Comprehension (Latest Articles)

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Why set-comparison is vital in early number learning.

13 Apr 2009 Cardinal numbers serve two logically complementary functions. They tell us how many things are within a set, and they tell us whether two sets are equivalent or not. Current modelling of counting focuses on the representation of number sufficient ...
rec_pub_19375377-why-set-comparison-vital-early-number-learning.htm

Health literacy: improving patient understanding.

13 Apr 2009
rec_pub_19476268-health-literacy-improving-patient-understanding.htm

Health literacy, communication, and treatment decision-making in older cancer patients.

13 Apr 2009 Inadequate health literacy and physician-patient communication are associated with poor health outcomes and appear to limit quality of medical decision-making. This review presents and consolidates data concerning health literacy, physician-patient ...
rec_pub_19476267-health-literacy-communication-treatment-decision-making-older-cancer.htm

Improving methodology of quantifier comprehension experiments.

12 Apr 2009
rec_pub_19607955-improving-methodology-quantifier-comprehension-experiments.htm

Set-shifting and the on-line processing of relative clauses in Parkinson's disease: results from a novel eye-tracking method.

5 Apr 2009 Past research indicates that in Parkinson's disease (PD), set-shifting deficits cause impaired comprehension of sentences containing restrictive relative clauses (RCs). Some research also suggests that verbal working memory deficits impair ...
rec_pub_19473654-set-shifting-line-processing-relative-clauses-parkinson-s-disease.htm

Cortico-striatal function in sentence comprehension: insights from neurophysiology and modeling.

3 Apr 2009 The characteristic organization of cortex, basal ganglia and thalamus can be considered a "canonical" macro-circuit of the primate brain. The intact function of the system requires intact function at the different nodes of the circuit. ...
rec_pub_19446801-cortico-striatal-function-sentence-comprehension-insights.htm

The development and robustness of young children's understanding of aspectuality.

3 Apr 2009 We investigated whether 6-year-olds' understanding of perceptual aspectuality was sufficiently robust to deal with the presence of irrelevant information. A total of 32 children chose whether to look or feel to locate a specific object (identifiable ...
rec_pub_19345955-the-development-robustness-young-children-s-understanding-aspectuality.htm

Auditory sentence processing an introduction.

3 Apr 2009
rec_pub_19347584-auditory-sentence-processing-introduction.htm

A comparative approach to dogs' (Canis familiaris) and human infants' comprehension of various forms of pointing gestures.

Apr 2009 We investigated whether dogs and 2-, and 3-year-old human infants living, in some respects, in very similar social environments are able to comprehend various forms of the human pointing gesture. In the first study, we looked at their ability to ...
rec_pub_19343382-a-comparative-approach-dogs-canis-familiaris-human-infants.htm

Early intention understandings that are common to primates predict children's later theory of mind.

Apr 2009 Intention understanding emerges early in human development, manifest in deep and robust fashions even in infants. Overlapping intention understandings, encompassing agents as intentional actors and experiencers, are evident in nonhuman primates in ...
rec_pub_19345573-early-intention-understandings-common-primates-predict-children-s.htm

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