Verbal Learning

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Adjectives really do modify nouns: the incremental and restricted nature of early adjective acquisition.

By 24 months, most children spontaneously and correctly use adjectives. Yet prior laboratory research that has studied lexical acquisition in young children reports that children up to 3-years-old map novel adjectives to object properties only in very ...
Toben H Mintz, Lila R Gleitman (Cognition, 200207)
adjectives-modify-nouns-incremental-restricted-nature-early-adjective.asp

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The accessibility of characters in single sentences: proper names, common nouns, and first mention.

Accessibility of characters in two-character sentences (e.g., The butler helped Calvin at the wedding reception) was investigated with a probe recognition task. Probes were either the first character (e.g., butler) or the second character (e.g., Calvin) ...
Janet L McDonald, Deborah M Shaibe (Psychon Bull Rev, 200206)
accessibility-characters-single-sentences-proper-names-common-nouns.asp

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Effects of normal aging and Alzheimers disease on emotional memory.

Recall is typically better for emotional than for neutral stimuli. This enhancement is believed to rely on limbic regions. Memory is also better for neutral stimuli embedded in an emotional context. The neural substrate supporting this effect has not ...
Elizabeth A Kensinger, Barbara Brierley, Nick Medford, John H Growdon, Suzanne Corkin (Emotion, 200206)
effects-normal-aging-alzheimer-s-disease-emotional-memory.asp

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Context matching and judgments of recency.

An experiment was done to test a context-matching explanation of memory for recency under steady-state conditions. Subjects went through a list of 550 names, in which individual names were repeated at lags of 5-30 other items. The names were shown in two ...
Douglas L Hintzman (Psychon Bull Rev, 200206)
context-matching-judgments-recency.asp

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The emergence of item-specific encoding effects in between-subjects designs: perceptual interference and multiple recall tests.

The perceptual-interference effect occurs when interference with word perception (by backward masking) enhances later memory for the word. In terms of the item-specific-relational framework (Hunt & McDaniel, 1993), this effect is similar to other ...
Neil W Mulligan (Psychon Bull Rev, 200206)
emergence-item-specific-encoding-effects-subjects-designs-perceptual.asp

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Success and failure in teaching the [r]-[l] contrast to Japanese adults: tests of a Hebbian model of plasticity and stabilization in spoken language perception.

A Hebbian model of learning predicts that adults may be able to acquire a nonnative speech contrast if they are trained with stimuli that are exaggerated to make them perceptually distinct. To test these ideas, we asked Japanese adults to identify ...
Bruce D McCandliss, Julie A Fiez, Athanassios Protopapas, Mary Conway, James L McClelland (Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci, 200206)
success-failure-teaching-r-l-contrast-japanese-adults-tests-hebbian.asp

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Cortical representation of swallowing: a modified dual task paradigm.

It is unclear whether the cortical representation of swallowing is lateralized to the left cerebral hemisphere, right hemisphere, or bilaterally represented. As dysphagia is common in acute stroke, it is important to elucidate swallowing lateralization ...
Stephanie K Daniels, David M Corey, Cristen L Barnes, Nikki M Faucheaux, Daniel H Priestly, Anne L Foundas (Percept Mot Skills, 200206)
cortical-representation-swallowing-modified-dual-task-paradigm.asp

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Privileged access to action for objects relative to words.

We compared action (pour or twist?) and contextual/semantic (found in kitchen?) decisions made to pictures of objects, nonobjects, and words. Although there was no advantage for objects over words in contextual/semantic decisions, there was an advantage ...
Hanna Chainay, Glyn W Humphreys (Psychon Bull Rev, 200206)
privileged-access-action-objects-relative-words.asp

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Part-set cuing of false memories.

Part-set cuing inhibition describes the common finding that re-presenting items from a word list can reduce subjects overall recall performance for studied items. Do part-set cuing effects occur for false memories as well? In the present experiments, ...
Matthew B Reysen, James S Nairne (Psychon Bull Rev, 200206)
part-set-cuing-false-memories.asp

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Effects of divided attention and word concreteness on correct recall and false memory reports.

Lists of thematically related words were presented to participants with or without a concurrent task. In Experiments 1 and 2, respectively, English or Spanish word lists were either low or high in concreteness (concrete vs abstract words) and were ...
M Nieves Pérez-Mata, J Don Read, Margarita Diges (Memory, 200205)
effects-divided-attention-word-concreteness-correct-recall-false.asp