Article
Psychology, Experimental
Kathrin Rothermich, Cristal Giorio, Sharon Falkins, Lindsay Leonard, Angela Roberts
Summary: This study utilized a video-based task to investigate the impact of healthy aging on social communication perception, using a new database called RISC. The findings revealed that older participants had lower accuracy in distinguishing literal from nonliteral interactions compared to younger and middle-aged individuals, and tended to perceive sarcasm as friendlier and struggle to identify teasing as insincere the older they were.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Mael Mauchand, Jonathan A. Caballero, Xiaoming Jiang, Marc D. Pell
Summary: The study demonstrates that prosody plays a crucial role in helping listeners understand ironic intentions, enabling them to make online predictions about the speaker's intent. Early neural responses indicate the speaker's stance and intention, while later responses show how irony is contextually influenced by prosody.
COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Ewa Lesniak, Szczepan J. Grzybowski
Summary: The study investigated how dyslexic youth process written messages in an environment resembling popular social network communication systems, particularly focusing on the role of emoticons. Results indicated that dyslexic students were less accurate in understanding messages containing emoticons with non-emotional content, suggesting a potential beneficial effect of emoticons in reading comprehension.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Natalia Banasik-Jemielniak, Busra Akkaya, Aleksandra Siemieniuk, Yasemin Abayhan, Ewa Dryll, Katarzyna Branowska, Anna Olechowska, Melanie Glenwright, Magdalena Rowicka, Penny M. Pexman, P. Kalowski, Duygu Kandemirci
Summary: This study examined the relationship between self-reported sarcasm use and individual differences in non-Western adults. The findings showed that individuals who reported using sarcasm more often tended to be less agreeable, less conscientious, and less emotionally stable. They also tended to be younger and have lower self-esteem. Additionally, self-reported sarcasm use was positively related to both self-promoting and self-depreciating presentation styles.
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Mohammad Al-Wardat, Mohammad Etoom, Francesco Lena, Leonardo Pellicciari, Francesco D'Amone, Oyene Kossi, Fabrizio Brindisino, Auwal Abdullahi
Summary: This study investigated the knowledge and use of effective communication strategies among Italian physiotherapists. A questionnaire with 19 questions was used to collect data on their knowledge and use of these strategies. The results showed that only 35.8% of the respondents were aware of communication strategies related to physiotherapy, and their exposure to these strategies occurred during their degree program. The study highlights the need for improvements in the training and education of physiotherapists in Italy, particularly in the area of communication strategies.
Article
Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Hosni Mostafa El-dali
Summary: This study aims to demonstrate the basic characteristics of 18th century thinking in Fielding's works, his philosophy of human nature, and his writing techniques. Fielding uses irony to discuss important concepts and incorporates his technique within a third omniscience narrative.
HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES COMMUNICATIONS
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Zhiyuan Wen, Rui Wang, Shiwei Chen, Qianlong Wang, Keyang Ding, Bin Liang, Ruifeng Xu
Summary: Verbal irony is a common form of expression in daily communication, but accurately recognizing it is challenging due to the connotative knowledge involved. To address this issue, we propose a Retrieval-Detection method for Verbal Irony (RDVI) that improves the detection model's ability by incorporating connotative knowledge from the open domain using prompt learning. Experimental results show that our method outperforms existing models.
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Debra Jared, Alyssa Pandolfo
Summary: This study examined how the age of the speaker serves as a cue for interpreting compliments or ironic insults, with younger and older adults showing differences in understanding ironic statements. However, speaker age did not ultimately affect the interpretation of statements in terms of ironic intent.
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-REVUE CANADIENNE DE PSYCHOLOGIE EXPERIMENTALE
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Sarah Garfinkel, Meredith L. L. Rowe, Sandra Bosacki, Natalia Banasik-Jemielniak
Summary: This study examined the relationship between children's understanding of ironic comments and their metapragmatic knowledge. 46 8-year-olds participated in an irony comprehension task where they were asked to provide explanations for the speaker's motives in three stories. The results showed that compared to younger children, 8-year-olds frequently considered interlocutors' emotions, intentions, and metapragmatics. These findings support the idea that comprehension of verbal irony is a developing skill in children.
