David Vinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3851083 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Vinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Vinson |
| SIGNATURE | VINSON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6226-3258 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
What we mean when we say semantic
Tulving characterized semantic memory as a vast repository of meaning that underlies language and many other cognitive processes. This perspective on lexical and conceptual knowledge galvanized a new era of research undertaken by numerous fields, each with their own idiosyncratic methods and terminology. For example, “concept” has different meanings in philosophy, linguistics, and psychology. As such, many fundamental constructs used to delineate…
Retracted Article
We, the Authors, Editors and Publisher of Cognition and Emotion have retracted the following article:Semantic and Prosodic Threat Processing in Trait Anxiety: Is Repetitive Thinking Influencing Responses? By Simon Busch-Moreno, Jyrki Tuomainen & David Vinson, published online: 14 August 2020https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02699931.2020.1804329Since publication, the Authors discovered two major errors in the statistical analyses. Spec…
Processing advantage for emotional words in bilingual speakers
Effects of emotion on word processing are well established in monolingual speakers. However, studies that have assessed whether affective features of words undergo the same processing in a native and nonnative language have provided mixed results: Studies that have found differences between native language (L1) and second language (L2) processing attributed the difference to the fact that L2 learned late in life would not be processed affectively…
The Neural Representation of Abstract Words
It is generally assumed that abstract concepts are linguistically coded, in line with imaging evidence of greater engagement of the left perisylvian language network for abstract than concrete words (Binder JR, Desai RH, Graves WW, Conant LL. 2009. Where is the semantic system? A critical review and meta-analysis of 120 functional neuroimaging studies. Cerebral Cortex. 19:2767-2796; Wang J, Conder JA, Blitzer DN, Shinkareva SV. 2010. Neural repre…
Language as a multimodal phenomenon
Our understanding of the cognitive and neural underpinnings of language has traditionally been firmly based on spoken Indo-European languages and on language studied as speech or text. However, in face-to-face communication, language is multimodal: speech signals are invariably accompanied by visual information on the face and in manual gestures, and sign languages deploy multiple channels (hands, face and body) in utterance construction. Moreove…
Using conversational data to determine lexical frequency in British Sign Language
Giving Words Meaning
The representation of abstract words
Although much is known about the representation and processing of concrete concepts, knowledge of what abstract semantics might be is severely limited. In this article we first address the adequacy of the 2 dominant accounts (dual coding theory and the context availability model) put forward in order to explain representation and processing differences between concrete and abstract words. We find that neither proposal can account for experimental…
Nouns and verbs in the brain
Emotion words, regardless of polarity, have a processing advantage over neutral words
Integrating experiential and distributional data to learn semantic representations
The authors identify 2 major types of statistical data from which semantic representations can be learned. These are denoted as experiential data and distributional data. Experiential data are derived by way of experience with the physical world and comprise the sensory-motor data obtained through sense receptors. Distributional data, by contrast, describe the statistical distribution of words across spoken and written language. The authors claim…
Emotion words, regardless of polarity, have a processing advantage over neutral words
Integrating experiential and distributional data to learn semantic representations
The authors identify 2 major types of statistical data from which semantic representations can be learned. These are denoted as experiential data and distributional data. Experiential data are derived by way of experience with the physical world and comprise the sensory-motor data obtained through sense receptors. Distributional data, by contrast, describe the statistical distribution of words across spoken and written language. The authors claim…
The representation of abstract words
Although much is known about the representation and processing of concrete concepts, knowledge of what abstract semantics might be is severely limited. In this article we first address the adequacy of the 2 dominant accounts (dual coding theory and the context availability model) put forward in order to explain representation and processing differences between concrete and abstract words. We find that neither proposal can account for experimental…
Nouns and verbs in the brain
Giving Words Meaning
The Neural Representation of Abstract Words
It is generally assumed that abstract concepts are linguistically coded, in line with imaging evidence of greater engagement of the left perisylvian language network for abstract than concrete words (Binder JR, Desai RH, Graves WW, Conant LL. 2009. Where is the semantic system? A critical review and meta-analysis of 120 functional neuroimaging studies. Cerebral Cortex. 19:2767-2796; Wang J, Conder JA, Blitzer DN, Shinkareva SV. 2010. Neural repre…
Language as a multimodal phenomenon
Our understanding of the cognitive and neural underpinnings of language has traditionally been firmly based on spoken Indo-European languages and on language studied as speech or text. However, in face-to-face communication, language is multimodal: speech signals are invariably accompanied by visual information on the face and in manual gestures, and sign languages deploy multiple channels (hands, face and body) in utterance construction. Moreove…
Using conversational data to determine lexical frequency in British Sign Language
Processing advantage for emotional words in bilingual speakers
Effects of emotion on word processing are well established in monolingual speakers. However, studies that have assessed whether affective features of words undergo the same processing in a native and nonnative language have provided mixed results: Studies that have found differences between native language (L1) and second language (L2) processing attributed the difference to the fact that L2 learned late in life would not be processed affectively…
Retracted Article
We, the Authors, Editors and Publisher of Cognition and Emotion have retracted the following article:Semantic and Prosodic Threat Processing in Trait Anxiety: Is Repetitive Thinking Influencing Responses? By Simon Busch-Moreno, Jyrki Tuomainen & David Vinson, published online: 14 August 2020https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02699931.2020.1804329Since publication, the Authors discovered two major errors in the statistical analyses. Spec…
What we mean when we say semantic
Tulving characterized semantic memory as a vast repository of meaning that underlies language and many other cognitive processes. This perspective on lexical and conceptual knowledge galvanized a new era of research undertaken by numerous fields, each with their own idiosyncratic methods and terminology. For example, “concept” has different meanings in philosophy, linguistics, and psychology. As such, many fundamental constructs used to delineate…
Computer Science (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Cognitive psychology (7 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Cognition (6 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Natural language processing (4 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (4 works) · Action Observation and Synchronization (3 works)