The Importance of Being First: Serial Order Effects in the Interaction Between Action Plans and Ongoing Actions

Fournier, Lisa R.; Gallimore, Jonathan; Feiszli, Kevin R.; Logan, Gordon D.

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“…They shared nothing in particular in the heterogeneous control condition. Meyer (1991) found benefits for homogeneous word beginnings, but not for homogeneous endings, supporting theories of word production in which initial ingredients are selected before later ones (e.g., Levelt, Roelofs & Meyer, 1999; O’Séaghdha & Marin, 2000; Sevald & Dell, 1994; see also Fournier, Gallimore, Feiszli, & Logan, 2013). Because of its demonstrated utility, form preparation has been applied to additional questions, including the nature of syllable representation (Cholin, Schiller & Levelt, 2004), and the isolability of distinctively morphological units (e.g., Chen & Chen, 2006; Janssen, Roelofs & Levelt, 2002; Roelofs & Baayen, 2002).…”

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The exception does not rule: Attention constrains form preparation in word production.

O'Séaghdha¹,

Frazer²

2014

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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Form preparation in word production, the benefit of exploiting a useful common sound (such as the first phoneme) of iteratively spoken small groups of words, is notoriously fastidious, exhibiting a seemingly categorical, all-or-none character, and a corresponding susceptibility to ‘killers’ of preparation. In particular, the presence of a single exception item in a group of otherwise phonologically consistent words has been found to eliminate the benefit of knowing a majority characteristic. This has been interpreted to mean that form preparation amounts to partial production, and thus provides a window on fundamental processes of phonological word encoding (e.g., Levelt et al., 1999). However, preparation of only fully distributed properties appears to be non-optimal, and is difficult to reconcile with the sensitivity of cognitive responses to probabilities in other domains. We show here that the all-or-none characteristic of form preparation is specific to task format. Preparation for sets that included an exception item occurred in ecologically valid production tasks, picture naming (Experiment 1), and word naming (Experiment 2). Preparation failed only in the commonly used, but indirect and resource-intensive, associative cuing task (Experiment 3). We outline an account of form preparation in which anticipation of word-initial phonological fragments uses a limited capacity, sustained attentional capability that points to rather than enacts possibilities for imminent speech.

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The exception does not rule: Attention constrains form preparation in word production.

O'Séaghdha¹,

Frazer²

2014

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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“…Although we focus on syllabic sequences, these constraints on sequential processing potentially extend to non‐linguistic sequences as well. The edge bias in sequential processing is robust in adults across a range of tasks and sensory domains (Endress & Mehler, ; Endress et al ., ; Fournier, Gallimore, Feiszli & Logan, ; Gupta et al ., ; Gupta, ; Henson, ; Hurlstone et al ., ; Murdock, ). Since our current experiments only used sequences of syllables, future research will have to uncover how general sequential processing operates at birth and whether the role of segmentation cues in sequential processing can be generalized.…”

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On the edge of language acquisition: inherent constraints on encoding multisyllabic sequences in the neonate brain

Ferry

Fló

Brusini

et al. 2015

Developmental Science

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To understand language, humans must encode information from rapid, sequential streams of syllables - tracking their order and organizing them into words, phrases, and sentences. We used Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) to determine whether human neonates are born with the capacity to track the positions of syllables in multisyllabic sequences. After familiarization with a six-syllable sequence, the neonate brain responded to the change (as shown by an increase in oxy-hemoglobin) when the two edge syllables switched positions but not when two middle syllables switched positions (Experiment 1), indicating that they encoded the syllables at the edges of sequences better than those in the middle. Moreover, when a 25 ms pause was inserted between the middle syllables as a segmentation cue, neonates' brains were sensitive to the change (Experiment 2), indicating that subtle cues in speech can signal a boundary, with enhanced encoding of the syllables located at the edges of that boundary. These findings suggest that neonates' brains can encode information from multisyllabic sequences and that this encoding is constrained. Moreover, subtle segmentation cues in a sequence of syllables provide a mechanism with which to accurately encode positional information from longer sequences. Tracking the order of syllables is necessary to understand language and our results suggest that the foundations for this encoding are present at birth.

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The Importance of Being First: Serial Order Effects in the Interaction Between Action Plans and Ongoing Actions

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The exception does not rule: Attention constrains form preparation in word production.

The exception does not rule: Attention constrains form preparation in word production.

On the edge of language acquisition: inherent constraints on encoding multisyllabic sequences in the neonate brain

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