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Comprehension (Latest Articles)
Latest indexed articles for 'Comprehension'
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Health-related vocabulary knowledge among deaf adults.
29 Apr 2009 
BACKGROUND: Many deaf individuals are at increased risk for fund-of-information deficits, including deficits in health-related information. Research on health information knowledge, an aspect of health literacy, demonstrates an association between ...
rec_pub_19469608-health-related-vocabulary-knowledge-deaf-adults.htm
29 Apr 2009 OBJECTIVE: Genetic tests vary in their prediction of disease occurrence, with some mutations conferring relatively low risk and others indicating near certainty. The authors assessed how increments in absolute risk of disease influence risk ...
rec_pub_19450036-impact-genetic-risk-information-type-disease-perceived-risk.htm
29 Apr 2009 The authors examined how 12 Estonian-speaking children with specific language impairment (SLI) and 60 children with normal speech development (ND) comprehended compound nouns with differing sequence of the components (first task) and how they ...
rec_pub_19399667-comprehension-production-noun-compounds-estonian-children-specific.htm
Achieving a new dimension: children integrate three stimulus dimensions in volume estimations.
29 Apr 2009 Although J. Piaget (1968) assumed that children up to 7 years old are unable to consider more than 1 stimulus dimension in their judgments, subsequent research has demonstrated that preschoolers can consider 2 dimensions, such as the width and ...
rec_pub_19413439-achieving-new-dimension-children-integrate-three-stimulus-dimensions.htm
29 Apr 2009 Three experiments examined the difficulty of translating cues into verbal representations of task goals by varying the degree of cue transparency (auditory transparent cues, visual transparent cues, visual arbitrary cues) in the Advanced Dimensional ...
rec_pub_19413431-setting-goals-switch-tasks-effect-cue-transparency-children-s.htm
Processes and content of narrative identity development in adolescence: gender and well-being.
29 Apr 2009 The present study examined narrative identity in adolescence (14-18 years) in terms of narrative content and processes of identity development. Age- and gender-related differences in narrative patterns in turning point memories and gender ...
rec_pub_19413426-processes-content-narrative-identity-development-adolescence-gender.htm
29 Apr 2009 The authors present the results of a 2-year longitudinal study of 228 Norwegian children beginning some 12 months before formal reading instruction began. The relationships between a range of cognitive and linguistic skills (letter knowledge, ...
rec_pub_19413430-the-cognitive-linguistic-foundations-early-reading-development.htm
29 Apr 2009 Two experiments explored the ability of 18-month-old infants to form an abstract categorical representation of tight-fit spatial relations in a visual habituation task. In Experiment 1, infants formed an abstract spatial category when hearing a ...
rec_pub_19413427-learning-form-spatial-category-tight-fit-relations-experience-label.htm
The neural correlates of infant and adult goal prediction: evidence for semantic processing systems.
29 Apr 2009 The sequential nature of action ensures that an individual can anticipate the conclusion of an observed action via the use of semantic rules. The semantic processing of language and action has been linked to the N400 component of the event-related ...
rec_pub_19413420-the-neural-correlates-infant-adult-goal-prediction-evidence-semantic.htm
The contribution of executive skills to reading comprehension.
29 Apr 2009 Although word recognition deficits (WRD) are a known cause of reading comprehension deficits (RCD), other contributions to RCD, including executive function (EF), have not been fully explored. We examined the contribution of EF (working memory and ...
rec_pub_18629674-the-contribution-executive-skills-reading-comprehension.htm
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