Search Results - "Ferretti, Todd R"

Verb Aspect and the Activation of Event Knowledge by Ferretti, Todd R, Kutas, Marta, McRae, Ken

“…The authors show that verb aspect influences the activation of event knowledge with 4 novel results. First, common locations of events (e.g., arena ) are…”
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Integrating Verbs, Situation Schemas, and Thematic Role Concepts by Ferretti, Todd R., McRae, Ken, Hatherell, Andrea

“…Linguistic and psycholinguistic theories differ with regard to the conceptual content of verbs' thematic roles. In Experiments 1 and 2, single-word priming was…”
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Aspect and Narrative Event Segmentation by Feller, Daniel P, Eerland, Anita, Ferretti, Todd R, Magliano, Joseph P

“…Time is central to human cognition, both in terms of how we understand the world and the events that unfold around us as well as how we communicate about those…”
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How discourse constraints influence neurolinguistic mechanisms during the comprehension of proverbs by Ferretti, Todd R., Katz, Albert N., Schwint, Christopher A., Patterson, Courtney, Pradzynski, Dagna

“…We use event-related brain potential (ERP) methodology to examine the influence of the linguistic markers literally speaking and figuratively speaking on the…”
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Grammatical aspect, lexical aspect, and event duration constrain the availability of events in narratives by Becker, Raymond B., Ferretti, Todd R., Madden-Lombardi, Carol J.

“…•Temporal information constrains the availability of discourse concepts.•Imperfective aspect enhanced availability of discourse concepts.•Imperfective…”
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Verb aspect, event structure, and coreferential processing by Ferretti, Todd R., Rohde, Hannah, Kehler, Andrew, Crutchley, Melanie

“…We used an off-line story continuation task and an online ERP reading task to investigate coreferential processing following sentences that portrayed…”
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Processes of Discourse Integration: Evidence From Event-Related Brain Potentials by Ferretti, Todd R., Singer, Murray, Harwood, Jenna

“…We used ERP methodology to investigate how readers validate discourse concepts and update situation models when those concepts followed factive (e.g., knew)…”
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ERP correlates of online monitoring of auditory feedback during vocalization by Hawco, Colin S., Jones, Jeffery A., Ferretti, Todd R., Keough, Dwayne

“…When speakers hear the fundamental frequency (F0) of their voice altered, they shift their F0 in the direction opposite the perturbation. The current study…”
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Registered Replication Report: Hart & Albarracín (2011) by Eerland, Anita, Sherrill, Andrew M., Magliano, Joseph P., Zwaan, Rolf A., Arnal, Jack D., Aucoin, Philip, Berger, Stephanie A., Birt, Angela R., Capezza, Nicole, Carlucci, Marianna, Crocker, Candace, Ferretti, Todd R., Kibbe, Mackenzie R., Knepp, Michael M., Kurby, Christopher A., Melcher, Joseph M., Michael, Stephen W., Poirier, Christopher, Prenoveau, Jason M.

“…Language can be viewed as a complex set of cues that shape people's mental representations of situations. For example, people think of behavior described using…”
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Electrophysiological evidence for the time-course of verifying text ideas by Ferretti, Todd R., Singer, Murray, Patterson, Courtney

“…We examined how verb factivity influences the ability of readers to detect and resolve the mismatch of receiving false referents in relation to true referents…”
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Electrophysiological and behavioral measures of the influence of literal and figurative contextual constraints on proverb comprehension by Ferretti, Todd R., Schwint, Christopher A., Katz, Albert N.

“…Proverbs tend to have meanings that are true both literally and figuratively (i.e., Lightning really doesn’t strike the same place twice). Consequently,…”
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The recovery of thematic role structure during noun-noun interpretation by FERRETTI, Todd R, GAGNE, Christina L

“…We examined how people use their knowledge of events to recover thematic role structure during the interpretation of noun-noun phrases. All phrases included…”
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Reading Proverbs in Context:The Role of Explicit Markers by Katz, Albert N., Ferretti, Todd R.

“…We examined how explicit markers or "introductory formulae," which are used for signaling that statements should be interpreted literally or nonliterally,…”
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Discourse Factors That Influence Online Reading of Metaphor and Irony by Pexman, Penny M., Ferretti, Todd R., Katz, Albert N.

“…Statements such as "children are precious gems" can be interpreted as either a metaphor (children are valuable) or as a sarcastic comment on the metaphor…”
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Thematic Role Focusing by Participle Inflections: Evidence From Conceptual Combination by Ferretti, Todd R, Gagné, Christina L, McRae, Ken

“…The authors examined how people integrate knowledge of agents and patients of events with the temporal and causal properties of present and past participles to…”
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How discourse constraints influence neurolinguistic mechanisms during the comprehension of proverbs by Ferretti, Todd R, Katz, Albert N, Schwint, Christopher A, Patterson, Courtney, Pradzynski, Dagna

“…Context can boost activation of non-salient meanings but never at a cost to the activation of the salient meaning. [...]in this model, integrating the salient…”
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Thematic Roles as Verb-specific Concepts by McRae, Ken, Ferretti and Liane Amyote, Todd R.

“…Thematic roles are typically viewed as slot and filler m echanisms in which the slots are devoid of content, or the content is limited to a few syntactically…”
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Moment-By-Moment Reading of Proverbs in Literal and Nonliteral Contexts by Katz, Albert N., Ferretti, Todd R.

“…To date there has been very little research that has examined on-line reading of proverbs. This is surprising given that proverbs offer a unique opportunity to…”
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Event-related potential correlates of online monitoring of auditory feedback during vocalization by Hawco, Colin S., Jones, Jeffery A., Ferretti, Todd R.

“…When speakers hear the fundamental frequency (F0) of their voice altered, they shift their F0 in the direction opposite to the perturbation. The neural…”
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Situation schemas, thematic roles and grammatical morphemes by Ferretti, Todd R

“…This research investigated how people combine morpho-syntactic information (e.g., aspect) with world knowledge of situations when they read verbs and noun…”
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