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Differential rates of regional brain change in callosal and ventricular size: a 4-year longitudinal MRI study of elderly men.

Brain structure changes in size with normal aging, but the rate at which different structures change is controversial. We used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) performed twice, 4 years apart, to compare rates of age-related size change of the corpus ...
E V Sullivan, A Pfefferbaum, E Adalsteinsson, G E Swan, D Carmelli (Cereb Cortex, 200204)
differential-rates-regional-brain-change-callosal-ventricular-size-.asp

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Inverting the modality effect in serial recall.

Differences in recall ability between immediate serial recall of auditorily and visually presented verbal material have traditionally been considered restricted to the end of to-be-recalled lists, the recency section of the serial position curve (e.g., ...
C Philip Beaman (Q J Exp Psychol A, 200204)
inverting-modality-effect-serial-recall.asp

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The effect of letter spacing on reading speed in central and peripheral vision.

PURPOSE: Crowding, the adverse spatial interaction due to proximity of adjacent letters, has been suggested as an explanation for slow reading in peripheral vision. The purpose of this study was to examine whether reading speed can be improved in normal ...
Susana T L Chung (Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 200204)
effect-letter-spacing-reading-speed-central-peripheral-vision.asp

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Comprehension of written health care information in an affluent geriatric retirement community: use of the Test of Functional Health Literacy.

BACKGROUND: The comprehension of written health care information, e.g. prescription bottle labels or an informed consent form, impacts on communication with patients and their ability to understand medical procedures, as well as goals of therapy. ...
Jennifer Gausman Benson, Walter B Forman (Gerontology, 200203-04)
comprehension-written-health-care-information-affluent-geriatric.asp

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Parental involvement in the development of childrens reading skill: a five-year longitudinal study.

This article presents the findings of the final phase of a 5-year longitudinal study with 168 middle- and upper middle-class children in which the complex relations among early home literacy experiences, subsequent receptive language and emergent ...
Monique Sénéchal, Jo-Anne LeFevre (Child Dev, 200203-04)
parental-involvement-development-children-s-reading-skill-five-year.asp

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Directional scanning effect and strength of reading habit in picture naming and recall.

The present research examined directional scanning effects (DSE) as a function of reading habit strength among right handers. A picture array naming and recall task was administered to three groups of child readers--unidirectional right-to-left readers ...
Prakash Padakannaya, M L Devi, B Zaveria, S K Chengappa, Jyotsna Vaid (Brain Cogn, 200203-04)
directional-scanning-effect-strength-reading-habit-picture-naming.asp

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Language comprehenders mentally represent the shapes of objects.

We examined the prediction that people activate perceptual symbols during language comprehension. Subjects read sentences describing an animal or object in a certain location. The shape of the object or animal changed as a function of its location (e.g., ...
Rolf A Zwaan, Robert A Stanfield, Richard H Yaxley (Psychol Sci, 200203)
language-comprehenders-mentally-represent-shapes-objects.asp

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The extraction of structure during reading: evidence from reading prosody.

According to the structural approach to reading, the extraction of structure precedes the analysis of meaning and paves the way for it. In this study, reading prosody was used to examine this proposition. Specifically, we tested the hypothesis that ...
Asher Koriat, Seth N Greenberg, Hamutal Kreiner (Mem Cognit, 200203)
extraction-structure-reading-evidence-reading-prosody.asp

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The culture of criticism and argument in health education.

A programme to introduce skills in critical analytical reading and writing in postgraduate tertiary students in Public Health Management is described. The students had considerable professional experience, but their previous academic learning did not ...
Barbara Westwood, Geoffrey Westwood (Med Teach, 200203)
culture-criticism-argument-health-education.asp

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The visual word form area: a prelexical representation of visual words in the fusiform gyrus.

Event-related fMRI was used to test the hypothesis that the visual word form area in the left fusiform gyrus holds a modality-specific and prelexical representation of visual words. Subjects were engaged in a repetition-detection task on pairs of words ...
Stanislas Dehaene, Gurvan Le ClecH, Jean-Baptiste Poline, Denis Le Bihan, Laurent Cohen (Neuroreport, 200203)
visual-word-form-area-prelexical-representation-visual-words-fusiform.asp