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Relation between brain activation and lexical performance.

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to determine whether performance on lexical tasks was correlated with cerebral activation patterns. We found that such relationships did exist and that their anatomical distribution reflected the ...
James R Booth, Douglas D Burman, Joel R Meyer, Darren R Gitelman, Todd B Parrish, M Marsel Mesulam (Hum Brain Mapp, 200307)
relation-brain-activation-lexical-performance.asp

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Applying image descriptors to the assessment of legibility in Chinese characters.

The current study derived seven descriptors from the pixel matrix of 5401 Chinese characters in the commonly used Ming, Kai, Li, and Hei fonts. A factor analysis was used to reduce the number of descriptors for a validation experiment. The three-factor ...
Chia-Fen Chi, Dengchuan Cai, Manlai You (Ergonomics, 200306)
applying-image-descriptors-assessment-legibility-chinese-characters.asp

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The remarkable inefficiency of word recognition.

Do we recognize common objects by parts, or as wholes? Holistic recognition would be efficient, yet people detect a grating of light and dark stripes by parts. Thus efficiency falls as the number of stripes increases, in inverse proportion, as explained ...
Denis G Pelli, Bart Farell, Deborah C Moore (Nature, 200306)
remarkable-inefficiency-word-recognition.asp

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Spatial-frequency spectra of printed characters and human visual perception.

It is well known that certain spatial frequency (SF) bands are more important than others for character recognition. Solomon and Pelli [Nature 369 (1994) 395-397] have concluded that human pattern recognition mechanism is able to use only a narrow band ...
Endel Põder (Vision Res, 200306)
spatial-frequency-spectra-printed-characters-human-visual-perception.asp

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Cigarette smoking and cognitive decline in midlife: evidence from a prospective birth cohort study.

OBJECTIVES: The authors investigated the effects of cigarette smoking on midlife cognitive performance. METHODS: Multiple regression was used to test the association between cigarette smoking and changes in cognitive test scores among male and female ...
Marcus Richards, Martin J Jarvis, Neil Thompson, Michael E J Wadsworth (Am J Public Health, 200306)
cigarette-smoking-cognitive-decline-midlife-evidence-prospective.asp

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Effects of age and speed of processing on rCBF correlates of syntactic processing in sentence comprehension.

Positron emission tomography (PET) was used to determine the effect of age on regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) during syntactic processing in sentence comprehension. PET activity associated with making plausibility judgments about syntactically more ...
David Caplan, Gloria Waters, Nathaniel Alpert (Hum Brain Mapp, 200306)
effects-age-speed-processing-rcbf-correlates-syntactic-processing.asp

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Does low reading achievement at school entry cause conduct problems?

Conduct problems place children at increased risk for a broad array of negative health and social outcomes that include conduct disorder, injuries and violence, school failure, substance abuse, depression, and suicide. Prevention interventions have the ...
Kathryn J Bennett, K Stephen Brown, Michael Boyle, Yvonne Racine, Dan Offord (Soc Sci Med, 200306)
low-reading-achievement-school-entry-cause-conduct-problems.asp

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Leisure activities and the risk of dementia in the elderly.

BACKGROUND: Participation in leisure activities has been associated with a lower risk of dementia. It is unclear whether increased participation in leisure activities lowers the risk of dementia or participation in leisure activities declines during the ...
Joe Verghese, Richard B Lipton, Mindy J Katz, Charles B Hall, Carol A Derby, Gail Kuslansky, Anne F Ambrose, Martin Sliwinski, Herman Buschke (N Engl J Med, 200306)
leisure-activities-risk-dementia-elderly.asp

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Readers opinions of romantic poetry are consistent with emotional measures based on the Dictionary of Affect in Language.

A principal components analysis of 68 volunteers subjective ratings of 20 excerpts of Romantic poetry and of Dictionary of Affect scores for the same excerpts produced four components representing Pleasantness, Activation, Romanticism, and Nature. ...
Cynthia Whissell (Percept Mot Skills, 200306)
readers-opinions-romantic-poetry-consistent-emotional-measures-based.asp

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Poetry writing and secretory immunoglobulin A.

17 healthy students provided saliva samples for Immunoglobulin A (s-IgA) assay before and after sessions of either writing poetry or reading magazines (control). Levels of s-IgA increased after the poetry-writing sessions but not after ...
Geoff Lowe, Joanne Beckett, Gillian Lowe (Psychol Rep, 200306)
poetry-writing-secretory-immunoglobulin-a.asp