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Visual word recognition in bilinguals: phonological priming from the second to the first language.

In this study, the authors show that cross-lingual phonological priming is possible not only from the 1st language (L1) to the 2nd language (L2), but also from L2 to L1. In addition, both priming effects were found to have the same magnitude and to not ...
Ilse Van Wijnendaele, Marc Brysbaert (J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 200206)
visual-word-recognition-bilinguals-phonological-priming-second-first.asp

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Violent comic books and judgments of relational aggression.

This study investigated the effects of reading extremely violent versus mildly violent comic books on the interpretation of relational provocation situations. One hundred and seventeen introductory psychology students read either an extremely violent ...
Steven J Kirsh, Paul V Olczak (Violence Vict, 200206)
violent-comic-books-judgments-relational-aggression.asp

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Overt reanalysis strategies and eye movements during the reading of mild garden path sentences.

In an eye movement experiment, we examined the use of reanalysis strategies during the reading of locally ambiguous but globally unambiguous Spanish sentences. Among other measures, we examined regressive eye movements made while readers were recovering ...
Enrique Meseguer, Manuel Carreiras, Charles Clifton (Mem Cognit, 200206)
overt-reanalysis-strategies-eye-movements-reading-mild-garden-path.asp

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Successive memory test performance and priming in Alzheimers disease: evidence from the word-fragment completion task.

This study assessed the performance of patients with Alzheimers disease and healthy controls in a successive memory test paradigm. Subjects studied lists of words. Following study, tests of recognition (an explicit memory task) and primed word fragment ...
Thomas Karlsson, Arne Börjesson, Rolf Adolfsson, Lars-Göran Nilsson (Cortex, 200206)
successive-memory-test-performance-priming-alzheimer-s-disease.asp

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Normal readers have an upper visual field advantage in change detection.

The ability to detect change has not been well studied in children.A research paradigm was used involving search for a change made to one of four letter targets, presented twice, with a gap of 250 ms.Sixty-one schoolchildren, aged 7.3 - 12.9 ...
Jacqueline S Rutkowski, David P Crewther, Sheila G Crewther (Clin Experiment Ophthalmol, 200206)
normal-readers-upper-visual-field-advantage-change-detection.asp

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Distinct areas in parietal cortex involved in long-term and short-term action planning: a PET investigation.

The sequential organization of events within a script, can be considered as a means to explore the cognitive mechanisms involved in action planning. Scripts are composed of goal-oriented sequences of events that typically occur in a specific and ...
Perrine Ruby, Angela Sirigu, Jean Decety (Cortex, 200206)
distinct-areas-parietal-cortex-involved-long-term-short-term-action.asp

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Effect of focus on verbal working memory: critical role of the focus word in reading.

The effect of focus on working memory was investigated with the reading span test (RST). In two experiments, the span scores and the number of intrusion errors were compared between the focused RST the and the nonfocused RST. Focus word was defined as ...
Mariko Osak, Yukiko Nishizaki, Mie Komori, Naoyuki Osaka (Mem Cognit, 200206)
effect-focus-verbal-working-memory-critical-role-focus-word-reading.asp

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Bartlett revisited: reconfiguration of long-term memory in young and older adults.

This study was performed after the tradition of F. C. Bartlett (1932), who demonstrated that memory reconfigures over time. The authors investigated the memory of young and older adults to examine the degree to which the aging process influences ...
Shari W Ahlberg, Matthew J Sharps (J Genet Psychol, 200206)
bartlett-revisited-reconfiguration-long-term-memory-young-older-adults.asp

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Orthographic neighborhood effects in lexical decision: the effects of nonword orthographic neighborhood size.

The effects of large neighborhoods (neighborhood size) and of higher frequency neighbors (neighborhood frequency) were examined as a function of nonword neighborhood size in lexical decision tasks. According to the multiple read-out model (J. Grainger & ...
Paul D Siakaluk, Christopher R Sears, Stephen J Lupker (J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 200206)
orthographic-neighborhood-effects-lexical-decision-effects-nonword.asp

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Concurrent activation of high- and low-level production processes in written composition.

Writing a text requires the coordination of multiple high-level composition processes in working memory, including planning, language generation, and reviewing, in addition to low-level motor transcription. Here, interference in reaction time (RT) for ...
Therry Olive, Ronald T Kellogg (Mem Cognit, 200206)
concurrent-activation-high-low-level-production-processes-written.asp