The literalist hopes to take the context-sensitivity of indexicals like I and here and now as a model for understanding semantic context-sensitivity more generally.
These enlarged N400 responses in SI suggest a training-induced altered sensitivity to semantic processing within and across L1 and L2.
However, it has been proposed that typical developmental acquisition of language constraints relies on sensitivity to semantic distinctions within verbs [Pinker, 1984 ].
Therefore, in terms of accuracy, our method not only performs on par with established methods, but also demonstrates sensitivity to semantic relationships without explicitly using them.
In Wang et al. (2007), sensitivity to semantic relationships (is-a and part-of) was identified as being important to correct estimation of functional similarity.
Of note, according to the new diagnostic criteria for AD, the measurement of sensitivity to semantic cueing can successfully differentiate patients with AD from healthy controls, even when patients are equated to controls on MMSE scores or when disease severity is very mild.
However, several challenges to module and system development remain, including syntactic errors, semantic errors, parameter mismatches, contextual sensitivity, noise and evolution, and load and stress.
One could argue for more sophisticated PubMed queries in combination with semantic rules to increase the sensitivity for assigning human-disease related publications [ 59, 60].
Similarly, to increase sensitivity to subtle semantic deficits, a 96-trial synonym judgement test with words presented in spoken and written form (Jefferies et al., 2009) was also used.
Our group has found that list-learning tests employing distractor tasks between acquisition trials and competing lists enhancing susceptibility to semantic interference both have excellent sensitivity for MCI and are predictive of progression from MCI to dementia [ 12, 20].
The use of VAS as a method to evaluate subjective feelings has a long tradition as "comparisons can be achieved with greater sensitivity than with semantic phrases or numeric rating scales" (Aitken 1969).
