Two findings serve as the hallmark for hemispheric specialization during lateralized lexical decision. First is an overall word advantage, with words being recognized more quickly and accurately than non-words (the effect being stronger in response latency). Second, a right visual field advantage is observed for words, with little or no hemispheric differences in the ability to identify non-wor...

The present study investigated the effect of performing an intentional non-meaningful hand movement on subsequent lexical acquisition and retrieval in healthy adults. Twenty-five right-handed healthy individuals were required to learn the names (2-syllable legal nonwords) for a series of unfamiliar objects. Participants also completed a familiar picture naming task to investigate the effects of...

It has recently been proposed that the time course of lexical processing can be influenced by strategic control factors in word reading. In the current study, a specific hypothesis of control, rate of processing, was implemented in three simulations of word reading. Simulation results showed that, by modulating the dynamic of processing, the control parameter input gain can account for effects ...

There is always a lexicon in a language learner ’s mind, with the lexical factors be represented. This paper proposes a dual-mode system to present vocabulary in the lexicon with access to rules and exemplars, which aims at facilitating the process to the lexicon with accuracy, appropriateness and idiomaticity.

We present a new class of neural network models of reading aloud based on Sejnowski & Rosenberg’s NETtalk. Unlike previous models, they are not restricted to mono-syllabic words, require no complicated inputoutput representations such as Wickelfeatures and require no preprocessing to align the letters and phonemes in the training data. The best cases are able to achieve perfect performance on t...

the present paper aims to examine the role of frequency lexicon in assessing lexical proficiency of persian learners. addressing the frequency distribution pattern of persian words, the research which is conducted in corpus-based method studies the relationship between words and lexical proficiency as well as derives the frequency lexicon from persian corpus. to do so, formal and colloquial per...

Brent, Lexical acquisition and lexical access 1 Abstract Much eeort has gone into constructing models of how children segment speech and thereby discover the words of their language. Much eeort has also gone into constructing models of how adults access their mental lexicons and thereby segment speech into words. In this paper, I explore the possibility of a model that could account for both wo...

This paper presents the rst uniied model of how adults and young children use whatever words they know to segment utterances and isolate novel words. This model is based on a conception of the language processor as a system for reasoning under conditions of uncertainty about the language being heard, the linguistic structure of the current utterance, and the portion of the current utterance tha...

Neuropsychological studies have shown that both cerebral hemispheres process orthographic, phono-logical and semantic aspects of written words, al-beit in different ways. The Left Hemisphere (LH) is more influenced by the phonological aspect of written words whereas lexical processing in the Right Hemisphere (RH) is more sensitive to visual form. We explain this phenomenon by postulating that i...