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Piot L, Chen H, Picaud A, Dos Santos M, Granjon L, Luo Z, To AWH, Lai RY, Cheung H, Nazzi T. Tonal interference in word learning? A comparison of Cantonese and French. J Exp Child Psychol 2024; 242:105883. [PMID: 38412568 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2024.105883] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2023] [Revised: 01/23/2024] [Accepted: 01/23/2024] [Indexed: 02/29/2024]
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Most languages of the world use lexical tones to contrast words. Thus, understanding how individuals process tones when learning new words is fundamental for a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying word learning. The current study asked how tonal information is integrated during word learning. We investigated whether variability in tonal information during learning can interfere with the learning of new words and whether this is language and age dependent. Cantonese- and French-learning 30-month-olds (N = 97) and Cantonese- and French-speaking adults (N = 50) were tested with an eye-tracking task on their ability to learn phonetically different pairs of novel words in two learning conditions: a 1-tone condition in which each object was named with a single label and a 3-tone condition in which each object was named with three different labels varying in tone. We predicted learning in all groups in the 1-tone condition. For the 3-tone condition, because tones are part of the phonological system of Cantonese but not of French, we expected the Cantonese groups to either fail (toddlers) or show lower performance than in the 1-tone condition (adults), whereas the French groups might show less sensitivity to this manipulation. The results show that all participants learned in the 1-tone condition and were sensitive to tone variation to some extent. Learning in the 3-tone condition was impeded in both groups of toddlers. We argue that tonal interference in word learning likely comes from the phonological level in the Cantonese groups and from the acoustic level in the French groups.
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Affiliation(s)
- Leonardo Piot
- Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, CNRS-Université Paris Cité, 75270 Paris Cedex 06, France; Department of Linguistics, Cognitive Sciences, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, CNRS-Université Paris Cité, 75270 Paris Cedex 06, France
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- Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, CNRS-Université Paris Cité, 75270 Paris Cedex 06, France
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- Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, CNRS-Université Paris Cité, 75270 Paris Cedex 06, France
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- Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, CNRS-Université Paris Cité, 75270 Paris Cedex 06, France
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- The Education University of Hong Kong, Ting Kok, Hong Kong
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- The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong
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- The Education University of Hong Kong, Ting Kok, Hong Kong; Asia University, Taichung City, 413, Taiwan
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- Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, CNRS-Université Paris Cité, 75270 Paris Cedex 06, France.
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Ivanova-Sullivan T, Meir N, Sekerina IA. Fine-grained differences in gender-cue strength affect predictive processing in children: Cross-linguistic evidence from Russian and Bulgarian. J Exp Child Psychol 2024; 242:105868. [PMID: 38367347 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2024.105868] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2023] [Revised: 12/19/2023] [Accepted: 01/11/2024] [Indexed: 02/19/2024]
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We tested predictive gender agreement processing in adjective-noun phrases by 45 4- to 6-year-old Russian- and Bulgarian-speaking children using the visual world eye-tracking paradigm. Russian and Bulgarian are closely related languages that have three genders but differ in the nature and number of gender cues on adjectives. Analysis of the proportion and time course of looks to the target noun showed that only Bulgarian children used gender cues to predict the upcoming noun. We argue that the cross-linguistic difference in the gender cue strength is revealed through the operation of economy, transparency, and interdependence in a gender complexity matrix. The documented advantage for Bulgarian children in gender agreement processing and acquisition underscores the need for a comparative language acquisition approach to typologically close languages.
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- Tanya Ivanova-Sullivan
- Department of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
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- Department of English Literature and Linguistics & the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel
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- Department of Psychology, College of Staten Island and the P.D. Program in Linguistics, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, Staten Island, NY 10314, USA
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Kou JW, Fan LY, Chen HC, Chen SY, Hu X, Zhang K, Kovelman I, Chou TL. Neural substrates of L2-L1 transfer effects on phonological awareness in young Chinese-English bilingual children. Neuroimage 2024; 291:120592. [PMID: 38548037 PMCID: PMC11032115 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2024.120592] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2023] [Revised: 03/24/2024] [Accepted: 03/25/2024] [Indexed: 04/02/2024] Open
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The growing trend of bilingual education between Chinese and English has contributed to a rise in the number of early bilingual children, who were exposed to L2 prior to formal language instruction of L1. The L2-L1 transfer effect in an L1-dominant environment has been well established. However, the threshold of L2 proficiency at which such transfer manifests remains unclear. This study investigated the behavioral and neural processes involved when manipulating phonemes in an auditory phonological task to uncover the transfer effect in young bilingual children. Sixty-two first graders from elementary schools in Taiwan were recruited in this study (29 Chinese monolinguals, 33 Chinese-English bilinguals). The brain activity was measured using fNIRS (functional near-infrared spectroscopy). Bilingual children showed right lateralization to process Chinese and left lateralization to process English, which supports more on the accommodation effect within the framework of the assimilation-accommodation hypothesis. Also, compared to monolinguals, bilingual children showed more bilateral frontal activation in Chinese, potentially reflecting a mixed influence from L2-L1 transfer effects and increased cognitive load of bilingual exposure. These results elucidate the developmental adjustments in the neural substrates associated with early bilingual exposure in phonological processing, offering valuable insights into the bilingual learning process.
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- Jia-Wei Kou
- Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Education, National Taipei University of Education, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychology, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan
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- Department of Early Childhood Education, University of Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
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Larranaga D, Sereno A. Bigger is really better: Resolution of conflicting behavioural evidence for semantic size bias in a lexical decision task. Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 2024; 77:1009-1022. [PMID: 37515476 DOI: 10.1177/17470218231186582] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/31/2023]
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Previous literature has indicated conflicting results regarding a response time bias favouring words indicating large real-world objects (RWO) over words indicating small RWO during a lexical decision task. This study aimed to replicate an original experiment and, expanding on it, disentangle possible alternatives for why this effect is sometimes observed and sometimes not. The same methods as the original study were followed, and the results were inconsistent with all previously published findings. Although no significant difference was observed for response time, the findings indicated a significant difference in accuracy and inverse efficiency scores such that "large" words were recognised significantly more accurately than "small" words. After examining several linguistic dimensions that may also contribute to response time, statistical models accounting for these dimensions yielded a significant and increased effect size for the response time size rating of words in our sample from the United States. Our findings indicate that there is a cognitive bias favouring words representing large RWO over small ones but suggest several additional linguistic factors need to be controlled for it to be detected consistently in response time.
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Schönberger DK, Bruns P, Röder B. Visual artificial grammar learning across 1 year in 7-year-olds and adults. J Exp Child Psychol 2024; 241:105864. [PMID: 38335709 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2024.105864] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2023] [Revised: 11/30/2023] [Accepted: 01/08/2024] [Indexed: 02/12/2024]
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Acquiring sequential information is of utmost importance, for example, for language acquisition in children. Yet, the long-term storage of statistical learning in children is poorly understood. To address this question, 27 7-year-olds and 28 young adults completed four sessions of visual sequence learning (Year 1). From this sample, 16 7-year-olds and 20 young adults participated in another four equivalent sessions after a 12-month-delay (Year 2). The first three sessions of each year used Stimulus Set 1, and the last session used Stimulus Set 2 to investigate transfer effects. Each session consisted of alternating learning and test phases in a modified artificial grammar learning task. In Year 1, 7-year-olds and adults learned the regularities and showed transfer to Stimulus Set 2. Both groups retained their final performance level over the 1-year period. In Year 2, children and adults continued to improve with Stimulus Set 1 but did not show additional transfer gains. Adults overall outperformed children, but transfer effects were indistinguishable between both groups. The current results suggest that long-term memory traces are formed from repeated sequence learning that can be used to generalize sequence rules to new visual input. However, the current study did not provide evidence for a childhood advantage in learning and remembering sequence rules.
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- Daniela K Schönberger
- Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, University of Hamburg, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany.
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- Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, University of Hamburg, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany
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- Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, University of Hamburg, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany; LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad 500 034, India
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Mohammadi Y, Graversen C, Manresa JB, Østergaard J, Andersen OK. Effects of Background Noise and Linguistic Violations on Frontal Theta Oscillations During Effortful Listening. Ear Hear 2024; 45:721-729. [PMID: 38287477 DOI: 10.1097/aud.0000000000001464] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2024]
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OBJECTIVES Background noise and linguistic violations have been shown to increase the listening effort. The present study aims to examine the effects of the interaction between background noise and linguistic violations on subjective listening effort and frontal theta oscillations during effortful listening. DESIGN Thirty-two normal-hearing listeners participated in this study. The linguistic violation was operationalized as sentences versus random words (strings). Behavioral and electroencephalography data were collected while participants listened to sentences and strings in background noise at different signal to noise ratios (SNRs) (-9, -6, -3, 0 dB), maintained them in memory for about 3 sec in the presence of background noise, and then chose the correct sequence of words from a base matrix of words. RESULTS Results showed the interaction effects of SNR and speech type on effort ratings. Although strings were inherently more effortful than sentences, decreasing SNR from 0 to -9 dB (in 3 dB steps), increased effort rating more for sentences than strings in each step, suggesting the more pronounced effect of noise on sentence processing that strings in low SNRs. Results also showed a significant interaction between SNR and speech type on frontal theta event-related synchronization during the retention interval. This interaction indicated that strings exhibited higher frontal theta event-related synchronization than sentences at SNR of 0 dB, suggesting increased verbal working memory demand for strings under challenging listening conditions. CONCLUSIONS The study demonstrated that the interplay between linguistic violation and background noise shapes perceived effort and cognitive load during speech comprehension under challenging listening conditions. The differential impact of noise on processing sentences versus strings highlights the influential role of context and cognitive resource allocation in the processing of speech.
