All Relations between word frequency and semantics

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Jieying He, Qingfang Zhan. Direct Retrieval of Orthographic Representations in Chinese Handwritten Production: Evidence from a Dynamic Causal Modeling Study. Journal of cognitive neuroscience. 2024-05-02. PMID:38695761. word frequency modulated the ag → superior frontal gyrus connection (information flow from the orthographic lexicon to the orthographic buffer), and syllable frequency affected the ifg → mfg connection (information transmission from the semantic system to the phonological lexicon). 2024-05-02 2024-05-04 Not clear
Abraham Sánchez, Manuel Carreiras, Pedro M Paz-Alons. Word frequency and reading demands modulate brain activation in the inferior frontal gyrus. Scientific reports. vol 13. issue 1. 2023-10-11. PMID:37821488. additionally, the ventral occipitotemporal cortex exhibited stronger regional activation during the semantic reading task compared to the perceptual reading task, with no effects of word frequency. 2023-10-11 2023-10-15 human
Abraham Sánchez, Manuel Carreiras, Pedro M Paz-Alons. Word frequency and reading demands modulate brain activation in the inferior frontal gyrus. Scientific reports. vol 13. issue 1. 2023-10-11. PMID:37821488. the results indicate that word frequency influenced the activation of the pars orbitalis and pars triangularis of the inferior frontal gyrus, but only in the semantic reading task. 2023-10-11 2023-10-15 human
Shalom K Henderson, Katie A Peterson, Karalyn Patterson, Matthew A Lambon Ralph, James B Row. Verbal fluency tests assess global cognitive status but have limited diagnostic differentiation: evidence from a large-scale examination of six neurodegenerative diseases. Brain communications. vol 5. issue 2. 2023-03-13. PMID:36910418. word frequency was the strongest discriminator for semantic variant of primary progressive aphasia versus other groups. 2023-03-13 2023-08-14 Not clear
Huichao Bi, Samad Zare, Ursula Kania, Rong Ya. A systematic review of studies on connected speech processing: Trends, key findings, and implications. Frontiers in psychology. vol 13. 2022-12-16. PMID:36524166. to this end, through searching in the scientific databases psycinfo, scopus, pubmed, eric, taylor and francis, and web of science, the present study identified 128 core csp articles with high reference values according to prisma guidance and the following results were obtained through quantitative analysis and qualitative comparative synthesis: (1) the number of studies on csp published per year showed an upward trend; however, most focused on english language, whereas the studies on other languages were comparatively rare; (2) csp was found to be affected by multiple factors, among which speech speed, semantics, word frequency, and phonological awareness were most frequently investigated; (3) the deficit in csp capacity was widely recognized as a significant predictor and indicator of developmental disorders; (4) more studies were carried out on connected speech production than on perception; and (5) almost no longitudinal studies have ever been conducted among either native or non-native speakers. 2022-12-16 2023-08-14 Not clear
Hannah E Thompson, Krist A Noonan, Ajay D Halai, Paul Hoffman, Sara Stampacchia, Glyn Hallam, Grace E Rice, Blanca De Dios Perez, Matthew A Lambon Ralph, Elizabeth Jefferie. Damage to temporoparietal cortex is sufficient for impaired semantic control. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior. vol 156. 2022-10-02. PMID:36183573. relative to sd, both tpc and pf+ sa subgroups: (1) showed few correlations in performance across tasks with differing control demands, but a strong relationship between tasks of similar difficulty; (2) exhibited attenuated effects of lexical frequency and concept familiarity, (3) showed evidence of poor semantic regulation in their verbal output - performance on picture naming was substantially improved when provided with a phonological cue, and (4) showed effects of control demands, such as retrieval difficulty, which were equivalent in severity across tpc and pf+ groups. 2022-10-02 2023-08-14 Not clear
Yang Li, Jia Ze Li, Qi Fan, Xin Li, Zhihong Wan. Psychological Education Health Assessment Problems Based on Improved Constructive Neural Network. Frontiers in psychology. vol 13. 2022-08-19. PMID:35983201. in order to better assess the mental health status, combining online text data and considering the problems of lexicon sparsity and small lexicon size in feature statistics of word frequency of the traditional linguistic inquiry and word count (liwc) dictionary, and combining the advantages of constructive neural network (cnn) convolutional neural network in contextual semantic extraction, a cnn-based mental health assessment method is proposed and evaluated with the measurement indicators in clpsych2017. 2022-08-19 2023-08-14 Not clear
Hannes Ole Tiedt, Felicitas Ehlen, Fabian Klosterman. Dopamine-Related Reduction of Semantic Spreading Activation in Patients With Parkinson's Disease. Frontiers in human neuroscience. vol 16. 2022-04-18. PMID:35431839. to this end, we performed a median split analysis of word frequency during phonemic and semantic vf task performance in a pd group tested while receiving dopaminergic medication (on) as well as after drug withdrawal (i.e., off), and in a sample of age-matched healthy volunteers (both groups 2022-04-18 2023-08-13 human
Hannes Ole Tiedt, Felicitas Ehlen, Fabian Klosterman. Dopamine-Related Reduction of Semantic Spreading Activation in Patients With Parkinson's Disease. Frontiers in human neuroscience. vol 16. 2022-04-18. PMID:35431839. the aim of the current study was to examine the impact of dopaminergic medication on the dynamic change of word frequency during vf performance as a measure of semantic spreading activation. 2022-04-18 2023-08-13 human
