Priming is swell, but it's far from simple

J Ziegler, J Snedeker, E Wittenberg - Behavioral and Brain …, 2017 - dash.harvard.edu
Clearly, structural priming is a valuable tool for probing linguistic representation. But we
don't think that the existing results provide strong support for Branigan & Pickering's (B&P's) …

Resting-state hippocampal networks related to language processing reveal unique patterns in temporal lobe epilepsy

A Whitten, ML Jacobs, DJ Englot, BP Rogers… - Epilepsy & Behavior, 2021 - Elsevier
Objective Patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) commonly experience a broad range of
language impairments. These deficits are thought to arise from repeated seizure activity that …

[HTML][HTML] Converging neural-centric and mechano-regulation in organoid modeling for system biology and medicine

J Tang, Z Wang, D Khutsishvili, Y Zhu, J Li… - The Innovation …, 2024 - the-innovation.org
The understanding of complex biological systems and the development of effective precision
medicine strategies necessitate controllable and tractable experimental models. The human …

Minimalism and evolution

MC Corballis - Frontiers in Communication, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Minimalism proposes that universal grammar (UG) is a characteristic of human thought, also
known as I-language, whose main component is the operation Merge, providing for the …

[HTML][HTML] Does rehearsal matter? Left anterior temporal alpha and theta band changes correlate with the beneficial effects of rehearsal on working memory

CR Plaska, K Ng, TM Ellmore - Neuropsychologia, 2021 - Elsevier
Rehearsal during working memory (WM) maintenance is assumed to facilitate retrieval. Less
is known about how rehearsal modulates WM delay activity. In the present study, 44 …

[PDF][PDF] Priming methods in semantics and pragmatics

M Maldonado, B Spector, E Chemla - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2017 - hal.science
Structural priming is a powerful method to inform linguistic theories. We argue that this
method extends nicely beyond syntax, to theories of meaning. However, priming should still …

Sleep and word learning over time in adults with moderate-severe traumatic brain injury

EL Morrow - 2022 - ir.vanderbilt.edu
Cognitive-communication impairment is among the most common and costly consequences
of moderate-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). Word learning is a central but largely …

The logic of syntactic priming and acceptability judgments

P Gaston, N Huang, C Phillips - Behavioral and Brain …, 2017 - search.proquest.com
A critical flaw in Branigan & Pickering's (B&P's) advocacy of structural priming is the absence
of a theory of priming. This undermines their claims about the value of priming as a …

The reality of doing things with (thousands of) words in applied research and clinical settings: A commentary on Clarke et al.(2020).

TB Holmlund, C Diaz-Asper, B Elvevåg - 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Comments on an article by N. Clarke et al.(see record 2020-56430-038). Clarke, Foltz and
Garrard to be exciting, but our positive reaction was tempered by the reality of translating …

[PDF][PDF] Considering experimental and observational evidence of priming together, syntax doesn't look so autonomous

NA Lester, JW Du Bois, ST Gries… - Behavioral and Brain …, 2017 - academia.edu
We agree with Branigan & Pickering (B&P) that structural priming experiments should
supplant grammaticality judgments for testing linguistic representation. However, B&P …