Browsing BCBL-Publications by Author "Carreiras, Manuel"
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When “He” Can Also Be “She”: An ERP Study of Reflexive Pronoun Resolution in Written Mandarin Chinese
Su, Jui-Ju; Molinaro, Nicola; Gillon-Dowens, Margaret; Tsai, Pei-Shu; Wu, Denise H.; Carreiras, Manuel (Frontiers in Psychology, 2016)The gender information in written Chinese third person pronouns is not symmetrically encoded: the character for “he” (yes, with semantic radical yes, meaning human) is used as a default referring to every individual, while ... -
Why space is not one-dimensional: Location may be categorical and imagistic
Giezen, Marcel R.; Costello, Brendan; Carreiras, Manuel (Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2017)In our commentary, we raise concerns with the idea that location should be considered a gestural component of sign languages. We argue that psycholinguistic studies provide evidence for location as a “categorical” element ... -
Word frequency and reading demands modulate brain activation in the inferior frontal gyrus
Sánchez, Abraham; Carreiras, Manuel; Paz‑Alonso, Pedro M. (NATURE, 2023)Processing efficiency differs between high- and low-frequency words, with less frequent words resulting in longer response latencies in several linguistic behavioral tasks. Nevertheless, studies using functional MRI to ...