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- Yousef Mohammadi
- Department of Health Science and Technology, Integrative Neuroscience, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
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- Department of Health Science and Technology, Integrative Neuroscience, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
- Department of Health Science and Technology, Center for Neuroplasticity and Pain, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
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- Department of Health Science and Technology, Center for Neuroplasticity and Pain, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
- Institute for Research and Development in Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) - National University of Entre Ríos (UNER), Oro Verde, Argentina
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- Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
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- Department of Health Science and Technology, Integrative Neuroscience, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
- Department of Health Science and Technology, Center for Neuroplasticity and Pain, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
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Zhan J, Jin B. Does Pollyanna hypothesis hold true in death narratives? A sentiment analysis approach. Acta Psychol (Amst) 2024; 245:104238. [PMID: 38565066 DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2024.104238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2023] [Revised: 03/24/2024] [Accepted: 03/28/2024] [Indexed: 04/04/2024] Open
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Pollyanna hypothesis claims that human beings have a universal tendency to use positive words more frequently and broadly than negative words. The present study aims to test Pollyanna hypothesis in medical death narratives at both lexical and text levels by using sentiment analysis and emotion detection methods, and to qualitatively analyze the contextual use of emotion words to deepen the understanding of doctors' emotions. Sentiment analysis showed a strong token-based linguistic positivity and a weak type-based negativity bias at the lexical level, and a general positivity bias at the text level, despite the gender of the doctors. Emotion detection discovered three prominent emotions of "joy", "sadness", and "anger", and a greater diversity of negative emotions in contrast to positive emotions in medical death narratives. Contextual analysis revealed that emotion words associated with joy were primarily observed in contexts related to doctors' actions and behaviors aiming to benefit others and promote social wellbeing. Emotion words associated with sadness and anger were chiefly employed to describe situations involving patients' death and doctors' attitudes towards death. The results confirm Pollyanna hypothesis at both token-based lexical level and text level and falsify the hypothesis at type-based lexical level. Possible explanations are explored by contextual analysis, and theoretical analysis from the perspectives of cognitive linguistics and social psychology. The findings are expected to enrich the understanding of Pollyanna hypothesis as well as the junior doctors' emotional responses to clinical deaths.
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- Juhong Zhan
- School of Foreign Studies, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710049, China.
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- School of Foreign Studies, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710049, China.
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de Vries PJ. Editorial perspective: Transforming child and adolescent mental health services and systems (CAMHSS) around the globe - the importance of diversity, inclusion and equity in CAMHSS research. Child Adolesc Ment Health 2024; 29:194-196. [PMID: 38634297 DOI: 10.1111/camh.12706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/20/2024] [Indexed: 04/19/2024]
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Children and adolescents around the globe have mental health and neurodevelopmental needs. However, no country or region of the world has found good solutions to meet these needs, which are often long-term and complex. Most child and adolescent mental health research comes from high-income, mostly English-speaking, contexts even though 95% of the world's children and adolescents live in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), where there is vast cultural, linguistic, and socio-economic diversity, with limited services and systems for child and adolescent mental health (CAMH). There is therefore both a 'knowledge gap' (more than 90% of all research represents less than 10% of the global population) and an 'identification and treatment gap' (fewer than 1 in 10 children in LMIC ever receive a diagnosis or any kind of treatment). The purpose of this editorial perspective was to consider the challenges of diversity, inclusion and equity in CAMH research around the globe, and to present some practical things we can all do to close these gaps and transform the global CAMH research agenda.
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- Petrus J de Vries
- Centre for Autism Research in Africa, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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Malgaroli M, Hull TD, Calderon A, Simon NM. Linguistic markers of anxiety and depression in Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders: Observational study of a digital intervention. J Affect Disord 2024; 352:133-137. [PMID: 38336165 PMCID: PMC10947071 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2024.02.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2023] [Revised: 01/18/2024] [Accepted: 02/06/2024] [Indexed: 02/12/2024]
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BACKGROUND Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders (SSRD), including chronic pain, result in frequent primary care visits, depression and anxiety symptoms, and diminished quality of life. Treatment access remains limited due to structural barriers and functional impairment. Digital delivery offers to improve access and enables transcript analysis via Natural Language Processing (NLP) to inform treatment. Therefore, we investigated asynchronous message-delivered SSRD treatment, and used NLP methods to identify symptom reduction markers from emotional valence. METHODS 173 individuals diagnosed with SSRD received interventions from licensed therapists via messaging 5 days/week for 8 weeks. Depression and anxiety symptoms were measured with the PHQ-9 and GAD-7 from baseline every three weeks. Symptoms trajectories were identified using unsupervised random forest clustering. Emotional valence expressed and use of emotional words were extracted from patients' de-identified transcripts, respectively using VADER and NCR Lexicon. Valence differences were examined using logistic regression. RESULTS Two subpopulations were identified showing symptoms Improvement (n = 72; 41.62 %) and non-response (n = 101; 58.38 %). Improvement patients expressed more positive valence in the first week of treatment (OR = 1.84, CI: 1.12-3.02; p = .015) and were less likely to express negative valence by the end of treatment (OR = 0.05; CI: 0.30-0.83; p = .008). Non-response patients used more negative valence words, including pain. LIMITATIONS Findings were derived from observational data obtained during an ecological intervention, without the inclusion of a control group. CONCLUSIONS NLP identified linguistic markers distinguishing changes in anxiety and depression symptoms over treatment. Digital interventions offer new forms of delivery and provide the opportunity to automatically collect data for linguistic analysis.
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- Matteo Malgaroli
- Department of Psychiatry, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA.
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- Research and Development, Talkspace, New York, NY 10023, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA; Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA 16801, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
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Karabin M, Kyröläinen AJ, Kuperman V. Increase in Linguistic Complexity in Older Adults During COVID-19. Exp Aging Res 2024; 50:312-330. [PMID: 36892044 DOI: 10.1080/0361073x.2022.2163831] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2022] [Accepted: 12/23/2022] [Indexed: 03/10/2023]
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The reported psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and related public health measures included a decline in cognitive functioning in older adults. Cognitive functioning is known to correlate with the lexical and syntactic complexity of an individual's linguistic productions. We examined written narratives from the CoSoWELL corpus (v 1.0), collected from over 1,000 U.S. and Canadian older adults (55+ y.o.) before and during the first year of the pandemic. We expected a decrease in the linguistic complexity of the narratives, given the oft-reported reduction in cognitive functioning associated with COVID-19. Contrary to this expectation, all measures of linguistic complexity showed a steady increase from the pre-pandemic level throughout the first year of the global lockdown. We discuss possible reasons for this boost in light of existing theories of cognition and offer a speculative link between the finding and reports of increased creativity during the pandemic.
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- Megan Karabin
- Department of Linguistics & Languages, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
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- Department of Linguistics & Languages, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
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Marchal M, Scholman MCJ, Demberg V. How statistical correlations influence discourse-level processing: Clause type as a cue for discourse relations. J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 2024; 50:796-807. [PMID: 37561516 DOI: 10.1037/xlm0001270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/11/2023]
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Linguistic phenomena (e.g., words and syntactic structure) co-occur with a wide variety of meanings. These systematic correlations can help readers to interpret a text and create predictions about upcoming material. However, to what extent these correlations influence discourse processing is still unknown. We address this question by examining whether clause type serves as a cue for discourse relations. We found that the co-occurrence of gerund-free adjuncts and specific discourse relations found in natural language is also reflected in readers' offline expectations for discourse relations. However, we also found that clause structure did not facilitate the online processing of these discourse relations, nor that readers have a preference for these relations in a paraphrase selection task. The present research extends previous research on discourse relation processing, which mostly focused on lexical cues, by examining the role of non-semantic cues. We show that readers are aware of correlations between clause structure and discourse relations in natural language, but that, unlike what has been found for lexical cues, this information does not seem to influence online processing and discourse interpretation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Marian Marchal
- Department of Language Science and Technology, Saarland University
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- Department of Language Science and Technology, Saarland University
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León-Cabrera P, Hjortdal A, Berthelsen SG, Rodríguez-Fornells A, Roll M. Neurophysiological signatures of prediction in language: A critical review of anticipatory negativities. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2024; 160:105624. [PMID: 38492763 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105624] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2023] [Revised: 02/09/2024] [Accepted: 03/13/2024] [Indexed: 03/18/2024]
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Recent event-related potential (ERP) studies in language comprehension converge in finding anticipatory negativities preceding words or word segments that can be pre-activated based on either sentence contexts or phonological cues. We review these findings from different paradigms in the light of evidence from other cognitive domains in which slow negative potentials have long been associated with anticipatory processes and discuss their potential underlying mechanisms. We propose that this family of anticipatory negativities captures common mechanisms associated with the pre-activation of linguistic information both within words and within sentences. Future studies could utilize these anticipatory negativities in combination with other, well-established ERPs, to simultaneously track prediction-related processes emerging at different time intervals (before and after the perception of pre-activated input) and with distinct time courses (shorter-lived and longer-lived cognitive operations).
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- Patricia León-Cabrera
- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit, Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Department of Basic Sciences, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain.
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- Centre for Languages and Literature (SOL), Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Centre for Languages and Literature (SOL), Lund University, Lund, Sweden; Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics (NorS), University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit, Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain; Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
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- Centre for Languages and Literature (SOL), Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
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Chen TY. ENIGMA: A Web Application for Running Online Artificial Grammar Learning Experiments. J Psycholinguist Res 2024; 53:38. [PMID: 38656669 DOI: 10.1007/s10936-024-10078-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/26/2024] [Indexed: 04/26/2024]
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Artificial grammar learning (AGL) is an experimental paradigm frequently adopted to investigate the unconscious and conscious learning and application of linguistic knowledge. This paper will introduce ENIGMA ( https://enigma-lang.org ) as a free, flexible, and lightweight Web-based tool for running online AGL experiments. The application is optimized for desktop and mobile devices with a user-friendly interface, which can present visual and aural stimuli and elicit judgment responses with RT measures. Without limits in time and space, ENIGMA could help collect more data from participants with diverse personal and language backgrounds and variable cognitive skills. Such data are essential to explain complex factors influencing learners' performance in AGL experiments and answer various research questions regarding L1/L2 acquisition. The introduction of the core features in ENIGMA is followed by an example study that partially replicated Chen (Lang Acquis 27(3):331-361, 2020) to illustrate possible experimental designs and examine the quality of the collected data.
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- Tsung-Ying Chen
- Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Tsing Hua University, 101, Section 2, Guangfu Road, Hsinchu, 300044, Taiwan.
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Asaadi AH, Amiri SH, Bosaghzadeh A, Ebrahimpour R. Effects and prediction of cognitive load on encoding model of brain response to auditory and linguistic stimuli in educational multimedia. Sci Rep 2024; 14:9133. [PMID: 38644370 PMCID: PMC11033259 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-59411-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2023] [Accepted: 04/10/2024] [Indexed: 04/23/2024] Open
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Multimedia is extensively used for educational purposes. However, certain types of multimedia lack proper design, which could impose a cognitive load on the user. Therefore, it is essential to predict cognitive load and understand how it impairs brain functioning. Participants watched a version of educational multimedia that applied Mayer's principles, followed by a version that did not. Meanwhile, their electroencephalography (EEG) was recorded. Subsequently, they participated in a post-test and completed a self-reported cognitive load questionnaire. The audio envelope and word frequency were extracted from the multimedia, and the temporal response functions (TRFs) were obtained using a linear encoding model. We observed that the behavioral data are different between the two groups and the TRFs of the two multimedia versions were different. We saw changes in the amplitude and latencies of both early and late components. In addition, correlations were found between behavioral data and the amplitude and latencies of TRF components. Cognitive load decreased participants' attention to the multimedia, and semantic processing of words also occurred with a delay and smaller amplitude. Hence, encoding models provide insights into the temporal and spatial mapping of the cognitive load activity, which could help us detect and reduce cognitive load in potential environments such as educational multimedia or simulators for different purposes.
