Steven Frisson – Network — University of Birmingham

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Steven Frisson's main area of interest is semantic processing. In particular, he is interested in finding out how language users arrive at an interpretation of a word in context. While this may seem straightforward, especially since most of us do not experience much difficulty in comprehending natural language, it is in fact a remarkably complex process that involves decisions and interactions at many different levels. For example, most words have many different interpretations (eg, school can refer to a place or to an institution; Dickens can refer to a person or to his writings). How do we pick out the right one upon encountering these words? How and when do we integrate a word's meaning in the larger syntactic and semantic context? How do we get to a novel interpretation of a word? Is processing influenced by statistical properties between words? In order to investigate these, and related, questions, Dr Frisson mainly uses eye-tracking methodology as it allows us to detect what portions in a text require more cognitive effort to understand.

Dr Frisson currently works with doctoral researchers on topics including reading processes in people who stutter and figurative language processing in people with psychosis.

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Life and Environmental Sciences

The University of Birmingham

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59 shared research output

The University of Birmingham

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Clinical Sciences

Medical and Dental Sciences

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Cancer and Genomic Sciences

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Medical and Dental Sciences

The University of Birmingham

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Birmingham Medical School

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University of Agder

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Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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University of Pretoria

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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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1 shared research output

University of Illinois

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University of Warwick

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University of California, Davis

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Cardiff University

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Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust

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University of California, San Diego

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1 shared research output

Anglia Ruskin University

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1 shared research output

New York University

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1 shared research output

Taipei Medical University

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1 shared research output

National Central University

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1 shared research output

University of Hertfordshire

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1 shared research output

University of Massachusetts

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1 shared research output

Imperial College London

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1 shared research output

Loughborough University

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Université de Paris

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