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languagelanguage concept The mental ability to encode and decode information, and translate this information into verbal, acoustic and visual representations, according to a set of rules that are common across a population.
language acquisitionlanguage acquisition concept the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive, produce and use words to understand and communicate.
language comprehensionlanguage comprehension concept The ability to understand communication from others, such as speech, written text, gestures, or sign language.
language learninglanguage learning concept the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive, produce and use words to understand and communicate, this capacity involves the picking up of diverse capacities including syntax, phonetics, and an extensive vocabulary, the language might be vocal as with speech or manual as in sign.
language processinglanguage processing concept the way human beings process speech or writing and understand it as language.
language productionlanguage production concept is translating a concept or set of ideas into spoken, signed or written form
lateral inhibitionlateral inhibition concept the capacity of an excited neuron to reduce the activity of its neighbors.
learninglearning concept The process of acquiring new skills/knowledge/information
lemmalemma concept a proposition proved, or sometimes assumed, to be true and used in proving a theorem; the subject of a composition, gloss, or note, esp. when used as a heading; a term glossed in a list.
Letter case judgment taskLetter case judgment task task A task in which the subject decides whether letters are uppercase or lowercase.
letter comparisonletter comparison task No definition submitted yet.
letter fluency test letter fluency test task is a test that requires generation of words cued with a specific letter and depends on phonemic abilities.
letter n-back taskletter n-back task task A task in which participants view a continuous stream of letter stimuli. The object of the task is to identify letter repetitions that occur n-trials preceding to the current stimulus.
Letter naming taskLetter naming task task Participants are presented with letters and asked to give the name for each letter as it appears or as the researcher points to it.
letter number sequencingletter number sequencing task a task that requires the reordering of an initially unordered set of letters and numbers
lexical accesslexical access concept the process by which contact is made with the lexicon on the basis of an initial acoustic-phonetic or phonological representation of some portion of the speech input, the result of lexical success is a cohort of potential word candidates which are compatible with this initial analysis.
lexical ambiguitylexical ambiguity concept the presence of two or more possible meanings within a single word.
Lexical decision taskLexical decision task task a procedure used in many psychology and psycholinguistics experiments; the basic procedure involves measuring how quickly people classify stimuli as words or nonwords. Subjects are presented, either visually or auditorily, with a mixture of words and pseudowords (nonsense strings that respect the phonotactic rules of a language, like trud in English)...
lexical encodinglexical encoding concept converting vocabulary, words, or morphemes of a language into a code.
lexical processinglexical processing concept A general term referring to the processing of single words, typically in the context of visual or auditory word recognition.
lexical retrievallexical retrieval concept No definition submitted yet
lexiconlexicon concept The vocabulary of a language, including its words and expressions.
linguistic competencelinguistic competence concept a speaker's implicit, internalized knowledge of the rules of their language.
listeninglistening concept to pay attention to sound; to hear something with thoughtful attention, give consideration; to be alert to catch an expected sound.
listening span tasklistening span task task A task in which subjects must listen to a set of sentences and remember the last word in the sentence. The number of words that can be recalled is the "listening span."
living-nonliving taskliving-nonliving task task
logiclogic concept a science that deals with the principles and criteria of validity of inference and demonstration; the science of the formal principles of reasoning.
logical reasoninglogical reasoning concept The strategy when one uses deduction, induction, or abduction to evaluate preconditions and rules to determnie a conclusion.
logical reasoning tasklogical reasoning task task A task that requires the use of logical reasoning.
logical thinkinglogical thinking concept the process in which one uses reasoning consistently to come to a conclusion.
long term memorylong term memory concept a system for permanently storing, managing, and retrieving information for later use, items of information stored as long-term memory may be available for a lifetime.
loss aversionloss aversion concept The tendency of individuals to be more sensitive to the possibility of losing objects or money than they are to the possibility of gaining the same objects or amounts of money.
lyinglying concept marked by or containing falsehoods.

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