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- Amir Hosein Asaadi
- Department of Computer Engineering, Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
- Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), School of Cognitive Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Computer Engineering, Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
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- Department of Computer Engineering, Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
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- Center for Cognitive Science, Institute for Convergence Science and Technology (ICST), Sharif University of Technology, P.O. Box:14588-89694, Tehran, Iran.
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Alzahrani A. Utility of Kolmogorov complexity measures: Analysis of L2 groups and L1 backgrounds. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0301806. [PMID: 38635819 PMCID: PMC11026146 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0301806] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2024] [Accepted: 03/22/2024] [Indexed: 04/20/2024] Open
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The proliferation of automated syntactic complexity tools allowed the analysis of larger amounts of learner writing. However, existing tools tend to be language-specific or depend on segmenting learner production into native-based units of analysis. This study examined the utility of a language-general and unsupervised linguistic complexity metric: Kolmogorov complexity in discriminating between L2 proficiency levels within several languages (Czech, German, Italian, English) and across various L1 backgrounds (N = 10) using two large CEFR-rater learner corpora. Kolmogorov complexity was measured at three levels: syntax, morphology, and overall linguistic complexity. Pairwise comparisons indicated that all Kolmogorov complexity measures discriminated among the proficiency levels within the L2s. L1-based variation in complexity was also observed. Distinct syntactic and morphological complexity patterns were found when L2 English writings were analyzed across versus within L1 backgrounds. These results indicate that Kolmogorov complexity could serve as a valuable metric in L2 writing research due to its cross-linguistic flexibility and holistic nature.
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Moitra S, Chacón DA, Stockall L. How long is long? Word length effects in reading correspond to minimal graphemic units: An MEG study in Bangla. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0292979. [PMID: 38635827 PMCID: PMC11034978 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0292979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2023] [Accepted: 02/20/2024] [Indexed: 04/20/2024] Open
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This paper presents a magnetoencephalography (MEG) study on reading in Bangla, an east Indo-Aryan language predominantly written in an abugida script. The study aims to uncover how visual stimuli are processed and mapped onto abstract linguistic representations in the brain. Specifically, we investigate the neural responses that correspond to word length in Bangla, a language with a unique orthography that introduces multiple ways to measure word length. Our results show that MEG signals localised in the anterior left fusiform gyrus, at around 130ms, are highly correlated with word length when measured in terms of the number of minimal graphemic units in the word rather than independent graphemic units (akśar) or phonemes. Our findings suggest that minimal graphemic units could serve as a suitable metric for measuring word length in non-alphabetic orthographies such as Bangla.
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- Swarnendu Moitra
- Department of Linguistics, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Linguistics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
- Neuroscience of Language Lab, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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- Department of Linguistics, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
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Roshan M, Rawat M, Aryan K, Lyakso E, Mekala AM, Ruban N. Linguistic based emotion analysis using softmax over time attention mechanism. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0301336. [PMID: 38625932 PMCID: PMC11020773 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0301336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2023] [Accepted: 03/12/2024] [Indexed: 04/18/2024] Open
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Recognizing the real emotion of humans is considered the most essential task for any customer feedback or medical applications. There are many methods available to recognize the type of emotion from speech signal by extracting frequency, pitch, and other dominant features. These features are used to train various models to auto-detect various human emotions. We cannot completely rely on the features of speech signals to detect the emotion, for instance, a customer is angry but still, he is speaking at a low voice (frequency components) which will eventually lead to wrong predictions. Even a video-based emotion detection system can be fooled by false facial expressions for various emotions. To rectify this issue, we need to make a parallel model that will train on textual data and make predictions based on the words present in the text. The model will then classify the type of emotions using more comprehensive information, thus making it a more robust model. To address this issue, we have tested four text-based classification models to classify the emotions of a customer. We examined the text-based models and compared their results which showed that the modified Encoder decoder model with attention mechanism trained on textual data achieved an accuracy of 93.5%. This research highlights the pressing need for more robust emotion recognition systems and underscores the potential of transfer models with attention mechanisms to significantly improve feedback management processes and the medical applications.
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- Megha Roshan
- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute Technology, Vellore, India
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- School of Electrical Engineering, Vellore Institute Technology, Vellore, India
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- Department of Computer Engineering, Army Institute of Technology, Pune, India
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- The Child Speech Research Group, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute Technology, Vellore, India
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- School of Electrical Engineering, Vellore Institute Technology, Vellore, India
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Chen S, Gil D, Gaponov S, Reifegerste J, Yuditha T, Tatarinova T, Progovac L, Benítez-Burraco A. Linguistic correlates of societal variation: A quantitative analysis. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0300838. [PMID: 38626198 PMCID: PMC11020942 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0300838] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2023] [Accepted: 03/05/2024] [Indexed: 04/18/2024] Open
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Traditionally, many researchers have supported a uniformitarian view whereby all languages are of roughly equal complexity, facilitated by internal trade-offs between complexity at different levels, such as morphology and syntax. The extent to which the speakers' societies influence the trade-offs has not been well studied. In this paper, we focus on morphology and syntax, and report significant correlations between specific linguistic and societal features, in particular those relating to exoteric (open) vs. esoteric (close-knit) society types, characterizable in terms of population size, mobility, communication across distances, etc. We conduct an exhaustive quantitative analysis drawing upon WALS, D-Place, Ethnologue and Glottolog, finding some support for our hypothesis that languages spoken by exoteric societies tend towards more complex syntaxes, while languages spoken by esoteric societies tend towards more complex morphologies.
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- Sihan Chen
- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States of America
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- Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Biology and Computational Biology, University of LaVerne, LaVerne, CA, United States of America
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- Department of Neurology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States of America
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- Department of Spanish, Linguistics & Theory of Literature, University of Seville, Seville, Spain
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- Department of Biology and Computational Biology, University of LaVerne, LaVerne, CA, United States of America
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- Linguistics Program, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, United States of America
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- Department of Spanish, Linguistics & Theory of Literature, University of Seville, Seville, Spain
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Jeszenszky P, Steiner C, Leemann A. Effects of mobility on dialect change: Introducing the linguistic mobility index. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0300735. [PMID: 38625993 PMCID: PMC11020475 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0300735] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2022] [Accepted: 03/04/2024] [Indexed: 04/18/2024] Open
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Increased geographical mobility prompts dialectologists to factor in survey participants' exposure to linguistic variation in their research. Changing mobility patterns (e.g. longer-distance commuting; easier relocation to distant places for work, study or marriage) have caused linguistic connections to become much more diverse, potentially contributing to the acceleration of dialect change. In this methodological work we propose the Linguistic Mobility Index (LMI) to estimate long-term exposure to dialectal variation and thereby to provide a reference of "localness" about survey participants. Based on data about a survey participant's linguistic biography, an LMI may comprise combinations of influential agents and environments, such as the dialects of parents and long-term partners, the places where participants have lived and worked, and the participants' level of education. We encapsulate the linguistic effects of these agents based on linguistic differences, the intensity and importance of the relationship. We quantify the linguistic effects in three steps. 1) The linguistic effect of an agent is represented by a linguistic distance, 2) This linguistic distance is weighted based on the intensity of the participant's exposure to the agent, and 3) Further weighted according to the relationship embodied by the agent. LMI is conceptualised and evaluated based on 500 speakers from 125 localities in the Swiss German Dialects Across Time and Space (SDATS) corpus, and guidance is provided for establishing LMI in other linguistic studies. For the assessment of LMI's applicability to other studies, four LMI prototypes are constructed based on the SDATS corpus, employing different theoretical considerations and combinations of influential agents and environments to simulate the availability of biographical data in other studies. Using mixed-effects modelling, we evaluate the utility of the LMI prototypes as predictors of dialect change between historic and contemporary linguistic data of Swiss German. The LMI prototypes successfully show that higher exposure to dialectal variation contributes to more dialect change and that its effect is stronger than some sociodemographic variables that are often tested for affecting dialect change (e.g. sex and educational background).
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- Péter Jeszenszky
- Center for the Study of Language and Society (CSLS), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Institute of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Center for the Study of Language and Society (CSLS), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Institute of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- German Seminar, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Center for the Study of Language and Society (CSLS), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Institute of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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Mallikarjun A, Shroads E, Newman RS. Perception of vocoded speech in domestic dogs. Anim Cogn 2024; 27:34. [PMID: 38625429 PMCID: PMC11021312 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-024-01869-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2023] [Revised: 03/21/2024] [Accepted: 03/24/2024] [Indexed: 04/17/2024]
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Humans have an impressive ability to comprehend signal-degraded speech; however, the extent to which comprehension of degraded speech relies on human-specific features of speech perception vs. more general cognitive processes is unknown. Since dogs live alongside humans and regularly hear speech, they can be used as a model to differentiate between these possibilities. One often-studied type of degraded speech is noise-vocoded speech (sometimes thought of as cochlear-implant-simulation speech). Noise-vocoded speech is made by dividing the speech signal into frequency bands (channels), identifying the amplitude envelope of each individual band, and then using these envelopes to modulate bands of noise centered over the same frequency regions - the result is a signal with preserved temporal cues, but vastly reduced frequency information. Here, we tested dogs' recognition of familiar words produced in 16-channel vocoded speech. In the first study, dogs heard their names and unfamiliar dogs' names (foils) in vocoded speech as well as natural speech. In the second study, dogs heard 16-channel vocoded speech only. Dogs listened longer to their vocoded name than vocoded foils in both experiments, showing that they can comprehend a 16-channel vocoded version of their name without prior exposure to vocoded speech, and without immediate exposure to the natural-speech version of their name. Dogs' name recognition in the second study was mediated by the number of phonemes in the dogs' name, suggesting that phonological context plays a role in degraded speech comprehension.
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- Amritha Mallikarjun
- Penn Vet Working Dog Center, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, Philadelphia, USA.
