Abstract The amplitude of the N400—an event‐related potential (ERP) component linked to meaning processing and initial access semantic memory—is inversely related incremental buildup context over course a sentence. We revisited nature scope this effect, adopting word‐level linear mixed‐effects modeling approach, with goal probing continuous effects syntactic on multiple aspects lexical during sentence comprehension (i.e., word frequency orthographic neighborhood). First, we replicated...

Normal aging brings increased richness in knowledge and experience as well declines cognitive abilities. Event-related brain potential (ERP) studies of language comprehension corroborate findings showing that the structure organization semantic remains relatively stable with age. Highlighting advantages temporal functional specificity ERPs, this survey focuses on age-related changes higher-level processes required for successful meaning representations built from multiple words. Older adults...

Language processing involves the rapid interaction of multiple brain regions. The study its neurophysiological bases would therefore benefit from neuroimaging techniques combining both good spatial and temporal resolution. Here we use event-related optical signal (EROS), a recently developed imaging method, to reveal interactions between left superior/middle cortices (S/MTC) inferior frontal (IFC) during semantically or syntactically anomalous sentences. Participants were presented with...

Previous studies suggest that action representations are activated during object processing, even when task-irrelevant. In addition, there is evidence lexical-semantic context may affect such activation processing. Finally, prior work from our laboratory and others indicates function-based ("use") structure-based ("move") subtypes differ in their characteristics. Most assessing effects, however, have required manual object-relevant motor responses, thereby plausibly influencing the of...

Although left-hemisphere (LH) specialization for language is often viewed as a key example of functional lateralization, there increasing evidence that the right hemisphere (RH) can also extract meaning from words and sentences. However, hemisphere’s ability to appreciate syntactic aspects remains poorly understood. In current study, we used separable, functionally well-characterized electrophysiological indices lexico-semantic processes demonstrate RH sensitivity violations among...

The present study investigates the effects of neighborhood size and frequency in reading Chinese two-character words. a word is defined as summation neighbors sharing first constituent (neighborhood 1) second 2) characters. experiment found two opposite lexical decision high-frequency low-frequency regression analysis showed that 1 influenced more than 2. confirmed this finding words with higher took longer time elicited greater N400 LPC those without neighbors. These findings indicate that,...

Multiple neurocognitive subsystems are involved in resolving lexical ambiguity under different circumstances. We examined how processing these changes with normal aging by comparing ERP responses to homographs and unambiguous words completing congruent sentences (with both semantic syntactic contextual information) or prose (syntactic information only). Like young adults prior work, older elicited more negative N400s sentences, suggesting mismatch between the context residual activation of...

A computation-aware motion estimation algorithm is proposed in this paper. Its goal to find the best block-matching results a computation-limited and computation-variant environment. Our characterized by one-pass flow with adaptive search strategy. In prior scheme, Tsai et al. propose that all macroblocks are processed simultaneously, more computation allocated macroblock largest distortion among entire frame step-by-step fashion. This implies random access of required, related information...

Visual crowding—the inability to see an object when it is surrounded by flankers in the periphery—does not block semantic activation: unrecognizable words due visual crowding still generated robust priming subsequent lexical decision tasks. Based on previous finding, current study further explored whether crowded can be temporally integrated into a phrase. By showing one word at time, we presented Chinese four-word idioms with either congruent or incongruent ending order examine three...

The present study investigates whether an individual's mental imagery ability, in addition to metaphor familiarity, affects the degree of sensory-motor involvement during action comprehension. We assessed participants' ability using Vividness Mental Imagery Questionnaire-2 (VVIQ-2) and recorded event-related potentials (ERPs) while they read (1) Literal, (2) Familiar Metaphor, (3) Unfamiliar (4) Abstract sentences. ERP effect (200–750 ms) Literal relative condition was reliably correlated...

For the sake of providing 3D contents for up-coming display devices, a real-time automatic depth fusion 2D-to-3D conversion system is needed on home multimedia platform. We proposed priority algorithm with which generates map from most commercial video sequences. The results different kinds reconstruction methods are integrated into one by algorithm. Then and original 2D image converted to stereo images showing devices. In this paper, set combined show improved results. With contents, needs...

Conscious identification of an object in the periphery is drastically impaired when it surrounded by flankers as opposed to presented isolation; this known visual crowding. However, one previous behavioural study has shown that semantic priming can actually occur from a crowded stimulus [Yeh, He, & Cavanagh, 2012. Semantic words. Psychological Science, 23(6), 608–616. doi:10.1177/0956797611434746]. Based on finding, current used event-related potentials (ERPs; N400 component) verify response...

This study examined the effects of aging and education on participants' false memory for words that were not presented. Three age groups participants with either a high or low level asked to lists semantically related words. Both found affect veridical memory, as indicated in recall recognition studied word nonstudied lures. A had negative effect performance both young middle-aged adults. Older adults higher than those lower level. The results this are discussed terms importance mechanisms...