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Multimodal Event Knowledge in Online Sentence Comprehension: The Influence of Visual Context on Anticipatory Eye Movements
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In: Psychology Publications (2019)
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Universal Features in Phonological Neighbor Networks
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In: Entropy (Basel) (2018)
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Universal Features in Phonological Neighbor Networks
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In: Psychology Publications (2018)
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Abstract Concepts and Pictures of Real-World Situations Activate One Another.
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In: Psychology Publications (2018)
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Abstract Concepts and Pictures of Real-World Situations Activate One Another.
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In: Brain and Mind Institute Researchers' Publications (2018)
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concepts typically are defined in terms of lacking physical or perceptual referents. We argue instead that they are not devoid of perceptual information because knowledge of real-world situations is an important component of learning and using many abstract concepts. Although the relationship between perceptual information and abstract concepts is less straightforward than for concrete concepts, situation-based perceptual knowledge is part of many abstract concepts. In Experiment 1, participants made lexical decisions to abstract words that were preceded by related and unrelated pictures of situations. For example, share was preceded by a picture of two girls sharing a cob of corn. When pictures were presented for 500 ms, latencies did not differ. However, when pictures were presented for 1,000 ms, decision latencies were significantly shorter for abstract words preceded by related versus unrelated pictures. Because the abstract concepts corresponded to the pictured situation as a whole, rather than a single concrete object or entity, the necessary relational processing takes time. In Experiment 2, on each trial, an abstract word was presented for 250 ms, immediately followed by a picture. Participants indicated whether or not the picture showed a normal situation. Decision latencies were significantly shorter for pictures preceded by related versus unrelated abstract words. Our experiments provide evidence that knowledge of events and situations is important for learning and using at least some types of abstract concepts. That is, abstract concepts are grounded in situations, but in a more complex manner than for concrete concepts. Although people's understanding of abstract concepts certainly includes knowledge gained from language describing situations and events for which those concepts are relevant, sensory and motor information experienced during real-life events is important as well.
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Adult; Concept Formation; Humans; Neurosciences; Pattern Recognition; Psycholinguistics; Psychology; Visual; Young Adult
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URL: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/brainpub/285 https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1277&context=brainpub
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Universal Features in Phonological Neighbor Networks
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In: Brain and Mind Institute Researchers' Publications (2018)
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Differential Impairments of Upper and Lower Limb Movements Influence Action Verb Processing in Parkinson Disease
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In: Psychology Publications (2017)
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Abnormal Semantic Knowledge in a Case of Developmental Amnesia
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In: Psychology Publications (2017)
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Abnormal semantic knowledge in a case of developmental amnesia.
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In: Brain and Mind Institute Researchers' Publications (2017)
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Complement Coercion: The Joint Effects of Type and Typicality
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In: Psychology Publications (2017)
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Thematic relatedness production norms for 100 object concepts
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In: Springer US (2016)
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Thematic Relatedness Production Norms for 100 Object Concepts
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In: Psychology Publications (2015)
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The reliability of the N400 in single subjects: Implications for patients with disorders of consciousness
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The reliability of the N400 in single subjects: Implications for patients with disorders of consciousness
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Simulating the N400 ERP Component as Semantic Network Error: Insights from a Feature-Based Connectionist Attractor Model of Word Meaning
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In: Psychology Publications (2014)
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The Reliability of the N400 in Single Subjects: Implications for Patients with Disorders of Consciousness
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In: Psychology Publications (2014)
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