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Contextual diversity facilitates learning new words in the classroom
(PLoS ONE, 2017)
In the field of word recognition and reading, it is commonly assumed that frequently
repeated words create more accessible memory traces than infrequently repeated words,
thus capturing the word-frequency effect. ...
Does seeing an Asian face make speech sound more accented?
(Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2017)
Prior studies have reported that seeing an Asian
face makes American English sound more accented. The current
study investigates whether this effect is perceptual, or if it
instead occurs at a later decision stage. We ...
How Do We Keep Information ‘Online’?
(Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2017)
New magnetoencephalography (MEG) results indicate that a putative marker of conscious processes – namely, the global broadcasting of information across large-scale cortical networks – can also operate during the maintenance ...
Basic Composition and Enriched Integration in Idiom Processing: An EEG Study
(Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017)
We investigated the extent to which the literal meanings of the words forming literally plausible idioms (e.g., break the ice) are semantically composed and how the idiomatic meaning is integrated in the unfolding sentence ...
Decoding fMRI Events in Sensorimotor Motor Network Using Sparse Paradigm Free Mapping and Activation Likelihood Estimates
(Human Brain Mapping, 2017)
Most functional MRI (fMRI) studies map task-driven brain activity using a block or event-related paradigm. Sparse paradigm free mapping (SPFM) can detect the onset and spatial distribution of BOLD events in the brain without ...
Cross-Linguistic Differences in Bilinguals’ Fundamental Frequency Ranges
(Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 2017)
Purpose We investigated cross-linguistic differences in fundamental frequency range (FFR) in Welsh-English bilingual speech. This is the first study that reports gender-specific behavior in switching FFRs across languages ...
Corticokinematic coherence as a new marker for somatosensory afference in newborns
(Clinical Neurophysiology, 2017)
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Somatosensory evoked potentials have high prognostic value in neonatal intensive care, but their recording from infants is challenging. Here, we studied the possibility to elicit cortical responses in newborns ...
Progression from selective to general involvement of hippocampal subfields in schizophrenia
(Molecular Psychiatry, 2017)
Volume deficits of the hippocampus in schizophrenia have been consistently reported. However, the hippocampus is anatomically heterogeneous; it remains unclear whether certain portions of the hippocampus are affected more ...
Directional asymmetries reveal a universal bias in adult vowel perception
(The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2017)
Research on cross-language vowel perception in both infants and adults has shown that for many
vowel contrasts, discrimination is easier when the same pair of vowels is presented in one direction
compared to the reverse ...
Relative Salience of Speech Rhythm and Speech Rate on Perceived Foreign Accent in a Second Language
(Language and Speech, 2017)
We investigated the independent contribution of speech rate and speech rhythm to perceived foreign accent. To address this issue we used a resynthesis technique that allows neutralizing segmental and tonal idiosyncrasies ...