Language is more abstract than you think, or, why aren't languages more iconic?

G Lupyan, B Winter - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
How abstract is language? We show that abstractness pervades every corner of language,
going far beyond the usual examples of freedom and justice. In the light of the ubiquity of …

What have labels ever done for us? The linguistic shortcut in conceptual processing

L Connell - Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
How does language affect cognition? Is it important that most of our concepts come with
linguistic labels, such as car or number? The statistical distributions of how such labels co …

A continuously updated, computationally efficient stress recognition framework using electroencephalogram (EEG) by applying online multitask learning algorithms …

H Jebelli, MM Khalili, SH Lee - IEEE journal of biomedical and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recognizing the factors that cause stress is a crucial step toward early detection of stressors.
In this regard, several studies make an effort to recognize individuals' stress using an …

Effect of multitasking, physical environment and electroencephalography use on cognitive load and retention

Ö Örün, Y Akbulut - Computers in Human Behavior, 2019 - Elsevier
Two experiments were conducted to investigate the role of multitasking, physical setting and
electroencephalography use on retention and cognitive load among undergraduate …

Predicting neural activity patterns associated with sentences using a neurobiologically motivated model of semantic representation

AJ Anderson, JR Binder, L Fernandino… - Cerebral …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We introduce an approach that predicts neural representations of word meanings contained
in sentences then superposes these to predict neural representations of new sentences. A …

Principles of representation: Why you can't represent the same concept twice

L Connell, D Lynott - Topics in Cognitive Science, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
As embodied theories of cognition are increasingly formalized and tested, care must be
taken to make informed assumptions regarding the nature of concepts and representations …

Reading visually embodied meaning from the brain: Visually grounded computational models decode visual-object mental imagery induced by written text

AJ Anderson, E Bruni, A Lopopolo, M Poesio, M Baroni - NeuroImage, 2015 - Elsevier
Embodiment theory predicts that mental imagery of object words recruits neural circuits
involved in object perception. The degree of visual imagery present in routine thought and …

[HTML][HTML] Brain-computer interface controlled cyborg: establishing a functional information transfer pathway from human brain to cockroach brain

G Li, D Zhang - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
An all-chain-wireless brain-to-brain system (BTBS), which enabled motion control of a
cyborg cockroach via human brain, was developed in this work. Steady-state visual evoked …

Very early and late form-to-meaning computations during visual word recognition as revealed by electrophysiology

S Sulpizio, G Arcara, S Lago, M Marelli, S Amenta - Cortex, 2022 - Elsevier
We used a large-scale data-driven approach to investigate the role of word form in
accessing semantics. By using distributional semantic methods and taking advantage of an …

[HTML][HTML] Application of machine learning and complex network measures to an EEG dataset from ayahuasca experiments

CL Alves, RG Cury, K Roster, AM Pineda… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Ayahuasca is a blend of Amazonian plants that has been used for traditional medicine by
the inhabitants of this region for hundreds of years. Furthermore, this plant has been …