Verbal Learning

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A descriptive study of hyperlexia in a clinically referred sample of children with developmental delays.

In this study, we evaluated the incidence of hyperlexia in a clinically referred sample of 80 children with developmental delays. Based on hypotheses previously formulated in the literature, the study investigated the frequency of hyperlexia among boys ...
Elena L Grigorenko, Ami Klin, David L Pauls, Riley Senft, Catalina Hooper, Fred Volkmar (J Autism Dev Disord, 200202)
descriptive-study-hyperlexia-clinically-referred-sample-children.asp

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A jigsaw-puzzle imagery task for assessing active visuospatial processes in old and young people.

Recent studies have suggested a theoretical distinction between active elaboration and passive storage in visuospatial working memory, but research with older adults has failed to demonstrate a differential preservation of these two abilities. The ...
John T E Richardson, Tomaso Vecchi (Behav Res Methods Instrum Comput, 200202)
jigsaw-puzzle-imagery-task-assessing-active-visuospatial-processes.asp

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The sandwich effect reassessed: effects of streaming, distraction, and modality.

The degree of disruption from interleaving auditory irrelevant items within a sequence of to-be-remembered items--the sandwich effect--was examined in two experiments. Previous demonstrations of the effect have shown that the penalty for interleaving ...
Alastair P Nicholls, Dylan M Jones (Mem Cognit, 200201)
sandwich-effect-reassessed-effects-streaming-distraction-modality.asp

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Toddlers attention to intentions-in-action in learning novel action words.

Toddlers ability to use cues such as eye gaze and gestures to infer the meaning of novel action words was examined. In Experiment 1, 21- and 27-month-olds were taught labels for pairs of videotaped actions that were either similar or dissimilar in ...
Diane Poulin-Dubois, James N Forbes (Dev Psychol, 200201)
toddlers-attention-intentions-action-learning-novel-action-words.asp

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Object name learning provides on-the-job training for attention.

By the age of 3, children easily learn to name new objects, extending new names for unfamiliar objects by similarity in shape. Two experiments tested the proposal that experience in learning object names tunes childrens attention to the properties ...
Linda B Smith, Susan S Jones, Barbara Landau, Lisa Gershkoff-Stowe, Larissa Samuelson (Psychol Sci, 200201)
object-name-learning-provides-job-training-attention.asp

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Aging and cholinergic modulation of the transient magnetic 40-Hz auditory response.

Cholinergic blockade by scopolamine, a central muscarinic receptor antagonist, may produce transient memory impairment in healthy subjects, and it has been used as a neurochemical model of cognitive degeneration in aged individuals. To observe the ...
Jyrki Ahveninen, Iiro P Jääskeläinen, Seppo Kaakkola, Hannu Tiitinen, Eero Pekkonen (Neuroimage, 200201)
aging-cholinergic-modulation-transient-magnetic-hz-auditory-response.asp

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Dissociating a common working memory network from different neural substrates of phonological and spatial stimulus processing.

Positron emission tomography was used to investigate common versus specific cortical regions for the maintenance of spatial versus phonological information in working memory (WM). Group and single-subject analyses of regional cerebral blood flow during a ...
Bartosz Zurowski, Julia Gostomzyk, Georg Grön, Rolf Weller, Holger Schirrmeister, Bernd Neumeier, Manfred Spitzer, Sven N Reske, Henrik Walter (Neuroimage, 200201)
dissociating-common-working-memory-network-different-neural.asp

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Memory for multidimensional source information.

Source memory may comprise recollection of multiple features of the encoding episode. To analyze the simultaneous representation and retrieval of those multiple features, a multinomial memory model is presented that measures memory for crossed dimensions ...
Thorsten Meiser, Arndt Bröder (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 200201)
memory-multidimensional-source-information.asp

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A reexamination of stimulus-frequency effects in recognition: two mirrors for low- and high-frequency pseudowords.

The word-frequency mirror effect (more hits and fewer false alarms for low-frequency than for high-frequency words) has intrigued memory researchers, and multiple accounts have been offered to explain the result. In this study, participants were ...
Lynn M Reder, Paige Angstadt, Melanie Cary, Michael A Erickson, Michael S Ayers (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 200201)
reexamination-stimulus-frequency-effects-recognition-two-mirrors-low.asp

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Environmental context and recognition: the role of recollection and familiarity.

Evidence for effects of changed environmental context on recognition has been equivocal. Using 3 experiments, the author investigated the role of environmental context from a dual-processing approach. Experiment 1 showed that testing word recognition in ...
William J Macken (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 200201)
environmental-context-recognition-role-recollection-familiarity.asp