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Vivien Dioux

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“It is alive!” Evidence for animacy effects in semantic categorization and lexical decision

2019

AbstractAnimacy is one of the basic semantic features of word meaning and influences perceptual and episodic memory processes. However, evidence that this variable also influences lexicosemantic processing is mixed. As animacy is a semantic variable thought to have evolutionary roots, we first examined its influence in a semantic categorization task that did not make the animacy dimension salient, namely, concrete-abstract categorization. Animates were categorized faster (and more accurately) than inanimates. We then assessed the influence of animacy in two lexical decision experiments. In Experiment 2, we mostly used legal nonwords, whereas in Experiment 3, we varied the context of the non…

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L’état émotionnel affecte-t-il les performances à une tâche de chronométrie mentale ?

2015

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[SHS.PSY] Humanities and Social Sciences/Psychology[SHS.PSY]Humanities and Social Sciences/Psychology[SHS] Humanities and Social SciencesComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences
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