Reliability of familiarity rating of ordinary Japanese words for different years and places

Amano, Sadao; Kasahara, Kaname; Kondo, Tadahisa

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“…The nontarget list was employed to equalize the number of presented stimuli in each trial. According to databases of lexical properties (Amano & Kondo, 1999;Amano et al, 2008), the mean familiarity of items in the study lists, when rated on a 7-point scale, is high-5.93 (SD = 0.78). The familiarity of a few words was not reported in the databases; however, the author judged that the familiarity of the words was satisfactory.…”

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False Memory Facilitation Through Semantic Overlap

Suzuki

2023

Experimental Psychology

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This study investigated the effects of semantic overlap from multiple sources on false memories. Participants were presented with paired study lists comprising items highly associated with one nonstudied critical item. There were three types of list pairs: (1) the sharing condition, in which the words in both lists were classified into different semantic groups that converged on the same critical word (semantic overlap), (2) the repetition condition, in which the two lists comprised identical words, and (3) the single condition, in which the paired lists were attributed to different semantic groups that did not share a critical item. In Experiment 1, participants were presented with the paired study lists and responded to free recall tests and a recognition test including remember-know judgments. In Experiment 2, the participants responded to a recognition test, and the participants in Experiment 3 recalled the studied items. The results indicated that the false recall and false recognition rates in the sharing condition were higher than those in the repetition and single conditions. These results suggest that activation from multiple independent sources may have an accumulative additive effect. The findings are discussed in relation to the Activation-Monitoring theory.

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False Memory Facilitation Through Semantic Overlap

Suzuki

2023

Experimental Psychology

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“…We used a verb generation task and a silent reading task. In both tasks, control stimuli and Japanese semantic words (visual stimuli) composed of three Japanese hiragana or katakana characters were displayed for 3,000 ms. Each word was one monomorphemic and monosyllabic three-mora Japanese word (e.g., : duck or : melon) selected from a standard reference of Japanese lexical properties 35 , 36 . Randomized pixel images of the next word to be presented were used as control stimuli.…”

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Non-invasive detection of language-related prefrontal high gamma band activity with beamforming MEG

Hashimoto

Hasegawa

Araki

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High gamma band (>50 Hz) activity is a key oscillatory phenomenon of brain activation. However, there has not been a non-invasive method established to detect language-related high gamma band activity. We used a 160-channel whole-head magnetoencephalography (MEG) system equipped with superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) gradiometers to non-invasively investigate neuromagnetic activities during silent reading and verb generation tasks in 15 healthy participants. Individual data were divided into alpha (8–13 Hz), beta (13–25 Hz), low gamma (25–50 Hz), and high gamma (50–100 Hz) bands and analysed with the beamformer method. The time window was consecutively moved. Group analysis was performed to delineate common areas of brain activation. In the verb generation task, transient power increases in the high gamma band appeared in the left middle frontal gyrus (MFG) at the 550–750 ms post-stimulus window. We set a virtual sensor on the left MFG for time-frequency analysis, and high gamma event-related synchronization (ERS) induced by a verb generation task was demonstrated at 650 ms. In contrast, ERS in the high gamma band was not detected in the silent reading task. Thus, our study successfully non-invasively measured language-related prefrontal high gamma band activity.

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“…Fifteen simple white-on-black line drawings were selected from those that were also used in MEG experiments. Each picture corresponded to a monomorphemic and monosyllabic three- or four-mora Japanese word selected from the NTT Database Series (Lexical properties of Japanese) with a word familiarity of 5–7 (Amano and Kondo 2000 ; Amano et al 2007 ). The pictures were presented on a computer screen in front of the participant.…”

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Temporospatial identification of language‐related cortical function by a combination of transcranial magnetic stimulation and magnetoencephalography

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IntroductionIdentification of language-related cortical functions can be carried out noninvasively by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and magnetoencephalography (MEG), which allow for lesion-based interrogation and global temporospatial investigation of cortices, respectively. Combining these two modalities can improve the accuracy of the identification, but the relationships between them remain unclear. We compared TMS and MEG responses during the same language task to elucidate their temporospatial relationships and used the results to develop a novel method to identify language-related cortical functions.MethodsTwelve healthy right-handed volunteers performed a picture-naming task during TMS and MEG. TMS was applied on the right or left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) at five time points, and the reaction times (RTs) for naming the pictures were measured. The temporospatial oscillatory changes measured by MEG during the same task were then compared with the TMS results.ResultsTranscranial magnetic stimulation of the left IFG significantly lengthened RTs at 300 and 375 msec after picture presentation, whereas TMS of the right IFG did not change RTs significantly. Interestingly, the stimulus time point at which RTs increased significantly for each individual was correlated with when the low gamma event-related desynchronizations (ERDs) peaked in the left IFG. Moreover, combining the results of TMS and MEG improved the detection rate for identifying the laterality of language function.ConclusionsThese results suggest that the low gamma ERDs measured by MEG strongly relate to the language function of picture naming in the left IFG. Finally, we propose a novel method to identify language-related cortical functions by combining TMS and MEG.

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Reliability of familiarity rating of ordinary Japanese words for different years and places

Cited by 10 publications

References 6 publications

False Memory Facilitation Through Semantic Overlap

False Memory Facilitation Through Semantic Overlap

Non-invasive detection of language-related prefrontal high gamma band activity with beamforming MEG

Temporospatial identification of language‐related cortical function by a combination of transcranial magnetic stimulation and magnetoencephalography

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