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Do textbooks used in university reading education courses conform to the instructional recommendations of the national reading panel?

14 Jun 2009 Two reasons may be responsible for the poor grasp of the linguistic concepts related to literacy acquisition by preservice and in-service teachers: a lack of attention given to such concepts by teacher educators (college faculty members) and a lack ...
rec_pub_19531632-do-textbooks-used-university-reading-education-courses-conform.htm


Construct validity and vulnerability to anxiety: a cognitive interviewing study of the revised Anxiety Sensitivity Index.

11 Jun 2009 The Anxiety Sensitivity Index (ASI; Reiss, S., Peterson, R. A., Gursky, D. M., & McNally, R. J. (1986). Anxiety sensitivity, anxiety frequency and the prediction of fearfulness. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 24, 1-8) is probably the most widely ...
rec_pub_19586752-construct-validity-vulnerability-anxiety-cognitive-interviewing-study.htm


The sensitivity of the right hemisphere to contextual information in sentences.

11 Jun 2009 One explanation for the inconsistencies in research examining the sentence comprehension abilities of the right hemisphere (RH) is the presence of confounding variables that have generally served to disadvantage the processing capacities of the RH. ...
rec_pub_19525004-the-sensitivity-right-hemisphere-contextual-information-sentences.htm


How accurate is patients' anatomical knowledge: a cross-sectional, questionnaire study of six patient groups and a general public sample.

10 Jun 2009 BACKGROUND: Older studies have shown that patients often do not understand the terms used by doctors and many do not even have a rudimentary understanding of anatomy. The present study was designed to investigate the levels of anatomical knowledge ...
rec_pub_19523189-how-accurate-patients-anatomical-knowledge-cross-sectional.htm


Understanding others' actions and goals by mirror and mentalizing systems: a meta-analysis.

9 Jun 2009 This meta-analysis explores the role of the mirror and mentalizing systems in the understanding of other people's action goals. Based on over 200 fMRI studies, this analysis demonstrates that the mirror system - consisting of the anterior ...
rec_pub_19524046-understanding-actions-goals-mirror-mentalizing-systems-meta-analysis.htm


Representation of survey and route spatial descriptions in children with nonverbal (visuospatial) learning disabilities.

8 Jun 2009 This study aims to investigate the types of difficulty encountered by children with nonverbal (visuospatial) learning disabilities (NLD) during the processing of spatial information derived from descriptions. Two spatial descriptions--one in survey, ...
rec_pub_19520476-representation-survey-route-spatial-descriptions-children-nonverbal.htm


Processing canonical and non-canonical sentences in Basque: the case of object-verb agreement as revealed by event-related brain potentials.

7 Jun 2009 In this study we investigated the generality of the electrophysiological mechanisms underlying verb agreement relations by looking not only at subject-verb (SV) but, moreover, at object-verb (OV) agreement phenomena in Basque-a language in which ...
rec_pub_19520062-processing-canonical-non-canonical-sentences-basque-case-object-verb.htm


Comprehending conventional and novel metaphors: an ERP study.

4 Jun 2009 The neural mechanisms underlying the processing of conventional and novel conceptual metaphorical sentences were examined with event-related potentials (ERPs). Conventional metaphors were created based on the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor and were ...
rec_pub_19505446-comprehending-conventional-novel-metaphors-erp-study.htm


Goals, intentions and mental states: challenges for theories of autism.

3 Jun 2009 The ability to understand the goals and intentions behind other people's actions is central to many social interactions. Given the profound social difficulties seen in autism, we might expect goal understanding to be impaired in these individuals. ...
rec_pub_19508497-goals-intentions-mental-states-challenges-theories-autism.htm


How should risk be communicated to children: a cross-sectional study comparing different formats of probability information.

3 Jun 2009 BACKGROUND: Newborn screening, which identifies inherited disorders and sometimes carrier status, will increasingly involve health professionals in the provision of appropriate information and support to children and their families. The ability to ...
rec_pub_19500337-how-risk-communicated-children-cross-sectional-study-comparing.htm

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