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Verbal Behavior (1):
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Verbal Behavior
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This study longitudinally examined the production of pointing in four Spanish 1-year-old and four Spanish 2-year-old children in interactive situations with their mothers at home over the course of one year. Three aspects were analyzed: a) the functions of the pointing gesture, their...
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PMID: 22059308
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The present research employed a longitudinal design to assess the verbal and non-verbal communicative abilities of a sample of 104 children, using two different parent-report instruments: the Questionnaire for Communication and Early Language (QCEL) development at 12, 16, and 20 months, and the Itali...
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PMID: 21848747
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We tested the hypothesis that the gender difference is partly due to changing tactics in peer interaction. Observations of girls' and boys' social initiatives and reactions to opportunities for conflict were made, using the Peer Interaction Coding System (PICS) in four independent samples of childre...
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PMID: 21592146
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Psychological Reports (108)2 2011
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This study tested, in a natural setting, the effect of mimicry on people's disposition toward helping others and the extent to which this helping behavior is extended to people not directly involved in the mimicry situation. In the main street of a busy town, men (n = 101) and women...
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PMID: 21675573
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The practising midwife (14)3 2011
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This paper is a report of a further analysis of data from an ethnographic study of the nature of communication between children and health professionals in a child hospital setting.
There is a paucity of research on the nature of communication between health professio...
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PMID: 21091913
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These results may explain why telepresence is so high in telepsychotherapy....
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PMID: 21685654
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Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie: Ergebnisse aus Psychoanalyse, Psychologie und Familientherapie (60)5 2011
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We discuss implications for involving fathers in the clinical work with children of adolescent mothers....
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PMID: 21751533
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[Event-related potentials to visually presented verbal stimuli in the examination stress condition].
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The work is aimed at the study of ERPs to visually presented verbal stimuli in the examination stress condition. EEG was recorded while participants made a decision whether or not visually presented words were related to a given category. Three types of stimuli were presented: famili...
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PMID: 21961318
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Neurology India (59)3 2011
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We conclude that application of SPM (version 8) analysis to non-normalized individual data for the purpose of performing pre-operative fMRI is a useful method for investigation of functional localization....
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PMID: 21743159
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Psychological Medicine (40)12 2010
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We assessed 18 remitted individuals with bipolar disorder, 19 of their unaffected first degree relatives and 19 healthy controls using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and a paced verbal fluency task with two levels of difficulty.
Bipolar patients made significantly more errors in the ea...
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PMID: 20146832
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This study examined situations where drivers looked-but-failed-to-see (LBFTS) hazards, and whether passenger conversation and gender affected hazard detection rates. To reliably produce LBFTS errors, 40 young drivers (M=20.3) encountered motorcycles and pedestrians while making left turns in the Uni...
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PMID: 20728633
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We investigated whether learner drivers would benefit from being trained to produce a commentary drive. All learners were initially assessed on a virtual route in a driving simulator that contained 9 hazards. One group of drivers was then trained in commentary driving, and their subsequent simulated...
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PMID: 20728670
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Psicothema (22)4 2010
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We propose that the analysis of therapists' motivating verbalizations should focus on descriptions of the past, present and future consequences of the client's behavior....
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PMID: 21044478
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We propose a scientific study of therapists' verbal behavior from a behaviorist perspective. Data were obtained through observational analysis of the recordings of 16 clinical sessions involving 4 cases, all of which based on individual cognitive-behavioral therapy with adults, in the framework of p...
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PMID: 20977039
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Psychiatry Research (184)1 2010
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We found that semantic verbal fluency correlated with leftward PCS asymmetry in controls but not in patients. At intake, PCS length did not differ between patients and controls, but at follow-up (13 controls, 10 patients, mean age = 18 years) PCS asymmetry (comprising both increasing left and decrea...
