BACKGROUND Receptive vocabulary is an important measure for language evaluations. Therefore, norm-referenced receptive vocabulary tests are widely used in several languages. However, a receptive vocabulary test has not yet been normed for Modern Greek. AIMS To adapt an American English vocabulary test, the Receptive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test-II (ROWPVT-II), for Modern Greek for use wit...

A model for correct recall and intrusions in cued recall of word lists is introduced. Intrusions are false responses that were correct in an earlier list. The model assumes 3 exclusive states for memory traces after encoding: with a list tag (i.e., with information about list origin), without list tags, and missing. Across lists, a trace can lose its list tag or its content. For retrieval, an o...

Inhibited encoding is the basis of some accounts of repetition blindness--impaired report of the second occurrence of a repeated word in a rapidly presented word sequence. The author presents evidence for the claim that repetition effects arise from constructive processes of perception and memory that occur to some extent after the word sequence has been presented. Unpredictable postlist cues p...

For speech recognition system, there are three kinds of result representations as one-best, N-best and Lattice. Since lattice has multi-path which can reduce the effect of recognition error rate, it is widely applied nowadays. In fact, there are amount of redundancies in lattice, which leads to the increasing of complexity of latter algorithm based on it. Additionally, for the decoding algorith...

‘Sanne M Jansen’ was missed off the original author list. The correct author list and affiliations should read: Sophie E R Horbach, Albert Wolkerstorfer, Daniel Martijn de Bruin, Sanne M Jansen, Chantal M A M van der Horst 1. Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand Surgery, Academic Medical Center (AMC), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands 2. Department of Derm...

introduction: emotional words in comparison with neutral words have different hemispheric specialization. it is assumed that the right hemisphere has a role in processing every kind of emotional word. the objective of the present study was the development of a persian version of the dichotic emotional word test and evaluate its validation among adult persian speakers.   materials and methods: t...

background : during the past two decades, a great deal of research has been conducted on developing affective norms for words in various languages, showing that there is an urgent need to create such norms in persian language, too. the present study intended to develop a set of 362 persian words rated according to their emotional valence, arousal, imageability, and familiarity so as to prepare ...

Diana McCarthy et al. (ACL-2004) obtain the predominant sense for an ambiguous word based on a weighted thesaurus of words related to the ambiguous word. This thesaurus is obtained using Dekang Lin’s (COLING-ACL1998) distributional similarity method. Lin averages the distributional similarity by the whole training corpus; thus the list of words related to a given word in his thesaurus is given ...

Lists of short words usually are recalled better than lists of longer words in immediate recall tasks. Such word length effects might be explained by localist accounts, in which the length of each word in a list affects the recall of that word only, or by globalist accounts, in which the lengths of at least some words affect the recall of other words (e.g., Baddeley, 1986). In a recent localist...