Hannah E Thompson, Azizah Almaghyuli, Krist A Noonan, Ohr Barak, Matthew A Lambon Ralph, Elizabeth Jefferie. The contribution of executive control to semantic cognition: Convergent evidence from semantic aphasia and executive dysfunction. Journal of neuropsychology. vol 12. issue 2. 2019-10-11. PMID:29314772. they showed strong effects of distractor strength, cues and miscues, and probe-target distance, plus minimal effects of word frequency on comprehension (unlike semantic dementia patients with degradation of conceptual knowledge). 2019-10-11 2023-08-13 Not clear
Jet M J Vonk, Roxanna J Flores, Dayanara Rosado, Carolyn Qian, Raquel Cabo, Josina Habegger, Karmen Louie, Elizabeth Allocco, Adam M Brickman, Jennifer J Manl. Semantic network function captured by word frequency in nondemented APOE ε4 carriers. Neuropsychology. vol 33. issue 2. 2019-04-01. PMID:30489116. semantic network function captured by word frequency in nondemented apoe ε4 carriers. 2019-04-01 2023-08-13 Not clear
Melissa M Rundle, Donna Coch, Andrew C Connolly, Richard H Grange. Dissociating frequency and animacy effects in visual word processing: An fMRI study. Brain and language. vol 183. 2019-02-11. PMID:29940339. thus, lexical word frequency information and semantic animacy category information are conjointly represented in left fusiform gyrus activation patterns for some, but not all, concrete nouns. 2019-02-11 2023-08-13 human
Christian Brodbeck, Alessandro Presacco, Jonathan Z Simo. Neural source dynamics of brain responses to continuous stimuli: Speech processing from acoustics to comprehension. NeuroImage. vol 172. 2018-12-11. PMID:29366698. results indicate that processes related to comprehension of continuous speech can be differentiated anatomically as well as temporally: acoustic information engaged auditory cortex at short latencies, followed by responses over the central sulcus and inferior frontal gyrus, possibly related to somatosensory/motor cortex involvement in speech perception; lexical frequency was associated with a left-lateralized response in auditory cortex and subsequent bilateral frontal activity; and semantic composition was associated with bilateral temporal and frontal brain activity. 2018-12-11 2023-08-13 human
Alessandro Principe, Marco Calabria, Adrià Tauste Campo, Josephine Cruzat, Gerardo Conesa, Albert Costa, Rodrigo Rocamor. Whole network, temporal and parietal lobe contributions to the earliest phases of language production. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior. vol 95. 2018-06-01. PMID:28918128. the subjects made errors that involved anomia and semantic dysphasia, which related to word frequency and not to visual complexity. 2018-06-01 2023-08-13 human
Elizabeth Musz, Sharon L Thompson-Schil. Semantic variability predicts neural variability of object concepts. Neuropsychologia. vol 76. 2016-06-27. PMID:25462197. we measured each concept's diversity of semantic contexts ("sv") by analyzing its word frequency and co-occurrence statistics in large text corpora. 2016-06-27 2023-08-13 Not clear
Paul Hoffman, Timothy T Rogers, Matthew A Lambon Ralp. Semantic diversity accounts for the "missing" word frequency effect in stroke aphasia: insights using a novel method to quantify contextual variability in meaning. Journal of cognitive neuroscience. vol 23. issue 9. 2011-11-15. PMID:21254804. semantic diversity accounts for the "missing" word frequency effect in stroke aphasia: insights using a novel method to quantify contextual variability in meaning. 2011-11-15 2023-08-12 Not clear
Elena Garayzábal Heinze, Fernando Cuetos Veg. [Lexico-semantic processing in Williams syndrome]. Psicothema. vol 22. issue 4. 2011-02-08. PMID:21044506. the results indicate that the semantic system of people with williams syndrome does not seem to differ much from those in the control group because the words they produced were similar to those of the control group with regard to word frequency, length or the typicality of the responses within the categories. 2011-02-08 2023-08-12 Not clear
Fabio Campanella, Massimo Mondani, Miran Skrap, Tim Shallic. Semantic access dysphasia resulting from left temporal lobe tumours. Brain : a journal of neurology. vol 132. issue Pt 1. 2009-03-10. PMID:19050031. however, high-grade tumours especially within the left hemisphere consistently produce strong semantic deficits of a clear access type: response inconsistency and strong semantic distance effects in the absence of word frequency effects were detected. 2009-03-10 2023-08-12 Not clear
O Hauk, M H Davis, M Ford, F Pulvermüller, W D Marslen-Wilso. The time course of visual word recognition as revealed by linear regression analysis of ERP data. NeuroImage. vol 30. issue 4. 2006-10-11. PMID:16460964. source estimates indicated parieto-temporo-occipital generators for the factors length, letter n-gram frequency and word frequency, but widespread activation with foci in left anterior temporal lobe and inferior frontal cortex related to semantic coherence. 2006-10-11 2023-08-12 human
Cecile A Marczinski, Andrew Kertes. Category and letter fluency in semantic dementia, primary progressive aphasia, and Alzheimer's disease. Brain and language. vol 97. issue 3. 2006-08-03. PMID:16325251. patients with semantic dementia, primary progressive aphasia, and alzheimer's disease were compared with elderly controls on tasks of category and letter fluency, with number of words generated, mean lexical frequency and errors recorded. 2006-08-03 2023-08-12 Not clear