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PMID: 20832252
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These results suggest that the patients displayed inadequate levels of augmentations in eye gaze during negative emotional situations. These deficits should be considered in the treatment and social skills training for patients with schizophrenia....
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PMID: 21048475
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We investigated the associations of hallucination proneness with free-recall intrusions and false recognitions of words in a nonclinical sample.
A total of 81 healthy individuals were administered a verbal memory task involving free recall and recognition of one nonorganizable and one semantically o...
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PMID: 20373196
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This study was designed to examine verbal working memory (VWM) components among multiple sclerosis (MS) patients and determine the influence of information processing speed. Of two frequently studied VWM sub-components, subvocal rehearsal was expected to be more affected by MS than short-term memory...
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PMID: 20401804
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We addressed the question whether non-verbal communicative demonstration of the functional use of artifacts makes young infants represent such objects in terms of their kinds. When two different functions were sequentially demonstrated on two novel objects as they emerged one-by-one from behind a sc...
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PMID: 20605019
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Neuropsychologia (48)11 2010
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We investigated the association between neuromotor soft signs and visuospatial, executive-attentive, mnestic and linguistic functions in a group of 26 children and young adults with WBS. We hypothesized that neurological soft signs could be an index of subtle neurofunctional deficits and thus provid...
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PMID: 20643153
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Developmental Psychology (46)5 2010
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We examined the extent to which their understanding of the cardinal meanings of the number words (e.g., knowing that the word "four" refers to sets with 4 items) is predicted by the "number talk" they hear from their primary caregiver in the early home environment. Results from 5 visits showed subst...
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PMID: 20822240
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Neuropsychologia (48)12 2010
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We assessed whether premorbid occupations in FTLD patients were associated with these hemispheric asymmetries. In a multi-center chart review of 588 patients, occupation information was related to location of tissue loss or dysfunction. Patients with atrophy lateralized to the right had professions...
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PMID: 20800604
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We examined whether alignment could be induced with visual (lipread) speech and with auditory speech. In Experiment 1, we asked subjects to lipread and shadow out loud a model silently uttering words. The results indicate that shadowed utterances sounded more similar to the model's utterances than d...
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PMID: 20675805
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Three data sets of primary and secondary interjections were compared: (1) the original interjections written into the text of Jane Austen's (1813/1994) novel Pride and prejudice; (2) the interjections read aloud in commercial recordings by six professional readers of the entire text of the novel; (3...
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PMID: 20091122
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The aim of this study was to show some specificity of syntax of narratives created by persons diagnosed with antisocial personality. The author attempted to verify and supplement information that persons with antisocial personality have an incapacity for emotional language. Scores of 60 prisoners wi...
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PMID: 19943191
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We examine whether these 2 conditions for specialization are dissociable. An initial experiment suggests that English speakers could extend a putatively universal phonological restriction to inputs identified as nonspeech. A subsequent comparison of English and Russian participants indicates that th...
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PMID: 20677893
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We interpret these results in terms of the role of abstract representations in reducing selection demands to aid the development of endogenous control.
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PMID: 20472227
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Gait & Posture (32)3 2010
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Patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) frequently experience poor gait and/or cognitive impairment, even in the early stages of the disease. As gait is often executed simultaneously with different cognitive tasks, it is essential to test gait during a cognitive load. Therefore, the main objective of...
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PMID: 20594850
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Journal of Neuroscience (30)27 2010
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We investigated whether individual differences in neural specificity-the distinctiveness of different neural representations-could explain individual differences in cognitive performance in older adults. Neural specificity was estimated based on how accurately multivariate pattern analysis identifie...
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PMID: 20610760
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Restricted and repetitive behaviors (RRBs) observed during the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule [ADOS: Lord et al., 2000] were examined in a longitudinal data set of 455 toddlers and preschoolers (age 8-56 months) with clinical diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD; autis...
