Mental Recall

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Brain imaging of language plasticity in adopted adults: can a second language replace the first?

Do the neural circuits that subserve language acquisition lose plasticity as they become tuned to the maternal language? We tested adult subjects born in Korea and adopted by French families in childhood; they have become fluent in their second language ...
C Pallier, S Dehaene, J-B Poline, D LeBihan, A-M Argenti, E Dupoux, J Mehler (Cereb Cortex, 200302)
brain-imaging-language-plasticity-adopted-adults-second-language.asp

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How well do children aged 5-7 years recall food eaten at school lunch?

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to determine the accuracy with which children aged 5 to 7 years were able to report the food eaten at a school lunch. SUBJECTS/SETTING: Two hundred and three children (103 boys, 100 girls) aged 5-7 years were recruited from ...
Janet M Warren, C Jeya K Henry, M Barbara E Livingstone, Helen J Lightowler, Suzanne M Bradshaw, Sylvia Perwaiz (Public Health Nutr, 200302)
well-children-aged--years-recall-food-eaten-school-lunch.asp

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An enquiry into the process of categorization of pictures and words.

This paper reports a series of experiments conducted to study the categorization of pictures and words. Whereas some studies reported in the past have found a picture advantage in categorization, other studies have yielded no differences between pictures ...
Madhubalan Viswanathan, Terry L Childers (Percept Mot Skills, 200302)
enquiry-process-categorization-pictures-words.asp

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Verbal free recall in high altitude: proper names vs common names.

Exposure to extreme altitude is known to cause a general impairment of cognitive functions. In this study we investigated the effect of high altitude on the recall of supraspan lists of proper and common names. High altitude seems to have a dramatic ...
Giovanna Pelamatti, Milena Pascotto, Carlo Semenza (Cortex, 200302)
verbal-free-recall-high-altitude-proper-names-vs-common-names.asp

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Sex differences in landmark learning by children aged 5 to 12 years.

Previous research has shown that men and boys learn routes faster and with fewer errors than do women and girls. Research with adults suggests that men use Euclidean cues when learning a route, whereas women use landmark-based strategies. The strategies ...
Jennifer L Kersker, Melissa L Epley, Josephine F Wilson (Percept Mot Skills, 200302)
sex-differences-landmark-learning-children-aged--years.asp

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A negative order-repetition priming effect: inhibition of order in unattended auditory sequences?

A novel negative priming (NP) effect is reported in which serial recall for a sequence of visually presented digits was poorer if the same sequence was presented as an irrelevant auditory sequence on the previous trial (Experiments 1 and 2). The effect ...
Robert Hughes, Dylan M Jones (J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 200302)
negative-order-repetition-priming-effect-inhibition-order-unattended.asp

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Do people still report dreaming in black and white? An attempt to replicate a questionnaire from 1942.

In the 1940s and 1950s many people in the United States appear to have thought they dreamed in black and white. For example, Middleton (1942) found that 70.7% of 277 college sophomores reported "rarely" or "never" seeing colors in their dreams. The ...
Eric Schwitzgebel (Percept Mot Skills, 200302)
people-still-report-dreaming-black-white-attempt-replicate.asp

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Vegetable consumption and carotenoids in plasma and adipose tissue in Malaga, Spain.

OBJECTIVE: To study relationships between habitual dietary intake, adipose tissue concentrations of alpha-carotene, beta-carotene and lycopene, and plasma concentrations of alpha- and beta-carotene. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study including assessment of ...
Jorge Gómez-Aracena, Rik Bogers, Pieter Vant Veer, Enrique Gómez-Gracia, Antonio García-Rodríguez, Hans Wedel, Joaquín Fernández-Crehuet Navajas (Int J Vitam Nutr Res, 200302)
vegetable-consumption-carotenoids-plasma-adipose-tissue-malaga-spain.asp

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Lateralization of prefrontal activity during episodic memory retrieval: evidence for the production-monitoring hypothesis.

We propose a new hypothesis concerning the lateralization of prefrontal cortex (PFC) activity during verbal episodic memory retrieval. The hypothesis states that the left PFC is differentially more involved in semantically guided information production ...
Roberto Cabeza, Jill K Locantore, Nicole D Anderson (J Cogn Neurosci, 200302)
lateralization-prefrontal-activity-episodic-memory-retrieval-evidence.asp

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Category-specific representations of social and nonsocial knowledge in the human prefrontal cortex.

Complex social behavior and the relatively large size of the prefrontal cortex are arguably two of the characteristics that distinguish humans from other animals. Grafman presented a framework concerning how the prefrontal cortex (PFC) controls complex ...
J N Wood, S G Romero, M Makale, J Grafman (J Cogn Neurosci, 200302)
category-specific-representations-social-nonsocial-knowledge-human.asp