Verbal Learning

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Decline in verbal memory performance with advancing age: the role of frontal lobe functioning.

This study investigated the relationship between measures of frontal lobe functioning (FLF) and verbal memory performance among healthy, community-dwelling older adults (60-85 years old). All were administered measures of FLF, attention, verbal memory, ...
J D Simensky, N Abeles (Aging Ment Health, 200208)
decline-verbal-memory-performance-advancing-age-role-frontal-lobe.asp

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Representational change and analogy: how analogical inferences alter target representations.

The ways that analogy alters the representation of target information was investigated in 4 experiments. Participants read information about a target, followed by a potential source analog. Participants later completed a recognition test in which some of ...
Isabelle Blanchette, Kevin Dunbar (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 200207)
representational-change-analogy-analogical-inferences-alter-target.asp

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Antipsychotic drug treatment in the prodromal phase of schizophrenia.

OBJECTIVE: The safety and tolerability of short-term treatment with a low dose of risperidone was evaluated in adolescents with prodromal symptoms and a family history of schizophrenia. METHOD: Four prodromal high-risk adolescents and six first-episode ...
Tyrone D Cannon, Matti O Huttunen, Minna Dahlström, Ilkka Larmo, Pirkko Räsänen, Alo Juriloo (Am J Psychiatry, 200207)
antipsychotic-drug-treatment-prodromal-phase-schizophrenia.asp

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Recent exposure affects artifact naming.

Deciding how to label an object depends both on beliefs about the culturally appropriate name and on memory. A label should be consistent with a language communitys norms, but those norms can be used only if they can be retrieved. Two experiments are ...
Steven A Sloman, Marianne C Harrison, Barbara C Malt (Mem Cognit, 200207)
recent-exposure-affects-artifact-naming.asp

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Recognition with and without identification: dissociative effects of meaningful encoding.

In a series of four experiments, the effects of levels of processing and generation on the recognition of identified versus unidentified word fragments were examined. After studying a list of words, participants took a word fragment completion test in ...
Anne M Cleary (Mem Cognit, 200207)
recognition-identification-dissociative-effects-meaningful-encoding.asp

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Factors modulating the effect of divided attention during retrieval of words.

In this study, we examined variables modulating interference effects on episodic memory under divided attention conditions during retrieval for a list of unrelated words. In Experiment 1, we found that distracting tasks that required animacy or syllable ...
Myra A Fernandes, Morris Moscovitch (Mem Cognit, 200207)
factors-modulating-effect-divided-attention-retrieval-words.asp

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Segmenting nonsense: an event-related potential index of perceived onsets in continuous speech.

Speech segmentation, determining where one word ends and the next begins in continuous speech, is necessary for auditory language processing. However, because there are few direct indices of this fast, automatic process, it has been difficult to study. ...
Lisa D Sanders, Elissa L Newport, Helen J Neville (Nat Neurosci, 200207)
segmenting-nonsense-event-related-potential-index-perceived-onsets.asp

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The influence of word frequency on recency effects in directed free recall.

Leading theoretical explanations of recency effects are designed to explain the reported absence of a word frequency effect on recall of words from recency serial positions. The present study used a directed free-recall procedure (J. J. Dalezman, 1976) ...
James P Van Overschelde (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 200207)
influence-word-frequency-recency-effects-directed-free-recall.asp

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The influence of phonological similarity neighborhoods on speech production.

The influence of phonological similarity neighborhoods on the speed and accuracy of speech production was investigated with speech-error elicitation and picture-naming tasks. The results from 2 speech-error elicitation techniques-the spoonerisms of ...
Michael S Vitevitch (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 200207)
influence-phonological-similarity-neighborhoods-speech-production.asp

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Cortical stimulation mapping of language cortex by using a verb generation task: effects of learning and comparison to mapping based on object naming.

OBJECT: Cortical stimulation mapping has traditionally relied on disruption of object naming to define essential language areas. In this study, the authors reviewed the use of a different language task, verb generation, in mapping language. This task has ...
Jeffrey G Ojemann, George A Ojemann, Ettore Lettich (J Neurosurg, 200207)
cortical-stimulation-mapping-language-cortex-verb-generation-task.asp