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Lexical access versus lexical decision processes for auditory, visual, and audiovisual items: Insights from behavioral and neural measures

López Zunini, Rocío A.; Baart, Martijn; Samuel, Arthur G.; Armstrong, Blair C. (Neuropsychologia, 2020)

In two experiments, we investigated the relationship between lexical access processes, and processes that are specifically related to making lexical decisions. In Experiment 1, participants performed a standard lexical ...

Lexical and Prosodic Pitch Modifications in Cantonese Infant-directed Speech

Wang, Luchang; Kalashnikova, Marina; Kager, René; Lai, Regine; Wong, Patrick C.M. (Journal of Child Language, 2021)

The functions of acoustic-phonetic modifications in infant-directed speech (IDS) remain a question: do they specifically serve to facilitate language learning via enhanced phonemic contrasts (the hyperarticulation ...

Lexical and sublexical effects on visual word recognition in Greek: comparing human behavior to the dual route cascaded modell

Kapnoula, Efthymia C.; Protopapas, Athanassios; Saunders, Steven J.; Coltheart, Max (Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2017)

We evaluated the dual route cascaded (DRC) model of visual word recognition using Greek behavioural data on word and nonword naming and lexical decision, focusing on the effects of syllable and bigram frequency. DRC was ...

Lexical Information Guides Retuning of Neural Patterns in Perceptual Learning for Speech

Luthra, Sahil; Correia, João M.; Kleinschmidt, Dave F.; Mesite, Laura; Myers, Emily B. (Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2020)

A listener's interpretation of a given speech sound can vary probabilistically from moment to moment. Previous experience (i.e., the contexts in which one has encountered an ambiguous sound) can further influence the ...

Lexical organization of language-ambiguous and language-specific words in bilinguals

Casaponsa, Aina; Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni (The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2016)

Previous research has shown the importance of sublexical orthographic cues in determining the language of a given word when the two languages of a bilingual reader share the same script. In this study, we explored the ...

Lexical representations are malleable for about one second: Evidence for the non-automaticity of perceptual recalibration

Samuel, Arthur G. (Cognitive Psychology, 2016)

In listening to speech, people have been shown to apply several types of adjustment to their phonemic categories that take into account variations in the prevailing linguistic environment. These adjustments include ...

Lexico-semantic access and audiovisual integration in the aging brain: Insights from mixed-effects regression analyses of event-related potentials

López Zunini, Rocío A.; Baart, Martijn; Samuel, Arthur G.; Armstrong, Blair C. (ELSEVIER, 2022)

We investigated how aging modulates lexico-semantic processes in the visual (seeing written items), auditory (hearing spoken items) and audiovisual (seeing written items while hearing congruent spoken items) modalities. ...

Lexiland: A Tablet-based Universal Screener for Reading Difficulties in the School Context

Zugarramurdi, Camila; Fernández, Lucía; Lallier, Marie; Carreiras, Manuel; Valle-Lisboa, Juan C. (SAGE, 2022)

Massive and timely screening of the student population for early signs of reading difficulties is needed to implement timely effective remediation of these difficulties. However, traditional approaches are costly and hard ...

Limbic-visual attenuation to crying faces underlies neglectful mothering

León, Inmaculada; Rodrigo, María José; El-Deredy, Wael; Modroño, Cristián; Hernández-Cabrera, Juan Andrés; Quiñones, Ileana (Scientific Reports, 2019)

Neglectful mothering is one of the most common forms of childhood maltreatment, involving a severe disregard of the child’s needs, yet little is known about its neural substrate. A child’s needs are usually conveyed by ...

Linguistic entrenchment: Prior knowledge impacts statistical learning performance

Siegelman, Noam; Bogaerts, Louisa; Elazar, Amit; Arciuli, Joanne; Frost, Ram (COGNITION, 2018)

Statistical Learning (SL) is typically considered to be a domain-general mechanism by which cognitive systems discover the underlying statistical regularities in the input. Recent findings, however, show clear differences ...

Lip-Reading Enables the Brain to Synthesize Auditory Features of Unknown Silent Speech

Bourguignon, Mathieu; Baart, Martijn; Kapnoula, Efthymia C.; Molinaro, Nicola (The Journal of Neuroscience, 2020)

Lip-reading is crucial for understanding speech in challenging conditions. But how the brain extracts meaning from, silent, visual speech is still under debate. Lip-reading in silence activates the auditory cortices, but ...

Listener expectations and the perceptual accommodation of talker variability: A pre-registered replication

Luthra, Sahil; Saltzman, David; Myers, Emily B.; Magnuson, James S. (Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2021)

Researchers have hypothesized that in order to accommodate variability in how talkers produce their speech sounds, listeners must perform a process of talker normalization. Consistent with this proposal, several studies ...

Listeners beware: Speech production may be bad for learning speech sounds

Baese-Berk, Melissa M.; Samuel, Arthur G. (Journal of Memory and Language, 2016)

Spoken language requires individuals to both perceive and produce speech. Because both processes access lexical and sublexical representations, it is commonly assumed that perception and production involve cooperative ...

Listening to Accented Speech in a Second Language: First Language and Age of Acquisition Effects

Larraza Arnanz, Saioa

; Samuel, Arthur G.; Oñederra Olaizola, Miren Lourdes

(Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016)

Bilingual speakers must acquire the phonemic inventory of 2 languages and need to recognize spoken words cross-linguistically; a demanding job potentially made even more difficult due to dialectal variation, an intrinsic ...