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Children’s Attention to Emotional Prosody: Pragmatic Adjustment in Response to Speaker Conventionality ...
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An Intimate Insight on Psychopathy and a Novel Hermeneutic Psychological Science ...
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Entrainment and Modulation of Gesture-Speech Synchrony under Delayed Auditory Feedback ...
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The cost of learning new meanings for familiar words ...
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Research has shown that adults are highly skilled at learning new words and meanings. Here, we examined whether learning new meanings for familiar words affects the processing of their existing meanings. In Experiments 1 and 2, adult participants learnt new, fictitious meanings for previously unambiguous words (e.g., “sip” denoting a small amount of computer data) through four 30-minute training sessions completed over four consecutive days. We tested participants’ comprehension of existing meanings before and after training using a semantic relatedness decision task in which the probe word was related to the existing but not the new meaning of the trained word (e.g., “sip-juice”). Following the training, responses were slower to the trained, but not to the untrained, words, indicating competition between newly-acquired and well-established meanings. Furthermore, consistent with studies of semantic ambiguity, the effect was smaller for meanings that were semantically related to existing meanings than for the ...
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Cognitive Psychology; First and Second Language Acquisition; FOS Languages and literature; FOS Psychology; Linguistics; Psychology; Semantics and Pragmatics; Social and Behavioral Sciences
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.17605/osf.io/7ydkw https://psyarxiv.com/7ydkw/
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Beyond Reporting Statistical Significance: Which Effect Sizes are Informative to the General Public? ...
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Imagined Interdependence: Manipulating Discourse Changes How People Construe Interdependence ...
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Semantic consistency of actions influences young children’s word learning ...
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The Future of Deception: Machine-Generated and Manipulated Images, Video, and Audio? ...
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Should I say that? An experimental investigation into the norm of assertion ...
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Incidental learning and long-term retention of new word meanings from stories: The effect of number of exposures ...
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Perspective taking in a novel signaling task: effects of world knowledge and contextual constraint ...
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How culture and biology interact to shape language and the language faculty ...
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Is national mental sport ability a sign of intelligence? An analysis of the top players of 12 mental sports ...
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The (un)reliability of item-level semantic priming effects ...
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Modeling Second-Language Learning from a Psychological Perspective ...
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Cognition, emphasis, and the viewer’s experience of fine art ...
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Bidding for joint attention: On the role of eye contact in gaze cueing ...
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Look before you speak: Children’s integration of visual information into informative referring expressions. ...
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