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- Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
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- Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
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Reno EA, McMaster KL. Measuring Linguistic Growth in Sentence-Level Writing Curriculum-Based Measures: Exploring Complementary Scoring Methods. Lang Speech Hear Serv Sch 2024; 55:529-544. [PMID: 38284915 DOI: 10.1044/2023_lshss-23-00056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2024] Open
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PURPOSE Picture-word writing curriculum-based measures (PW CBM-Ws) are technically sound, formative measures of descriptive, sentence-level writing but cannot estimate underlying linguistic skills. The purpose of this exploratory alternative scoring investigation was to apply metrics from language sample analysis (LSA) to PW CBM-Ws as a complementary measure of underlying language skills in beginning writers' sentence-level writing. METHOD LSA metrics were applied to 104 typically developing first through third graders' PW CBM-W samples across fall and spring semesters. Factorial analyses of variance with post hoc Bonferroni pairwise comparisons were applied after obtaining alternate-form reliability and criterion-related validity estimates. RESULTS Analyses revealed reliable discrimination between grades and significant growth between fall and spring semesters for three LSA metrics: mean length of T-unit in words, mean length of T-unit in morphemes, and number of different words. While mean length of T-unit in words and morphemes demonstrated evidence of discrimination and growth in first grade only, number of different words showed evidence of reliable discrimination and growth in first and third grades. CONCLUSIONS Mean length of T-unit in words, mean length of T-unit in morphemes, and number of different words showed evidence of adequate criterion-related validity, discrimination among grades, and sensitivity to growth when calculated using PW CBM-W samples to gauge underlying linguistic skills in first- and third-grade students. Implications and future directions for research are discussed. SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.25050290.
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- Emily A Reno
- Department of Educational Psychology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis
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- Department of Educational Psychology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis
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Villaluna A, Dolby C. Dysphagia Service Delivery in the Educational Setting: Pediatric Feeding Disorder and the Culturally Responsive Clinician. Lang Speech Hear Serv Sch 2024; 55:423-433. [PMID: 38557245 DOI: 10.1044/2024_lshss-23-00042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/04/2024] Open
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PURPOSE This article addresses considerations for the speech-language pathologist to ensure culturally competent dysphagia management in the school setting for children with oral motor, swallowing, and pediatric feeding disorders (PFDs). There is also discussion of the multifactorial cultural and linguistic influences that impact collaborative educational decisions when establishing and implementing school-based dysphagia services. CONCLUSIONS The consideration of cultural and linguistic factors for the child with oral motor, swallowing, and/or PFDs is essential when diagnosing, treating, and planning for dysphagia service delivery. By recognizing and including culturally appropriate interventions and recommendations, speech-language pathologists enhance opportunities for positive outcomes and treatment efficacy when providing pediatric dysphagia services in the educational setting for children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
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- Dysphagia Support Division, Special Education Department, Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District, TX
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Lipner M, Armon-Lotem S, Fichman S, Walters J, Altman C. Impact of Narrative Task Complexity and Language on Macrostructure in Bilingual Kindergarten Children. Lang Speech Hear Serv Sch 2024; 55:545-560. [PMID: 38363723 DOI: 10.1044/2023_lshss-23-00152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/18/2024] Open
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PURPOSE We investigated the impact of narrative task complexity on macrostructure in both languages of bilingual kindergarten children and the relationship of macrostructure across languages to guide practitioners' choice of assessment tools and aid in interpretation of results. METHOD Thirty-nine English-Hebrew bilingual kindergarten children (Mage = 65 months) retold two narratives in each language: a one-episode story and a three-episode story. Stories were coded for macrostructure using five story grammar (SG) elements: Internal State-Initiating Event, Goal, Attempt, Outcome, and Internal State-Reaction. Linear mixed and generalized linear mixed models were used to analyze scores for total macrostructure, episode, and SG elements; correlations were conducted to examine cross-language relations in macrostructure. RESULTS In general, performance on the single-episode story was significantly better than for the three-episode story: higher percentages of SG elements were produced, with better performance in the home language/English. In addition to Task and Language effects, Age and Episode (Episodes 1/2/3 of the three-episode story vs. one-episode story) emerged as predictors of macrostructure. Performance on the different episodes of the three-episode story varied, with Episode 3 yielding scores similar to those on the one-episode story. Children produced more Attempts and Outcomes than other SG elements. Finally, the total macrostructure scores yielded low to moderate correlations across languages for both one-episode and three-episode stories, but there were no significant cross-task (one-episode/three-episode story) correlations. CONCLUSIONS The study illustrates the importance of task complexity in narrative performance. Ideally, assessment should include a variety of tools, which would include narratives varying in complexity. However, time constraints do not always permit this luxury. The findings here may offer more to therapists than to diagnosticians. Narratives should be manipulated for episodic complexity not only in the number of episodes but also with regard to characters, goals, feelings, and reactions to events. SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.25222094.
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- Minna Lipner
- Department of English Literature and Linguistics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
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- Department of English Literature and Linguistics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
- The Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
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- Department of English Literature and Linguistics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
- MEd Program in English as an International Language, Talpiot College of Education, Holon, Israel
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- Department of English Literature and Linguistics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
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- The Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
- Faculty of Education, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
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Carden KC, McWilliam RA, McLeod RH, Fedewa MP. Narrative Intervention for Preschoolers Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing Using Listening and Spoken Language: A Pilot Study. Lang Speech Hear Serv Sch 2024; 55:510-528. [PMID: 38215241 DOI: 10.1044/2023_lshss-23-00063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2024] Open
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PURPOSE This pilot study aimed to examine the effects of a caregiver-supported, narrative-based intervention program on the story retelling skills of a group of preschoolers who are deaf and hard of hearing (D/HH) using listening and spoken language (LSL). METHOD A concurrent multiple baseline design across participants was used to determine the effect of a narrative intervention on the story retelling skills of three preschool-age participants who demonstrated complex language delays. Their primary caregivers also functioned as participants. The 6-week narrative intervention program was implemented using a caregiver coaching model during individual therapy sessions. The dependent variable probes were administered twice per week across phases to assess the preschool participants' story retelling skills, including story grammar, complexity, and completeness. Social validity was also evaluated using a caregiver questionnaire. RESULTS A functional relation was demonstrated between the intervention and story retelling across all three preschool participants with notable increases in the inclusion of story grammar elements and episodic completeness. All three participants maintained scores above baseline levels on dependent variable probes across the 6-week maintenance period. Social validity was strong according to the results of a caregiver questionnaire completed at the conclusion of the intervention. CONCLUSION These findings offer preliminary support for the use of a caregiver-supported, narrative-based intervention program to improve storytelling and retelling skills in preschoolers who are D/HH using LSL.
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- Kameron C Carden
- Department of Special Education and Multiple Abilities, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
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- Department of Special Education and Multiple Abilities, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
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- Department of Special Education and Multiple Abilities, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
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- Department of Special Education and Multiple Abilities, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
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Youngblood M. Language-like efficiency and structure in house finch song. Proc Biol Sci 2024; 291:20240250. [PMID: 38565151 PMCID: PMC10987240 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2024.0250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2023] [Accepted: 03/06/2024] [Indexed: 04/04/2024] Open
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Communication needs to be complex enough to be functional while minimizing learning and production costs. Recent work suggests that the vocalizations and gestures of some songbirds, cetaceans and great apes may conform to linguistic laws that reflect this trade-off between efficiency and complexity. In studies of non-human communication, though, clustering signals into types cannot be done a priori, and decisions about the appropriate grain of analysis may affect statistical signals in the data. The aim of this study was to assess the evidence for language-like efficiency and structure in house finch (Haemorhous mexicanus) song across three levels of granularity in syllable clustering. The results show strong evidence for Zipf's rank-frequency law, Zipf's law of abbreviation and Menzerath's law. Additional analyses show that house finch songs have small-world structure, thought to reflect systematic structure in syntax, and the mutual information decay of sequences is consistent with a combination of Markovian and hierarchical processes. These statistical patterns are robust across three levels of granularity in syllable clustering, pointing to a limited form of scale invariance. In sum, it appears that house finch song has been shaped by pressure for efficiency, possibly to offset the costs of female preferences for complexity.
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- Mason Youngblood
- Minds and Traditions Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology, Jena, Thüringen, Germany
- Institute for Advanced Computational Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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Tang L, Xu Y, Yang S, Meng X, Du B, Sun C, Liu L, Dong Q, Nan Y. Mandarin-Speaking Amusics' Online Recognition of Tone and Intonation. J Speech Lang Hear Res 2024; 67:1107-1116. [PMID: 38470842 DOI: 10.1044/2024_jslhr-23-00520] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/14/2024]
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PURPOSE Congenital amusia is a neurogenetic disorder of musical pitch processing. Its linguistic consequences have been examined separately for speech intonations and lexical tones. However, in a tonal language such as Chinese, the processing of intonations and lexical tones interacts with each other during online speech perception. Whether and how the musical pitch disorder might affect linguistic pitch processing during online speech perception remains unknown. METHOD We investigated this question with intonation (question vs. statement) and lexical tone (rising Tone 2 vs. falling Tone 4) identification tasks using the same set of sentences, comparing behavioral and event-related potential measurements between Mandarin-speaking amusics and matched controls. We specifically focused on the amusics without behavioral lexical tone deficits (the majority, i.e., pure amusics). RESULTS Results showed that, despite relative to normal performance when tested in word lexical tone test, pure amusics demonstrated inferior recognition than controls during sentence tone and intonation identification. Compared to controls, pure amusics had larger N400 amplitudes in question stimuli during tone task and smaller P600 amplitudes in intonation task. CONCLUSION These data indicate that musical pitch disorder affects both tone and intonation processing during sentence processing even for pure amusics, whose lexical tone processing was intact when tested with words.
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- Lirong Tang
- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, China
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Oates M, McCauley R, Bean A. Exploring Online Communication in Self-Identified Autistic Adolescents. J Speech Lang Hear Res 2024; 67:1165-1172. [PMID: 38478749 DOI: 10.1044/2024_jslhr-23-00707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/10/2024]
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PURPOSE Social media sites provide autistic youth a familiar space to interact that is devoid of many of the challenges that accompany face-to-face interactions. As such, it is important to determine whether the linguistic profiles observed during online interactions are consistent with face-to-face interactions. This preliminary study took a step in this direction by examining gender differences observed in autistic adolescents in an online forum to determine whether they are consistent with the emerging body of research investigating linguistic gender differences in autistic adolescents. METHOD We analyzed the entries of self-identified autistic adolescents in an online forum to determine whether autistic girls (n = 99) and boys (n = 94) differ in their use of linguistic features as a proportion of total words produced. Transcriptions were coded across discourse, lexical, and semantic features and compared to previous research investigating linguistic gender differences in autistic people. Exploratory comparisons were also made to linguistic gender differences in neurotypical people. RESULTS Of the linguistic features we examined, three out of four of the gendered usage patterns observed in the online forum language samples were consistent with previous research on face-to-face communication for autistic adolescents. Only one feature out of 12 occurred in the same gender distribution as previous research on neurotypical communication. CONCLUSIONS Autistic girls and boys demonstrate largely consistent gender differences in their language use across in-person and online communication contexts. Interestingly, most of the significant gender differences previously reported in neurotypical communicators were not seen in this sample of autistic adolescents, suggesting that perhaps autistic individuals may linguistically express gender characteristics to a different extent or in a different manner than neurotypical individuals.
