16 Questions
Which brain areas are involved in different aspects of language?
Frontal and temporal lobes
What is affected by word frequency, and some words have more than one meaning?
Accessing meaning
What is the word superiority effect related to?
Reading
What do the frontal and temporal lobes in the brain do in relation to language?
Involved in different aspects of language processing
The meaning of ambiguous words while reading a sentence is determined by the word’s dominance and the context created by the sentence. Which situation illustrates balanced dominance?
Two equally likely meanings
Which brain wave of the ERP is affected when the meaning of the word does not fit the rest of the sentence?
N4000
What does the syntax-first approach to parsing emphasize?
Parsing conceptual unit/component of a clause
In syntactic priming experiments, what is emphasized?
Syntactic coordination
What does the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis relate to?
Culture, language, and cognition
What does anaphoric inference involve?
Understanding sentences
What is the key inference in the example of 'Williams Shakespeare wrote Hamlet while he was sitting at his desk'?
Instrument inference
What influences the way we interpret the relationships between words in sentences?
Information in visual scene
What does the P6000 wave of the ERP relate to?
Relate to semantic
What does the -ve N4000 wave of the ERP relate to?
Error of semantic
What is emphasized in the interactionist approach to parsing?
Meaning of words in a sentence
What is the focus of the syntax-first approach to parsing?
Parsing conceptual unit/component of a clause
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