Cognition

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The role of modelling and request type on symbolic comprehension of objects and gestures in young children.

In a first study, we considered whether modelling and the type of an adults request influenced childrens ability at 1;8 and 2;2 to comprehend gestures and replica objects as symbols for familiar objects. In a second study, we evaluated whether modelling ...
Tricia Striano, Philippe Rochat, Maria Legerstee (J Child Lang, 200302)
role-modelling-request-type-symbolic-comprehension-objects-gestures.asp

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Sensory versus cognitive components in harmonic priming.

This study investigated the strength of sensory and cognitive components involved in musical priming. In Experiment 1, the harmonic function of the target chord and the number of pitch classes shared by the prime sequence and the target chord were ...
Emmanuel Bigand, Bénédicte Poulin, Barbara Tillmann, François Madurell, Daniel A DAdamo (J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 200302)
sensory-versus-cognitive-components-harmonic-priming.asp

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Genre and evaluation in narrative development.

In this study I examine Venezuelan childrens developing abilities to use evaluative language in fictional and personal narratives. The questions addressed are: (1) How does the use of evaluative language vary in fictional and personal narratives? (2) Is ...
Martha Shiro (J Child Lang, 200302)
genre-evaluation-narrative-development.asp

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Priming of mental operations by masked stimuli.

Motor responses can be affected by visual stimuli that have been made invisible by masking. Can masked visual stimuli also affect nonmotor operations that are necessary to perform the task? Here, I report priming effects of masked stimuli on operations ...
Uwe Mattler (Percept Psychophys, 200302)
priming-mental-operations-masked-stimuli.asp

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Inhibition and anticipation in visual search: evidence from effects of color foreknowledge on preview search.

We present four experiments in which we examined the effects of color mixing and prior target color knowledge on preview search (Watson & Humphreys, 1997). The task was to detect a target letter (an N or a Z) that appeared along with other new letters, ...
Jason J Braithwaite, Glyn W Humphreys (Percept Psychophys, 200302)
inhibition-anticipation-visual-search-evidence-effects-color.asp

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The influence of instructions on the adjustment of scales.

In each of three experiments, one group of subjects first judged the eight largest and another group first judged the eight smallest of a graded series of 16 squares according to size. After four blocks of trials, both groups were shifted to the total ...
Gert Haubensak, Peter Petzold (Percept Psychophys, 200302)
influence-instructions-adjustment-scales.asp

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Neuroimaging studies of word and pseudoword reading: consistencies, inconsistencies, and limitations.

Several functional neuroimaging studies have compared words and pseudowords to test different cognitive models of reading. There are difficulties with this approach, however, because cognitive models do not make clear-cut predictions at the neural level. ...
Andrea Mechelli, Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini, Cathy J Price (J Cogn Neurosci, 200302)
neuroimaging-studies-word-pseudoword-reading-consistencies.asp

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Do children with autism fail to process information in context?

BACKGROUND: This research investigated the proposal that children with autism are impaired in processing information in its context. To date, this proposal rests almost exclusively on evidence from verbal tasks. Given evidence of visuo-spatial ...
Beatriz López, Susan R Leekam (J Child Psychol Psychiatry, 200302)
children-autism-fail-process-information-context.asp

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Understanding autism: insights from mind and brain.

Autism is a developmental disorder characterized by impaired social interaction and communication as well as repetitive behaviours and restricted interests. The consequences of this disorder for everyday life adaptation are extremely variable. The ...
Elisabeth L Hill, Uta Frith (Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 200302)
understanding-autism-insights-mind-brain.asp

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Are our norms "normal"? A 4-year follow-up study of a biracial sample of rural elders with low education.

Conventional norms that test presumably normal elderly individuals at one point in time may include preclinical cases of dementia and therefore may be less sensitive to the presence of dementia (Sliwinski, Lipton, Buschke, & Stewart, 1996). A sample of ...
Bernice Marcopulos, Carol McLain (Clin Neuropsychol, 200302)
norms-normal--year-follow-up-study-biracial-sample-rural-elders-low.asp