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- Morgan Oates
- Department of Speech and Hearing Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus
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- Department of Speech and Hearing Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus
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- Department of Speech and Hearing Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus
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Wei Y, Wan Y, Tanenhaus MK. Spontaneous perspective-taking in real-time language comprehension: evidence from eye-movements and grain of coordination. Sci Rep 2024; 14:8031. [PMID: 38580679 PMCID: PMC10997771 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-58699-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2023] [Accepted: 04/02/2024] [Indexed: 04/07/2024] Open
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Linguistic communication requires interlocutors to consider differences in each other's knowledge (perspective-taking). However, perspective-taking might either be spontaneous or strategic. We monitored listeners' eye movements in a referential communication task. A virtual speaker gave temporally ambiguous instructions with scalar adjectives ("big" in "big cubic block"). Scalar adjectives assume a contrasting object (a small cubic block). We manipulated whether the contrasting object (a small triangle) for a competitor object (a big triangle) was in common ground (visible to both speaker and listener) or was occluded so it was in the listener's privileged ground, in which case perspective-taking would allow earlier reference-resolution. We used a complex visual context with multiple objects, making strategic perspective-taking unlikely when all objects are in the listener's referential domain. A turn-taking, puzzle-solving task manipulated whether participants could anticipate a more restricted referential domain. Pieces were either confined to a small area (requiring fine-grained coordination) or distributed across spatially distinct regions (requiring only coarse-grained coordination). Results strongly supported spontaneous perspective-taking: Although comprehension was less time-locked in the coarse-grained condition, participants in both conditions used perspective information to identify the target referent earlier when the competitor contrast was in privileged ground, even when participants believed instructions were computer-generated.
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- Yipu Wei
- School of Chinese as a Second Language, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China.
- Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 101408, China.
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- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 14627, USA
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Şahin MF, Ateş H, Keleş A, Özcan R, Doğan Ç, Akgül M, Yazıcı CM. Responses of Five Different Artificial Intelligence Chatbots to the Top Searched Queries About Erectile Dysfunction: A Comparative Analysis. J Med Syst 2024; 48:38. [PMID: 38568432 PMCID: PMC10990980 DOI: 10.1007/s10916-024-02056-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2024] [Accepted: 03/22/2024] [Indexed: 04/05/2024]
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The aim of the study is to evaluate and compare the quality and readability of responses generated by five different artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots-ChatGPT, Bard, Bing, Ernie, and Copilot-to the top searched queries of erectile dysfunction (ED). Google Trends was used to identify ED-related relevant phrases. Each AI chatbot received a specific sequence of 25 frequently searched terms as input. Responses were evaluated using DISCERN, Ensuring Quality Information for Patients (EQIP), and Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level (FKGL) and Reading Ease (FKRE) metrics. The top three most frequently searched phrases were "erectile dysfunction cause", "how to erectile dysfunction," and "erectile dysfunction treatment." Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Ghana exhibited the highest level of interest in ED. None of the AI chatbots achieved the necessary degree of readability. However, Bard exhibited significantly higher FKRE and FKGL ratings (p = 0.001), and Copilot achieved better EQIP and DISCERN ratings than the other chatbots (p = 0.001). Bard exhibited the simplest linguistic framework and posed the least challenge in terms of readability and comprehension, and Copilot's text quality on ED was superior to the other chatbots. As new chatbots are introduced, their understandability and text quality increase, providing better guidance to patients.
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- Mehmet Fatih Şahin
- Faculty of Medicine Department of Urology, Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University, Süleymanpaşa, Tekirdağ, 59020, Turkey.
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- Faculty of Medicine Department of Urology, Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University, Süleymanpaşa, Tekirdağ, 59020, Turkey
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- Faculty of Medicine Department of Urology, Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University, Süleymanpaşa, Tekirdağ, 59020, Turkey
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- Department of Urology, Bursa State Hospital, Nilüfer, Bursa, 16110, Turkey
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- Faculty of Medicine Department of Urology, Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University, Süleymanpaşa, Tekirdağ, 59020, Turkey
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- Faculty of Medicine Department of Urology, Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University, Süleymanpaşa, Tekirdağ, 59020, Turkey
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- Faculty of Medicine Department of Urology, Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University, Süleymanpaşa, Tekirdağ, 59020, Turkey
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Colomer M, Zacharaki K, Sebastian-Galles N. Selective Action Prediction in Infancy Depending on Linguistic Cues: An EEG and Eyetracker Study. J Neurosci 2024; 44:e1301232024. [PMID: 38418219 PMCID: PMC10993032 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1301-23.2024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2023] [Revised: 02/10/2024] [Accepted: 02/14/2024] [Indexed: 03/01/2024] Open
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Humans' capacity to predict actions and to socially categorize individuals is at the basis of social cognition. Such capacities emerge in early infancy. By 6 months of age, infants predict others' reaching actions considering others' epistemic state. At a similar age, infants are biased to attend to and interact with more familiar individuals, considering adult-like social categories such as the language people speak. We report that these two core processes are interrelated early on in infancy. In a belief-based action prediction task, 6-month-old infants (males and females) presented with a native speaker generated online predictions about the agent's actions, as revealed by the activation of participants' sensorimotor areas before the agent's movement. However, infants who were presented with a foreign speaker did not recruit their motor system before the agent's action. The eyetracker analysis provided further evidence that linguistic group familiarity influences how infants predict others' actions, as only infants presented with a native speaker modified their attention to the stimuli as a function of the agent's forthcoming behavior. The current findings suggest that infants' emerging capacity to predict others' actions is modulated by social cues, such as others' linguistic group. A facilitation to predict and encode the actions of native speakers relative to foreign speakers may explain, in part, why infants preferentially attend to, imitate, and learn from the actions of native speakers.
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- M Colomer
- Center for Brain and Cognition (CBC), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona 08018, Spain
- Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637
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- Center for Brain and Cognition (CBC), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona 08018, Spain
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- Center for Brain and Cognition (CBC), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona 08018, Spain
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Balčiūnienė I, Kornev AN. Linguistic disfluencies in Russian-speaking typically and atypically developing children: individual variability in different contexts. Clin Linguist Phon 2024; 38:287-306. [PMID: 36787206 DOI: 10.1080/02699206.2023.2176786] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2022] [Revised: 01/21/2023] [Accepted: 01/31/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Disfluency in children and adults seems to occur like errors of speech but, at the same time, is an essential feature of spontaneous (unprepared) speech. The present study aimed to evaluate linguistic disfluencies in typically and atypically developing Russian-speaking children from the perspective of the dynamic adaptive model of self-monitoring in speech production. The study collected four language samples from 10 six-year-old children with developmental language disorder and 14 typically developing peers: two storytelling tasks, structured conversation, and a play argument. After transcribing audio-recordings and marking linguistic disfluencies, the authors conducted structured distributional analysis. The distribution of several indexes of disfluency was estimated to assess the prevalence and profiles of different (sub)types of disfluencies. The disfluency rate statistics were similar between the typically developing children and children with developmental language disorder. The distributional indexes score showed that tasks significantly impacted the rate of different (sub)types of disfluencies. Task-related patterns in a set of the distributional indexes significantly distinguished the groups. Thus, changes in the disfluency profile related to different external factors, as a sign of a flexibility of an adaptive self-monitoring system, may be limited in children with developmental language disorder.
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- Ingrida Balčiūnienė
- Department of Lithuanian Studies, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Department of Logopathology, Saint-Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
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Mao Q, Gao Y, Fan J, Guo M, Chen J. Risk assessment of deep-sea floating offshore wind power projects based on hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set considering trust relationship among experts. Environ Monit Assess 2024; 196:405. [PMID: 38561557 DOI: 10.1007/s10661-024-12582-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2023] [Accepted: 03/23/2024] [Indexed: 04/04/2024]
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The development of deep-sea floating offshore wind power (FOWP) is the key to fully utilizing water resources to enhance wind resources in the years ahead, and then the project is still in its initial stage, and identifying risks is a crucial step before promoting a significant undertaking. This paper proposes a framework for identifying risks in deep-sea FOWP projects. First, this paper identifies 16 risk criteria and divides them into 5 groups to establish a criteria system. Second, hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS) and triangular fuzzy number (TFN) are utilized to gather and describe the criterion data to ensure the robustness and completeness of the criterion data. Third, extending the method for removal effects of criteria (MEREC) to the HFLTS environment through the conversion of TFNs, under the influence of subjective preference and objective fairness, a weighting method combining analytic network process (ANP) and MEREC is utilized to calculate criteria weights, and the trust relationship and consistency between experts are used to calculate the expert weights to avoid the subjective weighting given by experts arbitrariness. Fourth, the study's findings indicated that the overall risk level of the deep-sea FOWP projects is "medium." Fifth, sensitivity and comparative analyses were conducted to test the reliability of the assessment outcomes. lastly, this research proposes risk management measures for the deep-sea FOWP project's establishment from economic, policy, technology, environment, and management aspects.
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- Qinghua Mao
- School of Economics and Management, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, 066004, China
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- School of Economics and Management, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, 066004, China.
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- School of Economics and Management, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, 066004, China
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- School of Economics and Management, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, 066004, China
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- School of Economics and Management, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, 066004, China
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Fichman S, Altman C. Disfluencies in the narratives of Russian-Hebrew bilingual children with and without Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). Clin Linguist Phon 2024; 38:307-331. [PMID: 37138524 DOI: 10.1080/02699206.2023.2204511] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2021] [Accepted: 04/04/2023] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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The present study examined disfluencies in the narratives of Russian-Hebrew bilingual children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and Typical Language Development (TLD) in both Russian (home language) and Hebrew (societal language), with a focus on the independent and combined effects of language disorder and cross-linguistic differences on the rates and loci of disfluencies. Narratives were collected from 44 bilingual children (14 with DLD), ages 5;7-6;6, using a story retelling procedure. The narrative coding system targeted ratios of the following disfluencies (per C-unit): silent pauses, repetitions, self-corrections, and filled pauses. Silent pauses longer than 0.25 sec were identified using PRAAT software© and were classified according to the following durations: more than 0.5 sec, 1 sec, 1.5 sec, and 2 sec. In addition, the loci of pauses (utterance-initial or utterance-internal) and repetitions (content or function words) were coded. Overall, children with DLD and TLD had comparable rates of disfluencies but differed for pauses longer than 0.5 sec and repetition of content words in both languages. For the overall ratio of pauses (more than 0.25 sec), children with and without DLD had more pauses in Russian. Long pauses and repetition of content words reflect difficulties for bilingual children with DLD in dealing with the demands of storytelling, in particular planning processes. A higher ratio of pauses in Russian suggests that they reflect lower proficiency in that language.
