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Task-switching and long-term priming: role of episodic stimulus-task bindings in task-shift costs.

When subjects switch between two tasks, performance is slower after a task switch than after a task repetition. We report five experiments showing that a large part of these "task-shift-costs" cannot be attributed to a control operation, needed to ...
Florian Waszak, Bernhard Hommel, Alan Allport (Cognit Psychol, 200306)
task-switching-long-term-priming-role-episodic-stimulus-task-bindings.asp

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Expecting gender: an event related brain potential study on the role of grammatical gender in comprehending a line drawing within a written sentence in Spanish.

Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were used to examine the role of grammatical gender in written sentence comprehension. Native Spanish speakers read sentences in which a drawing depicting a target noun was either congruent or incongruent with ...
Nicole Y Y Wicha, Eva M Moreno, Marta Kutas (Cortex, 200306)
expecting-gender-event-related-brain-potential-study-role-grammatical.asp

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Attention as a characteristic of nonclinical dissociation: an event-related potential study.

Individual differences in dissociative style (which is generally considered a risk factor for dissociative pathology) were studied in a nonclinical sample. It was hypothesized that high-dissociative participants would show enhanced attentional abilities ...
Michiel B de Ruiter, R Hans Phaf, Dick J Veltman, Albert Kok, Richard van Dyck (Neuroimage, 200306)
attention-characteristic-nonclinical-dissociation-event-related.asp

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Differences between digit naming and number word reading in a flanker task.

Numbers can be represented as number words or as digits, but are the two notations processed differently? Two experiments in which a flanker paradigm with a naming task was used were conducted, with digits and number words as targets and flankers. ...
Anja Ischebeck (Mem Cognit, 200306)
differences-digit-naming-number-word-reading-flanker-task.asp

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The impact of gender on high-stakes dental evaluations.

The purpose of this study was to determine whether gender affects high-stakestest performance among dental students. Our sample consisted of 128 women and 323 men from six consecutive dental classes for which we recorded AADSAS overall and science ...
Henry W Fields, Anne M Fields, F Michael Beck (J Dent Educ, 200306)
impact-gender-high-stakes-dental-evaluations.asp

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Intervention on strategy use and on motivation of Greek pupils reading comprehension in English classes.

Although less skilled learners may improve their abilities through training in strategies used by successful learners, only a few studies have addressed the question of metacognitive strategy training in contexts in which foreign language is learned. ...
E Pappa, M Zafiropoulou, P Metallidou (Percept Mot Skills, 200306)
intervention-strategy-motivation-greek-pupils-reading-comprehension.asp

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Aging, memory load, and resource allocation during reading.

To test the notion that aging brings an inability to self-initiate processing, the authors investigated the effects of memory load on online sentence understanding. Younger and older adults read a series of short passages with or without a simultaneous ...
Andrew P Smiler, Danielle D Gagne, Elizabeth A L Stine-Morrow (Psychol Aging, 200306)
aging-memory-load-resource-allocation-reading.asp

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Effects of a nursing literature reading course on promoting critical thinking in two-year nursing program students.

Critical thinking is essential for professional nursing practice. Promoting critical thinking with teaching strategies has been a focus of nursing education and nursing research. Reading and writing assignments are teaching strategies for fostering ...
Fang-Chiao Chen, Ming-Chen Lin (J Nurs Res, 200306)
effects-nursing-literature-reading-course-promoting-critical-thinking.asp

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Facilitatory and inhibitory effects of grammatical agreement: evidence from readers eye fixation patterns.

The study examined how grammatical agreement affects reading in Finnish. Readers eye fixation patterns were recorded when they read one of three alternative versions of the same sentences, where the critical difference was the type of preceding word of ...
Seppo Vainio, Jukka Hyönä, Anneli Pajunen (Brain Lang, 200305)
facilitatory-inhibitory-effects-grammatical-agreement-evidence.asp

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Paper critique as an educational method in epidemiology.

A common method in the teaching of epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine is paper critique. This refers to a close reading of published research articles, in which students are asked to assess their coherence and validity. ...
Neal Alexander (Med Teach, 200305)
paper-critique-educational-method-epidemiology.asp