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Psychology
Panpan Yao, Timothy J. Slattery, Xingshan Li
Summary: The study conducted 2 eye-tracking reading experiments to explore the influence of sentence context on neighbor effects in word recognition during Chinese reading. Results showed that context can modulate neighbor effects, with a significantly weaker inhibitory neighbor effect in biased context compared to neutral context. This suggests that contextual information plays a role in regulating neighbor effects during online sentence reading in Chinese.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION
(2022)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Mingzhe Zhang, Xuejun Bai, Sainan Li
Summary: This study found a significant divided-word effect on reading time, with a stronger effect observed for words with lower complexity.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
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Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Yves Tramblay, Patrick Arnaud, Guillaume Artigue, Michel Lang, Emmanuel Paquet, Luc Neppel, Eric Sauquet
Summary: Floods are a major natural hazard in the Mediterranean region, causing deaths and extensive damages. Recent studies have shown that intense rainfall events are becoming more extreme in this region but, paradoxically, without leading to an increase in the severity of floods. Consequently, it is important to understand how flood events are changing to explain this absence of trends in flood magnitude despite increased rainfall extremes.
HYDROLOGY AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES
(2023)
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Psychology, Biological
Cheng Wang, Qingfang Zhang
Summary: This study investigates the time course and neural oscillation underlying the word frequency (WF) effect in handwritten production. It found that WF affects event-related potentials in certain time windows and modulates theta-band neural oscillations, suggesting different stages of conceptual preparation and retrieval in written production.
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Computer Science, Information Systems
Shota Sasaki, Benjamin Heinzerling, Jun Suzuki, Kentaro Inui
Summary: This study demonstrates the significant effect of whitening transformation on static word embeddings (SWE) and contextualized word embeddings (CWE). Whitening primarily removes the word frequency bias in SWE, and biases other than the word frequency bias in CWE.
INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT
(2023)
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Behavioral Sciences
Xin Huang, Wai Leung Wong, Chun-Yu Tse, Werner Sommer, Olaf Dimigen, Urs Maurer
Summary: This study investigates the influence of the magnocellular and parvocellular systems on visual word recognition using a masked priming paradigm. The results suggest that M and P information both contribute to early neural processes underlying visual word recognition.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Amie Fairs, Kristof Strijkers
Summary: The study demonstrates that internet-based testing of speech production is a feasible and promising endeavor, with longer latencies but similar effect sizes compared to lab-based studies. There is no evidence that internet upload or download speed affects naming latencies or errors, and a minimum sample size of 40 participants is recommended for online production paradigms.
Article
Psychology
Ian Neath, William E. Hockley, Tyler M. Ensor
Summary: The mirror effect is a phenomenon in cognitive testing where increasing hit rates can lead to decreased false alarm rates, but experiments that focus on dimensions affecting memory do not always show this effect. Past studies lacking stimulus information have limited the understanding of the origin of the mirror effect. Researchers encourage the creation and evaluation of more highly controlled stimulus sets to validate the presence of the mirror effect.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Jessica M. Alexander, George A. Buzzell
Summary: A robust experimental literature has found that word frequency and lexical valence contribute to visual word processing at the level of the individual word. This study extends the previous findings by investigating the influence of word frequency, lexical valence, and their interactions on oral reading performance for multisentence stimuli in a naturalistic context.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Yves Tramblay, Gabriele Villarini, Mohamed Elmehdi Saidi, Christian Massari, Lina Stein
Summary: River flooding in Africa has significant societal and economic impacts. This study examines the main flood generating mechanisms in Africa based on 13,815 flood events that occurred between 1981 and 2018. Excess rains on saturated soils in Western Africa and long rains in Northern and Southern Africa are found to be the dominant mechanisms, contributing to over 75% of all flood events.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Business
Jacob A. Waddingham, Miles A. Zachary, H. Jack Walker
Summary: There is limited research on former entrepreneurs re-entering the traditional workforce. This study conducted three studies to explore the challenges these individuals may face. The findings suggest that recruiters tend to evaluate former entrepreneurs negatively due to assumptions of rapid turnover, insubordinate behavior, and organizational misfit.
JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Pennie Haigh, Naveen Hanif, Angela de Bruin
Summary: Cognitive ageing affects lexical processing speed, but older adults can benefit from semantic knowledge and context to facilitate word processing during reading.
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Zhiwei Liu, Yan Li, Jingxin Wang
Summary: In Chinese reading, transposed-word effects are modulated by context rather than reading speed. Transposed-word effects decrease when the first and second words in a sentence are transposed.
Article
Education & Educational Research
Jarkko Hautala, Stefan Hawelka, Mikko Aro
Summary: The study found that in 9-10 year old children with reading difficulties, early word frequency effect appeared in first fixation duration, followed by word length effect and the interaction of word frequency and word length. Poor reading fluency was mainly explained by inflated first fixation durations, and stronger word frequency and length effects in summed refixation duration.
READING AND WRITING
(2022)
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Marine & Freshwater Biology
Libin Zhao, Kui Xu, Philippe Juneau, Peihuan Huang, Yingli Lian, Xiafei Zheng, Qiuping Zhong, Wei Zhang, Fanshu Xiao, Bo Wu, Qingyun Yan, Zhili He
Summary: The study found that norfloxacin significantly affects the photosynthetic process of Microcystis aeruginosa, especially under high light conditions; Norfloxacin not only damages the reaction centers of PSII, but also inhibits energy transfer among Microcystis aeruginosa; Additionally, norfloxacin increases the content of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in Microcystis aeruginosa.
AQUATIC TOXICOLOGY
(2021)
