Search for dissertations about: "semantic priming"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 swedish dissertations containing the words semantic priming.

  2. 1. Semantic Framing of Speech : Emotional and Topical Cues in Perception of Poorly Specified Speech

    Author : Björn Lidestam; Björn Lyxell; Staffan Hygge; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Speech perception; speechreading; facial expressions; priming; phonemes; semantics; lipreading; auditory perception; cognition; paralinguistics; emotional content; Läppavläsning; Psychology; Psykologi;

    Abstract : The general aim of this thesis was to test the effects of paralinguistic (emotional) and prior contextual (topical) cues on perception of poorly specified visual, auditory, and audiovisual speech. The specific purposes were to (1) examine if facially displayed emotions can facilitate speechreading performance; (2) to study the mechanism for such facilitation; (3) to map information-processing factors that are involved in processing of poorly specified speech; and (4) to present a comprehensive conceptual framework for speech perception, with specification of the signal being considered. READ MORE

  4. 2. Subliminal or not? : An appraisal of semantic processing in the near absence of visual awareness

    Author : Anders Sand; Mats Nilsson; Joakim Westerlund; Zoltan Dienes; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Subliminal priming; Signal detection theory; Bayesian statistics; Visual masking; Consciousness; Awareness; Unconscious processing; Semantic priming; Psychology; psykologi;

    Abstract : Stimuli that cannot be perceived (i.e., that are subliminal) can still elicit neural responses in an observer, but can such stimuli influence behavior and higher-order cognition? Empirical evidence for such effects has periodically been accepted and rejected over the last six decades. READ MORE

  5. 3. Thoughts in Motion : The Role of Long-Term L1 and Short-Term L2 Experience when Talking and Thinking of Caused Motion

    Author : Guillermo Montero-Melis; Emanuel Bylund; T. Florian Jaeger; Henriëtte Hendriks; Lars Fant; Barbara C. Malt; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Linguistic relativity; language and thought; conceptualization; thinking for speaking; semantic typology; lexicalization patterns; events; caused motion; bilingualism; second language acquisition; transfer; adaptation; priming; Spanish; Swedish; Bilingualism; tvåspråkighet;

    Abstract : This thesis is about whether language affects thinking. It deals with the linguistic relativity hypothesis, which proposes that the language we speak influences the way we think. This hypothesis is investigated in the domain of caused motion (e.g. READ MORE

  6. 4. When I show the Beatles then you say: ‛Ramones!’ : imaging semantic memory in Alzheimer’s disease and semantic dementia

    Author : Raffaella M Crinelli; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : Elderly people contacting the health care system because of suspected dementia very often report word forgetfulness, a clinical condition referred as anomia, often one of the first signs of cognitive decline. Considering the complexity of human language it is no wonder that dementia disorders can affect language processing, which in its turn relies heavily on the intactness of the semantic memory system. READ MORE

  7. 5. Scripted knowledge packages : implicit and explicit constraints on comprehension and memory

    Author : Stefan Samuelsson; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : The aim of the present thesis was (a) to specify how the use of predictive inferences in comprehension is constrained by scripted knowledge packages, (b) to examine recall for scripted representations, and (c) to specify mechanisms underlying the interplay between script-based constraints on predictive inferences and memory for these generic knowledge representations. In fourteen experiments, lipreading represented a method to detect implicit and explicit constraints on predictive inferences imposed by typicality, abstraction, and temporal order. READ MORE