Verbal Learning

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Levetiracetam may be more effective for late-onset partial epilepsy.

BACKGROUND: Many agents are available for treating epilepsy; however, population studies have failed to show overall differences in efficacy for a given seizure type. Clinical experience suggests that certain individuals will respond to a given agent ...
Carl W Bazil, Andrew Rose, Stanley Resor, Bülent Yapicular, Lawrence J Hirsch (Arch Neurol, 200212)
levetiracetam-more-effective-late-onset-partial-epilepsy.asp

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Why do children learn to say "Broke"? A model of learning the past tense without feedback.

Learning the English past tense is characterized by a U-shaped learning function for the irregular verbs. Existing cognitive models often rely on a sudden increase in vocabulary, a high token-frequency of regular verbs, and complicated schemes of ...
Niels A Taatgen, John R Anderson (Cognition, 200212)
why-children-learn-say-broke-model-learning-past-tense-feedback.asp

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Acquisition of categorical color perception: a perceptual learning approach to the linguistic relativity hypothesis.

Color perception can be categorical: Between-category discriminations are more accurate than equivalent within-category discriminations. The effects could be inherited, learned, or both. The authors provide evidence that supports the possibility of ...
Emre Ozgen, Ian R L Davies (J Exp Psychol Gen, 200212)
acquisition-categorical-color-perception-perceptual-learning-approach.asp

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Form is easy, meaning is hard: resolving a paradox in early child language.

A developmental paradox is discussed: studies of infant processing of language and language-like stimuli indicate considerable ability to abstract patterns over specific items and to distinguish natural from unnatural English sentences. In contrast, ...
Letitia R Naigles (Cognition, 200212)
form-easy-meaning-hard-resolving-paradox-early-child-language.asp

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Exploring the effect of action familiarity on SPTs recall performance in Alzheimers disease.

This study examined the performance of normal controls (NC) and Alzheimers disease (AD) patients on free recall, semantic cued recall and object cued recall of both subject-performed tasks (SPTs) and verbal descriptions of actions, by controlling ...
Françoise Lekeu, Martial Van der Linden, Gustave Moonen, Eric Salmon (J Clin Exp Neuropsychol, 200212)
exploring-effect-action-familiarity-spts-recall-performance-alzheimer.asp

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Womens advantage on verbal memory is not restricted to concrete words.

It is well established that women perform better than men on tests of verbal memory, but the nature of this advantage is unclear. To examine whether reference to a real object is a factor, we presented several verbal memory tasks, including one ...
Doreen Kimura, Paul G Clarke (Psychol Rep, 200212)
women-s-advantage-verbal-memory-not-restricted-concrete-words.asp

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Functional heterogeneity within Brocas area during verbal working memory.

In previous fMRI research, we found that two subregions of the left inferior frontal cortex showed distinct patterns of activity during a verbal working memory task. Specifically, a more dorsal region tracked with performance, while a more ventral region ...
J M Chein, K Fissell, S Jacobs, J A Fiez (Physiol Behav, 200212)
functional-heterogeneity-broca-s-area-verbal-working-memory.asp

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The Mozart effect may only be demonstrable in nonmusicians.

The "Mozart effect" is the tendency to score higher on spatiotemporal IQ subscales following exposure to complex music such as Mozarts Sonata K.448. This phenomenon was investigated in 20 musicians and 20 nonmusicians. The trion model predicts increased ...
A Twomey, A Esgate (Percept Mot Skills, 200212)
mozart-effect-only-demonstrable-nonmusicians.asp

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Variables affecting naming latency for Japanese Kanji: a re-analysis of Yamazaki, et al. (1997).

Yamazaki, Ellis, Morrison, and Lambon Ralph in 1997 demonstrated that written and spoken age-of-acquisitions had a stronger effect on the naming latency of single Kanji words than any other variable including familiarity. The present study was designed ...
Naoki Shibahara, Tadahisa Kondo (Percept Mot Skills, 200212)
variables-affecting-naming-latency-japanese-kanji-re-analysis.asp

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Aural, visual, and pictorial stimulus formats in false recall.

The present investigation is an initial simultaneous examination of the influence of three stimulus formats on false memories. Several pilot tests were conducted to develop new category associate stimulus lists. 73 women and 26 men (M age=21.1 yr.) were ...
Heather M Beauchamp (Psychol Rep, 200212)
aural-visual-pictorial-stimulus-formats-false-recall.asp