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Wode, Henning – 1980
Human capacity for language acquisition is not strictly compartmentalized, with one acquisitional mechanism for the native language and others totally unrelated to it; rather, it consists of a unified mechanism flexible enough to handle various differences in external settings. This learning system operates on the formal properties of the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Developmental Stages, Individual Differences, Language Acquisition
Emery, Olga B. – 1983
A study investigated language patterning, as an indication of synthetic mental activity, in comparison groups of normal pre-middle-aged adults (30-42 years), normal elderly adults (75-93), and elderly adults (71-91) with Alzheimer's dementia. Semiotic theory was used as the conceptual context. Linguistic measures included the Token Test, the…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Aging (Individuals), Comparative Analysis
Trites, Ronald L. – Review and Evaluation Bulletin, 1981
Five studies were aimed at furthering understanding of the effects of second language immersion on young children. The first study demonstrated that the neuropsychological test profile of children who are unable to make satisfactory progress when immersed in a kindergarten second language program is different from that of children with more…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Educational Research, French, Immersion Programs
Macken, Marlys A. – 1976
Data are presented from one subject (J) that show a gradual development of the complexity of words in terms of syllable structure and degree of phonetic similarity of co-occurring consonants. During the age range of 1;9 to 2;6, J's data show a highly systematic progression of stages, each characterized by fewer restrictions on the number, order,…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Consonants, Imitation
Just, Marcel Adam; Carpenter, Patricia A. – 1975
This paper reports on a study concerned with rapid mental operations of the central processor as it performs tasks such as the comparison of rotated figures, mental arithmetic, sentence verification, and memory scanning. The central processor is the site of most of the symbol manipulation that takes place in the human information processing…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Eye Fixations, Eye Movements
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Harley, Trevor A. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1995
Examines Nickels's claim that interactive models of lexical access in speech production cannot account for naming data from a group of anomic patients. This paper reiterates that the behavior of connectionist models is not easily predictable without running the appropriate simulations, and discusses the role of frequency in lexical access in…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Cognitive Processes, Connected Discourse, Error Analysis (Language)
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Bristol, Adam S.; Carew, Thomas J. – Learning & Memory, 2005
Many studies of the neural mechanisms of learning have focused on habituation, a simple form of learning in which a response decrements with repeated stimulation. In the siphon-elicited siphon withdrawal reflex (S-SWR) of the marine mollusk "Aplysia," the prevailing view is that homosynaptic depression of primary sensory afferents underlies…
Descriptors: Stimulation, Inhibition, Habituation, Depression (Psychology)
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Miller-Shaul, Shelley – Dyslexia, 2005
Most of the research into dyslexia has been carried out among children and has raised the question whether the characteristics of young dyslexics are similar to those of adult dyslexics. The aim of this research was, therefore, to confirm whether the cognitive deficits, which appear among young dyslexics on reading and reading related tasks, are…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Dyslexia, Grade 4, Individual Characteristics
Millard, David E.; Nagle, Stephen J. – 1986
Although many composition teachers have taken to heart recent studies on the mind-brain (humanities/science) link and have begun to anticipate enhancing the teaching profession by providing a solid link between teachers of writing and "hard" scientists, such links between minds and brains should not become part of pedagogical design. Textbooks and…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Instructional Materials, Language Arts, Learning Theories
Emery, Olga Beattie – 1984
A study of language patterning as an indicator of higher cortical process focused on three matched comparison groups: normal pre-middle-aged, normal elderly, and elderly adults with senile dementia Alzheimer's type. In addition to tests of memory, level of cognitive function, and organic deficit, the formal aspects of language were analyzed in…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Aging (Individuals), Alzheimers Disease
Reinvang, Ivar – 1985
The use of a traditional syndrome-classification system for aphasics is examined critically from the different perspectives of medicine and psychometrics. Medicine views syndromes as dichotomous (present or not present) and necessarily indicative of an underlying pathognomic state or process, and psychometrics sees performances as varying along a…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Classification, Clinical Diagnosis, Comparative Analysis
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Papcun, George; And Others – Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1974
Morse code signals were presented dichotically to Morse code operators and to naive subjects with no knowledge of Morse code. The operators showed right ear superiority, indicating left hemisphere dominance for the perception of dichotically presented Morse code letters. Naive subjects showed the same right ear superiority when presented with a…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Processes, Language Research
Eisenson, Jon; Ingram, David – Acta Symbolica, 1972
This paper examines the perceptual processes that underlie normal language acquisition with relation to perceptual dysfunctions in the aphasic child. Experiments are cited which seem to indicate that auditory dyfunctions may underlie language impairment. Experimental studies of the linguistic systems of the aphasic child seem to support the theory…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Auditory Perception, Child Language, Cognitive Processes
Rosenthal, William S. – 1972
This paper describes the results of two studies of auditory processing in child aphasia, and their implication for understanding deviant language development. The term "aphasia" is discussed as it is used to describe adult and child language disorders. A first experiment on the auditory functioning in aphasic and nonaphasic children suggests that…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, Child Language
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Posner, Michael I.; And Others – Science, 1988
Hypothesizes that the human brain localizes mental operations which are integrated in the performance of cognitive tasks such as reading. Provides support of this hypothesis from studies in neural imaging, mental imagery, timing, and memory. (RT)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Mapping, Cognitive Processes
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