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Letters directionality effects on the inhibition of mirror generalization in th...
Silva, Maria Veiga Araújo Barroso; Oliveira, Helena Mendes; Moura, Ana Duarte Campos; Soares, Ana PaulaPrevious studies have shown that inhibiting the mirror generalization mechanism in recognizing letters/words containing reversible and non-reversible letters has a right-asymmetry bias. In this paper, we analysed for the first time whether this bias can also be observed in the visual recognition of objects as a “collateral” effect of literacy on cognition. To test this, we asked participants to decide whether p...
Speech stream composition affects statistical learning: Behavioral and neural e...
Soares, Ana Paula; Paiva, Dario; Lema, Alberto; Pereira, Diana R.; Rodrigues, Ana Cláudia; Oliveira, Helena MendesStatistical learning (SL), the ability to extract patterns from the environment, has been assumed to play a central role in whole cognition, particularly in language acquisition. Evidence has been gathered, however, from behavioral experiments relying on simplified artificial languages, raising doubts on the generalizability of these results to natural contexts. Here, we tested if SL is affected by the composit...
“Montes de sentidos”: Uma abordagem multidimensional às expressões metafóricas
Mateus, Inês Jesus Rodrigues; Oliveira, Helena Mendes; Teixeira, José; Soares, Ana PaulaDe acordo com a Teoria das Metáforas Concetuais (TMC), metáforas concetuais (MC) definem-se como mecanismos que estruturam e mapeiam conceitos abstratos através de noções concretas, estando presentes na linguagem através de expressões metafóricas (e.g., a MC felicidade é em cima está presente no discurso diário através de expressões metafóricas como “estar em alta”). Apesar da pertinência desta teoria, a invest...
The representation and processing of synonyms and translations: a masked primin...
Tomaz, Ângela; Oliveira, Helena Mendes; Soares, Ana Paula; Casalis, Severine; Comesaña, MontserratAims/Objectives: According to Multilink, words from the first (L1) and (L2) second languages share a common store and their access is non-selective. Thus, the presentation of a target word activates in parallel lexical candidates from both languages that share form and semantic overlap. The degree of words' activation also depends on their resting levels of activation (words that are more used have a higher res...
As trials go by: Effects of 2-AFC item repetition on statistical learning perfo...
Soares, Ana Paula; Franca, Tiago; Gutierrez-Dominguez, Francisco-Javier; Sousa, Ines; Oliveira, Helena MendesOne of the most popular tasks used to test statistical learning (SL) involves asking participants to identify which of two stimuli, a triplet presented during the previous familiarization phase versus a new sequence made of the same stimuli never presented together, is more familiar based on the stream presented before, that is, to perform a two-alternative forced-choice (2-AFC) task. Despite the widespread use...
Explicit instructions do not enhance auditory statistical learning in children ...
Soares, Ana Paula; Gutierrez-Dominguez, Francisco-Javier; Oliveira, Helena Mendes; Lages, Alexandrina; Guerra, Natália; Pereira, Ana Rita; Tome, DavidA current issue in psycholinguistic research is whether the language difficulties exhibited by children with developmental language disorder [DLD, previously labeled specific language impairment (SLI)] are due to deficits in their abilities to pick up patterns in the sensory environment, an ability known as statistical learning (SL), and the extent to which explicit learning mechanisms can be used to compensate...
On the syllable structure effect in european portuguese: evidence from ERPs
Campos, Ana Duarte; Oliveira, Helena Mendes; Lopez-Caneda, E.; Gutiérrez-Domínguez, F. J.; Soares, Ana PaulaSyllable effects during visual word recognition have been observed for CV but not for CVC syllables, a puzzling effect that is not explained either by the distributional frequencies of CV and CVC syllables, syllable complexity, or syllabic neighbourhood density. Furthermore, in European Portuguese (EP), syllable effects have not been found for pseudowords, suggesting that syllable activation might not precede l...
On the role of syllabic neighbourhood density in the syllable structure effect ...
Campos, Ana Duarte; Oliveira, Helena Mendes; Soares, Ana PaulaPrevious lexical decision masked priming studies have shown that the advantage of syllable-congruent primes over syllable-incongruent primes is observed for CV (e.g., JU.ROS [interests]), but not for CVC first-syllable words (e.g., TUR.BO [turbo]), giving rise to the so-called syllable structure effect (e.g., ju.ral-JU.ROS < jur.ga-JU.ROS; tur.ta-TUR.BO = tu.res-TUR.BO). This effect is puzzling since it is not ...
Learning words while listening to syllables: electrophysiological correlates of...
Soares, Ana Paula; Gutierrez-Dominguez, Francisco-Javier; Lages, Alexandrina; Oliveira, Helena Mendes; Vasconcelos, Margarida; Jimenez, LuisFrom an early age, exposure to a spoken language has allowed us to implicitly capture the structure underlying the succession of speech sounds in that language and to segment it into meaningful units (words). Statistical learning (SL), the ability to pick up patterns in the sensory environment without intention or reinforcement, is thus assumed to play a central role in the acquisition of the rule-governed aspe...
The cognate facilitation effect depends on the presence of identical cognates
Arana, Sophie L.; Oliveira, Helena Mendes; Fernandes, Ana Isabel; Soares, Ana Paula; Comesaña, MontserratPrevious research has shown that the direction of the cognate facilitation effect (CFE) can disappear if identical cognate words are removed from the stimulus list while keeping task requirements constant (Comesana, Ferre, Romero, Guasch, Soares & Garcia-Chico, 2015). These results do not fit well with leading computational models of bilingual word recognition (BIA+, Multilink), according to which there are no ...