Sentence examples for semantic competition from inspiring English sources

An exception is the recent study by Grindrod et al. (2008), which manipulated different semantic competition and selection conditions in spoken word recognition, using an implicit priming task.

Increased left anterior inferior temporal activation for lexical decision on low-frequency words with high-frequency syllables can be explained in terms of semantic competition during word selection.

For recent decades, anthropologists and sociologists have documented semantic competition and slippage between 'embryo', 'fetus', 'abortus' and 'baby' in Parliament, the media and clinics.

Thompson et al. compare these groups of patients on a task in which related items are repeatedly presented, increasing semantic competition across repetitions.

None of these is in direct semantic competition with unsqueeze, since none of them specifies or requires that the event referred to is the reversal of an act of "squeezing".

When 2 meanings of a homonym were activated in the absence of strong semantic competition/suppression during ambiguous double-related trials (game dance ball), brain responses were observed in left mid-ITG (BA 20) and pMTG (BA 21).

It has recently been suggested that there is a lexical-semantic competition that interferes with the action, once an action is triggered.

We contrast the semantic pointer competition (SPC) theory of consciousness with the hypothesis that consciousness is the capacity of a system to integrate information (IIT).

Consciousness results from three mechanisms: representation by firing patterns in neural populations, binding of representations into more complex representations called semantic pointers, and competition among semantic pointers to capture the most important aspects of an organism's current state.

Nevertheless, existing descriptions suggest that these patients might have different varieties of 'access' impairment related to difficulty resolving competition (in semantic aphasia) versus initial activation of concepts from sensory inputs (in Wernicke's aphasia).

Together, these findings provide support for the assumption that lexical selection is competitive and that semantic interference effects in the PWI paradigm reflect this competition.