Verbal Learning

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Stimulus modality and verbal learning performance in normal aging.

The present study investigated the effects of modality presentation on the verbal learning performance of 26 older adults and 26 younger cohorts. A multitrial free-recall paradigm was implemented incorporating three modalities: Auditory, Visual, and ...
Fofi Constantinidou, Susan Baker (Brain Lang, 200209)
stimulus-modality-verbal-learning-performance-normal-aging.asp

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Memory-load interference in syntactic processing.

Participants remembered a short set of words while reading syntactically complex sentences (object-extracted clefts) and syntactically simpler sentences (subject-extracted clefts) in a memory-load study. The study also manipulated whether the words in ...
Peter C Gordon, Randall Hendrick, William H Levine (Psychol Sci, 200209)
memory-load-interference-syntactic-processing.asp

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The phonological-similarity effect differentiates between two working memory tasks.

Working memory is a set of interactive cognitive processes that maintain information on-line and available for analysis. Part of the system is specialized for maintaining verbal information, a core component of which is thought to be a phonological ...
Danean K MacAndrew, Roberta L Klatzky, Julie A Fiez, James L McClelland, James T Becke (Psychol Sci, 200209)
phonological-similarity-effect-differentiates-two-working-memory-tasks.asp

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Revisiting the picture-superiority effect in symbolic comparisons: do pictures provide privileged access?

In 4 experiments, symbolic comparisons were investigated to test semantic-memory retrieval accounts espousing processing advantages for picture over word stimuli. In Experiment 1, participants judged pairs of animal names or pictures by responding to ...
Paul C Amrhein, Mark A McDaniel, Paula Waddill (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 200209)
revisiting-picture-superiority-effect-symbolic-comparisons-pictures.asp

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Precursors to onset clusters in acquisition.

Two lawful relationships involving word-initial onset clusters have been advanced in the acquisition literature; namely, that clusters imply affricates (Lleó & Prinz, 1996, 1997), and that liquid clusters imply a liquid distinction (Archibald, 1998). ...
Judith A Gierut, Kathleen M OConnor (J Child Lang, 200208)
precursors-onset-clusters-acquisition.asp

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Processes in language acquisition: the roles of gender, attention, and maternal encouragement of attention over time.

This longitudinal study including 87 infant-mother dyads examined the relation between infant temperamental attention, maternal encouragement of attention, language, and the effects of gender. At ages 0;4, 0;8, and 1;0, global attention was assessed from ...
Jan Karrass, Julia M Braungart-Rieker, Jennifer Mullins, Jennifer Burke Lefever (J Child Lang, 200208)
processes-language-acquisition-roles-gender-attention-maternal.asp

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Language-general and language-specific influences on childrens acquisition of argument structure: a comparison of French and English.

This research investigates language-general and language-specific properties of the acquisition of argument structure. Ten French preschoolers enacted forty sentences containing motion verbs; sixteen sentences were ungrammatical in that the syntactic ...
Letitia R Naigles, Nadine Lehrer (J Child Lang, 200208)
language-general-language-specific-influences-children-s-acquisition.asp

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Normative data for a working memory test: the four word short-term memory test.

A number of tests of short-term memory based on the Brown-Peterson paradigm (recall of either trigrams or short words after varying distractor intervals) have been utilized by neuropsychologists in both clinical practice and in research protocols. The ...
Lisa A Morrow, Christopher Ryan (Clin Neuropsychol, 200208)
normative-data-working-memory-test-four-word-short-term-memory-test.asp

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Acute administration of citalopram facilitates memory consolidation in healthy volunteers.

OBJECTIVES: Decreasing serotonergic neurotransmission in humans has been found to impair memory consolidation. Such effects may be relevant to the memory deficits seen in major depression and the cognitive actions of antidepressant drugs used to treat ...
Catherine J Harmer, Zubin Bhagwagar, Phillip J Cowen, Guy M Goodwin (Psychopharmacology (Berl), 200208)
acute-administration-citalopram-facilitates-memory-consolidation.asp

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The development of regular and irregular verb inflection in Spanish child language.

We present morphological analyses of verb inflections produced by 15 Spanish-speaking children (age range: 1;7 to 4;7) taken from longitudinal and cross-sectional samples of spontaneous speech and narratives. Our main observation is the existence of a ...
Harald Clahsen, Fraibet Aveledo, Iggy Roca (J Child Lang, 200208)
development-regular-irregular-verb-inflection-spanish-child-language.asp