Settling into semantic space: An ambiguity-focused account of word-meaning access
JM Rodd - Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Most words are ambiguous: Individual word forms (eg, run) can map onto multiple different
interpretations depending on their sentence context (eg, the athlete/politician/river runs) …
interpretations depending on their sentence context (eg, the athlete/politician/river runs) …
A registered report testing the effect of sleep on Deese-Roediger-McDermott false memory: greater lure and veridical recall but fewer intrusions after sleep
Human memory is known to be supported by sleep. However, less is known about the effect
of sleep on false memory, where people incorrectly remember events that never occurred. In …
of sleep on false memory, where people incorrectly remember events that never occurred. In …
Lexical ambiguity
J Rodd - Oxford handbook of psycholinguistics, 2018 - books.google.com
MOST words are ambiguous: a single word form can refer to more than one different
concept. For example, the word form “bark” can refer either to the noise made by a dog, or to …
concept. For example, the word form “bark” can refer either to the noise made by a dog, or to …
Episodic memory and sleep are involved in the maintenance of context-specific lexical information.
Familiar words come with a wealth of associated knowledge about their variety of usage,
accumulated over a lifetime. How do we track and adjust this knowledge as new instances of …
accumulated over a lifetime. How do we track and adjust this knowledge as new instances of …
[HTML][HTML] Word-meaning priming extends beyond homonyms
When a homonym (eg, bark) is encountered in a sentential context that biases its
interpretation towards a less frequent meaning, subsequent interpretations of the word are …
interpretation towards a less frequent meaning, subsequent interpretations of the word are …
[HTML][HTML] Contextual priming of word meanings is stabilized over sleep
Evidence is growing for the involvement of consolidation processes in the learning and
retention of language, largely based on instances of new linguistic components (eg, new …
retention of language, largely based on instances of new linguistic components (eg, new …
Causal contributions of the domain-general (multiple demand) and the language-selective brain networks to perceptual and semantic challenges in speech …
Listening to spoken language engages domain-general multiple demand (MD;
frontoparietal) regions of the human brain, in addition to domain-selective (frontotemporal) …
frontoparietal) regions of the human brain, in addition to domain-selective (frontotemporal) …
[HTML][HTML] Learning new word meanings from story reading: The benefit of immediate testing
This study investigated how word meanings can be learned from natural story reading.
Three experiments with adult participants compared naturalistic incidental learning with …
Three experiments with adult participants compared naturalistic incidental learning with …
[HTML][HTML] Towards a distributed connectionist account of cognates and interlingual homographs: Evidence from semantic relatedness tasks
Background Current models of how bilinguals process cognates (eg,“wolf”, which has the
same meaning in Dutch and English) and interlingual homographs (eg,“angel”, meaning …
same meaning in Dutch and English) and interlingual homographs (eg,“angel”, meaning …
[HTML][HTML] The role of sleep in learning new meanings for familiar words through stories
Adults often learn new meanings for familiar words, and in doing so they must integrate
information about the newly-acquired meanings with existing knowledge about the prior …
information about the newly-acquired meanings with existing knowledge about the prior …