Verbal Learning

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Lorazepam and scopolamine: A single-dose comparison of effects on human memory and attentional processes.

This placebo-controlled, double-blind, double-dummy, independent groups study directly compared effects of the benzodiazepine, lorazepam (2.0 mg/70 kg orally administered), and the anticholinergic scopolamine (0.6 mg/70 kg subcutaneously administered) on ...
Miriam Z Mintzer, Roland R Griffiths (Exp Clin Psychopharmacol, 200302)
lorazepam-scopolamine-single-dose-comparison-effects-human-memory.asp

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Acoustic and perceptual evaluation of Mandarin tone productions before and after perceptual training.

Training American listeners to perceive Mandarin tones has been shown to be effective, with trainees identification improving by 21%. Improvement also generalized to new stimuli and new talkers, and was retained when tested six months after training [Y. ...
Yue Wang, Allard Jongman, Joan A Sereno (J Acoust Soc Am, 200302)
acoustic-perceptual-evaluation-mandarin-tone-productions-after.asp

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Initial and final work performance in schizophrenia: cognitive and symptom predictors.

Studies have shown that cognitive functioning may limit the rate, tenure, and type of work performed by people with schizophrenia. The present study tested the hypothesis that cognitive abilities needed for initial improvement in work performance would ...
Gary Bryson, Morris D Bell (J Nerv Ment Dis, 200302)
initial-final-work-performance-schizophrenia-cognitive-symptom.asp

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A multivariate, spatiotemporal analysis of electromagnetic time-frequency data of recognition memory.

Electromagnetic indices of "fast" (above 12 Hz) oscillating brain activity are much more likely to be considerably attenuated by time-averaging across multiple trials than "slow" (below 12 Hz) oscillating brain activity. To the extent that both types of ...
E Düzel, R Habib, B Schott, A Schoenfeld, N Lobaugh, A R McIntosh, M Scholz, H J Heinze (Neuroimage, 200302)
multivariate-spatiotemporal-analysis-electromagnetic-time-frequency.asp

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Preschool children use linguistic form class and pragmatic cues to interpret generics.

Generic noun phrases (e.g., "Bats live in caves") are important for expressing knowledge about abstract kinds. Past work has found that parents frequently use generic noun phrases in their speech to young children. However, little is known regarding how ...
Susan A Gelman, Lakshmi Raman (Child Dev, 200301-02)
preschool-children-linguistic-form-class-pragmatic-cues-interpret.asp

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Do beez buzz? Rule-based and frequency-based knowledge in learning to spell plural -s.

There has been much discussion about whether certain aspects of human learning depend on the abstraction of rules or on the acquisition of frequency-based knowledge. It has usually been agreed, however, that the spelling of morphological patterns in ...
Nenagh Kemp, Peter Bryant (Child Dev, 200301-02)
beez-buzz-rule-based-frequency-based-knowledge-learning-spell-plural-s.asp

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What compound nouns mean to preschool children.

Compound nouns have multiple meanings in English. The purpose of this study was to explore when children know that compound nouns refer to two objects, one ideally interacting with the other (e.g., "fish shoes" are shoes with fish on them, not next to ...
Elena Nicoladis (Brain Lang, 200301)
compound-nouns-mean-preschool-children.asp

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Effects of temporal and/or spatial instructions on the speed-accuracy trade-off of pointing movements in children.

The present experiment examined in a visuo-manual task the effects of verbal instructions on the speed/accuracy trade-off across children aged 6, 8 and 10 years and adults. Three different verbal instructions (speed, accuracy and speed-accuracy) had to ...
Christina Rival, Isabelle Olivier, Hadrien Ceyte (Neurosci Lett, 200301)
effects-temporal-or-spatial-instructions-speed-accuracy-trade-off.asp

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Hot dogs and zavy cats: preschoolers and adults expectations about familiar and novel adjectives.

In recent years, a growing body of research has begun to examine the processes that underlie young childrens acquisition of adjectival meanings. In the present studies, we examined whether preschoolers willingness to extend adjectives was influenced by ...
Susan A Graham, Andrea N Welder, Adam W McCrimmon (Brain Lang, 200301)
hot-dogs-zavy-cats-preschoolers-adults-expectations-familiar-novel.asp

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Material-specific memory in temporal lobe epilepsy: effects of seizure laterality and language dominance.

This study investigated the effects of seizure laterality and language dominance on material-specific memory in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). Left TLE (LTLE) patients with left-hemisphere language dominance (LHLD) showed significantly higher nonverbal ...
Hongkeun Kim, Sangdoe Yi, Eun Ik Son, Jieun Kim (Neuropsychology, 200301)
material-specific-memory-temporal-lobe-epilepsy-effects-seizure.asp