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Comprehension (Latest Articles)
Latest indexed articles for 'Comprehension'
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Perceptual contributions of the consonant-vowel boundary to sentence intelligibility.
30 Jul 2009 
Although research has focused on the perceptual contribution of consonants to spoken syllable or word intelligibility, in sentences vowels have a distinct perceptual advantage over consonants in determining intelligibility [Kewley-Port et al., J. ...
rec_pub_19640049-perceptual-contributions-consonant-vowel-boundary-sentence.htm
Language and learning: a discussion of typical and disordered development.
30 Jul 2009 
rec_pub_19619869-language-learning-discussion-typical-disordered-development.htm
New algorithms assessing short summaries in expository texts using latent semantic analysis.
30 Jul 2009 In this study, we compared four expert graders with latent semantic analysis (LSA) to assess short summaries of an expository text. As is well known, there are technical difficulties for LSA to establish a good semantic representation when analyzing ...
rec_pub_19587211-new-algorithms-assessing-short-summaries-expository-texts-using.htm
Off-line sentence processing: what is involved in answering a comprehension probe?
30 Jul 2009 The aim of this study was to better characterize the influence of the comprehension probe on syntax-related activation patterns observed in fMRI studies of sentence comprehension. In this study, sentence comprehension was assessed by presenting a ...
rec_pub_19184993-off-line-sentence-processing-involved-answering-comprehension-probe.htm
30 Jul 2009 Previous behavioral studies reported a robust effect of increased naming latencies when objects to be named were blocked within semantic category, compared to items blocked between category. This semantic context effect has been attributed to ...
rec_pub_18823254-semantic-context-visual-feature-effects-object-naming-fmri-study.htm
What's so funny about peace, love and understanding?
30 Jul 2009
rec_pub_19639022-what-s-funny-peace-love-understanding.htm
30 Jul 2009 BACKGROUND: Research participants may not adequately understand the research in which they agree to enroll. This could be due to a myriad of factors. Such a missing link in the informed consent process contravenes the requirement for an "informed" ...
rec_pub_19646279-post-consent-assessment-dental-subjects-understanding-informed.htm
Short-answer examinations improve student performance in an oral and maxillofacial pathology course.
30 Jul 2009 The effect of examination question format on student performance was assessed by investigating three academically comparable second-year dental school classes in an oral and maxillofacial pathology course. One class was given examinations with all ...
rec_pub_19648566-short-answer-examinations-improve-student-performance-oral.htm
Two-year-olds exclude novel objects as potential referents of novel words based on pragmatics.
15 Jul 2009 Many studies have established that children tend to exclude objects for which they already have a name as potential referents of novel words. In the current study we asked whether this exclusion can be triggered by social-pragmatic context alone ...
rec_pub_19616205-two-year-olds-exclude-novel-objects-potential-referents-novel-words.htm
Mindblind eyes: an absence of spontaneous theory of mind in Asperger syndrome.
14 Jul 2009 Adults with Asperger syndrome can understand mental states such as desires and beliefs (mentalizing) when explicitly prompted to do so, despite having impairments in social communication. We directly tested the hypothesis that such individuals ...
rec_pub_19608858-mindblind-eyes-absence-spontaneous-theory-mind-asperger-syndrome.htm
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