Patients with right hemisphere syndrome, caused by damage to the right cerebral cortex, are often unable to _____.

To understand a cognitive process such as lexical access or sentence comprehension at the level of analysis that Marr (1982) refers to as the “computational theory” we must be able to answer the following question:

MacWhinney, Bates, and Kliegl’s (1984) _____ strategy suggests that the agent of the pseudo-sentence, “The shoes swallows the bird” is “shoes”.

Seidenberg and McClelland’s (1989) conceptual model of word naming includes a(n) _____ level of representation, but their computer implementation does not.

In _____ the semantic distance (or similarity in meaning) between two words is measured by assessing the similarity of the sentence contexts in which they occur.  “Couch” and “chair” are considered close in meaning because they both occur frequently in sentences that contain words like “sit,” “television” and “furniture.”

In Forster’s (1981) search model of lexical access _____.

The /b/ sound in “big” and the _____ differ in manner of articulation.

Warrington & Shallace (1984) found that while some neurological patients are able to name members of natural, biological categories (e.g., “dog” or “apple”) but have difficulty naming human artifacts (e.g., “hammer” or “shirt”), others exhibit the exact opposite pattern. This is an example of a _____.

Farah & McClelland’s (1991) parallel distributed processing model of semantic memory impairment does not include nodes which _____.

Which of the following conveys a single proposition?