In this view, semantic knowledge can be argued to be shaped by experience. The studies that have tested this hypothesis have to date been limited to a specific instance of experience, that isexpertise, defined as an exceptional skill or performance in a given domain that requires extensive train...
We tested this hypothesis in experiments 2 and 3, in which we studied the effects of the gestures “ciao” and “no” on communication words, an arm action word, and a color word. Finally, experiment 1 was the base-line experiment in which we applied a paradigm similar to that used in...
Calls to the company's phone center fell from more than 50 a day to only two a month. Another benefit? Plain language is more inclusive and accessible. "There are many reasons why people have trouble reading: cognitive problems like aphasia or dyslexia, physical or vision disabilities, low ...
My doctor had told me that it was normal to feel anxious or depressed after a concussion. But she also said that anxiety and depression exacerbate concussion symptoms and make it much harder for the brain to heal itself. The more depressed or anxious you get, the more concussed you feel, ...
Gabby’s aphasia, which makes it difficult to form words, is more stubborn. When her skull was shattered, in 2011, the bullet tore a channel straight through her head, out the back, and into a Safeway supermarket. But she caught a peculiar break. The copper-coated round entered an inc...
If you want your furniture shop business to be successful, you must define your marketing strategies, develop financial projections, and define your organizational structure and business processes. With a complete business plan, you are more likely to get financing from financial institutions and ...
(which effect has to be reached first to be able to get to the next effect until the final effect is realized), which then guides reproduction of the observed behavior by achieving step-by-step the whole action sequence. Alternatively, developmental changes could be due to children’s growing...
and different patients were tested with different stimuli. The nature of food representation clearly requires to be further investigated using stimuli from different theoretically pertinent categories, matched for relevant concomitant variables as well as for other more specific food properties such as calor...
For example, children’s adherence to brevity may be constant, or even decline, but as their expressive vocabulary grows, they may have more lexical resources at their disposal to express themselves concisely. We therefore put aside further discussion on Clark and Kurumada (2013) in the ...
Figure 3. Gross anatomical features of brains of Broca’s patients, L1 (nicknamed Tan) and L2 with aphasia. Panels (A,C) are the lateral views of patients L1′s and L2′s brain. Panels (B,D) are the close-up of views of the brain lesions for the patients L1 and L2, respectively...