The locus of impairment in English developmental letter position dyslexia
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014 Many children with reading difficulties display phonological deficits and struggle to acquire nonlexical reading skills. However, not all children with reading difficulties have these problems, such as children with selective Letter Position Dyslexia ...
Yvette eKezilas +3 more
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Low self-concept in poor readers: prevalence, heterogeneity, and risk [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 There is evidence that poor readers are at increased risk for various types of low self-concept—particularly academic self-concept. However, this evidence ignores the heterogeneous nature of poor readers, and hence the likelihood that not all poor ...
Genevieve McArthur +3 more
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Social cognition and Theory of Mind: controversies and promises for understanding major psychiatric disorders [PDF]
, 2011 The term social cognition generally refers to the mental operations that underlie social interactions including the perception and interpretation of the intentions, dispositions, and behaviors of others and the generation of a response to these behaviors.
Brietzke, Elisa +3 more
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What can developmental disorders tell us about the neurocomputational constraints that shape development? the case of Williams syndrome [PDF]
, 2003 The uneven cognitive phenotype in the adult outcome of Williams syndrome has led some researchers to make strong claims about the modularity of the brain and the purported genetically determined, innate specification of cognitive modules.
Karmiloff-Smith, Annette +1 more
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The I in Autism:severity and social functioning in Autism is related to self-processing [PDF]
, 2017 It is well established that children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) show impaired understanding of others and deficits within social functioning. However, it is still unknown whether self-processing is related to these impairments and to what extent
Ballantyne, Carrie +4 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 DRC (Coltheart et al., 2001) and CDP++ (Perry, Zorzi, & Ziegler, 2010) are two of the most successful models of reading aloud. These models differ primarily in how their sublexical systems convert letter strings into phonological codes.
Serje eRobidoux, Stephen ePritchard
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Six month durability of targeted cognitive training supplemented with social cognition exercises in schizophrenia. [PDF]
, 2020 Background:Deficits in cognition, social cognition, and motivation are significant predictors of poor functional outcomes in schizophrenia. Evidence of durable benefit following social cognitive training is limited.
Biagianti, Bruno +10 more
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Spontaneous thought and vulnerability to mood disorders : the dark side of the wandering mind [PDF]
, 2016 There is increasing interest in spontaneous thought, namely task-unrelated or rest-related mental activity. Spontaneous thought is an umbrella term for processes like mind-wandering, involuntary autobiographical memory, and daydreaming, with evidence ...
Alloy, Lauren B. +3 more
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Genetics of recessive cognitive disorders [PDF]
Trends in Genetics, 2014 Most severe forms of intellectual disability (ID) have specific genetic causes. Numerous X chromosome gene defects and disease-causing copy-number variants have been linked to ID and related disorders, and recent studies have revealed that sporadic cases are often due to dominant de novo mutations with low recurrence risk.
Luciana Musante, H. Hilger Ropers
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Medial temporal lobe contributions to intra-item associative recognition memory in the ageing brain
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2014 Ageing is associated with a decline in episodic memory function. This is accompanied by degradation of and functional changes in the medial temporal lobe (MTL) which subserves mnemonic processing.
Marshall Axel Dalton +14 more
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