Does Global Context Modulate Cerebral Asymmetries? A Review and New Evidence on Word Imageability Effects

Chiarello, Christine; Liu, Stella; Shears, Connie

doi:10.1006/brln.2001.2483

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“…Take, for example, the pair of derived nouns in our study, xisun 'vaccination' and xósen 'robustness'. Both are equally short (consisting of only two syllables in speech and four letters in written Hebrew), but the second is more abstract than the first, which has a higher frequency and is the more 'imageable' of the two [39].…”

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“…The degree of abstractness of derived nouns is not uniform, but graded, and depends on factors like frequency, degree of lexicalization, the count/noncount distinction and imageability. The notion of 'imageability', similar but not identical to concreteness, refers to the ease with which a word gives rise to a sensory mental image and has been shown to have an effect on language processing [39][40][41][42][43]. High-imagery words, mostly concrete words [e.g., (wrist) watch], are easier to process than low-imagery words, mostly abstract words (e.g., time).…”

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Hebrew Derived Nouns in Context: A Developmental Perspective

Seroussi

2004

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Derived nouns constitute a productive group of abstract nouns in Hebrew, consisting of action nominals as well as other verb-related nouns in other morphological patterns. This study traces the route taken by Hebrew-speaking children, adolescents and adults on a written sentence-construction test. The test consisted of six pairs of derived nouns sharing the same root but having different meanings (analogous to English pairs like process-procedure, destiny-destination) and was administered to 110 native speakers of Hebrew (school-goers in grades VI, VIII, and XI and two groups of adults, younger and older). Results of both quantitative and qualitative analyses point to the influence of various semantic factors on later lexical development on the one hand, and a close semantic-syntactic interdependency, on the other.

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Hebrew Derived Nouns in Context: A Developmental Perspective

Seroussi

2004

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“…Some studies have reported patterns that match the predictions of dual coding, showing bilateral processing of concrete words but LH-dominant processing of abstract words (Binder et al, 2005; Eviatar et al, 1990; Sabsevitz et al, 2005). Other studies, however, observed increased LH activity (Fiebach and Friederici, 2003) and LH processing advantages (see review in Chiarello et al, 2001) for concrete words, or enhanced activations for abstract words bilaterally (Pexman et al 2007) or selective to the LH (Noppeney and Price, 2004) or RH (Kiehl et al, 1999). …”

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Imagine that! ERPs provide evidence for distinct hemispheric contributions to the processing of concrete and abstract concepts

Huang¹,

2010

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Although abstract and concrete concepts are processed and remembered differently, the underlying nature of those differences remains in dispute. The current study used visual half-field (VF) presentation methods and event-related potential (ERP) measures to examine how the left (LH) and right (RH) cerebral hemispheres process concrete and abstract meanings of polysemous nouns (e.g., “green book,” referring to the concrete, physical object that is a book, versus “engaging book,” referring to the abstract information that a book conveys). With presentation to the right VF, nouns preceded by concrete modifiers were associated with more positivity on the P2 and N400, suggesting that concrete concepts were easier for the LH to process perceptually and semantically. In contrast, with presentation to the left VF (RH), nouns used in a concrete sense elicited a sustained frontal negativity (500-900 ms) that has been previously linked to imagery. The results thus reveal multiple, distinct neural and cognitive sources for concreteness effects and point to a critical role for the RH in linking language input to sensory imagery.

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“…Prior studies showed that words were better identified in the right visual field than in the left visual field (Bouma, 1973; Bryden, 1970; Chiarello et al., 2001; Ellis, 2004; Simola et al., 2009). In the present study, the accuracies of T1 and T2 in transposed words were nearly identical in the left and right visual fields, whereas the identification accuracy of canonical words in the right visual field was statistically higher than that in the left visual field, signaling the presence of a right visual field superiority (Figure 3).…”

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Character Decomposition and Transposition of Chinese Compound Words in the Right and Left Visual Fields

2016

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This study investigated the character decomposition and transposition processes of Chinese two-character compound words (canonical and transposed words) and pseudowords in the right and left visual fields using a dual-target rapid serial visual presentation paradigm. The results confirmed a right visual field superiority for canonical words, but this advantage vanished for transposed words. The findings further indicated that the same quality of lexical processing could be obtained from the foveal and parafoveal regions of the right and left visual fields, regardless of the character order, but not in the periphery of the right visual field. Moreover, the proportion of order reversals peaked at the central position and the shortest exposure time, but it declined with increasing eccentricity and time interval. We concluded that the character transposition of Chinese compound words was significantly sensitive in the periphery of the right visual field. Furthermore, the character order errors were mainly encoded in the foveal vision with a duration of 100 ms, which suggested that the order of the foveally presented Chinese characters was more likely to be reversed at the early stage of visual word processing.

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Does Global Context Modulate Cerebral Asymmetries? A Review and New Evidence on Word Imageability Effects

Cited by 25 publications

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Hebrew Derived Nouns in Context: A Developmental Perspective

Hebrew Derived Nouns in Context: A Developmental Perspective

Imagine that! ERPs provide evidence for distinct hemispheric contributions to the processing of concrete and abstract concepts

Character Decomposition and Transposition of Chinese Compound Words in the Right and Left Visual Fields

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