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- Sveta Fichman
- MEd Program in English as an International Language, Talpiot College of Education, Holon
- Speech-Language Pathology, Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem
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- Faculty of Education, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan
- The Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center
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Lochy A, Rossion B, Lambon Ralph M, Volfart A, Hauk O, Schiltz C. Linguistic and attentional factors - Not statistical regularities - Contribute to word-selective neural responses with FPVS-oddball paradigms. Cortex 2024; 173:339-354. [PMID: 38479348 PMCID: PMC10988773 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2024.01.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2023] [Revised: 11/30/2023] [Accepted: 01/29/2024] [Indexed: 03/27/2024]
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Studies using frequency-tagging in electroencephalography (EEG) have dramatically increased in the past 10 years, in a variety of domains and populations. Here we used Fast Periodic Visual Stimulation (FPVS) combined with an oddball design to explore visual word recognition. Given the paradigm's high sensitivity, it is crucial for future basic research and clinical application to prove its robustness across variations of designs, stimulus types and tasks. This paradigm uses periodicity of brain responses to measure discrimination between two experimentally defined categories of stimuli presented periodically. EEG was recorded in 22 adults who viewed words inserted every 5 stimuli (at 2 Hz) within base stimuli presented at 10 Hz. Using two discrimination levels (deviant words among nonwords or pseudowords), we assessed the impact of relative frequency of item repetition (set size or item repetition controlled for deviant versus base stimuli), and of the orthogonal task (focused or deployed spatial attention). Word-selective occipito-temporal responses were robust at the individual level (significant in 95% of participants), left-lateralized, larger for the prelexical (nonwords) than lexical (pseudowords) contrast, and stronger with a deployed spatial attention task as compared to the typically used focused task. Importantly, amplitudes were not affected by item repetition. These results help understanding the factors influencing word-selective EEG responses and support the validity of FPVS-EEG oddball paradigms, as they confirm that word-selective responses are linguistic. Second, they show its robustness against design-related factors that could induce statistical (ir)regularities in item rate. They also confirm its high individual sensitivity and demonstrate how it can be optimized, using a deployed rather than focused attention task, to measure implicit word recognition processes in typical and atypical populations.
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- Aliette Lochy
- Institute of Cognitive Science and Assessment, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg; Psychological Science Institute (IPSY), UCLouvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium.
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- Université de Lorraine, CNRS, Nancy, France; CHRU-Nancy, Service de Neurologie, Nancy, France
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- School of Psychology and Counselling, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
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- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, UK
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- Institute of Cognitive Science and Assessment, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
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Hert R, Järvikivi J, Arnhold A. The Importance of Linguistic Factors: He Likes Subject Referents. Cogn Sci 2024; 48:e13436. [PMID: 38564245 DOI: 10.1111/cogs.13436] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2023] [Revised: 03/08/2024] [Accepted: 03/11/2024] [Indexed: 04/04/2024]
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We report the results of one visual-world eye-tracking experiment and two referent selection tasks in which we investigated the effects of information structure in the form of prosody and word order manipulation on the processing of subject pronouns er and der in German. Factors such as subjecthood, focus, and topicality, as well as order of mention have been linked to an increased probability of certain referents being selected as the pronoun's antecedent and described as increasing this referent's prominence, salience, or accessibility. The goal of this study was to find out whether pronoun processing is primarily guided by linguistic factors (e.g., grammatical role) or nonlinguistic factors (e.g., first-mention), and whether pronoun interpretation can be described in terms of referents' "prominence" / "accessibility" / "salience." The results showed an overall subject preference for er, whereas der was affected by the object role and focus marking. While focus increases the attentional load and enhances memory representation for the focused referent making the focused referent more available, ultimately it did not affect the final interpretation of er, suggesting that "prominence" or the related concepts do not explain referent selection preferences. Overall, the results suggest a primacy of linguistic factors in determining pronoun resolution.
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- Regina Hert
- Laboratoire de NeuroPsychoLinguistique (EA4156), Maison de la Recherche, Université de Toulouse - Jean-Jaurès
- Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta
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- Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta
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Xenidou-Dervou I, van Atteveldt N, Surducan IM, Reynvoet B, Rossi S, Gilmore C. Multiple number-naming associations: How the inversion property affects adults' two-digit number processing. Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 2024; 77:856-872. [PMID: 37246891 PMCID: PMC10960323 DOI: 10.1177/17470218231181367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2022] [Revised: 05/19/2023] [Accepted: 05/23/2023] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Some number-naming systems are less transparent than others. For example, in Dutch, 49 is named "negenenveertig," which translates to "nine and forty," i.e., the unit is named first, followed by the decade. This is known as the "inversion property," where the morpho-syntactic representation of the number name is incongruent with its written Arabic form. Number word inversion can hamper children's developing mathematical skills. But little is known about its effects on adults' numeracy, the underlying mechanism, and how a person's bilingual background influences its effects. In the present study, Dutch-English bilingual adults performed an audiovisual matching task, where they heard a number word and simultaneously saw two-digit Arabic symbols and had to determine whether these matched in quantity. We experimentally manipulated the morpho-syntactic structure of the number words to alter their phonological (dis)similarities and numerical congruency with the target Arabic two-digit number. Results showed that morpho-syntactic (in)congruency differentially influenced quantity match and non-match decisions. Although participants were faster when hearing traditional non-transparent Dutch number names, they made more accurate decisions when hearing artificial, but morpho-syntactically transparent number words. This pattern was partly influenced by the participants' bilingual background, i.e., their L2 proficiency in English, which involves more transparent number names. Our findings suggest that, within inversion number-naming systems, multiple associations are formed between two-digit Arabic symbols and number names, which can influence adults' numerical cognition.
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Wong AMY, Au CWS, Chan A, Momenian M. A comparison of learning and retention of a syntactic construction between Cantonese-speaking children with and without DLD in a priming task. Brain Lang 2024; 251:105404. [PMID: 38513427 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2023] [Revised: 03/01/2024] [Accepted: 03/11/2024] [Indexed: 03/23/2024]
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Procedural circuit Deficit Hypothesis (PDH) of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) predicts problems with learning and retention of grammar. Twenty 7- to 9-year-old Cantonese-speaking children with DLD and their typically developing (TD) age peers participated in a syntactic priming task that was given in two sessions one week apart. Production of Indirect Object Relative Clause (IORC) was tested using a probe test before and after the priming task, and one week later. The study involved two cycles of learning and retention, and two levels of prior knowledge. Bayesian linear mixed effects modelling was used for data analysis. Children with DLD learned, and possibly retained, IORC less well than TD children after age, working memory and general grammatical knowledge were controlled for. No interaction effects were significant, meaning that cycle and prior knowledge affected both groups similarly in learning and retention. Results were discussed in relation to PDH and the Complementary Learning Systems Theory.
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- Anita M-Y Wong
- Faculty of Medicine & Health, The University of Sydney, Australia.
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- Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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- Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong; Research Centre for Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong; The Hong Kong Polytechnic University-Peking University Research Centre on Chinese Linguistics, Hong Kong
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- Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong; Research Centre for Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
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Tsaregorodtseva O, Frazier L, Stolterfoht B, Kaup B. Do linguistic stimuli activate experiential colour traces related to the entities they refer to and, if so, under what circumstances? Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 2024; 77:694-715. [PMID: 37649148 PMCID: PMC10960311 DOI: 10.1177/17470218231200489] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2022] [Revised: 03/02/2023] [Accepted: 05/09/2023] [Indexed: 09/01/2023]
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The simulation view of language comprehension holds that lexical-semantic access prompts the re-enactment of sensorimotor experiences that regularly accompany word use. For the colour domain, this suggests that reading about a stop sign reactivates experiences involving the perception of the stop sign and hence experiences involving the colour red. However, it is still not clear what circumstances would limit reactivation of colour experiences during comprehension, if the activation takes place. To address this question, we varied in our study the conditions in which the target colour stimuli appeared. The experimental stimuli were individual words (Experiment (Exp.) 1, Exp. 7, 8) or sentences (Exp. 2-6) referring to objects with a typical colour of either green or red (e.g., cucumber or raspberry). Across experiments, we manipulated the presence of fillers (present or not), and whether fillers referred to objects with other colour (e.g., honey) or objects without any particular colour (e.g., car). The stimuli were presented along with two clickable "yes" and "no" buttons, one of which was red and the other green. Location and button colour varied from trial to trial. The tasks were lexical decision (Exp. 1, Exp. 7-8) and sensibility judgement (Exp. 2-6). We observed faster response times in the match vs mismatch condition in all word-based experiments, but only in those sentence-based experiments that did not have fillers. This suggests that comprehenders indeed reactivate colour experiences when processing linguistic stimuli referring to objects with a typical colour, but this activation seems to occur only under certain circumstances.
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- Oksana Tsaregorodtseva
- Department of Psychology, Language and Cognition Research Group, University of Tübingen, Tubingen, Germany
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- Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Language and Cognition Research Group, University of Tübingen, Tubingen, Germany
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Kuang SY, Xu Y, Wang YY, Wang ZG, Dong Q, Han X, Yang SL. Post-stroke Chinese pure alexia: linguistic features and neuropsychological profiles. Acta Neurol Belg 2024; 124:611-620. [PMID: 38393608 DOI: 10.1007/s13760-024-02479-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2023] [Accepted: 01/17/2024] [Indexed: 02/25/2024]
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PURPOSE Very few cases of Chinese pure alexia have been reported to date. We aim to summarize the linguistic features and neuropsychological profiles of Chinese pure alexia through a case series study. METHODS 11 consecutive patients with post-stroke Chinese pure alexia and 11 healthy controls were included. The Aphasia Battery of Chinese (ABC) and 68-Chinese character oral reading test (68-character test) were used to evaluate the reading and writing ability. Reading errors were classified based on the performance of 68-character test. Neuropsychological profiles were evaluated with corresponding scales. The possible correlation between the reading ability and the writing ability or neuropsychological performance was analyzed. RESULTS The patients had a correct rate of 43.7 ± 23.2% in the 68-character test, significantly lower (P < 0.001) than that of controls. Shape-similar error was the most common type of reading error (101/209, 48.3%). The ABC total writing score rate of the patients ranged from 68.9% to 98.7% (median, 90.5%), significantly lower (P < 0.001) than that of the controls. The patients also showed worse performance in MMSE, auditory verbal learning test, Boston naming test, intersecting pentagons copying and clock-drawing test (all P < 0.05). In the patient group, the correct rate of 68-character test was significantly correlated with the ABC total writing score rate (P = 0.008), the score rate of Boston naming test (P = 0.017), and the clock-drawing test score (P = 0.010). CONCLUSION Shape-similar errors may be a characteristic of Chinese pure alexia. The correlation between visuospatial dysfunction and pure alexia might explain the frequent occurrence of shape-similar errors in Chinese pure alexia.
