semantic processing

The present study aimed to assess and compare semantic processing of spoken words in adolescents with cerebral palsy and healthy adolescents. For this purpose, 30 adolescents with cerebral palsy aged 10 to 15 years were selected by convenience sampling method, all of whom were spastic. Surveillance of Cerebral Palsy in Europe (SCPE) network was used to classify adolescents with cerebral palsy. For the control group, 30 healthy adolescents were selected according to gender, age and education of adolescents with cerebral palsy. To assess the subjects, spoken word-picture matching test (47) was used. The results showed that adolescents with cerebral palsy had significantly weaker spoken word skill than healthy adolescents. Furthermore, the developing spoken words pattern in adolescents with cerebral palsy is delayed compared to healthy adolescents. In addition, data analysis revealed that adolescents with cerebral palsy have vocabulary network and perceptual impairment in spoken word processing. However, their perceptual impairment is far greater.

The present study aimed to assess and compare semantic processing of spoken and written words in adolescents with cerebral palsy and healthy adolescents.

The present study is quantitative in terms of type and experimental in terms of method. Examination Group consisted 30 adolescents with cerebral palsy aged 10 to 15 years were selected by convenience sampling method. All of them were spastic. For control group, 30 healthy adolescents were selected according to gender, age and education of adolescents with cerebral palsy. To assess the subjects’ vocabulary abilities, spoken and written word-picture matching tests (47) and (48) were used.

The results showed that adolescents with cerebral palsy’ abilities in semantic processing of spoken and written words are significantly weaker than healthy adolescents. Furthermore, the developing spoken and written word patterns in adolescents with cerebral palsy delayed compared to healthy adolescents.

Data analysis revealed that vocabulary network and perceptual impairment are the cause of weak semantic processing of spoken and written words in adolescents with cerebral palsy. However, their perceptual impairment is far greater.

The term concreteness and emotionality effects refers to the reality that concrete and emotion words are processed faster and more accurately than abstract and neutral words. This effect has been observed in various cognitive tasks and several models have been proposed to account it. The aim of present study is investigating concreteness and emotionality effects on semantic processing in the Persian language using Event-related potentials. A quasi-experimental design, repeated measures is employed to examine concreteness as well as emotionality effects on visual word processing. 24 male students were taken by convenience sampling and set in the experimental condition that included a lexical decision task. The activation of neural networks was recorded while participants responded to concrete, abstract and emotional words. Comparison of related-potentials showed that emotional words elicited an early and more pronounced P300 than both concrete and abstract words. Nonetheless, concrete and abstract words evoked late and larger N400 and P600 In the second and third time windows respectively. The pattern of results suggest that concreteness effect in Persian is not entirely consistent with existing theories provided in this paper, so there may be an increased chance for other explanations to clarify the concreteness and emotionality effect on visual word processing in the Persian language.

Critical discourse analysis as a novel branch of human knowledge defines discourse based on specific methods and frameworks. This model analyzes language aiming at revealing hidden power relations and ideological processes in linguistics. One of the basic theories in the field of critical discourse analysis is the theory of practical discourse analysis method which is carried out in the discourse analysis of religious texts in five discursive, structural, semantic, communicative and meta-discourse spheres. The present research employed descriptive-analytical methodology to study governance ties in the speech of Imam Ali (PBUH) through enlisting Practical Critical Discourse Analysis Method. The result of the research revealed that the speech of Imam Ali (PBUH) was charged by an extra-discursive, political and psychological atmosphere. Also, Imam's speech was imbued with aappealing diction and a special semantic characteristic that inspired the school ideology of the Imam. This discourse was of course not oblivious to intra-discourse connections, and traces of this intra-textual connection could be detected in Imam's speech

Sensory and semantic information processing are two important factors in determining behavioral reactions. The aim of the current study was to compare of sensory and semantic information processing between borderline personality disorder people and normal ones. The descriptive study was causal-comparative (ex post facto) in design and the statistical population of the current study comprised of people who had registered to obtain services from the Psychiatric Center of Iran. The purposive sampling approach was adopted and thirty patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and thirty healthy controls were included in the study. Sensory and semantic information processing were assessed with Brown Adult Sensory Profile Questionnaire (BASPQ) and Osgood Semantic Differentiation Questionnaire (OSDQ). MANOVA test was applied to analyze data. The study's results were that individuals with BPD displayed significant differences in components of sensory sensitivity and sensation avoiding and all components of the semantic processing (life's component) (p