Verbal Learning

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Hippocampal head size associated with verbal memory performance in nondemented elderly.

The hippocampus plays a crucial role in the consolidation of memory. Anatomically, the hippocampal head, body, and tail are connected to separate regions of the entorhinal cortex, which conveys processed information from the association cortices to the ...
V H Hackert, T den Heijer, M Oudkerk, P J Koudstaal, A Hofman, M M B Breteler (Neuroimage, 200211)
hippocampal-head-size-associated-verbal-memory-performance.asp

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Children use whole-part juxtaposition as a pragmatic cue to word meaning.

When parents label novel parts of familiar objects, they typically provide familiar whole-object terms before offering novel part terms (e.g., "See this cup? This is the rim."). Such whole-part juxtaposition might help children to accurately interpret ...
Megan M Saylor, Mark A Sabbagh, Dare A Baldwin (Dev Psychol, 200211)
children-whole-part-juxtaposition-pragmatic-cue-word-meaning.asp

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Statistical regularities in vocabulary guide language acquisition in connectionist models and 15-20-month-olds.

This research tested the hypothesis that young childrens bias to generalize names for solid objects by shape is the product of statistical regularities among nouns in the early productive vocabulary. Data from a 4-layer Hopfield network suggested that ...
Larissa K Samuelson (Dev Psychol, 200211)
statistical-regularities-vocabulary-guide-language-acquisition.asp

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On the processes underlying stimulus-familiarity effects in recognition of words and nonwords.

The authors investigated the recognizability of recently studied word and nonword stimuli in relation to both experimentally controlled prior frequency of occurrence and, for words, normative frequency (assessed by counts of occurrences in printed ...
W K Estes, W Todd Maddox (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 200211)
processes-underlying-stimulus-familiarity-effects-recognition-words.asp

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Two-year-olds learn novel nouns, verbs, and conventional actions from massed or distributed exposures.

Two-year-old children were taught either 6 novel nouns, 6 novel verbs, or 6 novel actions over 1 month. In each condition, children were exposed to some items in massed presentations (on a single day) and some in distributed presentations (over the 2 ...
Jane B Childers, Michael Tomasello (Dev Psychol, 200211)
two-year-olds-learn-novel-nouns-verbs-conventional-actions-massed-or.asp

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Word-frequency and phonological-neighborhood effects on verbal short-term memory.

Immediate memory span and maximal articulation rate were assessed for word sets differing in frequency, word-neighborhood size, and average word-neighborhood frequency. Memory span was greater for high- than low-frequency words, greater for words from ...
Steven Roodenrys, Charles Hulme, Alistair Lethbridge, Melinda Hinton, Lisa M Nimmo (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 200211)
word-frequency-phonological-neighborhood-effects-verbal-short-term.asp

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Hemispheric asymmetry and aging: right hemisphere decline or asymmetry reduction.

We review evidence for two models of hemispheric asymmetry and aging: the right hemi-aging model, which proposes that the right hemisphere shows greater age-related decline than the left hemisphere, and the hemispheric asymmetry reduction in old adults ...
Florin Dolcos, Heather J Rice, Roberto Cabeza (Neurosci Biobehav Rev, 200211)
hemispheric-asymmetry-aging-right-hemisphere-decline-or-asymmetry.asp

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Word order preferences for direct and indirect objects in children learning Korean.

Pre-school Korean children typically manifest higher comprehension rates on the unmarked SOV sentences of their language than on the scrambled OSV patterns. To date, however, scant attention has been paid to childrens ordering preferences with respect to ...
Sookeun Cho, Miseon Lee, William OGrady, Minsun Song, Takaaki Suzuki, Naoko Yoshinaga (J Child Lang, 200211)
word-order-preferences-direct-indirect-objects-children-learning.asp

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Memory for Star Trek: the role of prior knowledge in recognition revisited.

Prior studies have found robust knowledge effects on recall of text ideas but have seldom found comparable effects on recognition. This inconsistency was examined in light of recent research on the component processes that underlie recognition memory. ...
Debra L Long, Chantel S Prat (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 200211)
memory-star-trek-role-prior-knowledge-recognition-revisited.asp

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Differential effects of list strength on recollection and familiarity.

Numerous studies have found a null list strength effect (LSE) for recognition sensitivity: Strengthening memory traces associated with some studied items does not impair recognition of nonstrengthened studied items. In Experiment 1, the author found a ...
Kenneth A Norman (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 200211)
differential-effects-list-strength-recollection-familiarity.asp