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Anderson, Julie D.; Wagovich, Stacy A.; Ofoe, Levi – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine cognitive flexibility for semantic and perceptual information in preschool children who stutter (CWS) and who do not stutter (CWNS). Method: Participants were 44 CWS and 44 CWNS between the ages of 3;0 and 5;11 (years;months). Cognitive flexibility was measured using semantic and perceptual…
Descriptors: Semantics, Cognitive Ability, Stuttering, Verbal Communication
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Zhang, Lan; Treiman, Rebecca – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2015
One influential theory of literacy development, the constructivist perspective, claims that young children believe that writing represents meaning directly and that the appearance of a written word should reflect characteristics of its referent. There has not been strong evidence supporting this idea, however. Circumventing several methodological…
Descriptors: Phonology, Spelling, Constructivism (Learning), Semantics
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Selmeczy, Diana; Dobbins, Ian G. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
The Remember/Know procedure, developed by Tulving (1985) to capture the distinction between the conscious correlates of episodic and semantic retrieval, has spawned considerable research and debate. However, only a handful of reports have examined the recognition content beyond this dichotomous simplification. To address this, we collected…
Descriptors: Memory, Recognition (Psychology), Semantics, Word Frequency