Verbal Learning

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Early words, multiword utterances and maternal reading strategies as predictors of mastering word inflections in Finnish.

This is the first study to report how childrens language skills and mothers book-reading strategies, measured at 2;0, predict mastery of word inflections at 3;0 and 5;0 in a sample of 66 Finnish children. Three theoretical models were tested on the ...
Maarit Silvén, Annarilla Ahtola, Pekka Niemi (J Child Lang, 200305)
early-words-multiword-utterances-maternal-reading-strategies.asp

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Subject realization and crosslinguistic interference in the bilingual acquisition of Spanish and English: what is the role of the input?

This study investigated whether crosslinguistic interference occurs in the domain of subject realization in Spanish in a bilingual acquisition context. We were also interested in exploring whether the source of the interference is due to child-internal ...
Johanne Paradis, Samuel Navarro (J Child Lang, 200305)
subject-realization-crosslinguistic-interference-bilingual.asp

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Morphosyntactic constructs in the development of spoken and written Hebrew text production.

This study examined the distribution of two Hebrew nominal structures-N-N compounds and denominal adjectives-in spoken and written texts of two genres produced by 90 native-speaking participants in three age groups: eleven/twelve-year-olds (6th graders), ...
Dorit Ravid, Shoshana Zilberbuch (J Child Lang, 200305)
morphosyntactic-constructs-development-spoken-written-hebrew-text.asp

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The vowel systems of Quichua-Spanish bilinguals. Age of acquisition effects on the mutual influence of the first and second languages.

This study investigates vowel productions of 20 Quichua-Spanish bilinguals, differing in age of Spanish acquisition, and 5 monolingual Spanish speakers. While the vowel systems of simultaneous, early, and some mid bilinguals all showed significant ...
Susan G Guion (Phonetica, 200304-06)
vowel-systems-quichua-spanish-bilinguals-age-acquisition-effects.asp

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Understanding how input matters: verb learning and the footprint of universal grammar.

Studies under the heading "syntactic bootstrapping" have demonstrated that syntax guides young childrens interpretations during verb learning. We evaluate two hypotheses concerning the origins of syntactic bootstrapping effects. The "universalist" view, ...
Jeffrey Lidz, Henry Gleitman, Lila Gleitman (Cognition, 200304)
understanding-input-matters-verb-learning-footprint-universal-grammar.asp

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Genetic correlations between brain volumes and the WAIS-III dimensions of verbal comprehension, working memory, perceptual organization, and processing speed.

We recently showed that the correlation of gray and white matter volume with full scale IQ and the Working Memory dimension are completely mediated by common genetic factors (Posthuma et al., 2002). Here we examine whether the other WAIS III dimensions ...
Daniëlle Posthuma, Wim F C Baaré, Hilleke E Hulshoff Pol, René S Kahn, Dorret I Boomsma, Eco J C De Geus (Twin Res, 200304)
genetic-correlations-brain-volumes-wais-iii-dimensions-verbal.asp

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Working memory in mild Alzheimers disease and early Parkinsons disease.

Alzheimers disease (AD) and Parkinsons disease (PD) impair working memory (WM). It is unclear, however, whether the deficits seen early in the course of these diseases are similar. To address this issue, the authors compared the performance of 22 ...
Elizabeth A Kensinger, Deirdre K Shearer, Joseph J Locascio, John H Growdon, Suzanne Corkin (Neuropsychology, 200304)
working-memory-mild-alzheimer-s-disease-early-parkinson-s-disease.asp

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Neuropsychological assessment and telemedicine: a preliminary study examining the reliability of neuropsychology services performed via telecommunication.

Within the last decade, various applications of two-way audio-visual telecommunication have been implemented in the Norwegian health care system to facilitate the delivery of medical services to patients located in rural areas away from the hospitals. ...
Svenn E Jacobsen, Terje Sprenger, Stein Andersson, Jan-Magne Krogstad (J Int Neuropsychol Soc, 200303)
neuropsychological-assessment-telemedicine-preliminary-study.asp

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Probability effects on event-related potential correlates of recognition memory.

A common finding in event-related potential (ERP) studies of recognition memory is that recognised items elicit greater positivity at parietal electrode sites than new items (the left parietal old/new effect). Parietal positivity (the P300 or P3b) is ...
Jane E Herron, Angela H Quayle, Michael D Rugg (Brain Res Cogn Brain Res, 200303)
probability-effects-event-related-potential-correlates-recognition.asp

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Functional comparison of primacy, middle and recency retrieval in human auditory short-term memory: an event-related fMRI study.

Primacy and recency effects refer to the better performance or shorter response time on the first and last items than the middle ones of a memory list. In order to investigate its neural basis in auditory short-term memory, event-related fMRI was used to ...
Da Ren Zhang, Zhi Hao Li, Xiang Chuan Chen, Zhao Xin Wang, Xiao Chu Zhang, Xiao Mei Meng, Sheng He, Xiao Ping Hu (Brain Res Cogn Brain Res, 200303)
functional-comparison-primacy-middle-recency-retrieval-human-auditory.asp