Verbal Learning

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Forward and backward recall: different response time patterns, same retrieval order.

How do people retrieve information in forward and backward recall? To address this issue, we examined response times in directional recall as a function of serial position and list length. Participants memorized lists of four to six words and entered ...
John G Thomas, Haley R Milner, Karl F Haberlandt (Psychol Sci, 200303)
forward-backward-recall-different-response-time-patterns-same.asp

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Young childrens acquisition of wh-questions: the role of structured input.

Two-year-olds learn language quickly but how they exploit adult input remains obscure. Twenty-nine children aged 2;6 to 3;2, divided into three treatment groups, participated in an intervention experiment consisting of four sessions 1 week apart. Pre- ...
Virginia Valian, Lyman Casey (J Child Lang, 200302)
young-children-s-acquisition-wh-questions-role-structured-input.asp

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Inhibitory effect of hippocampal 5-HT1A receptors on human explicit memory.

OBJECTIVE: Recent studies have indicated that the serotonergic (5-HT) system plays important roles in memory function. However, the specific relationship between 5-HT(1A) receptors and memory function is not clear in the human brain. To clarify this ...
Fumihiko Yasuno, Tetsuya Suhara, Takashi Nakayama, Tetsuya Ichimiya, Yoshiro Okubo, Akihiro Takano, Tomomichi Ando, Makoto Inoue, Jun Maeda, Kazutoshi Suzuki (Am J Psychiatry, 200302)
inhibitory-effect-hippocampal-ht-receptors-human-explicit-memory.asp

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Understanding neural system dynamics through task modulation and measurement of functional MRI amplitude, latency, and width.

Estimates of hemodynamic amplitude, delay, and width were combined to investigate system dynamics involved in lexical decision making. Subjects performed a lexical decision task using word and nonword stimuli rotated 0 degrees, 60 degrees, or 120 ...
P S F Bellgowan, Z S Saad, P A Bandettini (Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 200302)
understanding-neural-system-dynamics-task-modulation-measurement.asp

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The development of inversion in wh-questions: a reply to Van Valin.

Van Valin (Journal of Child Language 29, 2002, 161-75) presents a critique of Rowland & Pine (Journal of Child Language 27, 2000, 157-81) and argues that the wh-question data from Adam (in Brown, A first language, Cambridge, MA, 1973) cannot be explained ...
Caroline F Rowland, Julian M Pine (J Child Lang, 200302)
development-inversion-wh-questions-reply-van-valin.asp

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The development of a word-learning strategy.

Two studies investigated young infants use of the word-learning principle Mutual Exclusivity. In Experiment 1, a linear relationship between age and performance was discovered. Seventeen-month-old infants successfully used Mutual Exclusivity to map novel ...
Justin Halberda (Cognition, 200302)
development-word-learning-strategy.asp

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Lexically specific constructions in the acquisition of inflection in English.

Children learning English often omit grammatical words and morphemes, but there is still much debate over exactly why and in what contexts they do so. This study investigates the acquisition of three elements which instantiate the grammatical category of ...
Stephen Wilson (J Child Lang, 200302)
lexically-specific-constructions-acquisition-inflection-english.asp

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A perceptual interference account of acquisition difficulties for non-native phonemes.

This article presents an account of how early language experience can impede the acquisition of non-native phonemes during adulthood. The hypothesis is that early language experience alters relatively low-level perceptual processing, and that these ...
Paul Iverson, Patricia K Kuhl, Reiko Akahane-Yamada, Eugen Diesch, Yohich Tohkura, Andreas Kettermann, Claudia Siebert (Cognition, 200302)
perceptual-interference-account-acquisition-difficulties-non-native.asp

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Emotional context modulates subsequent memory effect.

Emotions have been shown to modulate memory processes. However, the neuronal substrate underlying these modulatory effects is largely unknown. Using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we investigated whether the context of ...
Susanne Erk, Markus Kiefer, Jo Grothe, Arthur P Wunderlich, Manfred Spitzer, Henrik Walter (Neuroimage, 200302)
emotional-context-modulates-subsequent-memory-effect.asp

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Objects and their actions: evidence for a neurally distributed semantic system.

An influential model of conceptual knowledge claims that objects are represented in a distributed network of cortical areas that store information about different types of attributes, such as form, colour, and motion (A. Martin et al., 2000, in: The ...
L K Tyler, E A Stamatakis, E Dick, P Bright, P Fletcher, H Moss (Neuroimage, 200302)
objects-actions-evidence-neurally-distributed-semantic-system.asp