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Mechanisms of age-related decline in memory search across the adult life span [PDF]
, 2013 Three alternative mechanisms for age-related decline in memory search have been proposed, which result from either reduced processing speed (global slowing hypothesis), overpersistence on categories (cluster-switching hypothesis), or the inability to ...
Hills, T. +8 more
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The Sounds of Trust: The Bouba–Kiki Effect in Political Leaders' Names
Kyklos, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Prior research has found evidence for the bouba–kiki effect according to which individuals associate sounds related to “bouba” and “kiki” with shapes and feelings. Using individual data from the World Values Survey, we investigate whether political leaders with names that sound “bouba” or “kiki” are associated with higher or lower trust.
Caroline Perrin, Laurent Weill
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, 2002 Two underlying components of verbal fluency tasks have been identified as clustering (the ability to generate successive words within a sub-category) and switching (the ability to shift from one sub-category to another). Selective impairment of switching
Roger A. Barker +11 more
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Seeing the Speaker's Face Enhances Second Language Shadowing: Neural and Behavioral Evidence
Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract This functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study investigated how facial cues influence second language (L2) shadowing among 42 Japanese learners of English. Participants completed four conditions that varied by task type (listening vs. shadowing) and visual input (face vs. mosaic).
Hyeonjeong Jeong +7 more
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract Semantic fluency, the ability to retrieve words within a category, relies on lexical knowledge, semantic memory and executive control mechanisms. A richer, interconnected semantic memory and optimal executive control, as seen in creative individuals, enhance fluency through broad associative searches and quicker access to remote concepts ...
Almudena Fernández‐Fontecha
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, 2015 The purpose of this research was to gain an understanding of the knowledge that teachers in New Zealand primary school classrooms have in regard to phonemic awareness, their understanding of its importance as a factor in learning to read, and the methods
Clark, Linda Kaye
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“This is the Work I'm Most Proud of”: K‐Pop Fandom and Children's Multilingual Literacy Practices
The Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines how children's affective investments in K‐pop generated sustained multilingual literacy practices in an arts‐based bookmaking project. Drawing on Pennycook's concept of language assemblages and Norton's investment framework, and informed by Paris and Alim's distinction between heritage and community practices, we analyse ...
Julie Choi, Rafaela Cleeve Gerkens
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NeuroImage: Clinical, 2015 Pediatric traumatic brain injury often results in significant long-term deficits in mastery of reading ability. This study aimed to identify white matter pathways that, when damaged, predicted reading deficits in children.
Chad Parker Johnson +5 more
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‘Chrystalline Talk’: Thomas Browne's Poetics of Concretion and Mineral Plain Style
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article charts the figuration, both material and rhetorical, of mineral bodies in early modern natural philosophy, paying particular attention to the second book of Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646). It argues that concretions (stony calculi and crystals formed through the aggregation of physical matter) make manifest a mineral
Jess Dunmore
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