Decline and fall:a biological, developmental, and psycholinguistic account of deliberative language processes and ageing [PDF]
Background: This paper reviews the role of deliberative processes in language: those language processes that require central resources, in contrast to the automatic processes of lexicalisation, word retrieval, and parsing.
Harley, Trevor A. +2 more
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Effects of Age at Onset and Years of Musical Training on Consonant Recognition in Musicians
Background and Aim: Previous research has shown that musicians have better performance in consonant recognition in noise compared to non-musicians. This study aimed to determine the effects of age at onset and years of musical training on consonant ...
Ebtesam Sajjadi +5 more
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The purpose of this article is to investigate whether Yunior, a character and narrator in the three short stories under study, “Invierno”, “The Pura Principle”, and “Nilda”, becomes absorbed into American culture or obtains a positive relationship with ...
María Jesús Sánchez +1 more
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Motor skill delays in pre-school children with leukemia one year after treatment: Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation therapy as an important risk factor [PDF]
CNS-directed therapies for the treatment of leukemia can adversely affect the acquisition of new skills, such as reading/writing and math. Two years after the end of treatments, children show gross and fine motor skill delays that may persist even when ...
Barbara Tosetto +6 more
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Neonatal White Matter Maturation Is Associated With Infant Language Development [PDF]
Background: While neonates have no sophisticated language skills, the neural basis for acquiring this function is assumed to already be present at birth.
Buss, Claudia +7 more
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Information Acquisition and Investment Decisions on the Internet: An Empirical Investigation [PDF]
With intensifying competition, the significance of understanding customer characteristics related to information acquisition and decision making on the Internet has increased.
Akhter, Syed H., Alam, Pervaiz
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A Data Acquisition System (DAS) for marine and ecological research from aerospace technology [PDF]
The efforts of researchers at Mississippi State University to utilize space-age technology in the development of a self-contained, portable data acquisition system for use in marine and ecological research are presented.
Johnson, R. A.
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Never too late? An advantage on tests of auditory attention extends to late bilinguals.
Recent studies, using predominantly visual tasks, indicate that early bilinguals outperform monolinguals on attention tests. It remains less clear whether such advantages extend to those bilinguals who have acquired their second language later in life.We
Thomas Hieronymus Bak +2 more
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Brain-Blood Partition Coefficient and Cerebral Blood Flow in Canines Using Calibrated Short TR Recovery (CaSTRR) Correction Method. [PDF]
The brain-blood partition coefficient (BBPC) is necessary for quantifying cerebral blood flow (CBF) when using tracer based techniques like arterial spin labeling (ASL).
Head, Elizabeth +5 more
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Development of Phonetic inventory in 2-to-6 year-old Farsi speaking children
Introduction: Children say the first words in the end of their first year of life. As children grow, the number of words and phonemes in their phonetic inventory increases.The first appearing consonants in the children's phonetic inventory are nasal ...
Zeinab Damerchi +3 more
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