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Discrimination and Reliance on Conceptual Fluency Cues are Inversely Related in Patients with Mild Alzheimer's Disease

Callier Library wrote 4 months ago: Abstract The present study investigated the time-course of semantic integration in auditory compound … more →

Tags: Research, EEG, lexical processing, ERP, compound word, german, Keywords: Cognition, Semantic composition, Conceptual combination

Electrophysiological evidence for incremental lexical-semantic integration in auditory compound comprehension

Callier Library wrote 4 months ago: Abstract The present study investigated the time-course of semantic integration in auditory compound … more →

Tags: Research, EEG, lexical processing, ERP, compound word, german, Keywords: Cognition, Semantic composition, Conceptual combination

Incidental receptive language growth associated with expressive grammar intervention in SLI

Callier Library wrote 5 months ago: Children with SLI (Specific Language Impairment) display language deficits in the absence of frank n … more →

Tags: Research, language intervention, specific language impairment, receptive language disorders

To Get Hold of the Wrong End of the Stick: Reasons for Poor Idiom Understanding in Children With Reading Comprehension Difficulties

Callier Library wrote 7 months ago: Results: The groups demonstrated comparable semantic analysis skills and understanding of transparen … more →

Tags: Research, Children, Idioms, Context, semantic analyzability

Mirror neurons, the representation of word meaning, and the foot of the third left frontal convolution

Callier Library wrote 8 months ago: Previous neuroimaging research has attempted to demonstrate a preferential involvement of the human … more →

Tags: Research, Semantics, Phonology, Broca’s area, Mirror Neurons, action observation, imitation

The Detection and Monitoring of Comprehension Errors by Preschool Children with and without Language Impairment

Callier Library wrote 10 months ago: from the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research Purpose: This study examined emerging co … more →

Tags: language impairment, preschool children

Effects of context on eye movements when reading about possible and impossible events

Callier Library wrote 1 year ago: from the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition Plausibility violatio … more →

Tags: eye movements

Narratives Twenty-Five Years Later

Callier Library wrote 1 year ago: from Topics in Language Disorders This article discusses the potential value of working with school … more →

Tags: Language Processing, narratives

Assessing Story Comprehension in Preschool Children

Callier Library wrote 1 year ago: from Topics in Language Disorders Many of the foundational abilities that are necessary for learnin … more →

Tags: preschool children

Resolving ambiguity: A psycholinguistic approach to understanding prosody processing in high-functioning autism

Callier Library wrote 1 year ago: from Brain and Language Individuals with autism exhibit significant impairments in prosody producti … more →

Tags: Prosody, pragmatics, Syntax, Autism, language

Structural priming: A critical review

Callier Library wrote 1 year ago: from the Psychological Bulletin Repetition is a central phenomenon of behavior, and researchers hav … more →

Tags: Syntax, Grammar

Reply to David Kemmerer’s “A critique of Mark D. Allen’s ‘The preservation of verb subcategory knowledge in a spoken language comprehension deficit’”

Callier Library wrote 1 year ago: from Brain and Language Allen [Allen, M. D. (2005). The preservation of verb subcategory knowledge i … more →

Tags: Uncategorized

What is unique about the human arcuate fasciculus... and what does it have to do with language?4 comments

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 1 year ago: Despite the fact that I’ve seen some really impactful primate related research lately, I … more →

Tags: Blog, Linguistic Anthropology, Physical Anthropology, arcuate fasciculus, brain, Brain evolution, Broca's area, comparative anatomy, Human Evolution

Cognitive supports and cognitive constraints on comprehension of spoken language

Callier Library wrote 1 year ago: from the Journal of the American Academy of Audiology Although comprehension of spoken language is o … more →

Tags: Cognition

Cognition, Language Contact, and the Development of Pragmatic Comprehension in a Study-Abroad Context

Callier Library wrote 1 year ago: from Language Learning This study examined two issues: (a) whether there are gains in accurate and … more →

Tags: Bilingualism, Cognition, pragmatics, language

Study Shows Variety of Approaches Help Children Overcome Auditory Processing and Language Problems

Callier Library wrote 1 year ago: from NIH News For children who struggle to learn language, the choice between various interventions … more →

Tags: Language Development, Auditory Processing

Reliability and validity of the Computerized Comprehension Task (CCT): data from American English and Mexican Spanish infants

Callier Library wrote 1 year ago: from the Journal of Child Language Early language comprehension may be one of the most important pre … more →

Tags: Uncategorized

The Neural Cost of the Auditory Perception of Language Switches: An Event-Related Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study in Bilinguals

Callier Library wrote 1 year ago: from the Journal of Neuroscience One of the most remarkable abilities of bilinguals is to produce an … more →

Tags: Bilingualism, auditory perception

Sign Language Comprehension: The Case of Spanish Sign Language

Callier Library wrote 1 year ago: from the Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education This study aims to answer the question, how much … more →

Tags: sign language, Deafness


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