. Listeners (N=30) completed a priming task while we collected their EEG, where a picture (e.g. of a <i>peach</i>) biased them to expect a target word from a minimal pair (e.g. <i>beach/peach</i>). We examine the processes of perceptual gradiency, semantic integration, and top-down feedback, to yield a more complete understanding of how these processes relate in time. Then, we discuss how the results from simplified priming paradigms may compare to more naturalistic settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":48782,"journal":{"name":"Language Cognition and Neuroscience","volume":"40 1","pages":"122-144"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12040426/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144017855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kayla Keyue Chen, Ingrid M. Johansen, Wing-Yee Chow
{"title":"Revising noun predictions based on English measure phrases: evidence from visual-world eye-tracking","authors":"Kayla Keyue Chen, Ingrid M. Johansen, Wing-Yee Chow","doi":"10.1080/23273798.2024.2399111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2024.2399111","url":null,"abstract":"Can comprehenders use unexpected incoming information to revise their existing predictions on the fly? A recent study in Mandarin Chinese found that, upon hearing a prediction-inconsistent nominal ...","PeriodicalId":48782,"journal":{"name":"Language Cognition and Neuroscience","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142251471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Role of prosody and word order in identifying focus: evidence from pupillometry","authors":"Natsumi Funasaki, Masataka Yano","doi":"10.1080/23273798.2024.2396962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2024.2396962","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigated the role of prosody and word order in identifying the focus of sentences in Japanese. Native Japanese speakers listened to sentences with different types of word order (subj...","PeriodicalId":48782,"journal":{"name":"Language Cognition and Neuroscience","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142203749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xiaodong Xu, Cailing Ji, Taohui Li, Martin J. Pickering
{"title":"The prediction of segmental and tonal information in Mandarin Chinese: an eye-tracking investigation","authors":"Xiaodong Xu, Cailing Ji, Taohui Li, Martin J. Pickering","doi":"10.1080/23273798.2024.2395549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2024.2395549","url":null,"abstract":"There is controversy about the extent to which people predict phonology during comprehension. In three visual-world experiments, we ask whether it occurs in Mandarin, a tonal language. Participants...","PeriodicalId":48782,"journal":{"name":"Language Cognition and Neuroscience","volume":"116 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142251469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Details in hand: how does gesturing relate to autobiographical memory?","authors":"Naziye Güneş Acar, Tilbe Göksun, Ali İ. Tekcan","doi":"10.1080/23273798.2024.2385029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2024.2385029","url":null,"abstract":"Gestures are an integral and inseparable component of speech and people frequently use gestures when retelling their autobiographical memories. This study investigates whether gestures are associat...","PeriodicalId":48782,"journal":{"name":"Language Cognition and Neuroscience","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142203750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ruqi Chen, Linjieqiong Huang, Manuel Perea, Xingshan Li
{"title":"The role of semantic information in Chinese word segmentation","authors":"Ruqi Chen, Linjieqiong Huang, Manuel Perea, Xingshan Li","doi":"10.1080/23273798.2024.2390003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2024.2390003","url":null,"abstract":"Word segmentation is crucial for reading in Chinese, where the absence of explicit word boundaries poses a distinct challenge. Previous studies in Chinese have examined how lexical and sub-lexical ...","PeriodicalId":48782,"journal":{"name":"Language Cognition and Neuroscience","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142203751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Patterns of language","authors":"Olaf Hauk, Alex Clarke","doi":"10.1080/23273798.2024.2388329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2024.2388329","url":null,"abstract":"Neuroimaging studies have increasingly leveraged the information in multivariate patterns of brain activity, transitioning from voxel-by-voxel activation comparisons to multi-voxel pattern analysis...","PeriodicalId":48782,"journal":{"name":"Language Cognition and Neuroscience","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142203752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How do linguistic illusions arise? Rational inference and good-enough processing as competing latent processes within individuals","authors":"Dario Paape","doi":"10.1080/23273798.2024.2387226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2024.2387226","url":null,"abstract":"Non-literal interpretations of implausible sentences such as The mother gave the candle the daughter have been taken as evidence for a rational error-correction mechanism that reconstructs the inte...","PeriodicalId":48782,"journal":{"name":"Language Cognition and Neuroscience","volume":"56 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141940409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The importance of sublexical structure in the orthographic representation of monosyllabic words","authors":"Marcus Taft","doi":"10.1080/23273798.2024.2386340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2024.2386340","url":null,"abstract":"Participants judged whether a letter-string created a word when a single letter was added to the end indicated by a hyphen. Unique final fragments were easier to reconstruct when corresponding to t...","PeriodicalId":48782,"journal":{"name":"Language Cognition and Neuroscience","volume":"156 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141886709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andrea González-García Aldariz, Eva M. Moreno, Alice Foucart
{"title":"“Beyond the literal meaning” processing implied emotion in second language discourse: an ERP study","authors":"Andrea González-García Aldariz, Eva M. Moreno, Alice Foucart","doi":"10.1080/23273798.2024.2385012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2024.2385012","url":null,"abstract":"Emotion is processed incrementally during sentence comprehension in a first language (L1) due to unification operations. Since processing multiple types of information is cognitively more demanding...","PeriodicalId":48782,"journal":{"name":"Language Cognition and Neuroscience","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141940410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}