Verbal Learning

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Enhancement of declarative memory by emotional arousal and visual memory function in Alzheimers disease.

The specific effects of visual and verbal memory on the ability of emotional arousal to enhance declarative memory were examined by using multiple linear regression analysis on data from a sample of 56 patients with probable Alzheimers disease (AD). The ...
Hiroaki Kazui, Etsuro Mori, Mamoru Hashimoto, Nobutsugu Hirono (J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci, 2003SPRING)
enhancement-declarative-memory-emotional-arousal-visual-memory.asp

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Long-term treatment with paroxetine increases verbal declarative memory and hippocampal volume in posttraumatic stress disorder.

BACKGROUND: Animal studies have shown that stress is associated with damage to the hippocampus, inhibition of neurogenesis, and deficits in hippocampal-based memory dysfunction. Studies in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) found deficits ...
Eric Vermetten, Meena Vythilingam, Steven M Southwick, Dennis S Charney, J Douglas Bremner (Biol Psychiatry, 200310)
long-term-treatment-paroxetine-increases-verbal-declarative-memory.asp

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Lexical competition and the acquisition of novel words.

Three experiments examined the involvement of newly learnt words in lexical competition. Adult participants were familiarized with novel nonsense sequences that overlapped strongly with existing words (e.g. cathedruke, derived from cathedral) through ...
M Gareth Gaskell, Nicolas Dumay (Cognition, 200309)
lexical-competition-acquisition-novel-words.asp

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Exploring the neural basis of cognitive reserve.

There is epidemiologic and imaging evidence for the presence of cognitive reserve, but the neurophysiologic substrate of CR has not been established. In order to test the hypothesis that CR is related to aspects of neural processing, we used fMRI to ...
Yaakov Stern, Eric Zarahn, H John Hilton, Joseph Flynn, Robert DeLaPaz, Brian Rakitin (J Clin Exp Neuropsychol, 200308)
exploring-neural-basis-cognitive-reserve.asp

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Lifetime antecedents of cognitive reserve.

We used path analysis on data from the British 1946 birth cohort to model lifetime antecedents of cognitive reserve, represented by the NART at 53 years, and compared this model for verbal memory and psychomotor function at this age, cognitive outcomes ...
Marcus Richards, Amanda Sacker (J Clin Exp Neuropsychol, 200308)
lifetime-antecedents-cognitive-reserve.asp

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Distinct brain representations for early and late learned words.

Recently there has been a renewed interest in cognitive psychology on the effects of the age of word acquisition (AoA) on lexical processing. In particular, it is currently unclear whether AoA or word frequency are better predictors of word recognition. ...
Christian J Fiebach, Angela D Friederici, Karsten Müller, D Yves von Cramon, Arturo E Hernandez (Neuroimage, 200308)
distinct-brain-representations-early-late-learned-words.asp

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Interactions of the hippocampal system and the prefrontal cortex in learning language-like rules.

One of the most influential views on the hippocampal function suggests that this brain region is critically involved in relational memory processing, that is, binding converging inputs to mediate the representation of relationships among the constituents ...
Bertram Opitz, Angela D Friederici (Neuroimage, 200308)
interactions-hippocampal-system-prefrontal-cortex-learning-language.asp

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Retrieval orientation and the control of recollection.

Event-related potentials (ERPs) were employed to investigate whether recognition test items are processed differently according to whether they are used to probe memory for previously studied words or pictures. In each of two study-test blocks, subjects ...
Jane E Herron, Michael D Rugg (J Cogn Neurosci, 200308)
retrieval-orientation-control-recollection.asp

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The role of prefrontal cortex in verbal episodic memory: rTMS evidence.

Long-term, episodic memory processing is supposed to involve the prefrontal cortex asymmetrically. Here we investigate the role of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) in encoding and retrieval of semantically related or unrelated word pairs. ...
Marco Sandrini, Stefano F Cappa, Simone Rossi, Paolo M Rossini, Carlo Miniussi (J Cogn Neurosci, 200308)
role-prefrontal-cortex-verbal-episodic-memory-rtms-evidence.asp

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Determinants of acquisition order in wh-questions: re-evaluating the role of caregiver speech.

Accounts that specify semantic and/or syntactic complexity as the primary determinant of the order in which children acquire particular words or grammatical constructions have been highly influential in the literature on question acquisition. One ...
Caroline F Rowland, Julian M Pine, Elena V Lieven, Anna L Theakston (J Child Lang, 200308)
determinants-acquisition-order-wh-questions-re-evaluating-role.asp