Sentence examples for language stimulus from inspiring English sources

Unlike a language stimulus, the affective meaning of a chord does not have to be mapped onto anything else but is already contained directly in the stimulus itself.

The activation of the right posterior STS by the affectively incongruous chord targets, suggests that processing meaning triggered by a musical stimulus does not occur in identical neural structures as the one triggered by a language stimulus.

Indeed, theoretical work has proposed a complex sequence of processing steps such as sublexical encoding of the visual language stimulus and subsequent lexical access [ 31].

Before each language stimulus, they saw a target word and a picture (denoting the same concept; e.g., DOG) presented simultaneously on a computer screen.

As such, it is difficult to tell if these results differ from those in studies using simple tone stimuli as a result of the language stimulus itself and the cognitive processes required to distinguish repeated from novel words, or as a result of participants actively attending to stimuli during the task.

"It is not a mechanism that is only there for language stimuli, it is the same mechanism dogs use for processing emotional sounds in general".

A common finding is that speakers of multiple languages are slower at responding to language stimuli in their non-native language (L2) than monolingual speakers.

fMRI images were scanned from all subjects when they performed block-designed tasks that involved observing and imitating sign language stimuli.

Five fMRI language stimuli were tested in 20 healthy volunteers: (i) word generation to a given letter (WG); (ii) verb generation to a given noun (VG); (iii) generation of groups of words (GW); (iv) detection of a semantic violation in sentences (SV); and (v) detection of pseudowords (PW).

We argue that the meaning of emotional musical stimuli is processed not as a specific semantic utterance, but as a signal of more general significance and therefore distinct to the type of meaning expressed by language stimuli.

The authors overlaid activation findings from other studies using either lexical, phonemic or prosodic language stimuli.