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Comprehension - Physiology
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Definition of 'Comprehension'The act or fact of grasping the meaning, nature, or importance of; understanding. (American Heritage Dictionary, 4th ed) Includes understanding by a patient or research subject of information disclosed orally or in writing. Common names: Comprehension; Understanding; Readability |
Saturday, November 21, 2009
29 Sep 2009 
INTRODUCTION: Low general and health literacy in the United States means informed consent documents are not well understood by most adults. Methods to improve recall and comprehension of informed consent have not been tested in orthodontics. The ... Read more...
15 Sep 2009 Bailey and Ferreira (2003) hypothesized and reported behavioral evidence that disfluencies (filled and silent pauses) undesirably affect sentence processing when they appear before disambiguating verbs in Garden Path (GP) sentences. Disfluencies ... Read more...
13 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: The specific role of the two cerebral hemispheres in processing idiomatic language is highly debated. While some studies show the involvement of the left inferior frontal gyrus (LIFG), other data support the crucial role of ... Read more...
Latest indexed articles for 'Comprehension - Physiology'
These are the very latest articles for this heading:
- Informed consent recall and comprehension in orthodontics: traditional vs improved readability and processability methods. 29 Sep 2009
- Disfluencies along the garden path: brain electrophysiological evidence of disrupted sentence processing. 15 Sep 2009
- The role of left and right hemispheres in the comprehension of idiomatic language: an electrical neuroimaging study. 13 Sep 2009
- Biased decision-making: developing an understanding of how positive and negative relationships may skew judgments. 30 Aug 2009
- Children's understanding of second-order mental states. 30 Aug 2009
- Event-related brain potentials suggest a late interaction of meter and syntax in the P600. 30 Aug 2009
- A multisensory cortical network for understanding speech in noise. 30 Aug 2009
- Memory operations that support language comprehension: evidence from verb-phrase ellipsis. 30 Aug 2009
- Off-line sentence processing: what is involved in answering a comprehension probe? 30 Jul 2009
- Semantic context and visual feature effects in object naming: an fMRI study using arterial spin labeling. 30 Jul 2009
- Two-year-olds exclude novel objects as potential referents of novel words based on pragmatics. 15 Jul 2009
- How children block learning from ignorant speakers. 6 Jul 2009
- Understanding of speaker certainty and false-belief reasoning: a comparison of Japanese and German preschoolers. 29 Jun 2009
- A competitive nonverbal false belief task for children and apes. 29 Jun 2009
- Comprehension of concrete and abstract words in semantic dementia. 29 Jun 2009
- Audiovisual integration during speech comprehension: an fMRI study comparing ROI-based and whole brain analyses. 29 Jun 2009
- Rules and heuristics during sentence comprehension: evidence from a dual-task brain potential study. 29 Jun 2009
- Conflict control during sentence comprehension: fMRI evidence. 19 Jun 2009
- Task-dependent organization of brain regions active during rest. 15 Jun 2009
- The sensitivity of the right hemisphere to contextual information in sentences. 11 Jun 2009
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Technical information about 'Comprehension'
Definition: The act or fact of grasping the meaning, nature, or importance of; understanding. (American Heritage Dictionary, 4th ed) Includes understanding by a patient or research subject of information disclosed orally or in writing.
Descriptor UI: D032882
Alternative terms: Comprehension; Understanding; Readability;
Related Mesh Headings: Mental Recall; Mental Competency;
Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;
Tree Number: F02.463.188.357;
History Note: 2003; use COGNITION 1993-2002