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Comprehension (Latest Articles)
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Age differences in tracking characters during narrative comprehension.
30 Aug 2009 
Understanding a narrative situation depends on keeping track of multiple characters that enter and exit dynamically as the plot unfolds. We investigated age differences in this process during narrative comprehension. In Experiment 1, we used a probe ...
rec_pub_19679857-age-differences-tracking-characters-narrative-comprehension.htm
Teacher knowledge, instructional expertise, and the development of reading proficiency.
30 Aug 2009 Teacher knowledge and instructional expertise have been found in correlational and pre- and posttest studies to be related to student reading achievement. This article summarizes data presented in this special issue and additional research to ...
rec_pub_19675317-teacher-knowledge-instructional-expertise-development-reading.htm
Children's understanding of second-order mental states.
30 Aug 2009 The most popular topic in theory-of-mind research has been first-order false belief: the realization that it is possible to hold false beliefs about events in the world. A more advanced development is second-order false belief: the realization that ...
rec_pub_19702381-children-s-understanding-second-order-mental-states.htm
Event-related brain potentials suggest a late interaction of meter and syntax in the P600.
30 Aug 2009 Many studies refer to the relevance of metric cues in speech segmentation during language acquisition and adult language processing. However, the on-line use (i.e., time-locking the unfolding of a sentence to EEG) of metric stress patterns that are ...
rec_pub_18855546-event-related-brain-potentials-suggest-late-interaction-meter-syntax.htm
A multisensory cortical network for understanding speech in noise.
30 Aug 2009 In noisy environments, listeners tend to hear a speaker's voice yet struggle to understand what is said. The most effective way to improve intelligibility in such conditions is to watch the speaker's mouth movements. Here we identify the neural ...
rec_pub_18823249-a-multisensory-cortical-network-understanding-speech-noise.htm
Eye movements and the perceptual span in older and younger readers.
30 Aug 2009 The size of the perceptual span (or the span of effective vision) in older readers was examined with the moving window paradigm (G. W. McConkie & K. Rayner, 1975). Two experiments demonstrated that older readers have a smaller and more symmetric ...
rec_pub_19739933-eye-movements-perceptual-span-older-younger-readers.htm
Memory operations that support language comprehension: evidence from verb-phrase ellipsis.
30 Aug 2009 Comprehension of verb-phrase ellipsis (VPE) requires reevaluation of recently processed constituents, which often necessitates retrieval of information about the elided constituent from memory. A. E. Martin and B. McElree (2008) argued that ...
rec_pub_19686017-memory-operations-support-language-comprehension-evidence-verb-phrase.htm
Informed consent: how much and what do patients understand?
30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: We sought to evaluate the degree of patients' understanding of several aspects of the informed consent process for surgery and clinical research. METHODS: We conducted a systematic search of PubMed (1961-2006) to identify relevant ...
rec_pub_19716887-informed-consent-patients-understand.htm
Development and evaluation of an Asthma-Specific Quality of Life (A-QOL) questionnaire.
30 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: Few health-related quality of life (HRQOL) studies of asthma patients have been conducted in Korea, mainly due to the lack of a psychometrically validated asthma-specific instrument. OBJECTIVE: The aims of the present study were to ...
rec_pub_19728212-development-evaluation-asthma-specific-quality-life-qol-questionnaire.htm
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