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- Shen-Yi Kuang
- Department of Neurology, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, No.12, Middle Wulumuqi Road, Shanghai, 200040, China
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- Department of Neurology, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, No.12, Middle Wulumuqi Road, Shanghai, 200040, China
- Department of Neurology, Shanghai Fifth People's Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Rehabilitation, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Neurology, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, No.12, Middle Wulumuqi Road, Shanghai, 200040, China
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- Department of Neurology, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, No.12, Middle Wulumuqi Road, Shanghai, 200040, China
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- Department of Neurology, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, No.12, Middle Wulumuqi Road, Shanghai, 200040, China.
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- Department of Neurology, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, No.12, Middle Wulumuqi Road, Shanghai, 200040, China.
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Sun S, Mei Z, Li X, Tang T, Su Z, Wu Y. A label information fused medical image report generation framework. Artif Intell Med 2024; 150:102823. [PMID: 38553163 DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2024.102823] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2022] [Revised: 02/21/2024] [Accepted: 02/21/2024] [Indexed: 04/02/2024]
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Medical imaging is an important tool for clinical diagnosis. Nevertheless, it is very time-consuming and error-prone for physicians to prepare imaging diagnosis reports. Therefore, it is necessary to develop some methods to generate medical imaging reports automatically. Currently, the task of medical imaging report generation is challenging in at least two aspects: (1) medical images are very similar to each other. The differences between normal and abnormal images and between different abnormal images are usually trivial; (2) unrelated or incorrect keywords describing abnormal findings in the generated reports lead to mis-communications. In this paper, we propose a medical image report generation framework composed of four modules, including a Transformer encoder, a MIX-MLP multi-label classification network, a co-attention mechanism (CAM) based semantic and visual feature fusion, and a hierarchical LSTM decoder. The Transformer encoder can be used to learn long-range dependencies between images and labels, effectively extract visual and semantic features of images, and establish long-term dependent relationships between visual and semantic information to accurately extract abnormal features from images. The MIX-MLP multi-label classification network, the co-attention mechanism and the hierarchical LSTM network can better identify abnormalities, achieving visual and text alignment fusion and multi-label diagnostic classification to better facilitate report generation. The results of the experiments performed on two widely used radiology report datasets, IU X-RAY and MIMIC-CXR, show that our proposed framework outperforms current report generation models in terms of both natural linguistic generation metrics and clinical efficacy assessment metrics. The code of this work is available online at https://github.com/watersunhznu/LIFMRG.
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- Shuifa Sun
- School of Information Science and Technology, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, 311121, Zhejiang, China; Yichang Key Laboratory of Intelligent Medicine, Yichang Key Laboratory of Intelligent Medicine, Yichang, 443002, Hubei, China
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- Yichang Key Laboratory of Intelligent Medicine, Yichang Key Laboratory of Intelligent Medicine, Yichang, 443002, Hubei, China; College of Computer and Information Technology, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, 443002, Hubei, China
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- Yichang Key Laboratory of Intelligent Medicine, Yichang Key Laboratory of Intelligent Medicine, Yichang, 443002, Hubei, China; College of Economics and Management, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, 443002, Hubei, China
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- Yichang Key Laboratory of Intelligent Medicine, Yichang Key Laboratory of Intelligent Medicine, Yichang, 443002, Hubei, China; College of Computer and Information Technology, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, 443002, Hubei, China
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- School of Information Science and Technology, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, 311121, Zhejiang, China
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- Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai, 519087, Guangdong, China.
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Schneider JM, Scott TL, Legault J, Qi Z. Limited but specific engagement of the mature language network during linguistic statistical learning. Cereb Cortex 2024; 34:bhae123. [PMID: 38566510 PMCID: PMC10987970 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhae123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2023] [Revised: 03/04/2024] [Accepted: 03/05/2024] [Indexed: 04/04/2024] Open
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Statistical learning (SL) is the ability to detect and learn regularities from input and is foundational to language acquisition. Despite the dominant role of SL as a theoretical construct for language development, there is a lack of direct evidence supporting the shared neural substrates underlying language processing and SL. It is also not clear whether the similarities, if any, are related to linguistic processing, or statistical regularities in general. The current study tests whether the brain regions involved in natural language processing are similarly recruited during auditory, linguistic SL. Twenty-two adults performed an auditory linguistic SL task, an auditory nonlinguistic SL task, and a passive story listening task as their neural activation was monitored. Within the language network, the left posterior temporal gyrus showed sensitivity to embedded speech regularities during auditory, linguistic SL, but not auditory, nonlinguistic SL. Using a multivoxel pattern similarity analysis, we uncovered similarities between the neural representation of auditory, linguistic SL, and language processing within the left posterior temporal gyrus. No other brain regions showed similarities between linguistic SL and language comprehension, suggesting that a shared neurocomputational process for auditory SL and natural language processing within the left posterior temporal gyrus is specific to linguistic stimuli.
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- Julie M Schneider
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Louisiana State University, 77 Hatcher Hall, Field House Dr., Baton Rouge, LA 70803, United States
- Department of Linguistics & Cognitive Science, University of Delaware, 125 E Main St, Newark, DE 19716, United States
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- School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, 533 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94143, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Elizabethtown College, One Alpha Dr, Elizabethtown, PA 17022, United States
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- Department of Linguistics & Cognitive Science, University of Delaware, 125 E Main St, Newark, DE 19716, United States
- Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, United States
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Ramprasad A, Casubhoy I, Bachar A, Meister M, Bethman B, Sutkin G. Language in the Teaching Operating Room: Expressing Confidence Versus Community. J Surg Educ 2024; 81:556-563. [PMID: 38383237 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsurg.2023.12.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2023] [Revised: 11/18/2023] [Accepted: 12/17/2023] [Indexed: 02/23/2024]
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OBJECTIVE Previous work has analyzed residency letters of recommendation for agentic and communal language, but this has not been applied to spoken language. Our objective was to analyze intraoperative spoken language by attending and resident surgeons for the use of agentic and communal language. DESIGN We completed a linguistic inquiry and word count (LIWC) analysis on 16 operating room transcripts (total time 615 minutes) between attendings and resident surgeons for categories associated with agentic and communal speech. Wilcoxon signed rank and Mann-Whitney U tests were used to compare attending versus resident and male versus female speech patterns for word count; "I," clout, and power (agentic categories); and "we," authentic, social (communal categories). SETTING Midwestern academic university teaching hospital. PARTICIPANTS Sixteen male (9 attendings, 7 residents) and 16 female (7 attendings, 9 residents) surgeons, from 6 surgical specialties, most commonly from General Surgery. RESULTS Attending surgeons used more words per minute than residents (40.01 vs 16.92, p < 0.01), were less likely to use "I" (3.18 vs 5.53, p < 0.01), and spoke more language of "clout" (75.82 vs 55.47, p < 0.01). There were no significant differences between attendings and residents in use of analytic speech (23.72 vs 24.67, p = 0.32), "causation" (1.20 vs 1.08, p = 0.72), or "cognitive processing" (10.20 vs 10.54, p = 0.74). Residents used more speech with "emotional tone" (92.91 vs 79.92, p = 0.03), "positive emotion" (4.98 vs 3.86, p = 0.04), more "assent" language (4.89 vs 3.09, p < 0.01), and more "informal" language (9.27 vs 6.77, p < 0.01). There were no gender differences, except for male residents speaking with greater certainty than female residents, although by less than 1% of the total word count. CONCLUSIONS In the operating room, attending surgeons were more likely to use agentic language compared to resident surgeons based on LIWC analysis. These differences did not depend on gender and likely relate to surgeon experience and confidence, learning versus teaching, and power dynamics.
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- Aarya Ramprasad
- Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery, University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, Missouri
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- Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery, University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, Missouri
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- Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery, University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, Missouri
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- Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery, University of Kansas, Kansas City, Kansas
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- Department of Race, Ethnic and Gender Studies, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri
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- Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery, University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, Missouri.
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Espey L, Ghio M, Bellebaum C, Bechtold L. That means something to me: How linguistic and emotional experience affect the acquisition, representation, and processing of novel abstract concepts. J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 2024; 50:622-636. [PMID: 37053423 DOI: 10.1037/xlm0001236] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/15/2023]
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We used a novel linguistic training paradigm to investigate the experience-dependent acquisition, representation, and processing of novel emotional and neutral abstract concepts. Participants engaged in mental imagery (n = 32) or lexico-semantic rephrasing (n = 34) of linguistic material during five training sessions and successfully learned the novel abstract concepts. Feature production after training showed that specifically emotion features enriched the emotional concepts' representations. Unexpectedly, for participants engaging in vivid mental imagery during training a higher semantic richness of the acquired emotional concepts slowed down lexical decisions. Rephrasing, in turn, promoted a better learning and processing performance than imagery, probably due to stronger established lexical associations. Our results confirm the importance of emotional and linguistic experience and additional deep lexico-semantic processing for the acquisition, representation, and processing of abstract concepts. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Linda Espey
- Department of Biological Psychology, Heinrich-Heine-University
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- Department of Biological Psychology, Heinrich-Heine-University
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- Department of Biological Psychology, Institute for Experimental Psychology, Heinrich-Heine-University
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Prescott KE, Crespo K, Ellis Weismer S. Spatial Language and Cognition in Autistic Preschoolers. J Autism Dev Disord 2024; 54:1376-1388. [PMID: 36637595 PMCID: PMC10338643 DOI: 10.1007/s10803-022-05883-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/16/2022] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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PURPOSE ASD is associated with relative strengths in the visuospatial domain but varying abilities in the linguistic domain. Previous studies suggest parallels between spatial language and spatial cognition in older autistic individuals, but no research to date has examined this relationship in young autistic children. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to investigate the connection between children's spatial language production and nonverbal spatial cognition over time. We also examined two potential predictors of spatial language observed in previous literature, ASD symptom severity and parent spatial language input. METHODS In past work investigating spatial language in NT children of the same age, parent-child interactions have been a primary context for study. Therefore, in the present study, we analyzed transcripts of dyadic naturalistic play interactions between autistic children and their parents over three visits from age 30 to 66 months and administered standardized cognitive and ASD diagnostic assessments at each visit. RESULTS Spatial language production was related to nonverbal spatial cognition even when accounting for overall language production, though the strength of that relationship decreased over time. Parent spatial input (but not ASD severity) significantly predicted children's spatial language production over and above the effect of overall language production. CONCLUSION Spatial language is associated with spatial cognition in young autistic children and appears to reflect the interaction of overall linguistic skills and nonverbal spatial cognitive ability regardless of autism severity. Parent-mediated interventions may be a promising context for increasing spatial language in autistic preschoolers.
