Browsing by Subject "Comprehension"
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Age-related differences in resolving semantic and phonological competition during receptive language tasks.
(Neuropsychologia, 2016-12)Receptive language (e.g., reading) is largely preserved in the aging brain, and semantic processes in particular may continue to develop throughout the lifespan. We investigated the neural underpinnings of phonological and ... -
At 6-9 months, human infants know the meanings of many common nouns.
(Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2012-02-28)It is widely accepted that infants begin learning their native language not by learning words, but by discovering features of the speech signal: consonants, vowels, and combinations of these sounds. Learning to understand ... -
Influence of encoding difficulty, word frequency, and phonological regularity on age differences in word naming.
(Experimental aging research, 2011-05)It is presently unclear as to why older adults take longer than younger adults to recognize visually presented words. To examine this issue in more detail, the authors conducted two word-naming studies (Experiment 1: 20 ... -
Interactive or static reports to guide clinical interpretation of cancer genomics.
(Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, 2018-05)<h4>Objective</h4>Misinterpretation of complex genomic data presents a major challenge in the implementation of precision oncology. We sought to determine whether interactive genomic reports with embedded clinician education ... -
Mine or yours? Development of sharing in toddlers in relation to ownership understanding.
(Child Dev, 2013-05)To examine early developments in other-oriented resource sharing, fifty-one 18- and 24-month-old children were administered 6 tasks with toys or food that could be shared with an adult playmate who had none. On each task ... -
Okukkera Ng'omuzungu (lost in translation): understanding the social value of global health research for HIV/AIDS research participants in Uganda.
(Global public health, 2010-01)As major global governance entities begin to re-assess the structure and goals of health research in resource-poor settings, social science can make a vital contribution by expanding the traditional field of research ethics ... -
Readability of patient education materials in ophthalmology: a single-institution study and systematic review.
(BMC Ophthalmol, 2016-08-03)BACKGROUND: Patient education materials should be written at a level that is understandable for patients with low health literacy. The aims of this study are (1) to review the literature on readability of ophthalmic patient ... -
The Child as Econometrician: A Rational Model of Preference Understanding in Children
(PLoS ONE, 2014-03)Recent work has shown that young children can learn about preferences by observing the choices and emotional reactions of other people, but there is no unified account of how this learning occurs. We show that a rational ... -
The coherence of memories for trauma: evidence from posttraumatic stress disorder.
(Conscious Cogn, 2011-09)Participants with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and participants with a trauma but without PTSD wrote narratives of their trauma and, for comparison, of the most-important and the happiest events that occurred within ... -
Young toddlers' word comprehension is flexible and efficient.
(PLoS One, 2013)Much of what is known about word recognition in toddlers comes from eyetracking studies. Here we show that the speed and facility with which children recognize words, as revealed in such studies, cannot be attributed to ...
