scholarly journals Repetition Avoidance in Circular Factors

2013 ◽  
pp. 384-395 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamoon Mousavi ◽  
Jeffrey Shallit
Keyword(s):  
Repetition Avoidance

Referential cohesion and news content

Target ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 406-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krisztina Károly
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
News Story ◽  
News Content ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Translation Type ◽  
Repetition Avoidance

This study explores the (re)creation of referential cohesion in Hungarian-English translation and examines the extent to which shifts of reference are motivated by the differences between the languages, the characteristics of the translation type (news translation) and the genre (news story). As referential cohesion is hypothesized to be affected by certain universals of translation, the explicitation and the repetition avoidance hypotheses are also tested. Analyses show considerable shifts of reference in translations, but these are not statistically significant. The corpus also fails to provide evidence for the universals of translation investigated; however, the in-depth analysis of optional shifts suggests that they are conditioned by the discursive features of the genre and contribute to a more explicit presentation of news content.

scholarly journals Repetition avoidance in products of factors

2019 ◽  
Vol 791 ◽  
pp. 123-126
Author(s):  
Pamela Fleischmann ◽  
Pascal Ochem ◽  
Kamellia Reshadi
Keyword(s):  
Repetition Avoidance

High-Speed Sequential Vocal Response Production

1984 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Wiegersma
Keyword(s):  
Production Rate ◽  
Response Bias ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Zero Order ◽  
Frequency Effect ◽  
Vocal Response ◽  
Response Execution ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Repetition Avoidance ◽  
Parallel Fashion

Studies of the effect of production rate on response bias in randomization tasks have led to contradictory results. While Teraoka (1963) reported an effect of production rate on repetition avoidance, Wagenaar (1970) did not find such an effect. This study was designed to show that the difference between the findings of Teraoka and Wagenaar reflected a difference in the range of production rates used in both studies and to study response bias in high-speed conditions. Three measures of response bias, the zero-order frequency effect, stereotyped orders, and repetitions, increase when production rate is greater than two responses per second. Even with a production rate of four or five responses per second, however, performance is not completely stereotyped or perseverative. This can be explained by assuming high-speed comparison processes which operate in a parallel fashion and simultaneously with response-execution processes.

Semantic and phonemic sequence effects in random word generation: A dissociation between Alzheimer's and Huntington's disease patients

2005 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
KIRSTEN I. TAYLOR ◽  
DAVID P. SALMON ◽  
ANDREAS U. MONSCH ◽  
PETER BRUGGER
Keyword(s):  
Huntington's Disease ◽  
Huntington’S Disease ◽  
Healthy Individuals ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Generation Task ◽  
Word Generation ◽  
Reverse Pattern ◽  
Sequence Effects ◽  
Processing Deficits ◽  
Repetition Avoidance

Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients perform worse on category than letter fluency tasks, while Huntington's disease (HD) patients show the reverse pattern or comparable impairment on both tasks. We developed a random word generation task to further investigate these deficits. Twenty AD and 16 HD patients and 20 elderly and 16 middle-aged controls guessed which of three pictures (hat, cat, or dog) landed on a die's top face sixty times. Three consecutive response pairings were possible: semantic (cat–dog), phonemic (hat–cat), and neutral (hat–dog). Since healthy individuals avoid repeating meaningful associates (“repetition avoidance”), an increased pairing frequency reflects processing deficits. AD patients produced more semantic and HD patients more phonemic pairings compared to their respective control groups, indicating selective semantic and phonemic processing deficits in AD and HD patients, respectively. (JINS, 2005,11, 303–310.)

Temporal and Spatial Repetition Avoidance

1996 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 820-822 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Brugger
Keyword(s):  
Random Matrix ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Random Choice ◽  
Neighboring Cell ◽  
External Cues ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
The One ◽  
External Stimuli ◽  
Repetition Avoidance ◽  
Selection Of

An experiment is introduced in which subjects had to mark with either an “X” or a point 100 squares arranged in a 10 by 10 matrix randomly. One group of subjects had to proceed horizontally (starting with the top row, left to right), another group vertically (starring with the left-most column, top to bottom). Two forms of repetition avoidance were found, temporal (avoidance of preceding choice) and spatial (avoidance of the mark contained by the neighboring cell, i.e., the one above or the one to the left for the horizontal and vertical procedures, respectively). Selection of a “random” choice in a two-dimensional array is thus affected by internal (self-generated) as well as external stimuli. The two forms of avoidance were negatively intercorrelated, indicating that suppression of internal and external cues are separate and mutually competing functions. Random matrix tasks may provide a simple means to assess a person's relative susceptibility to either form of repetition avoidance.

Stroop-Type Interference in Random-Number Generation

1995 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
pp. 387-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Brugger ◽  
Sabine Pietzsch ◽  
Gabriele Weidmann ◽  
Peter Biro ◽  
Eli Alon
Keyword(s):  
Random Number ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Random Number Generation ◽  
Naming Task ◽  
Color Naming ◽  
Generation Task ◽  
Number Generation ◽  
Psychological Theories ◽  
Random Behavior ◽  
Repetition Avoidance

We describe a positive correlation between the extent of sequential counting in a random-number generation task and the magnitude of the interference effect in Stroop's color-naming task. This finding is compatible with the view that both counting and reading are highly automatized processes which constitute an inevitable source of interference in randomization and Stroop paradigms, respectively. On the other hand, cognitive psychological theories proposing that a generally biased concept of randomness would be responsible for human subjects' inability to generate true random sequences do not readily account for this correlation. Literature on repetition avoidance indicates this universal effect in random generation is likewise not explainable in terms of some “biased concept of randomness.” Repetition avoidance (“spontaneous alternation”) also occurs in lower invertebrates, is largely independent of mathematical sophistication in humans, dissipates with increasing time between consecutive responses, and is diminished by amnesia. We conclude that the failure of functionally intact organisms to display random behavior is due to basic neuropsychological limitations. In neglecting these biological foundations, “concept of randomness” theories of randomization behavior lack explanatory value.

Effects of Regular Switching between Languages during Random Number Generation

2005 ◽  
Vol 100 (2) ◽  
pp. 524-534 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Strenge ◽  
Jessica Böhm
Keyword(s):  
Random Number ◽  
Random Number Generation ◽  
Number Representation ◽  
Executive Processes ◽  
Number Generation ◽  
L1 And L2 ◽  
Repetition Avoidance ◽  
Cycling Behavior

Random number generation is a task that engages working memory and executive processes within the domain of number representation. In the present study we address the role of language in number processing by switching languages during random number generation (numbers 1–9), using German (L1) and English (L2), and alternating L1/L2. Results indicate large correspondence between performance in L1 and L2. In contrast to nonswitching performance, randomization with alternating languages showed a significant increase of omitted responses, whereas the random sequences were less stereotyped, showing significantly less repetition avoidance and cycling behavior. During an intentional switch between languages, errors in language sequence appeared in 23% of responses on the average, independently of the quality of randomization but associated with a clear persistence of L2. These results indicate that random number generation is more closely linked to auditory-phonological representation of numerals than to visual arabic notation.

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