The authors show that verb aspect influences the activation of event knowledge with 4 novel results. First, common locations of events (eg, arena) are primed following verbs with …
HJ Haarmann, EJ Davelaar, M Usher - Journal of Memory and Language, 2003 - Elsevier
We report three correlation studies, which investigate the hypothesis that individual differences in the capacity of a semantic short-term memory (STM) component in working …
TM Signorelli, HJ Haarmann… - International Journal of …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
This study examines whether interpreters have better working memory (WM) than non- interpreters, taking into account different WM components and the potential modulatory …
HJ Haarmann, KA Cameron - International journal of psychophysiology, 2005 - Elsevier
The active maintenance of sentence meaning in working memory was investigated using event-related electroencephalogram (EEG) coherences. Participants read a sentence …
SM Callahan - Journal of Neurolinguistics, 2008 - Elsevier
Anaphora is a common, universal, and critical aspect of communication. For quite some time, linguists and psycholinguists have applied introspective and behavioral techniques to …
This study investigated cognitive and neural processes involved in gap filling during on-line sentence comprehension. Electroencephalogram (EEG) coherences were used to …
D Segal - Learning and Individual Differences, 2023 - Elsevier
Purpose The study aims to examine whether individuals with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have reading comprehension difficulties, and if they do, which cognitive …
TR Ferretti, AN Katz, CA Schwint, C Patterson… - Cognitive, Affective, & …, 2020 - Springer
We use event-related brain potential (ERP) methodology to examine the influence of the linguistic markers literally speaking and figuratively speaking on the comprehension of …
Idiomatic expressions such as kick the bucket or go down a storm can differ on a number of internal features, such as familiarity, meaning, literality, and decomposability, and these …