How working memory capacity modulates the time course of semantic integration at sentence and discourse level

X Yang, X Zhang, Y Zhang, Q Zhang, XQ Li - Neuropsychologia, 2020 - Elsevier
During comprehension, language users not only immediately integrate information from
local sentence context, but also information from global discourse context for full …

Topic shift impairs pronoun resolution during sentence comprehension: Evidence from event‐related potentials

X Xu, X Zhou - Psychophysiology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigated how topic shift and topic continuation influence pronoun
interpretation in Chinese. ERPs recorded on pronouns in topic structure showed stronger …

How context features modulate the involvement of the working memory system during discourse comprehension

X Yang, X Zhang, Y Yang, N Lin - Neuropsychologia, 2018 - Elsevier
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we investigated the effects of context
features on the involvement of the working memory (WM) system during discourse …

Factors inducing complexities in musical embedded structure processing

X Ma, Y Tao, Y Yang - Neuropsychologia, 2022 - Elsevier
The organizational structure of music is similar to that found in language, involving a large
number of complicated hierarchical and embedded structures. The factors inducing …

How distance affects semantic integration in discourse: Evidence from event-related potentials

X Yang, S Chen, X Chen, Y Yang - Plos one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Event-related potentials were used to investigate whether semantic integration in discourse
is influenced by the number of intervening sentences between the endpoints of integration …

语篇理解中语义整合的神经机制及其影响因素

张秀平, 杨晓虹, 杨玉芳 - 心理科学进展, 2015 - journal.psych.ac.cn
语义整合是把当前阅读中新出现的词语与之前的语境进行语义联结以形成连贯表征的过程.
在语篇理解中, 很多理论都确定了整合这一过程的重要性, 语义整合是达成语篇连贯的一个关键 …

Updating emotional information in daily language comprehension: The influence of topic shifts

X Zhang, X Yang, Y Yang - Journal of Neurolinguistics, 2019 - Elsevier
Tracking and updating emotional information in daily language use is essential for
successful comprehension and communication. Using an event-related potential technique …

Structural position affects topic transition: An eye-tracking study

S Lyu, JY Tu, CJC Lin - Language and Linguistics, 2024 - jbe-platform.com
In an eye-tracking study, we used Chinese double-subject construction [NPa NPb
PREDICATE](eg,[nage jiezhi] NPa [sheji] NPb [hen tebie] PREDICATE 'that ring design very …

[PDF][PDF] 汉语话题结构的心理实验研究: 进展与展望

王芳, 吴芙芸 - 外语学刊, 2020 - ilas.shisu.edu.cn
话题优先是汉语的重要类型特点之一. 近年来, 针对汉语话题结构的加工机制,
学界开展了系列实验研究, 内容涵盖话题加工是否涉及“填充语—空位” 依存关系 …

The interplay between topic shift and focus in the dynamic construction of discourse representations

X Yang, X Zhang, C Wang, R Chang, W Li - Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Previous studies have suggested that focusing an element can enhance the activation of the
focused element and bring about a number of processing benefits. However, whether and …