We examined whether words studied in one modality (visual or auditory) would prime performance in the opposite modality in five different perceptual implicit memory tests: auditory perceptual identification, auditory stem completion, visual perceptual identification, visual stem completion, and visual fragment completion. Significant transfer across modality was observed in all five tasks. Howe...

Lyrics play an important role in the semantics and the structure of many pieces of music. However, while many existing lyric analysis systems consider each sentence of a given set of lyrics separately, lyrics are more naturally understood as multi-sentence units, where the relations between sentences is a key factor. Here we describe a series of experiments using discourse-based features, which...

In this study, maternal semantic input was analyzed during a task, in which German mothers instructed their two-year-old children to put two objects together in a particular way. In the setting, the spatial relation (ON and UNDER) and the canonicality of these relations (canonical such as ‘an iron on an ironing board’ and noncanonical like ‘a cup under a table’) were varied and related to child...

OBJECTIVES The effectiveness of a Semantic Feature Treatment (SFT) at increasing word retrieval accuracy of untreated words was examined in relation to the influence of the number of shared features with treated words. Generalization of these improvements to discourse was also examined. METHODS Three adults with chronic aphasia completed 12 SFT sessions. Generalization to untreated words with...

Evidence for the above claim comes from my recent work on understanding subdialogues in conversation [Loc93]. Following the work of Grosz and Sidner [GSg0], I view discourse behavior as an instance of the more general phenomenon of collaboration. For agents to successfully collaborate on a task, they must hold certain beliefs and intentions regarding the acts they will perform to accomplish tha...

Abstract Address terms are closely related to the conceptualisation of hierarchical relations in a speech community, so, since – at least Western societies tendencies towards flattening hierarchies have been noted (cf. Mair, 2006), we expect changes this domain. Some evidence has produced for German, American and British English, but empirical insights on address choice Indian English lacking d...

Abstract This paper focus on the problem of task pricing and completion tasks a mobile Internet APP. Based original data set, model project’s was established by using multiple linear regression analysis. The influences factors such as point’s pricing, number other tasks, total price were analysed. Further, based which affecting completion, new developed cluster analysis to tailor some points si...

Task starvation leads to huge variation in the completion times of the tasks posted on to the crowd. The price offered to a given task together with the dynamics of the crowd at the time of posting affect its completion time. Large organizations/requesters who frequent the crowd at regular intervals in order to get their tasks done desire predictability in completion times of the tasks. Thus, s...

Background: Formulaic expressions—conversational speech formulas, idioms, pause fillers, conventional phrases, proverbs, expletives, and so on—constitute on average about 25% proportionally of everyday communication. While some clinical and experimental studies have implicated a right hemisphere involvement, controversy remains surrounding cerebral processing with respect to comprehension and p...