Word Association Tests

1.

Functional MRI study of semantic and phonological language processing in bilingual subjects: preliminary findings.

The objective of the study was to explore differences in regional fMRI activation topography and lateralization between semantic and phonological tasks performed in English and Spanish in bilingual individuals. Eight bilingual (primary Spanish and ...
Jay J Pillai, Julio M Araque, Jerry D Allison, Sankar Sethuraman, David W Loring, Dharma Thiruvaiyaru, Claro B Ison, Aparna Balan, Tom Lavin (Neuroimage, 200307)
functional-mri-study-semantic-phonological-language-processing.asp

2.

Novel concepts mediate word retrieval from human episodic associative memory: evidence from event-related potentials.

Effects of conceptual fusion on episodic associative retrieval were examined. Subjects attempted to fuse sequentially displayed (800 ms offset) word pairs; pairs subjects were unable to fuse were instead considered associated by juxtaposition. Next, ...
John Kounios, Peter Bachman, Daniel Casasanto, Murray Grossman, Roderick W Smith, Wei Yang (Neurosci Lett, 200307)
novel-concepts-mediate-word-retrieval-human-episodic-associative.asp

3.

Functional cerebral asymmetry in hostility: a dual task approach with fluency and cardiovascular regulation.

The influence of hostility levels on verbal and nonverbal fluency, and the concurrent cerebral regulation of autonomic nervous system functioning was examined in 48 right-handed males, half classified as low-hostile, and half as high-hostile. Recent ...
John B Williamson, David W Harrison (Brain Cogn, 200307)
functional-cerebral-asymmetry-hostility-dual-task-approach-fluency.asp

4.

Gender differences in implicit weight identity.

OBJECTIVE: This study examined gender differences in explicit and implicit attitudes toward overweight and explicit and implicit weight identity. METHOD: Normal weight women (n=22) and men (n=20) and overweight women (n=20) and men (n=21) completed the ...
Vishal P Grover, Pamela K Keel, Jason P Mitchell (Int J Eat Disord, 200307)
gender-differences-implicit-weight-identity.asp

5.

Semantic and cross-case identity priming in patients with Parkinsons disease.

Semantic and cross-case identity priming were investigated in nondemented patients with Parkinsons disease (PD) and controls using the Lexical Decision Task. Three conditions were administered that consisted of the presentation of prime and target word ...
J Vincent Filoteo, Frances J Friedrich, Laurie M Rilling, Jennifer D Davis, John L Stricker, Mark Prenovitz (J Clin Exp Neuropsychol, 200306)
semantic-cross-case-identity-priming-patients-parkinson-s-disease.asp

6.

Apathy and executive function in depressed elderly.

Apathy and executive cognitive dysfunction (ECD) are important though conceptually different aspects of late-life depression. The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the relationship of apathy to ECD. The authors also evaluated the ...
Robert S Marin, Meryl A Butters, Benoit H Mulsant, Bruce G Pollock, Charles F Reynolds (J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol, 200306)
apathy-executive-function-depressed-elderly.asp

7.

Experimental manipulation of prior experience: Effects on item and associative recognition.

Frequency of exposure to very low- and high-frequency words was manipulated in a three-phase (familiarisation, study, and test) design. During familiarisation, words were presented with their definition (once, four times, or not presented). One week ...
Kerry A Chalmers, Michael S Humphreys (Memory, 200305)
experimental-manipulation-prior-experience-effects-item-associative.asp

8.

When prejudice does not pay: effects of interracial contact on executive function.

This study examined the influence of interracial interaction on the cognitive functioning of members of a dominant racial group. White participants had a brief interaction with either a White or a Black confederate, and then completed an ostensibly ...
Jennifer A Richeson, J Nicole Shelton (Psychol Sci, 200305)
prejudice-not-pay-effects-interracial-contact-executive-function.asp

9.

Functional dissociation among components of remembering: control, perceived oldness, and content.

Remembering is the ability to bring back to mind episodes from ones past and is presumably accomplished by multiple, interdependent processes. In the present functional magnetic resonance imaging study, neural correlates of three hypothesized components ...
Mark E Wheeler, Randy L Buckner (J Neurosci, 200305)
functional-dissociation-components-remembering-control-perceived.asp

10.

Feeling-of-knowing in episodic memory: an event-related fMRI study.

An individual may fail to recall an item from memory but still feel that it would be recognized on a later test, a retrieval state termed the "feeling-of-knowing" (FOK). In this study we used event-related fMRI and the FOK to examine both encoding- and ...
Anat Maril, Jon S Simons, Jason P Mitchell, Bennett L Schwartz, Daniel L Schacter (Neuroimage, 200304)
feeling-knowing-episodic-memory-event-related-fmri-study.asp