Telling something we can't know: experimental approaches to verbs exhibiting implicit causality

Article Abstract:

The social psychological hypothesis that human cognition can be understood based on the use of verbs with implicit causality fails to make a distinction between the limits of language and the multiple cues in life. A psycholinguistic perspective, while not following the social psychology's logical research structure, is better able to explore the impact of different verbs that imply causality. Three experiments found that because clauses increased the on-line comprehension of the verb's initiating-reacting role while derived adjectives have no impact. Therefore, language is not able to describe or convey the complexity of human interactions.

Grammar, Comparative and general, Grammar, Causation, Causation (Philosophy)

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Psycholinguistics at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

Article Abstract:

The major areas and issues in psycholinguistic research at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI) are reviewed. Various projects are being done at the MPI such as the Lexical Access Program, Neurocognition of Language Processing, Syntax and Phonology Acquisition and Aphasia in Adults. Researchers are aided by a large computer lexical database that provides data on three major languages. The MPI also focuses on four major topical areas in psycholinguistics namely lexical selection and access, language understanding and acquisition and disorders such as aphasia.

Research institutes, Science and technology policy

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Resolution of lexical ambiguity by emotional state

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An interaction between the emotional condition of the subject, such as happiness, and the subject's approach to affective versus neutral meanings of homophones was found. Sad subjects were more prone than happy subjects to produce sad meanings of homophones as opposed to the neutral meanings. The response time for emotion to affect lexical access still needs to be investigated in subsequent studies.

Psychological aspects, Emotions, Homonyms

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