Verbal Learning

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Naming and categorization in young children: vocal tact training.

In three experiments, 2- to 4-year-old children, following pretraining with everyday objects, were presented with arbitrary stimuli of differing shapes. In Experiment 1A, 9 subjects were trained one common tact response, "zag," to three of these and a ...
C Fergus Lowe, Pauline J Horne, Fay D A Harris, Valerie R L Randle (J Exp Anal Behav, 200211)
naming-categorization-young-children-vocal-tact-training.asp

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Electrophysiological insights into language processing in schizophrenia.

Deficits in language comprehension in schizophrenia were examined using event-related potentials (ERPs). Schizophrenic and healthy participants read sentences in which the first clause ended with a homograph, and the second clause started with a target ...
Tatiana Sitnikova, Dean F Salisbury, Gina Kuperberg, Phillip I Holcomb (Psychophysiology, 200211)
electrophysiological-insights-language-processing-schizophrenia.asp

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A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of overt letter verbal fluency using a clustered acquisition sequence: greater anterior cingulate activation with increased task demand.

Regional cerebral activation during a cognitive task can vary with task demand and task performance. In a functional magnetic resonance imaging study, we examined the effect of manipulating task demand on activation during verbal fluency by using "easy" ...
Cynthia H Y Fu, Kevin Morgan, John Suckling, Steve C R Williams, Chris Andrew, Goparlen N Vythelingum, Philip K McGuire (Neuroimage, 200210)
functional-magnetic-resonance-imaging-study-overt-letter-verbal.asp

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Effects of verbal working memory load on corticocortical connectivity modeled by path analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging data.

We investigated the hypothesis that there are load-related changes in the integrated function of frontoparietal working memory networks. Functional magnetic resonance imaging time-series data from 10 healthy volunteers performing a graded n-back verbal ...
G D Honey, C H Y Fu, J Kim, M J Brammer, T J Croudace, J Suckling, E M Pich, S C R Williams, E T Bullmore (Neuroimage, 200210)
effects-verbal-working-memory-load-corticocortical-connectivity.asp

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Models of functional organization of the lateral prefrontal cortex in verbal working memory: evidence in favor of the process model.

Research on the functional organization of the lateral prefrontal cortex (PFC) in working memory continues to be fairly equivocal between two major frameworks: organization-by-process or organization-by-material. Although there is fairly strong evidence ...
Laura H F Barde, Sharon L Thompson-Schill (J Cogn Neurosci, 200210)
models-functional-organization-lateral-prefrontal-cortex-verbal.asp

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The role of language in acquiring object kind concepts in infancy.

Four experiments investigated whether 9-month-old infants could use the presence of labels to help them establish a representation of two distinct objects in a complex object individuation task. We found that the presence of two distinct labels ...
Fei Xu (Cognition, 200210)
role-language-acquiring-object-kind-concepts-infancy.asp

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Level of processing and the process-dissociation procedure: elusiveness of null effects on estimates of automatic retrieval.

We describe two experiments that used the process-dissociation procedure to investigate the effects of level of processing on estimates of controlled and automatic retrieval processes in word-stem completion tasks. Despite our best endeavours, we found ...
Alan Richardson-Klavehn, John M Gardiner, Cristina Ramponi (Memory, 200209-11)
level-processing-process-dissociation-procedure-elusiveness-null.asp

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Reorganizing the lexicon by learning a new word: Japanese childrens interpretation of the meaning of a new word for a familiar artifact.

This research investigated how children interpret the meaning of a new word associated with a familiar artifact. The existing literature has shown that syntactic form-class information plays an important role in making this kind of inference. However, ...
Etsuko Haryu, Mutsumi Imai (Child Dev, 200209-10)
reorganizing-lexicon-learning-new-word-japanese-children-s.asp

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Transfer of a speed of processing intervention to near and far cognitive functions.

BACKGROUND: Evidence establishing the potential for modification of cognitive functioning in later adulthood has begun to accumulate. OBJECTIVE: The primary goal of the current study was to evaluate, among older adults, the extent to which standardized ...
Jerri D Edwards, Virginia G Wadley, R enee S Myers, Daniel L Roenker, Gayla M Cissell, Karlene K Ball (Gerontology, 200209-10)
transfer-speed-processing-intervention-near-far-cognitive-functions.asp

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Perseveration in schizophrenia: failure to generate a plan and relationship with the psychomotor poverty subsyndrome.

Although perseveration in the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) has been studied extensively in schizophrenia, the underlying cognitive dysfunctions are not yet clear. In schizophrenia, perseveration has been found to relate to frontal and striatal ...
Marja G Lanser, Hans J C Berger, Bart A Ellenbroek, Alexander R Cools, Frans G Zitman (Psychiatry Res, 200209)
perseveration-schizophrenia-failure-generate-plan-relationship.asp