Verbal Learning

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Balancing bilinguals II: lexical comprehension and cognitive processing in children learning Spanish and English.

The present study investigated developmental changes in lexical comprehension skills in early sequential bilinguals, in both Spanish (L1) and English (L2), exploring the effects of age, years of experience, and basic-level cognitive processing ...
Kathryn J Kohnert, Elizabeth Bates (J Speech Lang Hear Res, 200204)
balancing-bilinguals-ii-lexical-comprehension-cognitive-processing.asp

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Retrieval of visual, auditory, and abstract semantics.

Conceptual knowledge is thought to be represented in a large distributed network, indexing a range of different semantic features (e.g., visual, auditory, functional). We investigated the anatomical organization of these features, using PET, by ...
U Noppeney, C J Price (Neuroimage, 200204)
retrieval-visual-auditory-abstract-semantics.asp

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Dissociation of working memory processing associated with native and second languages: PET investigation.

Verbal working memory plays a significant role in language comprehension and problem-solving. The prefrontal cortex has been suggested as a critical area in working memory. Given that domain-specific dissociations of working memory may exist within the ...
Jae-Jin Kim, Myung Sun Kim, Jae Sung Lee, Dong Soo Lee, Myung Chul Lee, Jun Soo Kwon (Neuroimage, 200204)
dissociation-working-memory-processing-associated-native-second.asp

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Inverting the modality effect in serial recall.

Differences in recall ability between immediate serial recall of auditorily and visually presented verbal material have traditionally been considered restricted to the end of to-be-recalled lists, the recency section of the serial position curve (e.g., ...
C Philip Beaman (Q J Exp Psychol A, 200204)
inverting-modality-effect-serial-recall.asp

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Grouping in short-term verbal memory: is position coded temporally?

The nature of the mechanisms that code item position in serial short-term verbal recall was investigated with reference to temporal grouping phenomena--effects that arise when additional pauses are inserted in a presented list to form groups of items. ...
Honey L H Ng, Murray T Maybery (Q J Exp Psychol A, 200204)
grouping-short-term-verbal-memory-position-coded-temporally.asp

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The formation of structurally relevant units in artificial grammar learning.

A total of 78 adult participants were asked to read a sample of strings generated by a finite state grammar and, immediately after reading each string, to mark the natural segmentation positions with a slash bar. They repeated the same task after a phase ...
Pierre Perruchet, Annie Vinter, Chantal Pacteau, Jorge Gallego (Q J Exp Psychol A, 200204)
formation-structurally-relevant-units-artificial-grammar-learning.asp

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Case-mixing effects on childrens word recognition: lexical feedback and development.

Presenting words in MiXeD cAsE has previously been shown to disrupt naming performance of adult readers. This effect is greater on nonwords than it is on real words. There have been two main accounts of this interaction. First, case mixing may disrupt ...
Kate Mayall (Q J Exp Psychol A, 200204)
case-mixing-effects-children-s-word-recognition-lexical-feedback.asp

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Childrens reading of words, pseudohomophones, and other nonwords.

In Experiment 1 children aged 8-9 and 9-10 years were tested for neighbourhood and pseudohomophone effects in nonword reading. Neighbourhood effects (N effects) were robust irrespective of group or type of nonword. Pseudohomophones were read more ...
Veronica Laxon, Jackie Masterson, Alison Gallagher, Julia Pay (Q J Exp Psychol A, 200204)
children-s-reading-words-pseudohomophones-other-nonwords.asp

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The synchronization of the human cortical working memory network.

A verbal reasoning problem at the intersection of verbal working memory, problem-solving, and language comprehension was examined using event-related fMRI to distinguish differences in the differential timing of the response of the various cortical ...
Sharlene D Newman, Marcel Adam Just, Patricia A Carpenter (Neuroimage, 200204)
synchronization-human-cortical-working-memory-network.asp

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The modulatory effects of corticosteroids on cognition: studies in young human populations.

In the present article, we report on two studies performed in young human populations which tested the cognitive impact of glucocorticoids (GC) in situations of decreased or increased ratio of mineralocorticoid (MR) and glucocorticoid (GR) receptor ...
Sonia J Lupien, Charles W Wilkinson, Sophie Brière, Catherine Ménard, N M K Ng Ying Kin, N P V Nair (Psychoneuroendocrinology, 200204)
modulatory-effects-corticosteroids-cognition-studies-young-human.asp