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What can developmental disorders tell us about the neurocomputational constraints that shape development? the case of Williams syndrome [PDF]
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 Role of Slow Speech Amplitude Envelope for Speech Processing and Reading Development
This study examined the putative link between the entrainment to the slow rhythmic structure of speech, speech intelligibility and reading by means of a behavioral paradigm.
Paula Ríos-López +3 more
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Clinical patterns of speech-language disorders in thalamic aphasias [PDF]
The aim of this study was to investigate the characteristic symptom cluster and the course of aphasia in 12 patients with single left thalamic lesion verified by CAT scan.
Kuljić-Obradović Dragana +1 more
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Establishing diagnostic criteria: the role of clinical pragmatics [PDF]
The study of pragmatic disorders is of interest to speech-language pathologists who have a professional responsibility to assess and treat communication impairments.
Cummings, L
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What Drives Task Performance During Animal Fluency in People With Alzheimer’s Disease?
BackgroundAnimal fluency is a widely used task to assess people with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and other neurological disorders. The mechanisms that drive performance in this task are argued to rely on language and executive functions.
Adrià Rofes +5 more
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BackgroundIndividuals with chronic traumatic brain injury (TBI) are often affected by communication disorders which might have an impact on their social participation.
Julia Büttner-Kunert +5 more
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Applying Item Response Theory (IRT) Modeling to an Observational Measure of Childhood Pragmatics: The Pragmatics Observational Measure-2 [PDF]
Assessment of pragmatic language abilities of children is important across a number of childhood developmental disorders including ADHD, language impairment and Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Cordier, Reinie +5 more
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More is more in language learning:reconsidering the less-is-more hypothesis [PDF]
The Less-is-More hypothesis was proposed to explain age-of-acquisition effects in first language (L1) acquisition and second language (L2) attainment. We scrutinize different renditions of the hypothesis by examining how learning outcomes are affected by
Brooks, Patricia J., Kempe, Vera
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Language is the basis for acquisition and execution of communicative skills. The neurological structures underlying language can be localized through clinical-pathological studies and neuroimaging studies. The classical language areas (Broca and Wernicke areas) are involved in lesions causing aphasia, and the main types of aphasia are motor (Broca ...
Otfried Spreen +2 more
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An important challenge in bilingualism research is to understand the mechanisms underlying sentence processing in a second language and whether they are comparable to those underlying native processing. Here, we focus on verb-particle constructions (VPCs)
Alexandre C. Herbay +5 more
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