Reading

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Neural systems of second language reading are shaped by native language.

Reading in a second language (L2) is a complex task that entails an interaction between L2 and the native language (L1). To study the underlying mechanisms, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to visualize Chinese-English bilinguals ...
Li Hai Tan, John A Spinks, Ching-Mei Feng, Wai Ting Siok, Charles A Perfetti, Jinhu Xiong, Peter T Fox, Jia-Hong Gao (Hum Brain Mapp, 200303)
neural-systems-second-language-reading-shaped-native-language.asp

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Intersentential syntactic context effects on comprehension: the role of working memory.

The study investigated the influence of a syntactically biasing context sentence on the processing of syntactically complex object-first relative clauses and even more complex object-first complement clauses in readers with individual differences in ...
Sandra H Vos, Angela D Friederici (Brain Res Cogn Brain Res, 200303)
intersentential-syntactic-context-effects-comprehension-role-working.asp

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Syntax-related ERP-effects in Dutch.

In two studies subjects were required to read Dutch sentences that in some cases contained a syntactic violation, in other cases a semantic violation. All syntactic violations were word category violations. The design excluded differential contributions ...
Peter Hagoort, Marlies Wassenaar, Colin M Brown (Brain Res Cogn Brain Res, 200303)
syntax-related-erp-effects-dutch.asp

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Decision making in humans: the effect of manipulating the central noradrenergic system.

OBJECTIVES: Damasio has proposed an influential model of human decision making-the Somatic Marker Hypothesis (SMH), where he argues that somatic feedback to the brain influences decision making in humans. It is proposed that when choosing between options ...
R E OCarroll, B P Papps (J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry, 200303)
decision-making-humans-effect-manipulating-central-noradrenergic.asp

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Gamma-band desynchronization in language areas reflects syntactic process of words.

The aim of this study was to verify the relation between gamma-band activity and process of function words. We recorded the neuromagnetic signals in six healthy volunteers during silent reading of verbs (verb task) and forming of the past tenses ...
Aya Ihara, Masayuki Hirata, Kotoe Sakihara, Hiromi Izumi, Yuko Takahashi, Kaoru Kono, Hiroyuki Imaoka, Yasuhiro Osaki, Amami Kato, Toshiki Yoshimine, Shiro Yorifuji (Neurosci Lett, 200303)
gamma-band-desynchronization-language-areas-reflects-syntactic.asp

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Recycling prosodic boundaries.

The present study investigates the role of prosodic structure in selecting a syntactic analysis at different stages of parsing in silent reading of Japanese relative clauses. Experiments 1 and 2 (sentence-completion questionnaires) revealed an effect of ...
Yuki Hirose (J Psycholinguist Res, 200303)
recycling-prosodic-boundaries.asp

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All parts of an item are not equal: effects of phonological redundancy on immediate recall.

The process of redintegration is thought to use top-down knowledge to repair partly damaged memory traces. We explored redintegration in the immediate recall of lists from a limited pool of partly phonologically redundant pseudowords. In Experiment 1, ...
Elisabet Service, Sini Maury (Mem Cognit, 200303)
parts-item-not-equal-effects-phonological-redundancy-immediate-recall.asp

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Syllogistic reasoning time: disconfirmation disconfirmed.

Models of deductive reasoning typically assume that reasoners dedicate more logical analysis to unbelievable conclusions than to believable ones (e.g., Evans, Newstead, Allen, & Pollard, 1994; Newstead, Pollard, Evans, & Allen, 1992). When the conclusion ...
Valerie A Thompson, Christopher L Striemer, Rhett Reikoff, Raymond W Gunter, Jamie I D Campbell (Psychon Bull Rev, 200303)
syllogistic-reasoning-time-disconfirmation-disconfirmed.asp

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The effect of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) on recognition memory decision processes and discrimination in postmenopausal women.

In this article, the theoretical distinction between recognition memory decision and discrimination processes is used to explore the effect of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) in postmenopausal women. DHEA is an adrenal steroid that diminishes with aging. ...
Elliot Hirshman, Ellen Wells, Margaret E Wierman, Benjamin Anderson, Andrew Butler, Meredith Senholzi, Julia Fisher (Psychon Bull Rev, 200303)
effect-dehydroepiandrosterone-dhea-recognition-memory-decision.asp

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Locus of semantic interference in picture-word interference tasks.

Picture-word interference studies typically show that semantically related distractor words embedded within a picture slow picture-naming responses, relative to unrelated ones. This semantic interference effect is commonly interpreted as arising from the ...
Markus F Damian, Jeffrey S Bowers (Psychon Bull Rev, 200303)
locus-semantic-interference-picture-word-interference-tasks.asp