Semantics
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Friday, November 20, 2009

The time course of task switching: a speed--accuracy trade-off analysis.

29 Sep 2009 On each trial of this study, participants either switched between or repeated two simple, two-choice tasks involving either letter or digit classifications. Speed-accuracy trade-off (SAT) curves were obtained using the response-signal method of ... Read more...

Dynamics of activation of semantically similar concepts during spoken word recognition.

29 Sep 2009 Semantic similarity effects provide critical insight into the organization of semantic knowledge and the nature of semantic processing. In the present study, we examined the dynamics of semantic similarity effects by using the visual world ... Read more...

Nonlocal effects of prosodic boundaries.

29 Sep 2009 Placing a prosodic boundary before a phrase may influence its syntactic analysis. However, the boundary's effect depends on the presence, size, and position of other, earlier, prosodic boundaries. In three experiments, we extend previous results ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Semantics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Strange power of speech. 29 Oct 2009
• The time course of task switching: a speed--accuracy trade-off analysis. 29 Sep 2009
• Dynamics of activation of semantically similar concepts during spoken word recognition. 29 Sep 2009
• Nonlocal effects of prosodic boundaries. 29 Sep 2009
• Strength-based criterion shifts in recognition memory. 29 Sep 2009
• Neural signatures of semantic and phonemic fluency in young and old adults. 29 Sep 2009
• Investigating the time course of spoken word recognition: electrophysiological evidence for the influences of phonological similarity. 29 Sep 2009
• The medial temporal lobe and the left inferior prefrontal cortex jointly support interference resolution in verbal working memory. 29 Sep 2009
• Conceptual processing in music as revealed by N400 effects on words and musical targets. 29 Sep 2009
• Difficult airways, difficult intubations and predicted difficult intubations: important differences or mere semantics? 29 Sep 2009
• Differences in task demands influence the hemispheric lateralization and neural correlates of metaphor. 22 Sep 2009
• Bayesian reconstruction of natural images from human brain activity. 22 Sep 2009
• Verbal learning in Alzheimer's disease: cumulative word knowledge gains across learning trials. 30 Aug 2009
• Illness explanations among patients with medically unexplained symptoms: different idioms for different contexts. 30 Aug 2009
• Impaired color word processing at an unattended location: evidence from a Stroop task combined with inhibition of return. 30 Aug 2009
• Are spatial and dimensional attention separate? evidence from Posner, Stroop, and Eriksen tasks. 30 Aug 2009
• Semantic transparency and masked morphological priming: the case of prefixed words. 30 Aug 2009
• Does visual speech information affect word segmentation? 30 Aug 2009
• Enhancement and suppression effects resulting from information structuring in sentences. 30 Aug 2009
• Taboo words: the effect of emotion on memory for peripheral information. 30 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Semantics'

Definition: The relationships between symbols and their meanings.

Descriptor UI: D012660

Alternative terms: Semantics; Semantic;

Tree Number: L01.143.506.598.745;

Technical Notes: hist or psychol study of changes in language & meaning; do not confuse with LINGUISTICS (overall study of LANGUAGE & SPEECH) or NOMENCLATURE (names of things & etymology); no qualif