JOURNAL OF CHILD LANGUAGE
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
M. Salazar, D. J. Shaw, M. Gajdos, R. Marecek, K. Czekoova, M. Mikl, M. Brazdil
Summary: This study used a hyperscanning paradigm to investigate the neural processes involved in inferring and aligning with interaction partners' intentional states during communication. The findings revealed frequent convergence within the same semantic space among interactants, with the right temporo-parietal junction playing a crucial role in predicting partners' utterance and semantic convergence. Effective connectivity among specific brain regions indicated the involvement of the Nexus model in establishing mutual understanding between interlocutors.
Article
Psychology, Developmental
David Trembath, Matt Stainer, Teena Caithness, Cheryl Dissanayake, Valsamma Eapen, Kathryn Fordyce, Veronica Frewer, Grace Frost, Kristelle Hudry, Teresa Iacono, Nicole Mahler, Anne Masi, Jessica Paynter, Katherine Pye, Shannon Quan, Leanne Shellshear, Rebecca Sutherland, Stephanie Sievers, Abirami Thirumanickam, Marleen F. Westerveld, Madonna Tucker
Summary: This study assessed the spoken language abilities of 73 preschool aged children on the autism spectrum who were receiving community-based early intervention. The findings showed a small non-significant change in the proportion of children transitioning from a lower level to a higher level of spoken language. By analyzing child-related predictors, the study also highlighted the relevance of these predictors in determining the spoken language outcomes.
JOURNAL OF AUTISM AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Taichi Yamashita
Summary: This study found that receiving corrective feedback during in-class computer-mediated collaborative writing has a positive impact on students' grammatical accuracy, especially in making corrections to indefinite and definite articles. Individual learners' long-term L2 development is influenced by their contributions to revisions, highlighting the importance of tracking individual contributions.
LANGUAGE LEARNING & TECHNOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Lindsay K. K. Butler, Helen Tager-Flusberg
Summary: Fine motor skill is associated with expressive language outcomes in infants who have an autistic sibling and in young autistic children. Fewer studies have focused on school-aged children even though around 80% have motor impairments and 30% remain minimally verbal (MV) into their school years. Moreover, expressive language is not a unitary construct, but it is made up of components such as speech production, structural language, and social-pragmatic language use.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Dieu My T. Nguyen, Michael L. Iuzzolino, Aaron Mankel, Katarzyna Bozek, Greg J. Stephens, Orit Peleg
Summary: Honeybee swarms demonstrate collective behavior by forming a scenting-mediated communication network, with bees arranging in a specific spatial distribution and signaling directionally away from the queen. Through an agent-based model, researchers studied how physical parameters affect collective scenting behavior and discovered that increased directional bias in scenting leads to more efficient aggregation processes that avoid local equilibrium configurations.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Dieu My T. Nguyen, Michael L. Iuzzolino, Aaron Mankel, Katarzyna Bozek, Greg J. Stephens, Orit Peleg
Summary: Honeybee swarms exhibit collective behavior through a scenting-mediated communication network, with bees arranging in a specific spatial distribution and signaling away from the queen. An agent-based model demonstrates that increased directional bias in scenting leads to more efficient aggregation, avoiding local equilibrium configurations.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2021)
Article
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Kelsey Cnudde, Sophia van Hees, Sage Brown, Gwen van der Wijk, Penny M. Pexman, Andrea B. Protzner
Summary: Recent research on visual word recognition suggests that the neural changes during prolonged lexical decision task (LDT) performance might shift from control-related to domain-specific processing, resulting in increased efficiency. This study replicated the British Lexicon Project and found evidence of neural changes through event-related potentials and brain signal complexity during LDT performance, indicating a transition to more specific and flexible processing.
Article
Psychology
Emiko J. Muraki, Penny M. Pexman
Summary: This study investigated the potential role of motor imagery as a mechanism of simulation in semantic processing using an individual differences approach. The results did not find significant relationships between motor imagery abilities and sensorimotor effects in language tasks, indicating limited support for motor imagery as an underlying mechanism of sensorimotor simulation during language processing.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION
(2021)
Editorial Material
Psychology, Experimental
Lori Buchanan, Penny M. Pexman, Debra Titone
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-REVUE CANADIENNE DE PSYCHOLOGIE EXPERIMENTALE
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Kate Lee, David M. Sidhu, Penny M. Pexman
Summary: Sarcasm is a common form of social language, but it can be challenging for children to understand. This study found that training can enhance children's ability to understand sarcasm, particularly for those who are not already proficient in sarcasm understanding. The findings suggest that training could be effective in improving sarcasm comprehension in populations struggling with this aspect of language.
