Reading

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"I want to read stuff on boys": white, Latina, and black girls reading seventeen magazine and encountering adolescence.

This study is based on interviews with four focus groups consisting of fourteen white, Latina, and black girls, ages 13 to 16 years, from diverse backgrounds. The objectives of the study are to gain insight into what forum girls use to learn about the ...
Elaine Bell Kaplan, Leslie Cole (Adolescence, 2003SPRING)
want-read-stuff-boys-white-latina-black-girls-reading-seventeen.asp

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Recombinative generalization of within-syllable units in nonreading adults with mental retardation.

Two adults with mental retardation demonstrated the recombination of within-syllable units (onsets and rimes) using a spoken-to-printed-word matching-to-sample (MTS) procedure. Further testing with 1 participant showed comprehension of the printed words. ...
Kathryn J Saunders, Jennifer ODonnell, Manish Vaidya, Dean C Williams (J Appl Behav Anal, 2003SPRING)
recombinative-generalization-syllable-units-nonreading-adults-mental.asp

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Modeling the effect of task and graphical representation on response latency in a graph reading task.

We report an investigation into the processes involved in a common graph-reading task using two types of Cartesian graph. We describe an experiment and eye movement study, the results of which show that optimal scan paths assumed in the task analysis ...
David Peebles, Peter C H Cheng (Hum Factors, 2003SPRING)
modeling-effect-task-graphical-representation-response-latency-graph.asp

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Sequencing, co-ordination and rhythm ability in young children.

BACKGROUND: Sequencing ability is recognized as a fundamental component in motor co-ordination, language and reading performance. METHODS: Sequencing relationships are studied in a sample of 1013 children selected from an existing data set of 3750. ...
C Haines (Child Care Health Dev, 200309)
sequencing-co-ordination-rhythm-ability-young-children.asp

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A computer-based reading test for use as an index of premorbid general intellectual level in North American English-speaking adults.

Brief tests of vocabulary or reading ability are often used as an index of general intellectual level to hypothesize deficits in patients, to establish comparability of comparison groups, and as a covariate of performance on other neuropsychological ...
Richard Letz, Colleen K DiIorio, Patricia O Shafer, Katherine A Yeager, Thomas R Henry, Donald L Schomer (Neurotoxicology, 200308)
computer-based-reading-test-index-premorbid-general-intellectual.asp

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Processing correlates of lexical semantic complexity.

This paper explores how verb meanings that differ in semantic complexity are processed and represented. In particular, we compare eventive verbs, which denote causally structured events, with stative verbs, which denote facts without causal structure. We ...
Silvia Gennari, David Poeppel (Cognition, 200308)
processing-correlates-lexical-semantic-complexity.asp

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Language perception activates the hand motor cortex: implications for motor theories of speech perception.

The precise mechanisms of how speech may have developed are still unknown to a large extent. Gestures have proven a powerful concept for explaining how planning and analysing of motor acts could have evolved into verbal communication. According to this ...
Agnes Flöel, Tanja Ellger, Caterina Breitenstein, Stefan Knecht (Eur J Neurosci, 200308)
language-perception-activates-hand-motor-cortex-implications-motor.asp

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Visual presentation of single letters activates a premotor area involved in writing.

In the present fMRI study, we addressed the question as to whether motor-perceptual interactions might be involved in reading. Recognizing the letters encountered when reading is generally assumed to be a purely visual process, yet because we know how to ...
Marieke Longcamp, Jean-Luc Anton, Muriel Roth, Jean-Luc Velay (Neuroimage, 200308)
visual-presentation-single-letters-activates-premotor-area-involved.asp

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Distinct brain representations for early and late learned words.

Recently there has been a renewed interest in cognitive psychology on the effects of the age of word acquisition (AoA) on lexical processing. In particular, it is currently unclear whether AoA or word frequency are better predictors of word recognition. ...
Christian J Fiebach, Angela D Friederici, Karsten Müller, D Yves von Cramon, Arturo E Hernandez (Neuroimage, 200308)
distinct-brain-representations-early-late-learned-words.asp

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Interplay between syntax and semantics during sentence comprehension: ERP effects of combining syntactic and semantic violations.

This study investigated the effects of combined semantic and syntactic violations in relation to the effects of single semantic and single syntactic violations on language-related event-related brain potential (ERP) effects (N400 and P600/SPS). Syntactic ...
Peter Hagoort (J Cogn Neurosci, 200308)
interplay-syntax-semantics-sentence-comprehension-erp-effects.asp