Unilateral spatial neglect is a disabling neurologic deficit, most frequent and severe after
right-hemispheric lesions. In most patients neglect involves the left side of space …

Compound words consist of two or more words which combine to form a single word or
phrase that acts as one. In English, the head of compound words is usually, but not always …

Compound words in Romance languages may have the head either in the initial or in the
final position. In the present event-related potential (ERP) study, we address the hypothesis …

It has been argued that compounding was one of the first processes to appear when
language first developed: Jackendoff (2002), for example, has claimed that compounds may …

The present study is the first neuropsychological investigation into the problem of the mental
representation and processing of irreversible binomials (IBs), ie, word pairs linked by a …

Linguistic relativity theory has received empirical support in domains such as color
perception and object categorization. It is unknown, however, whether relations between …

Compounds are morphologically complex words made of different linguistic parts. They are
very prevalent in a number of languages such as French. Different psycholinguistic …

Theories on the processing of compound words differ on the role attributed to access to
individual constituents. These theories are mostly based on empirical evidence obtained in …

Most compound words are constituted of a head constituent (eg, light in moonlight) and a
modifier constituent (eg, moon in moonlight); the information transmitted by these head …

The present study employs neglect dyslexia (ND) as an experimental model to study
compound-word processing; in particular, it investigates whether compound constituents are …