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-REVUE CANADIENNE DE PSYCHOLOGIE EXPERIMENTALE
(2021)
Review
Biology
Penny M. Pexman, Veronica Diveica, Richard J. Binney
Summary: This article discusses the key feature of social significance in the representation of some concepts and proposes further research. By reviewing recent evidence from the fields of psycholinguistics and neuroimaging, the article explores the lack of consensus on the definition of 'socialness' and suggests essential next steps for research. Additionally, the article describes preliminary data from a large-scale rating study to determine how socialness is distinct from other facets of word meaning. It highlights important predictions for both brain and behavior regarding semantic representation and social cognition.
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Stephan Frederic Dahm, Emiko J. Muraki, Penny M. Pexman
Summary: Action imagery is the mental representation of an action without actually executing it. This study investigated the effects of perspective, rotational angle, and abstractness of stimulus material on left-right judgments. The findings showed that left-right judgments are more difficult on legs than on arms, and the type of limb interacts with other factors. Realistic stimulus material enhances task comprehension and amplifies the effects of perspective. The linear speed-accuracy score is a valid measure for assessing performance in mental body rotations.
Article
Neurosciences
Valeria A. Pfeifer, Penny M. Pexman
Summary: In this commentary, the authors argue that verbal irony offers rich opportunities to evoke and study mixed and ambiguous emotions, which have been largely neglected by both cognitive neuroscience and linguistic researchers. They suggest that considering verbal irony in the study of mixed and ambiguous emotions could be advantageous, especially for testing the MA-EM model.
COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Emiko J. Muraki, Lorraine D. Reggin, Carissa Y. Feddema, Penny M. Pexman
Summary: Extensive research shows that children learn early words through sensorimotor experience, leading to more concrete meanings. Abstract word meanings are typically learned later, but there is limited knowledge about their acquisition.
JOURNAL OF CHILD LANGUAGE
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Mathematical
Veronica Diveica, Penny M. Pexman, Richard J. Binney
Summary: It has been proposed that social experience plays a crucial role in the formation of concepts and that socialness is a fundamental organizational principle for semantic representation in the human brain. However, inconsistencies in the definition and measurement of socialness have limited empirical support for these hypotheses. To advance the field, it is necessary to establish a clearer definition and gather extensive socialness ratings for individual concepts. This study provides a novel and inclusive definition of socialness and reports socialness norms for over 8000 English words, demonstrating good reliability and validity.
BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Mathematical
Emiko J. Muraki, Israa A. Siddiqui, Penny M. Pexman
Summary: Child BOI ratings are closely related to valence and sensory experience ratings, and are better predictors of age of acquisition compared to Adult BOI ratings, suggesting that child-centric ratings provide a more sensitive measure for addressing theoretical questions in embodied cognition from a developmental perspective.
BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Emiko J. Muraki, David M. Sidhu, Penny M. Pexman
Summary: This study examined the lexical-semantic processing of abstract verbs, finding that different types of abstract verbs can impact processing speed in syntactic classification tasks. The analysis of semantic richness of associates of abstract verbs also revealed relationships with response times.
PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH-PSYCHOLOGISCHE FORSCHUNG
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Penny M. Pexman
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-REVUE CANADIENNE DE PSYCHOLOGIE EXPERIMENTALE
(2020)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Randall K. Jamieson, Penny M. Pexman
CANADIAN PSYCHOLOGY-PSYCHOLOGIE CANADIENNE
(2020)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Emiko J. Muraki, David M. Sidhu, Penny M. Pexman
COGNITIVE PROCESSING
(2020)
Article
Linguistics
Juanita M. Whalen, Alison Doyle, Penny M. Pexman
JOURNAL OF PRAGMATICS
(2020)
