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The Roles of Rule Type and Word Term in the Deductive Reasoning of Adults with and without Dyslexia [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesDespite its importance to everyday functioning, reasoning is underexplored in developmental dyslexia. The current study investigated verbal deductive reasoning on the Wason selection task, not previously used in dyslexia research despite its well ...
Janette B. Jacobs +2 more
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Design and optimization of imageable microspheres for locoregional cancer therapy [PDF]
Scientific ReportsTransarterial radioembolization (TARE) is an increasingly important technique for treating liver-based malignancies. Personalized treatment planning and dosimetry are not yet possible due to poor imageability of existing TARE agents.
Brenna Kettlewell +8 more
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Imageability and legibility: cognitive analysis and visibility assessment in Galle heritage city
Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, 2022 The concepts of imageability and legibility are important aspects of urban design. Many scholars use the terms “imageability” and “legibility” interchangeably, usually examining one concept and applying the implications to the other.
Tharushi Abeynayake +3 more
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Relations Between L2 Proficiency and L1 Lexical Property Evaluations
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 The present study investigates the relations between L2-English proficiency and L1-Turkish lexical property evaluations. We asked whether L2 proficiency affects lexical properties, including imageability and concreteness ratings of 600 Turkish words ...
Elif Altın +4 more
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Word imageability is associated with expressive vocabulary in children with autism spectrum disorder
Autism and Developmental Language Impairments, 2022 Background & aims Throughout typical development, children prioritize different perceptual, social, and linguistic cues to learn words. The earliest acquired words are often those that are perceptually salient and highly imageable. Imageability, the ease
Kimberly R Lin +4 more
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Perception of the (post-)socialist mass housing in Kyiv by the student youth
Geographia Polonica, 2023 This paper describes and analyses the imageability and the perceptual portraits of the (post-)socialist large scale housing estates in Kyiv in the eyes of young people (university students). The research is based on the analysis of Lynch-type mental maps
Oleksiy Gnatiuk +2 more
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Semantic variables and their application in L2 research
Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2023 Semantic variables enable L2 researchers and materials creators to quantify and control the effects of meaning on cognition. However, in recent years, many variables have been normed and published.
Allie Spencer Patterson
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Vowel Length Expands Perceptual and Emotional Evaluations in Written Japanese Sound-Symbolic Words
Behavioral Sciences, 2021 In this study, we examined whether vowel length affected the perceptual and emotional evaluations of Japanese sound-symbolic words. The perceptual and emotional features of Japanese sound-symbolic words, which included short and long vowels, were ...
Zihan Lin +3 more
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Imageability- and Length-Controllable Image Captioning
IEEE Access, 2021 Image captioning can show great performance for generating captions for general purposes, but it remains difficult to adjust the generated captions for different applications.
Marc A. Kastner +8 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 Many studies have shown that behavioral measures are affected by manipulating the imageability of words. Though imageability is usually measured by human judgment, little is known about what factors underlie those judgments.
Chris F Westbury +6 more
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