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9Abstract Conceptual Feature Ratings Predict Gaze Within Written Word Arrays: Evidence From a Visual Wor(l)d ParadigmCognitive Science 41 (3): 659-685. 2017.The Abstract Conceptual Feature (ACF) framework predicts that word meaning is represented within a high‐dimensional semantic space bounded by weighted contributions of perceptual, affective, and encyclopedic information. The ACF, like latent semantic analysis, is amenable to distance metrics between any two words. We applied predictions of the ACF framework to abstract words using eyetracking via an adaptation of the classical “visual word paradigm” (VWP). Healthy adults (n = 20) selected the le…Read more
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18Naming and Knowing Revisited: Eyetracking Correlates of Anomia in Progressive AphasiaFrontiers in Human Neuroscience 13. 2019.
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21Clustering, hierarchical organization, and the topography of abstract and concrete nounsFrontiers in Psychology 5. 2014.
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22Non‐Arbitrariness in Mapping Word Form to Meaning: Cross‐Linguistic Formal Markers of Word ConcretenessCognitive Science 41 (4): 1071-1089. 2017.Arbitrary symbolism is a linguistic doctrine that predicts an orthogonal relationship between word forms and their corresponding meanings. Recent corpora analyses have demonstrated violations of arbitrary symbolism with respect to concreteness, a variable characterizing the sensorimotor salience of a word. In addition to qualitative semantic differences, abstract and concrete words are also marked by distinct morphophonological structures such as length and morphological complexity. Native Engli…Read more
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18Abstract Conceptual Feature Ratings Predict Gaze Within Written Word Arrays: Evidence From a Visual Word ParadigmCognitive Science 40 (6). 2016.TheConceptual Feature framework predicts that word meaning is represented within a high-dimensional semantic space bounded by weighted contributions of perceptual, affective, and encyclopedic information. The ACF, like latent semantic analysis, is amenable to distance metrics between any two words. We applied predictions of the ACF framework to abstract words using eyetracking via an adaptation of the classical “visual word paradigm”. Healthy adults selected the lexical item most related to a pr…Read more
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41Semantic Feature Training in Combination with Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for Progressive AnomiaFrontiers in Human Neuroscience 11. 2017.
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19Abstract conceptual feature ratings: the role of emotion, magnitude, and other cognitive domains in the organization of abstract conceptual knowledgeFrontiers in Human Neuroscience 7. 2013.
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15Formal Distinctiveness of High- and Low-Imageability Nouns: Analyses and Theoretical ImplicationsCognitive Science: A Multidisciplinary Journal 30 (1): 157-168. 2007.
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19Eyetracking Reveals Aberrant Visual Search During Confrontation Naming of Alzheimer’s Disease and Primary Progressive AphasiaFrontiers in Psychology 6. 2015.
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22Formal Distinctiveness of High- and Low-Imageability Nouns: Analyses and Theoretical ImplicationsCognitive Science 31 (1): 157-168. 2007.Words associated with perceptually salient, highly imageable concepts are learned earlier in life, more accurately recalled, and more rapidly named than abstract words (R. W. Brown, 1976; Walker & Hulme, 1999). Theories accounting for this concreteness effect have focused exclusively on semantic properties of word referents. A novel possibility is that word structure may also contribute to the effect. We report a corpus-based analysis of the phonological and morphological structures of a large s…Read more
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Gilbert Harman, Reasoning, Meaning and MindInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 10 (2): 219-221. 2002.
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39Formal Distinctiveness of High‐ and Low‐Imageability Nouns: Analyses and Theoretical ImplicationsCognitive Science 31 (1): 157-168. 2007.Words associated with perceptually salient, highly imageable concepts are learned earlier in life, more accurately recalled, and more rapidly named than abstract words (R. W. Brown, 1976; Walker & Hulme, 1999). Theories accounting for this concreteness effect have focused exclusively on semantic properties of word referents. A novel possibility is that word structure may also contribute to the effect. We report a corpus-based analysis of the phonological and morphological structures of a large s…Read more
Areas of Interest
19th Century Philosophy |
20th Century Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |