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Access to services for international migrants living in Canada is especially important during the postpartum period when additional health services and support are key to maternal and infant health. Recent studies found refugee claimant women to have a high number of postpartum health and social conc...
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PMID: 21913584
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Discussion is made on three aspects of the Chinese section with regards to desperate translations, mistranslations and inconsistent translation format of the WHO Standard Acupuncture Point Locations in the Western Pacific Region (Chinese-English bilingual edition), in the hope to provide some constru...
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PMID: 21972638
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In the present study, the authors investigate how some visual factors related to early stages of visual-object naming modulate naming performance in dyslexia. The performance of dyslexic children was compared with 2 control groups-normal readers matched for age and normal readers matched for reading...
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PMID: 21842624
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Nowadays, measuring score in the form ofsubjective questionnaires is the important toolfor clinical evaluation ofthe foot and ankle-related problems. VisualAnalogue Scale-Foot and Ankle (VAS-FA) is the newly developed subjective questionnaire, which has sufficiency ofvalidity and rel...
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PMID: 21863677
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To investigate, using Rasch analysis, whether the 15-item Glaucoma Quality of Life-15 (GQL-15) forms a valid scale and to optimize its psychometric properties.
One hundred eighteen glaucoma patients (mean age, 65.7 years) completed the German-version of the GQL-15. Ra...
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PMID: 21810983
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We investigated the reliability and structural validity of the PHQ-9 in Hispanic American women. A community sample of 479 Latina women from southern California completed the PHQ-9 in their preferred language of English or Spanish. Cronbach's alphas suggested that there was good internal consistency...
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PMID: 21787063
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To evaluate the validity and responsiveness of a German-language version of the disease-specific Graves orbitopathy quality-of-life questionnaire (GO-QOL).
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PMID: 21676374
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Dementia incidence rates are rapidly increasing among culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) Australians, and there is very little local research to inform practice. In response, a qualitative study employing focus group methods was undertaken with carers from 4 CALD communitie...
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PMID: 21697144
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Delay discounting procedures are used to assess self-control vs. impulsivity on a behavioural level. Such procedures include a presentation of a series of choices between smaller, immediate and larger, delayed rewards. The Delay Discounting Test (DDT) by Kirby is an elegant and relatively short proce...
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PMID: 21656436
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The Spanish version of the ISS is feasible, valid, sensitive to change, and displays good reliability based on internal consistency in both children and adults.
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PMID: 21620348
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This letter focuses on the automatic estimation of the first subglottal resonance (Sg1). A database comprising speech and subglottal data of native American English speakers and bilingual Spanish/English speakers was used for the analysis. Data from 11 speakers (five males and six females) were used...
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PMID: 21568375
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With the rapid developing an internet society, ehealth literacy, defined as the ability to seek, find, understand, and appraise and apply the knowledge gained to addressing or solving a health problem, becomes important to promote and aid health care at the individual level. However, the eHealth Lite...
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PMID: 21905612
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Education for primary care : an official publication of theAssociation of Course Organisers, National Association of GP Tutors, WorldOrganisation of Family Doctors (22)3 2011
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Education for primary care : an official publication of theAssociation of Course Organisers, National Association of GP Tutors, WorldOrganisation of Family Doctors (22)3 2011
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Oral Oncology (47)7 2011
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To assess the cross-sectional construct validity of the Malay-translated and cross-culturally adapted FACT-H&N (v 4.0) for discriminative use in a sample of Malaysian oral cancer patients. A cross-sectional study of adults newly diagnosed with oral cancer. HRQOL data were collected u...
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PMID: 21602094
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Our data revealed high diversity values in the two populations, in agreement with other Andean studies. The comparisons with the available literature for both sets of markers indicated that the central Andean area is relatively homogeneous. For mtDNA, the Aymaras seemed to have been more isolated th...
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PMID: 21469069
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Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a neurodegenerative syndrome characterized by an insidious onset and gradual progression of deficits that can involve any aspect of language, including word finding, object naming, fluency, syntax, phonology and word comprehension. The initial symptoms occur in th...
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PMID: 21574504
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This article delineates specific issues relating to health literacy for Indigenous Australians. Drawing on the extensive experience of the authors' work with Yolnu people (of north-east Arnhem Land) and using one model for health literacy described in the international literature, various components...
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PMID: 21717835
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The objective of this study was to translate and make the cultural adaptation of the Brazilian version of the DISABKIDS® Atopic Dermatitis Module (ADM), an instrument used to measure the health-related quality of life of children and adolescents with atopic dermatitis. The instrumen...
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PMID: 21655797
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This study examines the validity of a Spanish-language dietary behaviors self-report questionnaire (The Latino Dietary Behaviors Questionnaire [LDBQ]) for Latinos with diabetes. The sample (n=252) was Spanish-speaking, female (77%), middle-aged (mean age 55 years), low education (56%
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PMID: 21443994
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Psychiatry Research (192)2 2011
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We explored the patterns of hippocampal and amygdalar atrophy in those patients and their associations with clinical parameters. Structural magnetic resonance imaging was performed in 20 elderly schizophrenia patients, 20 AD and 19 healthy older controls. Hippocampal and amygdalar volumes were obtai...
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PMID: 21458960
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This paper examines tongue movements between the two vowels in sequences of vowel-labial consonant-vowel, addressing the question whether the movement is a straight line or a curved path. Native speakers of Japanese and Italian served as subjects. The linguistic material consisted of words where the...
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PMID: 21428476
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Presse Medicale (40)4 Pt 1 2011
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Increasing demand for memory assessment in clinical settings in Iran, as well as the absence of a comprehensive and standardized task based upon the Persian culture and language, requires an appropriate culture- and language-specific version of the commonly used neuropsychological measure of verbal l...
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PMID: 21361716
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The effect of language-driven eye movements in a visual scene with concurrent speech was examined using complex linguistic stimuli and complex scenes. The processing demands were manipulated using speech rate and the temporal distance between mentioned objects. This experiment differs from previous r...
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PMID: 21303711
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Joint hypermobility (JH) is an inherited clinical condition with increased joint elasticity in passive movements. In the general population, its frequency, which can be estimated through specific methods, such as the nine-point Beighton hypermobility score (Beighton score) and the self-reported five-...
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PMID: 21412606
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Scientific American (304)2 2011
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To validate the Thai version of the Scale for Outcomes in Parkinson 's disease-Sleep Scale (SCOPA-Sleep scale)for assessment of nighttime sleep problems (NSP) and daytime sleepiness (DS).
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PMID: 21534364
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Dieting plays a central role in healing among Iquito speakers. Specific prohibitions can be explained in terms of specific aspects of illness etiologies, pathophysiologies and treatments. Although the Amazonian literature contains few studies focusing on dietary proscriptions over a wide range of il...
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PMID: 21745400
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At an optimum threshold of 10, PHQ-9 showed a sensitivity of 81.2% and specificity of 86.8%. The area under the curve was 0.91. PHQ-9 presented unidimensional structure with good scale reliability (α=0.82). PHQ-9 score presented the greatest correlations with SCL-90R depression (r=0.736) and WHOQOL...
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PMID: 21618450
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The Spiritual Coping Strategies (SCS) Scale measures how frequently religious and nonreligious (spiritual) coping strategies are used to cope with a stressful experience. This study's purpose is to evaluate the psychometric properties of the newly translated Spanish version of the SCS. A total of 51...
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PMID: 21560900
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Bulletin for the history of chemistry / Division of the History ofChemistry of the American Chemical Society (36)1 2011
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We live and work in a multicultural world and need to be knowledgeable about culture and how it affects the quality of care given to patients. Although people of the non-dominant culture may have knowledge of the English language, many have limited English proficiency (LEP), a topic of great importa...
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PMID: 21337980
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A hemorrhagic stroke and aphasia suddenly changed the life of Charles William (Bill) Dyke, Army Lt. General (Retired), Ranger strong with 2 silver stars and 3 bronze stars among his many decorations and founder and CEO of a Washington, DC, consulting firm. Gen. Dyke and his wife Ann provide their per...
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PMID: 21447463
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Psychiatria polska (45)2 2011
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To validate the Polish version of the Athens Insomnia Scale (AIS), the instrument designed for quantitative measurement of the severity of insomnia based on the ICD-10 criteria.
The AIS was administered to 356 subjects: 160 patients from the sleep clinic presenting wi...
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PMID: 21714210
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Two experiments explored rapid extraction of gist from a visual text and its influence on word recognition. In both, a short text (sentence) containing a target word was presented for 200 ms and was followed by a target recognition task. Results showed that participants recognized contextually anomal...
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PMID: 21560469
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This methodological study aimed to evaluate the construct validity and reliability of the Brazilian-Portuguese version of Antonovsky's Sense of Coherence Questionnaire (ASCQ) among nursing professionals. The study included 211 professionals who worked in the surgical wards of eleven hospitals in a ci...
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PMID: 21412628
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This study reports on the Brazilian Portuguese adaptation of the QoL-AGHDA (Quality of Life Assessment of Growth Hormone Deficiency in Adults) for use in adult growth hormone deficient (GHD) patients.
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PMID: 21340177
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Brain research (1360) 2010
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This study examined the role of automatic selective perceptual processes in native and non-native listeners' perception of a Japanese vowel length contrast (tado vs. taado), using multiple, natural-speech tokens of each category as stimuli in a "categorial oddball" design. Mismatch negativity (MMN)...
