Deaf children’s non-verbal working memory is impacted by their language experience [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Recent studies suggest that deaf children perform more poorly on working memory tasks compared to hearing children, but do not say whether this poorer performance arises directly from deafness itself or from deaf children’s reduced language exposure. The
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On EFL Learners’ Attitudes toward English Vocabulary Achievement Using Non-Verbal Communication [PDF]
Fanāvarī-i āmūzish, 2014 This study aims at investigating the effect of applying non-verbal communication and body gesture in the process of learning second language. Communication among individuals to share their beliefs, feelings and opinion entails both verbal and non-verbal ...
E.A. Salimi
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Non-verbal Intelligence in Unilateral Perinatal Stroke Patients With and Without Epilepsies
Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2021 Background: The risk factors for impaired cognitive development after unilateral perinatal stroke are poorly understood. Non-verbal intelligence seems to be at particular risk, since language can shift to the right hemisphere and may thereby reduce the ...
Alisa Gschaidmeier +11 more
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Communication in Emergency Situations
Communications, 2002 Communication in emergency situations requires not only specific verbal but also non-verbal competencies of persons involved. Verbal communication comprises, apart from speech culture and the way language is used, also language competence which is to be ...
Anna Hlavnova, Vladimir Hlavna
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Non-verbal episodic memory deficits in primary progressive aphasias are highly predictive of underlying amyloid pathology [PDF]
, 2016 Diagnostic distinction of primary progressive aphasias (PPA) remains challenging, in particular for the logopenic (lvPPA) and nonfluent/agrammatic (naPPA) variants.
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SCENARIO: Journal for Performative Teaching, Learning, Research, 2014 Even though non-verbal communication is an essential part of communicative situations, it still is a neglected issue in foreign language teaching. This is quite surprising as no language learner can achieve communicative competence without having some ...
Surkamp, Carola
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The Embodied Crossmodal Self Forms Language and Interaction: A Computational Cognitive Review
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Human language is inherently embodied and grounded in sensorimotor representations of the self and the world around it. This suggests that the body schema and ideomotor action-effect associations play an important role in language understanding, language
Frank Röder +4 more
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The Child Emotion Facial Expression Set: A Database for Emotion Recognition in Children
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Background: This study developed a photo and video database of 4-to-6-year-olds expressing the seven induced and posed universal emotions and a neutral expression. Children participated in photo and video sessions designed to elicit the emotions, and the
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Individual differences in the discrimination of novel speech sounds: effects of sex, temporal processing, musical and cognitive abilities [PDF]
, 2012 This study examined whether rapid temporal auditory processing, verbal working memory capacity, non-verbal intelligence, executive functioning, musical ability and prior foreign language experience predicted how well native English speakers (N = 120 ...
Brooks, Patricia J. +4 more
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Examining Language Switching and Cognitive Control Through the Adaptive Control Hypothesis
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Increasing evidence suggests that language switching is a distinct form of bilingual language control that engages cognitive control. The most relevant and widely discussed framework is the Adaptive Control Hypothesis.
Gabrielle Lai, Beth A. O’Brien
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