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Tsukada, Kimiko; Hajek, John – Second Language Research, 2023
This study compared individuals from two first language (L1) backgrounds (Italian, Mandarin) to determine how they may differ in their perception of Japanese consonant length (i.e. singleton vs. geminate) according to the phonemic status of length in L1 and experience with Japanese. The participants included two groups of non-native learners of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Native Language, Italian, Mandarin Chinese
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Vercillo, Tiziana; Burr, David; Gori, Monica – Developmental Psychology, 2016
A recent study has shown that congenitally blind adults, who have never had visual experience, are impaired on an auditory spatial bisection task (Gori, Sandini, Martinoli, & Burr, 2014). In this study we investigated how thresholds for auditory spatial bisection and auditory discrimination develop with age in sighted and congenitally blind…
Descriptors: Congenital Impairments, Blindness, Children, Auditory Perception
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Borella, Erika; Carretti, Barbara; Cantarella, Alessandra; Riboldi, Francesco; Zavagnin, Michela; De Beni, Rossana – Developmental Psychology, 2014
The purpose of the present study was to test the efficacy of a visuospatial working memory (WM) training in terms of its transfer effects and maintenance effects, in the young-old and old-old. Forty young-old and 40 old-old adults took part in the study. Twenty participants in each age group received training with a visuospatial WM task, whereas…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Spatial Ability, Short Term Memory, Transfer of Training