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Verbal Learning (Latest Articles)
Latest indexed articles for 'Verbal Learning'
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Neighborhood effects in spelling in adults.
30 Mar 2009 
The participants were asked to spell aloud words for which there were either many orthographically similar words (a dense neighborhood) or few orthographically similar words (a sparse neighborhood). Words with a dense neighborhood were spelled ...
rec_pub_19293109-neighborhood-effects-spelling-adults.htm
The effects of smoking and smoking abstinence on verbal and visuospatial working memory capacity.
30 Mar 2009 Several studies have examined the effects of smoking and abstaining from smoking on working memory (WM) but have yielded inconclusive findings. Thus, the authors used a repeated measures design to assess the effects of smoking and abstaining from ...
rec_pub_19331484-the-effects-smoking-smoking-abstinence-verbal-visuospatial-working.htm
30 Mar 2009 Eight experiments with the complex span paradigm are presented to investigate why concurrent processing disrupts short-term retention. Increasing the pace of the processing task led to worse recall, supporting the hypothesis that the processing task ...
rec_pub_19246349-interference-storage-processing-working-memory-feature-overwriting.htm
30 Mar 2009 The aim of this study was to examine to what extent inhibitory control and working memory capacity are related across the life span. Intrusion errors committed by children and younger and older adults were investigated in two versions of the Reading ...
rec_pub_19246348-working-memory-inhibitory-control-life-span-intrusion-errors-reading.htm
Modality effects in sentence recall.
30 Mar 2009 The authors examined the intrusion of lures into sentence recall when manipulating the modality of distractor-word lists and sentences separately. Participants received a list of words followed by a sentence, and the list did or did not contain a ...
rec_pub_19350835-modality-effects-sentence-recall.htm
Learning and consolidation of novel spoken words.
30 Mar 2009 Two experiments explored the neural mechanisms underlying the learning and consolidation of novel spoken words. In Experiment 1, participants learned two sets of novel words on successive days. A subsequent recognition test revealed high levels of ...
rec_pub_18578598-learning-consolidation-novel-spoken-words.htm
Persistence of literacy problems: spelling in adolescence and at mid-life.
29 Mar 2009 BACKGROUND: Developmental reading problems show strong persistence across the school years; less is known about poor readers' later progress in literacy skills. METHOD: Poor (n = 42) and normally developing readers (n = 86) tested in adolescence ...
rec_pub_19490310-persistence-literacy-problems-spelling-adolescence-mid-life.htm
Empathy and emotion recognition in semantic dementia: a case report.
29 Mar 2009 Recent studies have demonstrated that patients suffering from frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) show impairments in empathy and emotional processing. In this study, we examined two different aspects of these abilities in a patient with ...
rec_pub_19339096-empathy-emotion-recognition-semantic-dementia-case-report.htm
The influence of instructions and terminology on the accuracy of remember-know judgments.
29 Mar 2009 The remember-know paradigm is one of the most widely used procedures to examine the subjective experience associated with memory retrieval. We examined how the terminology and instructions used to describe the experiences of remembering and knowing ...
rec_pub_19344688-the-influence-instructions-terminology-accuracy-remember-know.htm
Screening for Alzheimer's dementia at age 78 with short psychometric instruments.
25 Mar 2009 BACKGROUND: To date, no single instrument has proved to be adequate for screening for Alzheimer's dementia (AD). The aim of this study was to identify a combination of instruments which were highly sensitive for screening late onset AD. METHODS: ...
rec_pub_19327204-screening-alzheimer-s-dementia-age-78-short-psychometric-instruments.htm
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