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language semantic knowledge

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what task is used to asses language comprehension
the lexical decision task where the you measure reaction time of a patient determining if the target is a word, the target could be a word, pseudoword, or a nonword
what results do we get from the lexical decision task
that words with high frequencies are processed quicker
what did they fid when they added a cue word in front of the target word in the lexical decision task
they found that reaction times are faster when the cue word and the target word are semantically related
what is semantic priming and what does it suggest about the mental lexicon
faster reaction times for related rather than unrelated words, suggests that the lexicon is organized by sound and meaning
what deflection on EEG supports semantic processing
N400
what deflection on EEG supports syntactic processing
P600
what are 2 different influences on comprehension
the sensory information from the word and the context information
what kind of processing comes from sensory copmrehension
bottom up perceptual inputs
what kind of processing comes from context information
top down because conceptual inputs are based on stored knowledge
what kind of comprehension model is flat out wrong
modular models
describe the interactive model of comprehension
top down effects occur prior to bottom up and influence lexical access
describe the hybrid model of comprehension
lexical access is bottom up and top down effects influence lexical selection
what model of comprehension does the gets and toscano model support
the interactive model
describe what the participants are doing in the getz and toscano EEG study
participants are seeing a cue and then listening to words and determining the sound that the word starts with
what are the independent variables in the G and T EEG study and the dependent variables
the type of visual prime: visual mask, neutral prime, associated prime
voice onset: time between air release and cord vibration, dependent variables are the ERP `
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