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- Kathryn E Prescott
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 53706, United States.
- Waisman Center, Madison, WI, United States.
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- Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
- Waisman Center, Madison, WI, United States
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Luo X, Kang K, Lu L, Yu C, Li C, Li B, Hu S, Qi X, Zhou Y. Resilience evaluation of low-carbon supply chain based on improved matter-element extension model. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0301390. [PMID: 38558102 PMCID: PMC10984551 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0301390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2023] [Accepted: 03/11/2024] [Indexed: 04/04/2024] Open
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How to evaluate the resilience level and change trend of supply chain is an important research direction in current supply chain management practice. This paper proposes a new method of supply chain resilience assessment based on hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS) and matter element extension theory. Firstly, based on the research status quo at home and abroad, a low-carbon enterprise supply chain resilience assessment index system is established, which includes six first-level indicators and corresponding 21 second-level indicators of product supply resilience, resource resilience, partner resilience, information response resilience, financial resilience and knowledge resilience. Secondly, HFLTS was used to collect expert opinions and Ordered Weighted Arithmetic (OWA) to calculate the expert composite language, by which the fuzzy evaluation matrix of supply chain resilience assessment indicators was obtained. Once again, the resilience indicator weights are determined based on a game-theoretic portfolio assignment method combining the best-worst method (BWM) and the CRITIC method. Finally, the nearness degree function is combined with the extension comprehensive evaluation method to improve the matter element extension model, and the supply chain resilience assessment model of low-carbon enterprises based on the game theory combination assignment-improved matter element extension is established. Taking X low-carbon enterprise as an example, the evaluation results show that the supply chain resilience level of this enterprise is II, and the eigenvalue of the grade variable is 2.69, and the supply chain resilience is shifting to III, and the supply chain resilience is shifting to III, which indicates that the supply chain resilience of this enterprise is being enhanced. Therefore, the improved matter element extension not only ensures the accuracy of the evaluation results, but also has higher prediction accuracy.
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- Xiaochun Luo
- School of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China
- School of Economics and Management, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, China
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- School of Economics and Management, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, China
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- School of Economics and Management, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, China
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- School of Economics and Management, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, China
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- School of Economics and Management, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, China
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- School of Economics and Management, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, China
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- School of Safety Science and Emergency Management, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Jose Rizal University, Metro Manila, Philippines
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- School of Economics and Management, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, China
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Lyu S, Põldver N, Kask L, Wang L, Kreegipuu K. Effect of musical expertise on the perception of duration and pitch in language: A cross-linguistic study. Acta Psychol (Amst) 2024; 244:104195. [PMID: 38412710 DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2024.104195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2023] [Revised: 02/20/2024] [Accepted: 02/21/2024] [Indexed: 02/29/2024] Open
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This study adopts a cross-linguistic perspective and investigates how musical expertise affects the perception of duration and pitch in language. Native speakers of Chinese (N = 44) and Estonian (N = 46), each group subdivided into musicians and non-musicians, participated in a mismatch negativity (MMN) experiment where they passively listened to both Chinese and Estonian stimuli, followed by a behavioral experiment where they attentively discriminated the stimuli in the non-native language (i.e., Chinese to Estonian participants and Estonian to Chinese participants). In both experiments, stimuli of duration change, pitch change, and duration plus pitch change were discriminated. We found higher behavioral sensitivity among Chinese musicians than non-musicians in perceiving the duration change in Estonian and higher behavioral sensitivity among Estonian musicians than non-musicians in perceiving all types of changes in Chinese, but no corresponding effect was found in the MMN results, which suggests a more salient effect of musical expertise on foreign language processing when attention is required. Secondly, Chinese musicians did not outperform non-musicians in attentively discriminating the pitch-related stimuli in Estonian, suggesting that musical expertise can be overridden by tonal language experience when perceiving foreign linguistic pitch, especially when an attentive discrimination task is administered. Thirdly, we found larger MMN among Chinese and Estonian musicians than their non-musician counterparts in perceiving the largest deviant (i.e., duration plus pitch) in their native language. Taken together, our results demonstrate a positive effect of musical expertise on language processing.
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- Siqi Lyu
- Institute of Psychology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Institute of Psychology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Institute of Psychology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- College of Foreign Languages, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China
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- Institute of Psychology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
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Layes S, Lazar K, Mecheri S. Do learning disabilities in reading, spelling and numeracy have common underlying factors? Evidence from Arabic-speaking children sample. Appl Neuropsychol Child 2024; 13:113-125. [PMID: 36308724 DOI: 10.1080/21622965.2022.2137024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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We examined the role of phonemic awareness [PA], rapid naming [RAN], and verbal short-term memory [VSTM], phonological verbal fluency (PVF) along with literacy related skills (letter naming and orthographic knowledge) in reading, spelling, and numeracy performances. The study was carried out on a sample that consists of 245 native Arabic children of grade 1 and 2. The results showed a significant effect of Group on PA, RAN, VSTM, PVF, and letter naming and orthographic knowledge. There is also a comorbidity effect on PA and orthographic knowledge. The regression analysis indicated that PA and orthographic knowledge are the strongest predictors of the three academic outcomes, whereas VSTM, PVF and RAN displayed less predictive relationships with reading, spelling and numeracy. The results suggest that there are a number of underpinning factors that are linked to PA and orthographic knowledge, which are also accounted for a comorbidity condition between literacy and numeracy.
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- Smail Layes
- Department of Psychology, University of El-Oued, El-Oued, Algeria
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- Department of Psychology, University of El-Oued, El-Oued, Algeria
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- Department of Psychology, University of El-Oued, El-Oued, Algeria
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Brody G, Feiman R. Mapping words to the world: Adults, but not children, understand how mismatching descriptions refer. J Exp Psychol Gen 2024; 153:1053-1065. [PMID: 38407115 DOI: 10.1037/xge0001544] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/27/2024]
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How do children learn to connect expressions (e.g., "that red apple") to the real-world objects they refer to? The dominant view in developmental psychology is that children rely on descriptive information, "red" and "apple." In contrast, linguistic theories of the adult language attribute primacy to grammatical elements: words such as "that" or "another" first establish the status of potential referents within the discourse context (old or new) before descriptions can factor in. These theories predict that reference can succeed even when the description does not match the referent. We explored this novel prediction in adults and children. Over four experiments, we found that (a) adults relied on the articles to identify the referent, even when the description did not fit, consistent with grammar-first accounts; (b) consistent with description-first accounts, and unlike adults, 3- to 5-year-old children prioritized the descriptions provided by nouns and adjectives, despite being sensitive to grammatical information. This suggests that children connect expressions to referents differently from adults. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Gabor Brody
- Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences, Brown University
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- Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences, Brown University
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Larson C, Bochynska A, Vulchanova M. Mental rotation and language in autism spectrum disorder. Autism Res 2024; 17:785-798. [PMID: 38563047 DOI: 10.1002/aur.3128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2023] [Accepted: 03/19/2024] [Indexed: 04/04/2024]
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Though visuospatial skills are often considered a relative strength in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), unexplained difficulties relative to neurotypical (NT) peers have also been observed. Dissociations between spatial cognition and language skills in ASD may explain these difficulties given that these systems are linked in NT individuals. The current study examined performance on a mental rotation task that systematically varied stimulus features and the degree to which performance was associated with language in ASD relative to NT peers. Participants were children and young adults with ASD and 25 pairwise age- and IQ-matched NT peers (p's>0.53). The mental rotation task involved four conditions: two-dimensional (2D) abstract figures, three-dimensional (3D) abstract figures, 2D common objects, and 3D common objects. Structural language was measured using the grammar subscale from the Test of Language Development: Intermediate adapted for Norwegian. Mixed-effects model results indicated that autistic individuals were less accurate and had slower reaction time across mental rotation task conditions than NT peers. Language was associated with mental rotation accuracy for both groups across conditions, but with reaction time only for the NT group. The current study demonstrated selective associations between language and performance on a classic spatial cognition task in autistic individuals. Namely, there was a dissociation between language and in-the-moment efficiency in the ASD group, and this dissociation may reflect a broader dissociation between visuospatial and language systems.
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- Caroline Larson
- Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
- Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- University of Oslo Library, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Language and Literature, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Language and Literature, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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Gómez Varela I, Orpella J, Poeppel D, Ripolles P, Assaneo MF. Syllabic rhythm and prior linguistic knowledge interact with individual differences to modulate phonological statistical learning. Cognition 2024; 245:105737. [PMID: 38342068 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2023] [Revised: 01/30/2024] [Accepted: 01/31/2024] [Indexed: 02/13/2024]
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Phonological statistical learning - our ability to extract meaningful regularities from spoken language - is considered critical in the early stages of language acquisition, in particular for helping to identify discrete words in continuous speech. Most phonological statistical learning studies use an experimental task introduced by Saffran et al. (1996), in which the syllables forming the words to be learned are presented continuously and isochronously. This raises the question of the extent to which this purportedly powerful learning mechanism is robust to the kinds of rhythmic variability that characterize natural speech. Here, we tested participants with arhythmic, semi-rhythmic, and isochronous speech during learning. In addition, we investigated how input rhythmicity interacts with two other factors previously shown to modulate learning: prior knowledge (syllable order plausibility with respect to participants' first language) and learners' speech auditory-motor synchronization ability. We show that words are extracted by all learners even when the speech input is completely arhythmic. Interestingly, high auditory-motor synchronization ability increases statistical learning when the speech input is temporally more predictable but only when prior knowledge can also be used. This suggests an additional mechanism for learning based on predictions not only about when but also about what upcoming speech will be.
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Affiliation(s)
- Ireri Gómez Varela
- Institute of Neurobiology, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Querétaro, Mexico
| | - Joan Orpella
- Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY, USA
| | - David Poeppel
- Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY, USA; Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience, Frankfurt, Germany; Center for Language, Music and Emotion (CLaME), New York University, New York, NY, USA; Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - Pablo Ripolles
- Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY, USA; Center for Language, Music and Emotion (CLaME), New York University, New York, NY, USA; Music and Audio Research Lab (MARL), New York University, New York, NY, USA; Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - M Florencia Assaneo
- Institute of Neurobiology, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Querétaro, Mexico.
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