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Gaze fixation and the neural circuitry of face processing in autism
TLDR
Variation in eye fixation within autistic individuals was strongly and positively associated with amygdala activation across both studies, suggesting a heightened emotional response associated with gaze fixation in autism.
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Language Comprehension As Structure Building
TLDR
This research investigated language comprehension, and in particular, the general, cognitive processes and mechanisms that underlie language comprehension using a simple framework Gernsbacher (1990) refers to as the 'Structure Building Framework'.
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The Science of Sex Differences in Science and Mathematics
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It is concluded that early experience, biological factors, educational policy, and cultural context affect the number of women and men who pursue advanced study in science and math and that these effects add and interact in complex ways.
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Resolving 20 years of inconsistent interactions between lexical familiarity and orthography, concreteness, and polysemy.
  • M. Gernsbacher
  • Psychology
    Journal of experimental psychology. General
  • 1 June 1984
TLDR
Six lexical decision experiments reexamine the prior findings by orthogonally manipulating lexical familiarity, as assessed by experiential familiarity ratings, with bigram frequency, semantic concreteness, and number of meanings and suggest that of these variables, only experientials familiarity reliably affects word recognition latencies.
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The mechanism of suppression: a component of general comprehension skill.
TLDR
It is suggested that less skilled comprehenders suffer from a less efficient suppression mechanism, which is an important component of general comprehension skill.
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Mechanisms that improve referential access
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Investigating differences in general comprehension skill.
TLDR
The cognitive processes and mechanisms involved in capturing and representing the structure of comprehensible information provide one source of individual differences in general comprehension skill.
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Two Decades of Structure Building.
TLDR
The seminal work on which the Structure Building Framework is based is reviewed (the first decade of structure building research); then the research I have conducted to test the structure building framework is recounted.
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Accessing Sentence Participants: The Advantage of First Mention.
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Do Readers Mentally Represent Characters' Emotional States?
TLDR
These experiments suggest that readers form explicit, lifelike, mental representations of fictional characters' emotional states, and readers form these representations as a normal part of reading comprehension.
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