Sentences Before Words: Seeing Before Hearing

Words before actions.

M R C, A 78-YEAR-OLD MAN WITH A HIStory of Zollinger-Ellison syndrome with metastatic gastrinoma requiring subtotal gastrectomy with gastro-jejunostomy, multiple past gastroin-testinal tract bleeding events, and severe aortic stenosis was seen at an emergency department in Central Cali-fornia after an episode of melena. On upper endoscopy, he was found to have a bleeding ulcer with a visible ve...

Worlds Before and Beyond Words

The advent of computer-generated environments for simulating experience of the real world invites a reappraisal of the role of classical and neo-classical theories of computation (e.g. views of computation based on linguistic and logical frameworks). To make more effective use of computers in connection with Virtual Reality requires a shift in emphasis towards computers as state representers ra...

Word recognition before production of first words?

The current study examined whether 11-month-old and 12-month-old French infants were able to recognize familiar words in a situation yielding no extra-linguistic cues, before they made identified attempts at producing such words. A head-turn preference paradigm was used to compare infants' interest for familiar words against rare words. Lists of familiar words were auditorily presented to each ...

Binaural Hearing—before and after the Stethophone

Hearing words helps seeing words: A cross-modal word repetition effect

Watching a speaker say words benefits subsequent auditory recognition of the same words. In this study, we tested whether hearing words also facilitates subsequent phonological processing from visual speech, and if so, whether speaker repetition influences the magnitude of this word repetition priming. We used long-term cross-modal repetition priming as a means to investigate the underlying lex...