Comprehension
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Friday, November 20, 2009

Recognition of facial, auditory, and bodily emotions in older adults.

3 Oct 2009 Understanding older adults' social functioning difficulties requires insight into their recognition of emotion processing in voices and bodies, not just faces, the focus of most prior research. We examined 60 young and 61 older adults' recognition ... Read more...

Nonlocal effects of prosodic boundaries.

29 Sep 2009 Placing a prosodic boundary before a phrase may influence its syntactic analysis. However, the boundary's effect depends on the presence, size, and position of other, earlier, prosodic boundaries. In three experiments, we extend previous results ... Read more...

The effects of domain knowledge on metacomprehension accuracy.

29 Sep 2009 In the present research, we examined the relationship between readers' domain knowledge and their ability to judge their comprehension of novel domain-related material. Participants with varying degrees of baseball knowledge read five texts on ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Comprehension'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Neuroscience. The speaking brain. 14 Oct 2009
• Recognition of facial, auditory, and bodily emotions in older adults. 3 Oct 2009
• Nonlocal effects of prosodic boundaries. 29 Sep 2009
• The effects of domain knowledge on metacomprehension accuracy. 29 Sep 2009
• Informed consent recall and comprehension in orthodontics: traditional vs improved readability and processability methods. 29 Sep 2009
• Differences in task demands influence the hemispheric lateralization and neural correlates of metaphor. 22 Sep 2009
• Bimodal audio-visual training enhances auditory adaptation process. 21 Sep 2009
• Clinical gist and medical education: connecting the dots. 21 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
• Behavior. Like infant, like dog. 2 Sep 2009
• Young children's understanding of joint commitments. 30 Aug 2009
• Performance-based readability testing of participant information for a Phase 3 IVF trial. 30 Aug 2009
• Auditory midbrain implant: a review. 30 Aug 2009
• Biased decision-making: developing an understanding of how positive and negative relationships may skew judgments. 30 Aug 2009
• Illness explanations among patients with medically unexplained symptoms: different idioms for different contexts. 30 Aug 2009
• Enhancement and suppression effects resulting from information structuring in sentences. 30 Aug 2009
• Variation in working memory capacity, fluid intelligence, and episodic recall: a latent variable examination of differences in the dynamics of free recall. 30 Aug 2009
• Spatial directions and situation model organization. 30 Aug 2009
• Motivated comprehension regulation: vigilant versus eager metacognitive control. 30 Aug 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