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Language: The N400 in Semantic Incongruity
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2023
Source: Laboratories of Sarah I. Gimbel and Jonas T. Kaplan— University of Southern California Understanding language is one of the most complex cognitive tasks that humans are capable of. Given the incredible amount of possible choices when combining individual words to form meaning in sentences, it is crucial that the brain is able to identify when words form coherent combinations and when an anomaly appears that undermines meaning. Extensive research has shown that certain scalp-recorded...
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lncRNA - Long Non-coding RNAs
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2020
In humans, more than 80% of the genome gets transcribed. However, only around 2% of the genome codes for proteins. The remaining part produces non-coding RNAs which includes ribosomal RNAs, transfer RNAs, telomerase RNAs, and regulatory RNAs, among other types. A large number of regulatory non-coding RNAs have been classified into two groups depending upon their length – small non-coding RNAs, such as microRNA, which are less than 200 nucleotides in length, and long non-coding RNA (lncRNA)...
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Language
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2025
Language is a unique communication system that uses words and systematic rules to organize and transmit information. Unlike other forms of communication, which may involve postures, movements, odors, or vocalizations, language relies on symbols and grammar. This makes human communication distinct from that of other species, who also communicate but do not use language in the same way humans do. Corballis and Suddendorf (2007) and Tomasello and Rakoczy (2003) highlight the role of language in...
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Portable Intermodal Preferential Looking (IPL): Investigating Language Comprehension in Typically Developing Toddlers and Young Children with Autism
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2012
A reliable home-based way to assess the language comprehension of very young typically developing children, as well as those with autism, is described. The method analyzes children's eye gaze while viewing side-by-side images but hearing an audio that matches only one image. Stimuli are designed with young participants in mind.
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New Methods to Study Gustatory Coding
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2017
We present three new methods to study gustatory coding. Using a simple animal, the moth Manduca sexta (Manduca), we describe a dissection protocol, the use of extracellular tetrodes to record the activity of multiple gustatory receptor neurons, and a system for delivering and monitoring precisely timed pulses of tastants.
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Language identification must operate at a detailed level because one utterance may contain switches between languages rather than one uniform language signal. A system needs to recognize which linguistic elements belong to each language before applying appropriate processing. This capability supports downstream tasks such as speech recognition, machine translation, sentiment analysis, and conversational agents.
Lexical integration concerns how words from different languages are combined, while grammatical processing must account for differing sentence patterns. Treating the input as though it followed one language exclusively can misrepresent the speaker’s intended structure. Engineering systems therefore need to coordinate vocabulary handling with grammatical interpretation so mixed-language input remains usable for later analysis or generation.
Irregular spelling, pronunciation variation, limited training data, and frequent language switching create separate processing challenges. Written input may not follow consistent spelling conventions, while spoken input can vary in pronunciation. Sparse training examples further restrict system coverage. Addressing these conditions is necessary to improve performance for multilingual users rather than relying on resources designed for only one language.
A practical design should first identify the languages present, then integrate lexical elements and process their differing grammatical patterns. The resulting representation can support a selected application, such as recognition, translation, sentiment analysis, or conversation. This sequence connects the central linguistic requirements to application performance and helps engineers address switching as part of system design rather than as an isolated error.
In speech recognition, pronunciation variation and language switching must be handled together so spoken input can be processed across languages. Machine translation must likewise account for mixed lexical and grammatical patterns before producing a translated result. These applications demonstrate why language identification and cross-language processing are engineering requirements, not optional refinements, for multilingual communication systems.
Conversational agents and sentiment analysis systems may encounter users who combine languages within natural communication. If a system cannot identify the relevant linguistic elements or interpret their combined structure, its processing may be less effective. Supporting mixed-language input improves the usefulness and accessibility of these applications for multilingual users and contributes to better overall system performance.