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PMID: 20589716
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Psychiatry Research (182)3 2010
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We examined the old/new effect in 15 people with schizophrenia and 18 controls during an item recognition test, and neural activity was examined with event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging. Both groups performed equally well during the recognition test and showed increased activity in a...
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PMID: 20488673
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Psychiatry Research (182)3 2010
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The aim of the present study was to investigate whether volumetric abnormalities of the caudate nuclei predate the onset of psychotic illness. Caudate nuclei volume (CNVs), excluding the tail, were measured using region-of-interest (ROI) tracing of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans acquired on...
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PMID: 20488675
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The Lancet (375)9732 2010
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152 children were recruited. 77 were assigned to PACT (London [n=26], Manchester [n=26], and Newcastle [n=25]); and 75 to treatment as usual (London [n=26], Manchester [n=26], and Newcastle [n=23]). At the 13-month endpoint, the severity of symptoms was reduced by 3.9 points (SD 4.7) on the ADOS-G a...
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PMID: 20494434
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The dichotomy between Verbal IQ and Performance IQ was a hallmark of the Wechsler scales for over 60 years. Wechsler noted that adolescent delinquents tend to score higher on the Performance tests than the Verbal tests (P>V). A plethora of studies have examined the clinical utility of the P>V sign i...
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PMID: 20350774
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NeuroImage (51)2 2010
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Our findings do not support a major role for cortical D2/D3 receptors in the regulation of verbal memory in healthy individuals.
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PMID: 20188195
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This study examined how children use and understand various forms of irony (sarcasm, hyperbole, understatement, and rhetorical questions) in the context of naturalistic positive and negative family conversations in the home. Instances of ironic language in conversations between mothers, fathers, and...
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PMID: 20481387
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We examined how a default assumption about word meaning, the mutual exclusivity assumption and an intentional cue, gaze direction, interacted to guide 24-month-olds' object-word mappings. In Expt 1, when the experimenter's gaze was consistent with the mutual exclusivity assumption, novel word mappin...
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PMID: 20481397
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Perceptual and Motor Skills (110)3 Pt 1 2010
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Research confirms the long-standing clinical observation that patients with dysarthria exhibit variability in speech rate. Thus, modifying speech rate has been documented as one of the best treatment options for these patients. In this tutorial, several published rate control interventions for dysar...
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PMID: 20681347
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Pharmacy students' perceptions and emotional responses to aggressive incidents in pharmacy practice.
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To explore pharmacy students' experiences with and perceptions of aggressive incidents in pharmacy practice.
Data were taken from a survey completed by second-year pharmacy (P2) students and analyzed using a retrospective, cross-sectional design. Survey items were adapted using the following scales:...
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PMID: 20585422
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We present a database of spontaneous stem completion rates for 395 stems from a group of 80 British undergraduate psychology students. It includes information on other characteristics of the words (word frequency, concreteness, imageability, age of acquisition, common part of speech, and number of l...
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PMID: 20479177
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We collected AoA ratings for 1,749 Portuguese words (nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs), using a 9-point scale that was first proposed by Carroll and White (1973). We analyzed the relation between AoA ratings and other psycholinguistic variables (length measures, neighborhood density, written-wo...
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PMID: 20479178
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The French Lexicon Project involved the collection of lexical decision data for 38,840 French words and the same number of nonwords. It was directly inspired by the English Lexicon Project (Balota et al., 2007) and produced very comparable frequency and word length effects. The present article descr...
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PMID: 20479180
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An online calculator was developed (www.bncdnet.ku.edu/cml/info_ccc.vi) to compute phonotactic probability--the likelihood of occurrence of a sound sequence--and neighborhood density--the number of phonologically similar words--on the basis of child corpora of American English (Kolson, 1960; Moe, Ho...
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PMID: 20479181
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We present a battery of four working memory tasks that are implemented using MATLAB and the free Psychophysics Toolbox. The package includes preprocessing scripts in R and SPSS to facilitate data analysis. The four tasks consist of a sentence-span task, an operation-span task, a spatial short-term m...
