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Dynamics of visual feature analysis and object-level processing in face versus letter-string perception.

Neurones in the human inferior occipitotemporal cortex respond to specific categories of images, such as numbers, letters and faces, within 150-200 ms. Here we identify the locus in time when stimulus-specific analysis emerges by comparing the dynamics ...
A Tarkiainen, P L Cornelissen, R Salmelin (Brain, 200205)
dynamics-visual-feature-analysis-object-level-processing-face-versus.asp

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Effects of musical training on speech-induced modulation in corticospinal excitability.

We investigated the effect of previous musical training on lateralization of language as indexed by the effects of reading aloud on the modulation of motor evoked potentials (MEPs) induced in the first dorsal interosseus muscles (FDI) by transcranial ...
Kuang-Lin Lin, Masahito Kobayashi, Alvaro Pascual-Leone (Neuroreport, 200205)
effects-musical-training-speech-induced-modulation-corticospinal.asp

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Visual-word identification thresholds for the 260 fragmented words of the Snodgrass and Vanderwart pictures in Spanish.

Word difficulty varies from language to language; therefore, normative data of verbal stimuli cannot be imported directly from another language. We present mean identification thresholds for the 260 screen-fragmented words corresponding to the total set ...
José Manuel Reales, Soledad Ballesteros, Eulalio García (Behav Res Methods Instrum Comput, 200205)
visual-word-identification-thresholds--fragmented-words-snodgrass.asp

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The emergent generation effect and hypermnesia: influences of semantic and nonsemantic generation tasks.

The generation effect is moderated by experimental design, affecting recall in within-subjects designs but typically not in between-subjects designs. However, N. W. Mulligan (2001) found that the generation effect emerged over repeated recall tests in a ...
Neil W Mulligan (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 200205)
emergent-generation-effect-hypermnesia-influences-semantic.asp

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Phoneme awareness is a better predictor of early reading skill than onset-rime awareness.

We present the results of a short-term longitudinal study. Children in the early stages of learning to read (5 and 6 year olds) were administered three different tasks (deletion, oddity, and detection) tapping awareness of four phonological units ...
Charles Hulme, Peter J Hatcher, Kate Nation, Angela Brown, John Adams, George Stuart (J Exp Child Psychol, 200205)
phoneme-awareness-better-predictor-early-reading-skill-onset-rime.asp

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Reflections on onset-rime and phoneme sensitivity as predictors of beginning word reading.

Rival claims have been made concerning the importance of rime sensitivity as a predictor of early word reading skill. Hulme et al. (2002) suggested that phoneme sensitivity is more strongly predictive of word reading ability than is onset-rime ...
Judith A Bowey (J Exp Child Psychol, 200205)
reflections-onset-rime-phoneme-sensitivity-predictors-beginning-word.asp

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It doesnt matter whether onset and rime predicts reading better than phoneme awareness does or vice versa.

Hulme et al. argue against our hypothesis that there are two routes from onset and rime awareness to reading: an indirect route whereby onset-rime awareness feeds into the development of phoneme awareness which in turn affects childrens reading, and a ...
Peter Bryant (J Exp Child Psychol, 200205)
doesn-t-matter-whether-onset-rime-predicts-reading-better-phoneme.asp

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Structure of preschool phonological sensitivity: overlapping sensitivity to rhyme, words, syllables, and phonemes.

Phonological sensitivity is an important causal variable in reading acquisition; however, there is controversy concerning its nature. One view holds that sensitivity to various linguistic units reflects independent abilities, whereas another holds ...
Jason L Anthony, Christopher J Lonigan, Stephen R Burgess, Kimberly Driscoll, Beth M Phillips, Brenlee G Cantor (J Exp Child Psychol, 200205)
structure-preschool-phonological-sensitivity-overlapping-sensitivity.asp

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An English-language clinic-based literacy program is effective for a multilingual population.

OBJECTIVE:To assess the effectiveness of a clinic-based pediatric literacy intervention on a multilingual population. BACKGROUND:Clinic-based literacy interventions are effective among English- and Spanish-speaking children. No data exist for ...
Michael Silverstein, Leslie Iverson, Paula Lozano (Pediatrics, 200205)
english-language-clinic-based-literacy-program-effective-multilingual.asp

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Language-specific tuning of visual cortex? Functional properties of the Visual Word Form Area.

The first steps in the process of reading a printed word belong to the domain of visual object perception. They culminate in a representation of letter strings as an ordered set of abstract letter identities, a representation known as the Visual Word ...
Laurent Cohen, Stéphane Lehéricy, Florence Chochon, Cathy Lemer, Sophie Rivaud, Stanislas Dehaene (Brain, 200205)
language-specific-tuning-visual-cortex-functional-properties-visual.asp