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Switching between tasks of unequal familiarity: the role of stimulus-attribute and response-set selection.

It has been reported that it is harder to switch to a strong, well-practiced task from a weaker, less-practiced task than vice versa. Three experiments replicated this surprising asymmetry and investigated how it is affected by a reduction in ...
Nick Yeung, Stephen Monsell (J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 200304)
switching-tasks-unequal-familiarity-role-stimulus-attribute-response.asp

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Neural correlates of lexical access during visual word recognition.

People can discriminate real words from nonwords even when the latter are orthographically and phonologically word-like, presumably because words activate specific lexical and/or semantic information. We investigated the neural correlates of this ...
J R Binder, K A McKiernan, M E Parsons, C F Westbury, E T Possing, J N Kaufman, L Buchanan (J Cogn Neurosci, 200304)
neural-correlates-lexical-access-visual-word-recognition.asp

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Working memory in mild Alzheimers disease and early Parkinsons disease.

Alzheimers disease (AD) and Parkinsons disease (PD) impair working memory (WM). It is unclear, however, whether the deficits seen early in the course of these diseases are similar. To address this issue, the authors compared the performance of 22 ...
Elizabeth A Kensinger, Deirdre K Shearer, Joseph J Locascio, John H Growdon, Suzanne Corkin (Neuropsychology, 200304)
working-memory-mild-alzheimer-s-disease-early-parkinson-s-disease.asp

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Electrophysiological analysis of context effects in Alzheimers disease.

Event-related potentials elicited by semantically associated and unassociated word pairs embedded in congruous and semantically anomalous spoken sentences were recorded from patients with Alzheimers disease (AD) and healthy older and young controls as a ...
Tanya J Schwartz, Kara D Federmeier, Cyma Van Petten, David P Salmon, Marta Kutas (Neuropsychology, 200304)
electrophysiological-analysis-context-effects-alzheimer-s-disease.asp

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Early phonological skills as a predictor of reading acquisition: a follow-up study from kindergarten to the middle of grade 2.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the power of early measures of phonological skills (phonemic awareness, rapid naming, short-term memory) in predicting later reading skills at various points of time. About 70 children were followed from the ...
Ieva Sprugevica, Torleiv Høien (Scand J Psychol, 200304)
early-phonological-skills-predictor-reading-acquisition-follow-up.asp

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Coloring only a single letter does not eliminate color-word interference in a vocal-response Stroop task: automaticity revealed.

The presence of an interference effect in naming the print color of color words (J. R. Stroop, 1935) suggests that responses associated with the irrelevant-word dimension of the display are activated involuntarily. In the present study, the author ...
Harvey H C Marmurek (J Gen Psychol, 200304)
coloring-only-single-letter-not-eliminate-color-word-interference.asp

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A magnetic stimulation examination of orthographic neighborhood effects in visual word recognition.

The split-fovea theory proposes that visual word recognition is mediated by the splitting of the foveal image, with letters to the left of fixation projected to the right hemisphere (RH) and letters to the right of fixation projected to the left ...
Michal Lavidor, Vincent Walsh (J Cogn Neurosci, 200304)
magnetic-stimulation-examination-orthographic-neighborhood-effects.asp

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Ecology of development in children with brain impairment.

BACKGROUND: Many children with brain impairments develop well in spite of negative risk factors or prognoses. Most follow-up and review studies do not show uncontroversial effects of particular physiotherapy or activation programmes. Evidence is ...
J Lebeer, R Rijke (Child Care Health Dev, 200303)
ecology-development-children-brain-impairment.asp

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Models of consistency.

This article presents a theory of how individuals detect whether descriptions of an entity are consistent or inconsistent. The theory postulates that individuals try to construct a mental model of the entity in which all the propositions are true. If ...
Paolo Legrenzi, Vittorio Girotto, P N Johnson-Laird (Psychol Sci, 200303)
models-consistency.asp

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Verifying different-modality properties for concepts produces switching costs.

According to perceptual symbol systems, sensorimotor simulations underlie the representation of concepts. It follows that sensorimotor phenomena should arise in conceptual processing. Previous studies have shown that switching from one modality to ...
Diane Pecher, René Zeelenberg, Lawrence W Barsalou (Psychol Sci, 200303)
verifying-different-modality-properties-concepts-produces-switching.asp