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PMID: 20479189
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We tested whether semantic effects could be observed if single-word trials were used. Concrete and Abstract words were presented multiple times in two concrete-abstract classification experiments. In the first experiment, 6 words of each category were repeatedly presented. In the second experiment,...
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PMID: 20109518
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This study examined changes in EEG activity associated with motor performance during the verbal-cognitive stage of skill learning. Participants (n=14) were required to practice a sequential finger tapping task. EEG activity was recorded both before and after short-term practice, during finger tappin...
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PMID: 20117168
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Schizophrenia Research (118)1-3 2010
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Negative FTD was barely present in non-clinical subjects with AVH and in healthy controls without AVH. Positive FTD, however, was significantly higher in both groups experiencing AVH than in controls without AVH. Severity of positive FTD did not differ significantly between non-clinical subjects wit...
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PMID: 20171058
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Laryngo-Rhino-Otologie (89)5 2010
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The analysis showed a significant group effect (p=0.0007). The best performance was achieved by the normal controls (T-score 52.9; SD 6.4; Min 42; Max 59) followed by children with monosymptomatic APD (43.2; SD 9.2), children with the co-morbid-conditions APD+developmental dyslexia (43.1; SD 10.3),...
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PMID: 20458659
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Our study showed activation of the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) when single Persian words were read. These results revealed that the pattern of brain activation during word production in Persian has a similar topography to that of English equivalents. CONCLUSION: The paradigms selectively activate w...
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PMID: 20433227
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Psychological Medicine (40)5 2010
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These data support the theory that misattribution of self-generated speech to others could result in verbal hallucinations. The syntactic (pronoun) factor could impact self-other distinction in subtypes of verbal hallucinations that are phenomenologically defined whereas the acoustic factor (gender...
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PMID: 19719896
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Psychopharmacology (209)4 2010
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Cannabis users showed poorer recall and altered patterns of SME activation: specifically, attenuation of the negative N4 and an increase in the late positive component. Duration of cannabis use and age of initial use correlated significantly with SME amplitudes. A longer history of use also correlat...
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PMID: 20217055
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The oral version of the Trail Making Test (OTMT) is a neuropsychological measure that provides an assessment of sequential set-shifting without the motor and visual demands of the written TMT (WTMT). Originally purposed to serve as an oral analog of the WTMT, the OTMT provides a mean...
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PMID: 20197294
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We found that semantic interpretation proceeded despite the impossibility of a well-formed syntactic analysis. In Experiment 1, we found an N400 difference between combined syntactic category and semantic violations and single syntactic violations. This finding is inconsistent with earlier German an...
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PMID: 20438271
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We advance a hypothesis that assumes a novel module that accommodates these data and provide an existence proof in the form of a simulation.
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PMID: 20438270
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We investigated the production effect-the fact that producing a word aloud during study, relative to simply reading a word silently, improves explicit memory. Experiments 1, 2, and 3 showed the effect to be restricted to within-subject, mixed-list designs in which some individual words are spoken al...
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PMID: 20438265
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We examined spatial cue integration (landmark-geometry conjunctions) in individuals with severe agrammatic or global aphasia and in a group of healthy older adults. Participants with aphasia performed similarly to healthy controls in the reorientation task, demonstrating the ability to integrate lan...
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PMID: 20438263
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Use of the factor scores can assist in determining ICPs for BD and related disorders, and may provide more specific targets for development of new treatments. We highlight strong ICPs (Processing Speed with Interference Resolution, Visual Memory, Fine Motor Dexterity) for further study, consistent w...
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PMID: 19800130
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The findings of this study suggest that Chinese Singaporean preschoolers with CLP have more difficulty in the expressive use of grammar and vocabulary than their peers of typical development, with significantly more males affected than females. As language performance was not related to hearing, art...
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PMID: 20202695
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