Verbal Learning

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Production benefits of childhood overhearing.

The current study assessed whether overhearing Spanish during childhood helps later Spanish pronunciation in adulthood. Our preliminary report based on a subset of the data [Au et al., Psychol. Sci. 13, 238-243 (2002)] revealed that adults who overheard ...
Leah M Knightly, Sun-Ah Jun, Janet S Oh, Terry Kit-fong Au (J Acoust Soc Am, 200307)
production-benefits-childhood-overhearing.asp

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Age deficits in learning sequences of spoken words.

Previous research has demonstrated age-related deficits in implicit learning of visual sequences characterized by subtle predictive relationships among the sequence elements. This study investigates whether this reflects modality-specific, or more ...
Nancy A Dennis, James H Howard, Darlene V Howard (J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci, 200307)
age-deficits-learning-sequences-spoken-words.asp

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Pictures and their colors: what do children remember?

Theories regarding childrens reliability as witnesses suggest that children are more likely to confuse memories from different sources especially when the sources are highly similar. To investigate the developmental aspects of source retrieval, we ...
Yael M Cycowicz, David Friedman, Martin Duff (J Cogn Neurosci, 200307)
pictures-colors-children-remember.asp

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Music training improves verbal but not visual memory: cross-sectional and longitudinal explorations in children.

The hypothesis that music training can improve verbal memory was tested in children. The results showed that children with music training demonstrated better verbal but not visual memory than did their counterparts without such training. When these ...
Yim-Chi Ho, Mei-Chun Cheung, Agnes S Chan (Neuropsychology, 200307)
music-training-improves-verbal-not-visual-memory-cross-sectional.asp

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Lexical decision of nonwords and pseudowords in humans: a positron emission tomography study.

In this functional positron emission tomography study brain activations during an auditory lexical decision task with two experimental conditions were investigated. First, the subjects had to discriminate between real words and nonwords; second, real ...
Karsten Specht, Chrisitane Holtel, Roland Zahn, Hans Herzog, Bernd J Krause, Felix M Mottaghy, Irmgard Radermacher, Daniela Schmidt, Lutz Tellmann, Susanne Weis, Klaus Willmes, Walter Huber (Neurosci Lett, 200307)
lexical-decision-nonwords-pseudowords-humans-positron-emission.asp

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Reduced hippocampal activation during encoding and recognition of words in schizophrenia patients.

OBJECTIVE: In patients with schizophrenia, impaired hippocampal activation either during encoding or recognition tasks has been observed in a few functional imaging experiments. In this fMRI study, the authors report results of word encoding and ...
Frank Jessen, Lukas Scheef, Lars Germeshausen, Youlha Tawo, Martin Kockler, Kai-Uwe Kuhn, Wolfgang Maier, Hans H Schild, Reinhard Heun (Am J Psychiatry, 200307)
reduced-hippocampal-activation-encoding-recognition-words.asp

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Cognitive consequences of early phase of literacy.

The effect of the degree of illiteracy (complete or incomplete) on phonological skills, verbal and visual memory and visuospatial skills is examined in 97 normal Brazilian adults who considered themselves illiterate, and 41 Brazilian school children aged ...
Georges Dellatolas, Lucia Willadino Braga, Ligia do Nascimento Souza, Gilberto Nunes Filho, Elizabeth Queiroz, Gerard Deloche (J Int Neuropsychol Soc, 200307)
cognitive-consequences-early-phase-literacy.asp

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Context effects in word recognition: evidence for early interactive processing.

This study investigated whether a prior context influenced lexical access as indexed by participants electrophysiological response in the N1 from 132 to 192 ms poststimulus. Ambiguous, high-frequency (HF), and low-frequency (LF) words were presented in ...
Sara C Sereno, Cameron C Brewer, Patrick J ODonnell (Psychol Sci, 200307)
context-effects-word-recognition-evidence-early-interactive-processing.asp

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Artificial grammar learning in Alzheimers disease.

Patients with early Alzheimers disease (AD) exhibit impaired declarative memory although some forms of nondeclarative memory are intact. Performance on perceptual nondeclarative memory tasks is often preserved in AD, whereas conceptual nondeclarative ...
Paul J Reber, Lucy A Martinez, Sandra Weintraub (Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci, 200306)
artificial-grammar-learning-alzheimer-s-disease.asp

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Learning first-pass structural attachment preferences with dynamic grammars and recursive neural networks.

One of the central problems in the study of human language processing is ambiguity resolution: how do people resolve the extremely pervasive ambiguity of the language they encounter? One possible answer to this question is suggested by experience-based ...
Patrick Sturt, Fabrizio Costa, Vincenzo Lombardo, Paolo Frasconi (Cognition, 200306)
learning-first-pass-structural-attachment-preferences-dynamic.asp