Reading

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Phonological neighbourhood density: effects in a rhyme awareness task in five-year-old children.

Phonological awareness skills are critical for reading acquisition, yet relatively little is known about the origins of phonological awareness. This study investigates one plausible source of the emergence of phonological awareness, phonological ...
Bruno De Cara, Usha Goswami (J Child Lang, 200308)
phonological-neighbourhood-density-effects-rhyme-awareness-task-five.asp

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Developing and evaluating patient education materials.

Nurses should be involved in all aspects of patient education, including the development of print and web resources, but most nurses have not been educated in how to develop these resources. This article discusses the rationale for nurse involvement, ...
Diane Monsivais, Audree Reynolds (J Contin Educ Nurs, 200307-08)
developing-evaluating-patient-education-materials.asp

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Brocas area and the language instinct.

Language acquisition in humans relies on abilities like abstraction and use of syntactic rules, which are absent in other animals. The neural correlate of acquiring new linguistic competence was investigated with two functional magnetic resonance imaging ...
Mariacristina Musso, Andrea Moro, Volkmar Glauche, Michel Rijntjes, Jürgen Reichenbach, Christian Büchel, Cornelius Weiller (Nat Neurosci, 200307)
broca-s-area-language-instinct.asp

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The effects of age and domain knowledge on text processing.

The author investigated age differences in the effects of knowledge during encoding by comparing time allocated to naturalistic domain-related (cooking) and general texts among young and older adults with varying levels of (cooking) knowledge. ...
Lisa M Soederberg Miller (J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci, 200307)
effects-age-domain-knowledge-text-processing.asp

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Implicit memory varies as a function of hypnotic electroencephalogram stage in surgical patients.

Previous studies have observed a correlation of implicit memory with certain electroencephalogram (EEG) measures during anesthesia. Here, we tested the relationship between hypnotic depth determined by computer system (Narcotrend(TM)) and implicit memory ...
Sinikka Münte, Thomas F Münte, Jörg Grotkamp, Gertrud Haeseler, Konstantinos Raymondos, Siegfried Piepenbrock, Gabriele Kraus (Anesth Analg, 200307)
implicit-memory-varies-function-hypnotic-electroencephalogram-stage.asp

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Development of neural mechanisms for reading.

The complexities of pediatric brain imaging have precluded studies that trace the neural development of cognitive skills acquired during childhood. Using a task that isolates reading-related brain activity and minimizes confounding performance effects, ...
Peter E Turkeltaub, Lynn Gareau, D Lynn Flowers, Thomas A Zeffiro, Guinevere F Eden (Nat Neurosci, 200307)
development-neural-mechanisms-reading.asp

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Reading disappearing text: cognitive control of eye movements.

Participants read sentences containing high- or low-frequency target words under normal reading conditions or disappearing-text conditions (in which the word that was fixated disappeared after 60 ms). Even though the fixated word had disappeared after 60 ...
Keith Rayner, Simon P Liversedge, Sarah J White, Dorine Vergilino-Perez (Psychol Sci, 200307)
reading-disappearing-text-cognitive-control-eye-movements.asp

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Coordination of eye and head movements during reading.

PURPOSE: There is little information regarding the characteristics of head movements during reading. This study was undertaken to investigate horizontal and vertical head movements during two different reading tasks. METHODS: Head and eye movements were ...
Frank Antony Proudlock, Himanshu Shekhar, Irene Gottlob (Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 200307)
coordination-eye-head-movements-reading.asp

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Context effects in word recognition: evidence for early interactive processing.

This study investigated whether a prior context influenced lexical access as indexed by participants electrophysiological response in the N1 from 132 to 192 ms poststimulus. Ambiguous, high-frequency (HF), and low-frequency (LF) words were presented in ...
Sara C Sereno, Cameron C Brewer, Patrick J ODonnell (Psychol Sci, 200307)
context-effects-word-recognition-evidence-early-interactive-processing.asp

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Directional bias in the mental representation of spatial events: nature or culture?

Previous research has shown a tendency for people to imagine simple sentences as evolving from left to right, with the sentence subject being located to the left of the object. In two cross-cultural studies comparing Italian and Arab participants, we ...
Anne Maass, Aurore Russo (Psychol Sci, 200307)
directional-bias-mental-representation-spatial-events-nature-or.asp