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Strategic effects in associative priming with words, homophones, and pseudohomophones.

G. Lukatela and M. T. Turvey (1994a) showed that at a 57-ms prime-presentation duration, the naming of a visually presented target word (frog) is primed not only by an associate word (toad) but also by a homophone (towed) and a pseudohomophone (tode) of ...
Denis Drieghe, Marc Brysbaert (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 200209)
strategic-effects-associative-priming-words-homophones.asp

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The phonological similarity effect in short-term memory serial recall in schizophrenia.

Lists of phonologically similar items are more often recalled in the wrong order than phonologically dissimilar items. At recall, patients with schizophrenia were neither especially susceptible to confusing phonologically similar items nor to making ...
Brita Elvevåg, Daniel R Weinberger, Terry E Goldberg (Psychiatry Res, 200209)
phonological-similarity-effect-short-term-memory-serial-recall.asp

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Affective habituation: subliminal exposure to extreme stimuli decreases their extremity.

Following a functional perspective on evaluation, the authors hypothesized that subliminal exposure to extreme stimuli (e.g., extremely negative or positive words) would lead these stimuli to be perceived as less extreme. This process--affective ...
Ap Dijksterhuis, Pamela K Smith (Emotion, 200209)
affective-habituation-subliminal-exposure-extreme-stimuli-decreases.asp

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Do readers make inferences about conversational topics?

When we read that two protagonists in a story chatted together for a couple of minutes, do we draw inferences about the topic of the conversation on the basis of information presented earlier in the text? Participants read passages in which protagonists ...
R Brooke Lea, Patrick A Kayser, Elizabeth J Mulligan, Jerome L Myers (Mem Cognit, 200209)
readers-inferences-conversational-topics.asp

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Language development and emergent literacy in preschool.

To promote school readiness, preschool and Head Start teachers are incorporating more emergent literacy activities into their curriculum. This article argues that emergent literacy is subordinate to oral language development, rather than language ...
Barbara R Foorman, Jason Anthony, Latrice Seals, Angeliki Mouzaki (Semin Pediatr Neurol, 200209)
language-development-emergent-literacy-preschool.asp

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Early childhood stunting and later behaviour and school achievement.

BACKGROUND: Stunting in early childhood is common in developing countries and is associated with poorer cognition and school achievement in later childhood. The effect of stunting on childrens behaviours is not as well established and is examined here. ...
S M Chang, S P Walker, S Grantham-McGregor, C A Powell (J Child Psychol Psychiatry, 200209)
early-childhood-stunting-later-behaviour-school-achievement.asp

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Reading with Abby: a case study of individual tutoring with a young adult with Down syndrome.

This case study examined the impact of a series of tutoring sessions on the literacy development of a young woman with Down syndrome. The sessions were conducted within the LATCH-ON (Literacy and Technology-Hands On) program at the Schonell Special ...
Kelly M Gallaher, Christina E van Kraayenoord, Anne Jobling, Karen B Moni (Downs Syndr Res Pract, 200209)
reading-abby-case-study-individual-tutoring-young-adult-down-syndrome.asp

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Parent-offspring resemblance for reading performance at 7, 12 and 16 years of age in the Colorado Adoption Project.

BACKGROUND: The study aimed to conduct the first analysis of CAP parent-offspring resemblance for reading performance in children aged 7, 12 and 16 years, and to assess the etiology of individual differences in reading performance of children at 16 years ...
S J Wadsworth, R P Corley, J K Hewitt, R Plomin, J C DeFries (J Child Psychol Psychiatry, 200209)
parent-offspring-resemblance-reading-performance---years-age.asp

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The roles of timing and task order during task switching.

The neural bases of the different processes involved in task switching remain poorly identified. Whether distinct brain regions are involved according to the overall structure of the task sequence and the predictability of task timing during task ...
Jean-Claude Dreher, Etienne Koechlin, Syed Omar Ali, Jordan Grafman (Neuroimage, 200209)
roles-timing-task-order-task-switching.asp

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The unbearable lightness of priming.

Repetition priming from text to isolated words has been difficult to observe. One explanation for this difficulty is that previous attempts to observe this type of priming have utilised conditions that normally reduce priming. Two experiments were ...
Craig P Speelman, Terry A Simpson, Kim Kirsner (Acta Psychol (Amst), 200209)
unbearable-lightness-priming.asp