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Animal fluency networks and item‐based trajectories in people with Parkinson's disease before and after deep brain stimulation surgery

open access: yesJournal of Neuropsychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Consistent decline in animal fluency occurs in people with Parkinson's disease (PD) post‐surgery for Deep Brain Stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus (STN‐DBS). Recent findings indicate that patients produce fewer words after (vs. before) surgery.
Adrià Rofes   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Second Language Accent Faking Ability Depends on Musical Abilities, Not on Working Memory

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
Studies involving direct language imitation tasks have shown that pronunciation ability is related to musical competence and working memory capacities. However, this type of task may measure individual differences in many different linguistic dimensions,
Marion Coumel   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Understanding Online Meaning‐Making: Normativity, Polycentricity, and Memetic Communication Through a Chronotopic‐Scalar Lens

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article investigates memetic interaction as an illustrative example of complex polycentric online communication. Using a chronotopic‐scalar framework, it offers a theorized account of how online (inter)action works, how it is guided by (perceptions of) normativities, and how it is in dialogue with the “offline.” Specifically, I focus on ...
Taraneh Sanei
wiley   +1 more source

Seeing the Speaker's Face Enhances Second Language Shadowing: Neural and Behavioral Evidence

open access: yesLanguage 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
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding the Role of Working Memory and Phonological Memory in Mathematics and Response to Intervention for Emergent Bilingual Kindergartners

open access: yesJournal of Numerical Cognition
This study explores how kindergarten students from a multilingual sample (n = 131) representing 23 different languages differ in response to intervention, based on their skill in mathematics and domain general cognitive skills.
Madison A. Cook   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Action video games improve reading abilities and visual-to-auditory attentional shifting in English-speaking children with dyslexia

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2017
Dyslexia is characterized by difficulties in learning to read and there is some evidence that action video games (AVG), without any direct phonological or orthographic stimulation, improve reading efficiency in Italian children with dyslexia.
Sandro Franceschini   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

[Working memory in children with phonological deviation].

open access: yesPro-fono : revista de atualizacao cientifica, 2004
working memory.to verify the performance of children with normal speech development (NSD) and with evolutional phonological deviation (EPD), in tasks which demand the use of working memory.as a research instrument, subtest 5 of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistics Abilities (ITPA) was used, as well as the meaningless word repetition test. The answers
Lisiane Zorzella, Linassi   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

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