There is evidence that the explicit lexical-semantic processing deficits which characterize aphasia may be observed in the absence of implicit semantic impairment. The aim of this article was to critically review the international literature on lexical-semantic processing in aphasia, as tested through the semantic priming paradigm. Specifically, this review focused on aphasia and lexical-semant...

Lexical information facilitates speech perception, especially when sounds are ambiguous or degraded. The interactive approach to understanding this effect posits that this facilitation is accomplished through bi-directional flow of information, allowing lexical knowledge to influence pre-lexical processes. Alternative autonomous theories posit feed-forward processing with lexical influence rest...

Lexical scan is a basic part of language processors such as assemblers, compilers, and source code interpreters [2]. The lexical scan takes a large amount of processing time, although the processing algorithm is rather simple and regular. Hence, the hardware realization is especially effective for the speed-up of the processing. Based on the experience of the design and evaluation of a hardware...

Peripheral vision plays an important role in normal reading, but its role becomes larger for visually impaired people with central-field loss. This experiment studied whether lexical processing differs in central and peripheral vision through the analysis of word-frequency effects in lexical decisions. We asked two main questions: (1) Do central and peripheral vision differ in the time course o...

Lexical processing requires both activating stored representations and selecting among active candidates. The current work uses an eye-tracking paradigm to conduct a detailed temporal investigation of lexical processing. Patients with Broca's and Wernicke's aphasia are studied to shed light on the roles of anterior and posterior brain regions in lexical processing as well as the effects of lexi...

This presentation introduces a Python module (PyCWN) for accessing and processing Chinese lexical resources. In particular, our focus is put on the Chinese Wordnet (CWN) that has been developed and released by CWN group at Academia Sinica. PyCWN provides the access to Chinese Wordnet (sense and relation data) under the Python environment. The presenation further demonstrates how this module app...

Two experiments are reported examining the relationship between lexical and syntactic processing during language comprehension, combining techniques common to the on-line study of syntactic ambiguity resolution with priming techniques common to the study of lexical processing. By manipulating grammatical properties of lexical primes, we explore how lexically based knowledge is activated and gui...

This study examined the effects that the acoustic-phonetic structure of a stimulus exerts on the processes by which lexical candidates compete for activation. An auditory lexical decision paradigm was used to investigate whether shortening the VOT of an initial voiceless stop consonant in a real word results in the activation of the lexical-semantic network of its voiced competitor, i.e., does ...

This paper presents an integrated view of the effects of context upon lexical access and lexical integration during sentence comprehension. The review incorporates evidence from both standard psycholinguistic and neuro-cognitive approaches. Along with this integrated overview, new hemispherespecific processing evidence concerning context and lexical processing is presented. The evidence is take...

Early perceptual processing capabilities are likely to contribute to the categorization of lexical vs. grammatical words by newborns. This lexical categorization could be performed by detecting differences in the prosodic structure of these word categories. Here we demonstrate that a Temporal Recurrent Network (TRN) that allows realistic treatment of the dynamic temporal aspect of prosody perfo...