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Direct linkHarley, Trevor A.; Grant, Fiona – Brain and Language, 2004
We examined the performance of a group of people with moderately severe Alzheimer's type dementia on a naming task. We found that functional information plays an important role in determining naming performance on both living and non-living things. Perceptual information may play some role in naming living things. We also found some evidence that…
Descriptors: Brain, Visual Measures, Visual Perception, Neurological Impairments
Pammer, Kristen; Lavis, Ruth; Hansen, Peter; Cornelissen, Piers L. – Brain and Language, 2004
In this study of primary school children, a novel "symbol-string" task is used to assess sensitivity to the position of briefly presented non-alphabetic but letter-like symbols. The results demonstrate that sensitivity in the symbol-string task explains a unique proportion of the variability in children's contextual reading accuracy. Moreover,…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Reading Difficulties, Word Recognition, Spatial Ability
Jansma, Bernadette M.; Schiller, Niels O. – Brain and Language, 2004
This study investigated the encoding of syllable boundary information during speech production in Dutch. Based on Levelt's model of phonological encoding, we hypothesized segments and syllable boundaries to be encoded in an incremental way. In a self-monitoring experiment, decisions about the syllable affiliation (first or second syllable) of a…
Descriptors: Syllables, Indo European Languages, Articulation (Speech), Pronunciation
