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Direct linkRodd, Jennifer M.; Gaskell, M. Gareth; Marslen-Wilson, William D. – Cognitive Science, 2004
Most words in English are ambiguous between different interpretations; words can mean different things in different contexts. We investigate the implications of different types of semantic ambiguity for connectionist models of word recognition. We present a model in which there is competition to activate distributed semantic representations. The…
Descriptors: Semantics, Word Recognition, Figurative Language, English
Dagerman, Karen Stevens; MacDonald, Maryellen C.; Harm, Michael W. – Cognitive Science, 2006
Older and younger adults' abilities to use context information rapidly during ambiguity resolution were investigated. In Experiments 1 and 2, younger and older adults heard ambiguous words (e.g., fires) in sentences where the preceding context supported either the less frequent or more frequent meaning of the word. Both age groups showed good…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Older Adults, Sentences, Simulation
