Semantic Typicality of Affixes Facilitates Word Processing: MEG Evidence From Arabic.

Neurobiol Lang (Camb) · 2025 · PMC12674548 · PMID 41346869

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closest p · 1.2× alpha

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boldest claim

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nearing significancep = 0.06so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

We observed these effects nearing significance at the temporal pole ( p = 0.06) at 431–500 mins PSO, with more activity for real root pseudowords.

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a trend toward significanceno p-value reported

The first of these were more difficult to judge in a lexical decision task, but they did not show a significant difference in their processing in the temporal lobe and only a trend toward significance in later frontal lobe areas.

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