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Verbal Learning (Latest Articles)
Latest indexed articles for 'Verbal Learning'
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Making sense of home pregnancy test instructions.
27 Feb 2009 
OBJECTIVE: To examine readability and related formatting characteristics of English language instructions accompanying home pregnancy tests (HPTs). METHODS: We identified 16 HPTs; however, because of duplicate instructions, our final sample included ...
rec_pub_19243273-making-sense-home-pregnancy-test-instructions.htm
27 Feb 2009 
rec_pub_19261688-inverse-correlation-conceptual-perceptual-processing-children-autism.htm
Memory functioning in familial bipolar I disorder patients and their relatives.
27 Feb 2009 OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to compare the memory function of patients with familial bipolar I disorder (BD I) who had shown psychotic features, their non-psychotic, non-bipolar first-degree relatives, and normal controls. METHOD: We ...
rec_pub_19267704-memory-functioning-familial-bipolar-disorder-patients-relatives.htm
27 Feb 2009 Older individuals assimilate, and are targeted by, contradictory positive and negative age stereotypes. It was unknown whether the influence of stereotype valence is stronger when the stereotype content corresponds to the outcome domain. We randomly ...
rec_pub_19290757-the-stereotype-matching-effect-greater-influence-functioning-age.htm
The association between age and the frequency of nouns selected for production.
27 Feb 2009 This article examines whether age-related difficulties in word retrieval are reflected in the lexical frequency of the nouns selected for production. Participants (N = 136; age range 20-85 years) completed a picture-naming test, a semantic fluency ...
rec_pub_19290734-the-association-age-frequency-nouns-selected-production.htm
The modality-match effect in recognition memory.
27 Feb 2009 The modality-match effect in recognition refers to superior memory for words presented in the same modality at study and test. Prior research on this effect is ambiguous and inconsistent. The present study demonstrates that the modality-match effect ...
rec_pub_19271869-the-modality-match-effect-recognition-memory.htm
The perception of assimilation in newly learned novel words.
27 Feb 2009 The present study investigated the mechanisms underlying perceptual compensation for assimilation in novel words. During training, participants learned canonical versions of novel spoken words (e.g., decibot) presented in isolation. Following ...
rec_pub_19271865-the-perception-assimilation-newly-learned-novel-words.htm
In search of decay in verbal short-term memory.
27 Feb 2009 Is forgetting in the short term due to decay with the mere passage of time, interference from other memoranda, or both? Past research on short-term memory has revealed some evidence for decay and a plethora of evidence showing that short-term memory ...
rec_pub_19271849-in-search-decay-verbal-short-term-memory.htm
Children's use of mutual exclusivity to learn labels for parts of objects.
27 Feb 2009 When teaching children part terms, adults frequently outline the relevant part rather than simply point. This pragmatic information very likely helps children interpret the label correctly. But the importance of gestures may not negate the need for ...
rec_pub_19271842-children-s-use-mutual-exclusivity-learn-labels-parts-objects.htm
The nature of skilled adult reading varies with type of instruction in childhood.
27 Feb 2009 Does the type of reading instruction experienced during the initial years at school have any continuing effect on the ways in which adults read words? The question has arisen in current discussions about computational models of mature word-reading ...
rec_pub_19223571-the-nature-skilled-adult-reading-varies-type-instruction-childhood.htm
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