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PMID: 20816759
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These results suggest that non-native listeners are strongly influenced by across-talker variability perhaps because of the difficulty they have forming native-like vowel categories....
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PMID: 21110609
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This study investigated the effects of age and hearing loss on perception of accented speech presented in quiet and noise. The relative importance of alterations in phonetic segments vs. temporal patterns in a carrier phrase with accented speech also was examined. English sentences recorded by a nati...
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PMID: 21110610
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Psicothema (22)4 2010
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Response to Intervention (RtI), a cyclical process that incorporates assessment and instruction, is both an approach to prevent learning difficulties and to establish student eligibility for special education. Assessment results are used to determine students' initial knowledge and skill, their need...
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PMID: 21044540
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Psicothema (22)4 2010
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The purpose of this study was to adapt and validate a Coping Inventory for Competitive Sport (ISCCS), establishing its psychometric properties and its dimensional structure. Participants were 306 athletes from different sports, aged between 14 and 28 years (45.7% males and 54.3% females), who comple...
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PMID: 21044541
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Psicothema (22)4 2010
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Acceptance of chronic pain appears as an important factor in the personal ability to restore functioning in the presence of chronic pain. The Chronic Pain Acceptance Questionnaire (CPAQ) is currently the only instrument used to assess the acceptance of pain in people who suffer chronic pain. The rev...
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PMID: 21044544
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Psicothema (22)4 2010
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The aim of this study is to design a Spanish version of the Sport Anxiety Scale (SAS-2). The questionnaire, originally developed by the Washington University research group in sport psychology to evaluate anxiety in young athletes, was translated and adapted following the APA protocol and its psycho...
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PMID: 21044545
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Psicothema (22)4 2010
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This study analyzes the type of responses that children between 4 and 5 years of age give to different tasks: conservation, classification and tasks of the theory of mind (ToM). Types of responses were observed with the Observation of Cognitive and Meta-cognitive Skills Inventory, which identifies:...
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PMID: 21044512
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Psicothema (22)4 2010
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The aim of this work was to examine the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the "Recovery Experience Questionnaire" developed by Sonnentag and Fritz. The sample was made up of 941 professionals from the security sector. Results from the exploratory factor analysis suggested the possibi...
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PMID: 21044543
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Psicothema (22)4 2010
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This study examined the development of literacy skills in children in a district that used a Response to Intervention (RTI) model. The district included children whose first language was English and children who were learning English as a second language (ESL). Tasks measuring phonological awareness...
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PMID: 21044539
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Psicothema (22)4 2010
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Two experiments were used to assess the efficacy of the keyword mnemonic method in adults. In Experiment 1, immediate and delayed recall (at a one-day interval) were assessed by comparing the results obtained by a group of adults using the keyword mnemonic method in contrast to a group using the rep...
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PMID: 21044509
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Psicothema (22)4 2010
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This work presents an analysis of the role of animacy in attachment preferences of relative clauses to complex noun phrases in European Portuguese (EP). The study of how the human parser solves this kind of syntactic ambiguities has been focus of extensive research. However, what is known about EP i...
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PMID: 21044499
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We conducted two experiments on Japanese infants using Japanese lexical pitch-accent, which changes word meanings with the pitch pattern within words. In the first behavioral experiment, using visual habituation, we confirmed that infants at both 4 and 10 months have sensitivities to the lexical pit...
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PMID: 19925204
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We document the methodological challenges of conducting a health survey of an ethnically diverse elderly community-dwelling Medicaid population by telephone. Individuals (N=5,382) 65 years and older were randomly selected from a state Medicaid Management Information System and 618 eligible participa...
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PMID: 21099081
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The present studies examined factors that influence children's and adults' interpretation of a novel word. Four factors are hypothesized to emphasize that a label refers to a richly structured category (also known as a 'kind'): generic language, internal property attributions, familiar kind labels a...
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PMID: 19874640
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Brain and Language (115)2 2010
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We aggregate errors across patients to examine the neuroanatomical correlates and linguistic characteristics of six common errors: semantic paraphasias, circumlocutions, phonological paraphasias, neologisms, performance errors, and no-response errors. Aiding analysis, we relied on a suite of web-bas...
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PMID: 20452661
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Brain and Language (115)2 2010
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The left mid-fusiform gyrus is repeatedly reported to be involved in visual word processing. Nevertheless, it is controversial whether this area responds to orthographic processing of reading. To examine this idea, neural activity was measured using functional magnetic resonance imaging in the prese...
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PMID: 20817279
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Brain and Language (115)2 2010
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We found a decrease in REA when the initial stop consonants of two simultaneous French CVC words differed in voicing rather than place of articulation (Experiment 1). This result suggests that the right hemisphere (RH) is more involved in voicing than in place processing. The voiceless-voiced contra...
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PMID: 20619885
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