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Powers, Chivon; Bencic, Rachel; Horton, William S.; Beeman, Mark – Neuropsychologia, 2012
In this study we examined asymmetric semantic activation patterns as people listened to conversations and narratives that promoted causal inferences. Based on the hypothesis that understanding the unique features of conversational input may benefit from or require a modified pattern of conceptual activation during conversation, we compared…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Semantics, Priming, Speech Communication
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Proverbio, Alice Mado; Adorni, Roberta; D'Aniello, Guido Edoardo – Neuropsychologia, 2011
It is well known that viewing graspable tools (but not other objects) activates motor-related brain regions, but the time course of affordance processing has remained relatively unexplored. In this study, EEG was continuously recorded from 128 scalp sites in 15 right-handed university students while they received stimuli in the form of 150…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Brain, College Students, Visual Stimuli