The noun-verb distinction

Aguiar, Vânia de; Rofes, Adrià

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“…In general, nouns differ from verbs in the information level they can add in a sentence, but both cooperate to establish neural representations of objects and events (Faroqi-Shah, Sebastian, & Woude, 2018). For instance, nouns are related to objects, or subjects who perform actions, and can complete the meaning of actions, whereas verbs refer to actions and events, including also -in many languages-temporal information about the actions, and thus indicating the syntactic complexity of verbs (Geng et al, 2022; de Aguiar & Rofes, 2022). According to King and Gentner (2019), semantic context adaptations for verbs show to be driven by online adjustments whereas for nouns by sense-selection.…”

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The effect of semantic content on the perception of audiovisual movieclips

Kesoglou,

Mikellidou

2024

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Our brain is skilled with the ability to perceive and process multimodal stimuli. This process known as crossmodal perceptual integration, has been in the research spotlight for a long time, providing evidence for the integration of information coming from different modalities. Prior research mostly utilized pictures and focused on the semantic content of a single sound or word. The present study aims to investigate crossmodal perceptual integration in realistic conditions using short movieclips (1500ms) and auditory meaningful three-word sentences to evaluate target detection in terms of accuracy and response times. Two experimental tasks were developed using PsychoPy, where participants had to indicate whether a target (noun for Experiment 1, verb for Experiment 2) was present or absent. In trials without a target, target-related information was always present, either through one of the two senses (vision or audition; incongruent condition) or through both senses (congruent condition). We observed superior performance when the target was absent generally (Mexp1 =93.9%, SDexp1 =0.04, Mexp2 =84.2%, SDexp2 =0.182) compared to when it was present (Mexp1 =82.3%, SDexp1 =0.143, Mexp2 =73.7%, SDexp2 =0.184). Moreover, superior performance was noted in incongruent target-related movieclips, which significantly decreased during congruent target-related movieclips. In Experiment 1, we observed that in the audio condition when the target-related word was a noun, participant performance was superior compared to when it was a verb (M=99.4% vs. M=86.7%; tincVerb vs. incNoun =-8.428, p=.001). In Experiment 2, the judgment scores were similarly high in incongruent movieclips and significantly lower in congruent ones regardless of whether the target-related information presented was a verb or noun. The present results provide evidence regarding the role of complexity of semantics, and especially the diverse role verbs and nouns could play in crossmodal perceptual integration in more realistic situations. Our findings can enrich the content of learning techniques, as well as the design of AI models, by taking advantage of the supporting role of semantic audiovisual information, while taking into consideration the potential confusion that the complexity of semantic information can induce to perception experience.

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The effect of semantic content on the perception of audiovisual movieclips

Kesoglou,

Mikellidou

2024

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“…In general, nouns differ from verbs in the information level they can add in a sentence, but both cooperate to establish neural representations of objects and events [26]. For instance, nouns are related to objects, or subjects who perform actions, and can complete the meaning of actions whereas verbs refer to actions and events, including also -in many languages-temporal information about the actions, and thus indicating the syntactic complexity of verbs [27], [28]. According to King and Gentner [29], semantic context adaptations for verbs show to be driven by online adjustments whereas for nouns by sense-selection.…”

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Semantic content affects crossmodal integration in audiovisual movieclips

Kesoglou,

Mikellidou

2024

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Semantic content affects crossmodal perceptual integration. To date, research focusing on this effect has not investigated in depth real-world aspects, such as language. The present study is the first to investigate how parts of speech affect crossmodal integration using audiovisual movieclips, comprising actions and auditory three-word sentences. We introduce for the first time target nouns (Experiment 1) and target verbs (Experiment 2), as well as target-absent trials where a target-related verb or noun is always presented through one sense (incongruent movieclips), or both senses (congruent movieclips). Performance was superior in incongruent target-related movieclips, and significantly deteriorated in congruent target-related movieclips. Analysis of the grammatical category of target-related information led to different results between the two experiments, showing that different parts of speech can influence crossmodal integration differently. We demonstrate the significant role of semantic complexity, and the valence of cognitive schemata linked with verbs on crossmodal perceptual confusion.

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The noun-verb distinction

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The effect of semantic content on the perception of audiovisual movieclips

The effect of semantic content on the perception of audiovisual movieclips

Semantic content affects crossmodal integration in audiovisual movieclips

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