Verbal Learning

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Learning to recognize talkers from natural, sinewave, and reversed speech samples.

In 5 experiments, the authors investigated how listeners learn to recognize unfamiliar talkers and how experience with specific utterances generalizes to novel instances. Listeners were trained over several days to identify 10 talkers from natural, ...
Sonya M Sheffert, David B Pisoni, Jennifer M Fellowes, Robert E Remez (J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 200212)
learning-recognize-talkers-natural-sinewave-reversed-speech-samples.asp

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Individual differences in working memory within a nomological network of cognitive and perceptual speed abilities.

It has become fashionable to equate constructs of working memory (WM) and general intelligence (g). Few investigations have provided direct evidence that WM and g measures yield similar ordering of individuals. Correlational investigations have yielded ...
Phillip L Ackerman, Margaret E Beier, Mary O Boyle (J Exp Psychol Gen, 200212)
individual-differences-working-memory-nomological-network-cognitive.asp

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A verbal learning and memory test for English- and Spanish-speaking older Mexican-American adults.

Currently, there are significant limitations in word-list verbal learning and memory tests that are appropriate and have adequate normative data for use with older Latinos of Mexican descent. The purpose of this study was to derive normative data for a ...
Hector M González, Dan Mungas, Mary N Haan (Clin Neuropsychol, 200212)
verbal-learning-memory-test-english-spanish-speaking-older-mexican.asp

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Oral language and code-related precursors to reading: evidence from a longitudinal structural model.

This study examined code-related and oral language precursors to reading in a longitudinal study of 626 children from preschool through 4th grade. Code-related precursors, including print concepts and phonological awareness, and oral language were ...
Stacey A Storch, Grover J Whitehurst (Dev Psychol, 200211)
oral-language-code-related-precursors-reading-evidence-longitudinal.asp

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Object names and object functions serve as cues to categories for infants.

Can object names and functions act as cues to categories for infants? In Study 1, 14- and 18-month-old infants were shown novel category exemplars along with a function, a name, or no cues. Infants were then asked to "find another one," choosing between ...
Amy E Booth, Sandra Waxman (Dev Psychol, 200211)
object-names-object-functions-serve-cues-categories-infants.asp

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The effects of a confectionery snack on attention in young boys.

The relationship between consumption of a confectionery snack after an overnight fast and cognitive function was examined using a variety of cognitive tasks, including spatial memory, verbal memory, attention, visual perception and short-term memory, in ...
Caroline R Busch, Holly A Taylor, Robin B Kanarek, Phillip J Holcomb (Physiol Behav, 200211)
effects-confectionery-snack-attention-young-boys.asp

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The neural basis for categorization in semantic memory.

We asked young adults to categorize written object descriptions into one of two categories, based on a rule or on overall similarity, while we monitored regional brain activity with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). We found significantly ...
Murray Grossman, Edward E Smith, Phyllis Koenig, Guila Glosser, Chris DeVita, Peachie Moore, Corey McMillan (Neuroimage, 200211)
neural-basis-categorization-semantic-memory.asp

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Aging gracefully: compensatory brain activity in high-performing older adults.

Whereas some older adults show significant cognitive deficits, others perform as well as young adults. We investigated the neural basis of these different aging patterns using positron emission tomography (PET). In PET and functional MRI (fMRI) studies, ...
Roberto Cabeza, Nicole D Anderson, Jill K Locantore, Anthony R McIntosh (Neuroimage, 200211)
aging-gracefully-compensatory-brain-activity-high-performing-older.asp

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Continuity and development in the acquisition of inversion in yes/no questions: dissociating movement and inflection.

This paper examines two- to five-year-old childrens knowledge of inversion in English yes/no questions through a new experimental study. It challenges the view that the syntax for inversion develops slowly in child English and tests the hypothesis that ...
Lynn Santelmann, Stephanie Berk, Jennifer Austin, Shamitha Somashekar, Barbara Lust (J Child Lang, 200211)
continuity-development-acquisition-inversion-yes-questions.asp

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Neural correlates of artificial grammar learning.

Artificial grammar learning (AGL) is a form of nondeclarative memory that involves the nonconscious acquisition of abstract rules. While data from amnesic patients indicate that AGL does not depend on the medial temporal lobe, the neural basis of this ...
P D Skosnik, F Mirza, D R Gitelman, T B Parrish, M-M Mesulam, P J Reber (Neuroimage, 200211)
neural-correlates-artificial-grammar-learning.asp