Automatic Lexical Access in Visual Modality: Eye-Tracking Evidence

Language processing has been suggested to be partially automatic, with some studies suggesting full automaticity and attention independence of at least early neural stages of language comprehension, in particular, lexical access. Existing neurophysiological evidence has demonstrated early lexically specific brain responses (enhanced activation for real words) to orthographic stimuli presented parafoveally even under the condition of withdrawn attention. These studies, however, did not control participants’ eye movements leaving a possibility that they may have foveated the stimuli, leading to overt processing. To address this caveat, we recorded eye movements to words, pseudowords, and non-words presented parafoveally for a short duration while participants performed a dual non-linguistic feature detection task (color combination) foveally, in the focus of their visual attention. Our results revealed very few saccades to the orthographic stimuli or even to their previous locations. However, analysis of post-experimental recall and recognition performance showed above-chance memory performance for the linguistic stimuli. These results suggest that partial lexical access may indeed take place in the presence of an unrelated demanding task and in the absence of overt attention to the linguistic stimuli. As such, our data further inform automatic and largely attention-independent theories of lexical access

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Representation of grammatical gender at different stages of L2 vocabulary acquisition: evidence from gender congruency effec

Automatic Lexical Access in Visual Modality: Eye-Tracking Evidence

Language processing has been suggested to be partially automatic, with some studies suggesting full automaticity and attention independence of at least early neural stages of language comprehension, in particular, lexical access. Existing neurophysiological evidence has demonstrated early lexically specific brain responses (enhanced activation for real words) to orthographic stimuli presented parafoveally even under the condition of withdrawn attention. These studies, however, did not control participants’ eye movements leaving a possibility that they may have foveated the stimuli, leading to overt processing. To address this caveat, we recorded eye movements to words, pseudowords, and non-words presented parafoveally for a short duration while participants performed a dual non-linguistic feature detection task (color combination) foveally, in the focus of their visual attention. Our results revealed very few saccades to the orthographic stimuli or even to their previous locations. However, analysis of post-experimental recall and recognition performance showed above-chance memory performance for the linguistic stimuli. These results suggest that partial lexical access may indeed take place in the presence of an unrelated demanding task and in the absence of overt attention to the linguistic stimuli. As such, our data further inform automatic and largely attention-independent theories of lexical access

When gender incongruency is not a problem: Evidence from artificial language learning

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Development of Adaptive E-Learning Course in Moodle System

E-learning has been actively developing recently. To date, there are a large number of platforms and developed courses. The main drawback is the lack of adaptability. This paper presents the results of developing an adaptive e-learning course on the Moodle platform. The course is based on a tree of concepts and discipline operations; the course content is based on different standards. Training takes place along various trajectories depending on the characteristics and level of the student’s preparation, which will improve the learning achievement of students. The results of the development and implementation of an adaptive electronic course designed for students of the second year of full-time education are presented. In the process of learning, students follow a certain trajectory; on each trajectory, different material is represented

Development of Adaptive E-Learning Course in Moodle System

E-learning has been actively developing recently. To date, there are a large number of platforms and developed courses. The main drawback is the lack of adaptability. This paper presents the results of developing an adaptive e-learning course on the Moodle platform. The course is based on a tree of concepts and discipline operations; the course content is based on different standards. Training takes place along various trajectories depending on the characteristics and level of the student’s preparation, which will improve the learning achievement of students. The results of the development and implementation of an adaptive electronic course designed for students of the second year of full-time education are presented. In the process of learning, students follow a certain trajectory; on each trajectory, different material is represented

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The Russian Aphasia Test: The first comprehensive, quantitative, standardized, and computerized aphasia language battery in Russian

The lack of standardized language assessment tools in Russian impedes clinical work, evidence- based practice, and research in Russian-speaking clinical populations. To address this gap in assessment of neurogenic language disorders, we developed and standardized a new comprehensive assessment instrument-the Russian Aphasia Test (RAT). The principal novelty of the RAT is that each subtest corresponds to a specific level of linguistic processing (phonological, lexical-semantic, syntactic, and discourse) in different domains: Auditory comprehension, repetition, and oral production. In designing the test, we took into consideration various (psycho)linguistic factors known to influence language performance, as well as specific properties of Russian. The current paper describes the development of the RAT and reports its psychometric properties. A tablet-based version of the RAT was administered to 85 patients with different types and severity of aphasia and to 106 agematched neurologically healthy controls. We established cutoff values for each subtest indicating deficit in a given task and cutoff values for aphasia based on the Receiver Operating Characteristic curve analysis of the composite score. The RAT showed very high sensitivity (> .93) and specificity (> .96), substantiating its validity for determining presence of aphasia. The test's high construct validity was evidenced by strong correlations between subtests measuring similar linguistic processes. The concurrent validity of the test was also strong as demonstrated by a high correlation with an existing aphasia battery. Overall high internal, inter-rater, and test-retest reliability were obtained. The RAT is the first comprehensive aphasia language battery in Russian with properly established psychometric properties. It is sensitive to a wide range of language deficits in aphasia and can reliably characterize individual profiles of language impairments. Notably, the RAT is the first comprehensive aphasia test in any language to be fully automatized for administration on a tablet, maximizing further standardization of presentation and scoring procedures