Semantics

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A comparison of dimensional models of emotion: evidence from emotions, prototypical events, autobiographical memories, and words. 
  • A tale of two theories: response to Fisher. 
  • Adult age differences in letter-level and word-level processing. 
  • Adult age differences in long-term semantic priming. 
  • Adult age differences in the effects of sentence context and stimulus degradation during visual word recognition. 
  • Adult age differences in visual word identification: functional neuroanatomy by positron emission tomography. 
  • Adult age differences in visual word recognition: semantic encoding and episodic retention. 
  • Age-related differences in medial temporal lobe involvement during conceptual fluency. 
  • Age-related differences in resolving semantic and phonological competition during receptive language tasks. 
  • Age-related differences in the neural bases of phonological and semantic processes in the context of task-irrelevant information. 
  • Age-related differences in the neural bases of phonological and semantic processes. 
  • Age-related slowing and the time course of semantic priming in visual word identification. 
  • Age-related slowing in the retrieval of information from long-term memory. 
  • Aging and the memorial consequences of catching contradictions with prior knowledge. 
  • All my children: The roles of semantic category and phonetic similarity in the misnaming of familiar individuals. 
  • Associative asymmetry, availability, and retrieval. 
  • At 6-9 months, human infants know the meanings of many common nouns. 
  • Atypical [corrected] participation of visual cortex during word processing in autism: an fMRI study of semantic decision. 
  • Atypical lexicosemantic function of extrastriate cortex in autism spectrum disorder: evidence from functional and effective connectivity. 
  • Being bad isn't always good: affective context moderates the attention bias toward negative information. 
  • BioWarehouse: a bioinformatics database warehouse toolkit. 
  • Bootstrapping word order in prelexical infants: a Japanese-Italian cross-linguistic study. 
  • Children aged 2 ; 1 use transitive syntax to make a semantic-role interpretation in a pointing task. 
  • Children's ability to answer different types of questions. 
  • Children's understanding of first- and third-person perspectives in complement clauses and false-belief tasks. 
  • Clustering by alcoholic Korsakoff patients. 
  • Cognitive bases of lexical development: object permanence and relational words. 
  • Complementary justice: effects of "poor but happy" and "poor but honest" stereotype exemplars on system justification and implicit activation of the justice motive. 
  • Conflict monitoring in the human anterior cingulate cortex during selective attention to global and local object features. 
  • DICCCOL: dense individualized and common connectivity-based cortical landmarks. 
  • Disease Ontology: a backbone for disease semantic integration. 
  • Dissociation of event-related potentials indexing arousal and semantic cohesion during emotional word encoding. 
  • Distinguishing the neural correlates of episodic memory encoding and semantic memory retrieval. 
  • Does test-induced priming play a role in the creation of false memories? 
  • Effects and limitations of prosodic and semantic biases on syntactic disambiguation. 
  • Emotion processing in the aging brain is modulated by semantic elaboration. 
  • Error patterns in young German children's wh-questions. 
  • Evaluation of hemispheric dominance for language using functional MRI: a comparison with positron emission tomography. 
  • Evidence for a parallel input serial analysis model of word processing. 
  • Evidence that gendered wording in job advertisements exists and sustains gender inequality. 
  • Experience-dependent hemispheric specialization of letters and numbers is revealed in early visual processing. 
  • False memories and semantic lexicon arrangement. 
  • Flexibility in the semantics and syntax of children's early verb use. 
  • Forget all that nonsense: The role of meaning during the forgetting of recollective and familiarity-based memories. 
  • Four to ten milliseconds per year: age-related slowing of visual word identification. 
  • Generativity abilities predict communication deficits but not repetitive behaviors in Autism Spectrum Disorders. 
  • HL7's comprehensive standards set and its international collaboration for enabling semantically interoperable eHealth and pHealth solutions. 
  • How toddlers and preschoolers learn to uniquely identify referents for others: a training study. 
  • Infants communicate in order to be understood. 
  • Influence of age and processing stage on visual word recognition. 
  • Influence of encoding difficulty, word frequency, and phonological regularity on age differences in word naming. 
