Verbal Learning

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Influence of age and executive functioning on verbal memory of inpatients with depression.

BACKGROUND: Despite many studies demonstrating memory and executive impairments in young and old depressed patients, the relationships between age, executive functioning and memory have not been evaluated in depression. The aim of this study was to ...
Philippe Fossati, Françoise Coyette, Anne-Marie Ergis, Jean-François Allilaire (J Affect Disord, 200204)
influence-age-executive-functioning-verbal-memory-inpatients.asp

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P300 stimulus sequence effects in children and adults.

Immediate memory capability for 12 children (8 years) and 12 adults (21 years) was assessed electrophysiologically by using P300 event-related brain potential (ERP) stimulus sequences. These were derived from an auditory discrimination paradigm in which ...
Orna Gill, John Polich (Percept Mot Skills, 200204)
p-stimulus-sequence-effects-children-adults.asp

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Preschoolers are sensitive to the speakers knowledge when learning proper names.

Unobservable properties that are specific to individuals, such as their proper names, can only be known by people who are familiar with those individuals. Do young children utilize this "familiarity principle" when learning language? Experiment 1 tested ...
Susan A J Birch, Paul Bloom (Child Dev, 200203-04)
preschoolers-sensitive-speaker-s-knowledge-learning-proper-names.asp

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How children use input to acquire a lexicon.

The contributions of social processes and computational processes to early lexical development were evaluated. A re-analysis and review of previous research cast doubt on the sufficiency of social approaches to word learning. An empirical investigation ...
Erika Hoff, Letitia Naigles (Child Dev, 200203-04)
children-input-acquire-lexicon.asp

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Changes in explicit memory associated with early dementia in adults with Downs syndrome.

BACKGROUND: A modified version of the Selective Reminding Test (SRT) (Buschke 1973) was used to examine the changes in memory that occur with early-stage dementia of the Alzheimers type (DAT) in adults with intellectual disability (ID) and Downs syndrome ...
S J Krinsky-McHale, D A Devenny, W P Silverman (J Intellect Disabil Res, 200203)
changes-explicit-memory-associated-early-dementia-adults-down-s.asp

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Positive mood and executive function: evidence from stroop and fluency tasks.

Contrasting predictions have been made about the effects of positive mood states on the performance of frontal lobe tests that tap executive functions such as inhibition, switching, and strategy use. It has been argued that positive mood is likely to ...
Louise H Phillips, Rebecca Bull, Ewan Adams, Lisa Fraser (Emotion, 200203)
positive-mood-executive-function-evidence-stroop-fluency-tasks.asp

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The role of the basal forebrain in episodic memory retrieval: a positron emission tomography study.

Human lesion data indicate that the basal forebrain or orbitofrontal cortex, or both, as well as medial temporal and diencephalic structures, is important for normal memory and that its disruption causes the pure amnesic syndrome, in which episodic ...
Toshikatsu Fujii, Jiro Okuda, Takashi Tsukiura, Hiroya Ohtake, Rina Miura, Reiko Fukatsu, Kyoko Suzuki, Ryuta Kawashima, Masatoshi Itoh, Hiroshi Fukuda, Atsushi Yamadori (Neuroimage, 200203)
role-basal-forebrain-episodic-memory-retrieval-positron-emission.asp

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Abnormal functional connectivity in posttraumatic stress disorder.

This study investigated the efficacy of a combined multivariate/resampling procedure for the analysis of PET activation studies. The covariance-based multivariate analysis was used to investigate distributed brain systems in posttraumatic stress disorder ...
Marnie E Shaw, Stephen C Strother, Alexander C McFarlane, Philip Morris, Jon Anderson, C Richard Clark, Gary F Egan (Neuroimage, 200203)
abnormal-functional-connectivity-posttraumatic-stress-disorder.asp

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Effects of rapid tryptophan depletion on salivary and plasma cortisol in Alzheimers disease and the healthy elderly.

Serotonergic function is reduced in dementia of Alzheimer type (DAT) and abnormalities in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis are also common. There is considerable interaction between the two systems. Effects of lowering brain serotonin on ...
Richard J Porter, Elizabeth F Marshall, John T OBrien (J Psychopharmacol, 200203)
effects-rapid-tryptophan-depletion-salivary-plasma-cortisol-alzheimer.asp

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Neuropsychological function in children with maltreatment-related posttraumatic stress disorder.

OBJECTIVE: Studies in adults have reported changes in concentration, learning, and memory in individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, there are few studies of cognitive function in children with PTSD. The goal of the current study ...
Sue R Beers, Michael D De Bellis (Am J Psychiatry, 200203)
neuropsychological-function-children-maltreatment-related.asp