Verbal Learning

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Thematic role focusing by participle inflections: evidence from conceptual combination.

The authors examined how people integrate knowledge of agents and patients of events with the temporal and causal properties of present and past participles to constrain interpretation of isolated participle-noun phrases like arresting cop and arrested ...
Todd R Ferretti, Christina L Gagné, Ken McRae (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 200301)
thematic-role-focusing-participle-inflections-evidence-conceptual.asp

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Serotonin levels influence patterns of repetition priming.

Repetition priming in a word-stem completion task was examined in a group of control subjects and in a group of experimental subjects under conditions of acute tryptophan depletion (T-) and tryptophan augmentation (T+). Experimental subjects ingested ...
E Darcy Burgund, Chad J Marsolek, Monica Luciana (Neuropsychology, 200301)
serotonin-levels-influence-patterns-repetition-priming.asp

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Effects of Alzheimers disease on the recognition of novel versus familiar words: neuropsychological and clinico-metabolic data.

This study explored recognition memory performance for novel versus familiar words in Alzheimers disease (AD) patients and normal controls (NCs), using an adaptation of E. Tulving and N. Krolls (1995) procedure. Results showed that both groups exhibited ...
Françoise Lekeu, Martial Van der Linden, Christian Degueldre, Christian Lemaire, André Luxen, Georges Franck, Gustave Moonen, Eric Salmon (Neuropsychology, 200301)
effects-alzheimer-s-disease-recognition-novel-versus-familiar-words.asp

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Critical evidence: a test of the critical-period hypothesis for second-language acquisition.

The critical-period hypothesis for second-language acquisition was tested on data from the 1990 U.S. Census using responses from 2.3 million immigrants with Spanish or Chinese language backgrounds. The analyses tested a key prediction of the hypothesis, ...
Kenji Hakuta, Ellen Bialystok, Edward Wiley (Psychol Sci, 200301)
critical-evidence-test-critical-period-hypothesis-second-language.asp

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Verbal learning and memory in schizophrenic and Parkinsons disease patients.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the neurofunctional substrate of verbal learning and memory impairments in schizophrenic patients. In this pilot study, our aim was to compare the memory disturbance of schizophrenic patients to the ...
Iris van Oostrom, Sonia Dollfus, Perine Brazo, Pascale Abadie, Isabelle Halbecq, Sophie Théry, Rose Marie Marié (Psychiatry Res, 200301)
verbal-learning-memory-schizophrenic-parkinson-s-disease-patients.asp

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Effect of manipulation and irrelevant noise on working memory capacity of patients with Alzheimers dementia.

The effect of manipulation and distracting noise on immediate serial recall was measured in patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT), neurologically healthy elderly individuals, and young adults. In Experiment 1, the authors compared serial ...
Sylvie Belleville, Nancie Rouleau, Martial Van der Linden, Fabienne Collette (Neuropsychology, 200301)
effect-manipulation-irrelevant-noise-working-memory-capacity-patients.asp

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Functional imaging of the semantic system: retrieval of sensory-experienced and verbally learned knowledge.

This paper considers how functional neuro-imaging can be used to investigate the organization of the semantic system and the limitations associated with this technique. The majority of the functional imaging studies of the semantic system have looked for ...
Uta Noppeney, Cathy J Price (Brain Lang, 200301)
functional-imaging-semantic-system-retrieval-sensory-experienced.asp

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Longitudinal changes in verbal memory in older adults: distinguishing the effects of age from repeat testing.

OBJECTIVE: To characterize the relationship between age-related memory change and repeat testing using serial administrations of the California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT) in 385 nondemented Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging participants aged 55 and ...
Melissa Lamar, Susan M Resnick, Alan B Zonderman (Neurology, 200301)
longitudinal-changes-verbal-memory-older-adults-distinguishing.asp

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Nature of personal semantic memory: evidence from Alzheimers disease.

Personal semantic memory is factual knowledge about a persons own past. Although personal semantic memory is assumed to have features of both semantic memory and episodic memory, the relationship to episodic memory and to semantic memory have not been ...
Hiroaki Kazui, Mamoru Hashimoto, Nobutsugu Hirono, Etsuro Mori (Neuropsychologia, 2003)
nature-personal-semantic-memory-evidence-alzheimer-s-disease.asp

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Intentional and automatic measures of specific-category effect in the semantic impairment of patients with Alzheimers disease.

The breakdown of semantic knowledge relative to living and non-living categories was studied in patients with Alzheimers disease (AD). The same living and non-living items were used in a semantic battery and in a semantic priming paradigm exploring ...
Roberta Perri, Giovanni A Carlesimo, Gian Daniele Zannino, Marco Mauri, Barbara Muolo, Carla Pettenati, Carlo Caltagirone (Neuropsychologia, 2003)
intentional-automatic-measures-specific-category-effect-semantic.asp