It is difficult for children to spontaneously extract or attend to phonological segments of speech because they often automatically attend to the meaning of a spoken message rather than to individual phonemes perceived as elusive or abstract (Lundberg, Larsman, & Strid, 2012). This may explain wh...
Lacaille named Mensa, meaning "table," in September 2004 Planetarian 7 honor of Cape Town's Table Mountain, site By the beginning of the twentieth centu- of his southern observatory. If Ptolemy ry, our constellations were fairly well estab- could come forward from his time in the sec- li...
I felt that I needed a name that was more memorable. Kawan sounded nice, a good meaning in Bahasa Malaysia, and the characters in Mandarin look like two leaves — it was green, and also environmentally and consumer friendly. At that time, I was already planning fo...
The Stroop task (Stroop 1935) measures the interference of word meaning with the naming of the colour in which the words are written, as indicated by RT and Accuracy differences between colour-meaning incongruent and congruent conditions. It is a task of inhibitory control. We implemented a comp...
The name 'Phuket' is derived from a Malay word, 'Bukit', which means mountain. The island was formerly known as Tha-Laang or Ta-lang; a derivative of the old Malay term 'Telong', meaning 'Cape'. Phuket is primarily made up of mountains, with a large mountain range stretching from no...