  • Inner speech and bilingual autobiographical memory: a Polish-Danish cross-cultural study. 
  • Investigating the importance of anatomical homology for cross-species phenotype comparisons using semantic similarity. - Accepted at pacific symposium on biocomputing, 2016 
  • Is morality unified? Evidence that distinct neural systems underlie moral judgments of harm, dishonesty, and disgust. 
  • Mapping the semantic structure of cognitive neuroscience. 
  • Mechanisms of age-related decline in memory search across the adult life span. 
  • Memory in posttraumatic stress disorder: properties of voluntary and involuntary, traumatic and nontraumatic autobiographical memories in people with and without posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms. 
  • Nepali concepts of psychological trauma: the role of idioms of distress, ethnopsychology and ethnophysiology in alleviating suffering and preventing stigma. 
  • Neural basis of goal-driven changes in knowledge activation. 
  • Neural correlates of relational memory: successful encoding and retrieval of semantic and perceptual associations. 
  • Neural substrates of orthographic lexical access as demonstrated by functional brain imaging. 
  • On measuring fuzziness: a comment on "A fuzzy set approach to modifiers and vagueness in natural language". 
  • On the independence of physical and nominal codes: a correlational analysis. 
  • Parietal lobe and episodic memory: bilateral damage causes impaired free recall of autobiographical memory. 
  • Perceptual and conceptual processing of visual objects across the adult lifespan. 
  • Phenex: ontological annotation of phenotypic diversity. 
  • Predicting the unbeaten path through syntactic priming. 
  • Predicting which words get recalled: measures of free recall, availability, goodness, emotionality, and pronunciability for 925 nouns. 
  • Preparatory neural activity predicts performance on a conflict task. 
  • Priming deficits in patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type. 
  • Prior perceptual processing enhances the effect of emotional arousal on the neural correlates of memory retrieval. 
  • Properties of word cues for autobiographical memory. 
  • Puzzling thoughts for H. M.: can new semantic information be anchored to old semantic memories? 
  • Recall of semantic domains. 
  • Selective attention to emotion in the aging brain. 
  • Semantic and moral debates about hastening death: a survey of bioethicists. 
  • Semantic priming in a cortical network model. 
  • Semantics of the transitive construction: prototype effects and developmental comparisons. 
  • Social anxiety and the semantic structure of heterosocial interactions. 
  • Speech segmentation by native and non-native speakers: the use of lexical, syntactic, and stress-pattern cues. 
  • Syntax or semantics? Response to Lidz et al. 
  • The Biomedical Resource Ontology (BRO) to enable resource discovery in clinical and translational research. 
  • The User Knows What to Call It: Incorporating Patient Voice Through User-Contributed Tags on a Participatory Platform About Health Management. 
  • The abstraction of form in semantic categories. 
  • The communicative contexts of grammatical aspect use in English. 
  • The development of Japanese passive syntax as indexed by structural priming in comprehension. 
  • The effect of previously learned words on the child's acquisition of words for similar referents. 
  • The temporal distribution of autobiographical memory: changes in reliving and vividness over the life span do not explain the reminiscence bump. 
  • The unexplained nature of reading. 
  • Toward a definition of neglect in young children. 
  • Training 2;6-year-olds to produce the transitive construction: the role of frequency, semantic similarity and shared syntactic distribution. 
  • Translation of clinical and neuropsychological instruments into French: the CERAD experience. 
  • Two-year-olds exclude novel objects as potential referents of novel words based on pragmatics. 
  • Two-year-olds learn novel nouns, verbs, and conventional actions from massed or distributed exposures. 
  • Use of sensory descriptors in assessing chronic pain patients. 
  • What hinders child semantic computation: children's universal quantification and the development of cognitive control. 
  • What paradox? A response to Naigles (2002). 
  • When less means more: deactivations during encoding that predict subsequent memory. 
  • Young German children's early syntactic competence: a preferential looking study. 
  • Young children spontaneously recreate core properties of language in a new modality. 
  • Young children's overgeneralizations with fixed transitivity verbs. 
  • Young children's understanding of markedness in non-verbal communication. 
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