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The role of HG in the analysis of temporal iteration and interaural correlation
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How the characteristics of words in child-directed speech differ from adult-directed speech to influence children's productive vocabularies
Child-directed speech has long been known to influence children's vocabulary learning. However, while we know that caregiver utterances differ from those directed at adults in various ways, little is known about any differences in the lexical properties of child-directed and adult-directed utterances. We compare over half a million word tokens from adult speech directed at children (from caregiver-child transcriptions) to the same quantity directed at adults. We show that child-directed speech contains greater numbers of words that are lower in phonemic length, higher in frequency, lower in phonotactic probability, and higher in neighborhood density than adult-directed speech; furthermore, child-directed speech explains over twice the variability of children's productive noun vocabularies than adult-directed speech. These findings indicate that children's word production is clearly influenced by the characteristics of the words spoken directly to them and that researchers need to be wary of using adult-directed language corpora when calculating lexical measures
We can guide search by a set of colours, but are reluctant to do it.
For some real-world color searches, the target colours are not precisely known, and any item within a range of color values should be attended. This, a target representation that captures multiple similar colours would be advantageous. If such multicolour search is possible, then search for two targets (e..g Stroud, Menneer, Cave and Donnelly, 2012) might be guided by a target representation that included the target colours as well as the continuum of colours that fall between the targets within a contiguous region of color space. Results from Stroud et al (2012) suggest otherwise, however. The current set of experiments show that guidance for a set of colours that are from a single region of color space can be effective if targets are depicted as specific discrete colours. Specifically, Experiments 1-3 demonstrate that a search can be guided by four and even eight colours given the appropriate conditions. However, Experiment 5 gives evidence that guidance is sometimes sensitive to how informative the target preview is to search. Experiments 6 and 7 show that a stimulus showing a continuous range of target colours is not translated into a search target representation. Thus, search can be guided by multiple discrete colours that are from a single region in color space, but this approach was not adopted in a search for two targets with intervening distractor colours
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Scene-based and object-centered facilitation: evidence for attention at multiple levels of spatial description
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Semantic priming does not turn back the clock: evidence against prior entry for semantically primed words and pictures
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Response preferences for 'what' and 'where' in human non-primary auditory cortex
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An fMRI investigation of the cortical origins of the dual pathway model in humans
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Endogenous shifts of attention operate within multiple coordinate frames: evidence from a feature-priming task
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