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Specialization in the left prefrontal cortex for sentence comprehension.

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we examined cortical activation under syntactic decision tasks and a short-term memory task for sentences, focusing on essential properties of syntactic processing. By comparing activation in these ...
Ryuichiro Hashimoto, Kuniyoshi L Sakai (Neuron, 200208)
specialization-left-prefrontal-cortex-sentence-comprehension.asp

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Cross-language computational investigation of the length effect in reading aloud.

The authors examined whether 2 computational models of reading, the dual-route cascaded model (M. Coltheart, K. Rastle, C. Perry, R. Langdon, & J. C. Ziegler, 2001) and the connectionist 2-layer model (M. Zorzi, G. Houghton, & B. Butterworth, 1998), were ...
Conrad Perry, Johannes C Ziegler (J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 200208)
cross-language-computational-investigation-length-effect-reading-aloud.asp

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From perception to sentence comprehension: the convergence of auditory and visual information of language in the left inferior frontal cortex.

We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to characterize cortical activation associated with sentence processing, thereby elucidating where in the brain auditory and visual inputs of words converge during sentence comprehension. Within one ...
Fumitaka Homae, Ryuichiro Hashimoto, Kyoichi Nakajima, Yasushi Miyashita, Kuniyoshi L Sakai (Neuroimage, 200208)
perception-sentence-comprehension-convergence-auditory-visual.asp

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Discourse changes in early Alzheimer disease, mild cognitive impairment, and normal aging.

The purpose of this study was to determine the sensitivity of discourse gist measures to the early cognitive-linguistic changes in Alzheimer disease (AD) and in the preclinical stages. Differences in discourse abilities were examined in 25 cognitively ...
Sandra Bond Chapman, Jennifer Zientz, Myron Weiner, Roger Rosenberg, William Frawley, Mary Hope Burns (Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord, 200207-09)
discourse-changes-early-alzheimer-disease-mild-cognitive-impairment.asp

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Cognitive aging and inhibitory efficiency in the Daneman and Carpenters working memory task.

This study tests the hypothesis that the ability to inhibit already processed and actually irrelevant information influences performance in the reading span task (RST). French versions of the Stroop color-word task and of the Daneman and Carpenters RST ...
Marie-Anne Schelstraete, Michel Hupet (Exp Aging Res, 200207-09)
cognitive-aging-inhibitory-efficiency-daneman-carpenter-s-working.asp

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Older adults filter irrelevant information during metaphor comprehension.

In general, older adults are less likely than younger adults to inhibit irrelevant information when reading literal text (Hasher & Zacks, 1988). Are older adults also less likely to inhibit irrelevant information during metaphor comprehension? Young ...
Mary R Newsome, Sam Glucksberg (Exp Aging Res, 200207-09)
older-adults-filter-irrelevant-information-metaphor-comprehension.asp

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A systematic investigation of same and cross modality priming using written and spoken responses.

Effects of presentation modality and response format were investigated using visual and auditory versions of the word stem completion task. Study presentation conditions (visual, auditory, non-studied) were manipulated within participants, while test ...
Emma Loveman, Johanna C Van Hooff, Anthony Gale (Memory, 200207)
systematic-investigation-same-cross-modality-priming-written-spoken.asp

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When is schematic knowledge used in source monitoring?

Source monitoring involves judgments regarding the origin of information (M. K. Johnson, S. Hashtroudi, & D. S. Lindsay, 1993). When participants cannot remember the source in a source-monitoring task, they may guess according to their prior schematic ...
Julia Spaniol, Ute J Bayen (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 200207)
schematic-knowledge-source-monitoring.asp

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Representational change and analogy: how analogical inferences alter target representations.

The ways that analogy alters the representation of target information was investigated in 4 experiments. Participants read information about a target, followed by a potential source analog. Participants later completed a recognition test in which some of ...
Isabelle Blanchette, Kevin Dunbar (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 200207)
representational-change-analogy-analogical-inferences-alter-target.asp

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Orthographic learning during reading: examining the role of self-teaching.

Thirty-four second grade children read target homophonic pseudowords (e.g., slurst/slirst) in the context of real stories in a test of the self-teaching theory of early reading acquisition. The degree of orthographic learning was assessed with three ...
Anne E Cunningham, Kathryn E Perry, Keith E Stanovich, David L Share (J Exp Child Psychol, 200207)
orthographic-learning-reading-examining-role-self-teaching.asp