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Wallentin, Mikkel; Nielsen, Andreas Hojlund; Vuust, Peter; Dohn, Anders; Roepstorff, Andreas; Lund, Torben Ellegaard – Brain and Language, 2011
A primary focus within neuroimaging research on language comprehension is on the distribution of semantic knowledge in the brain. Studies have shown that the left posterior middle temporal gyrus (LPMT), a region just anterior to area MT/V5, is important for the processing of complex action knowledge. It has also been found that motion verbs cause…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Semantics, Verbs, Motion
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Schickedanz, Judith A.; McGee, Lea M. – Educational Researcher, 2010
The authors discuss the 19 individual studies included in chapter 4 (shared story reading interventions) of the report of the National Early Literacy Panel (NELP) and offer more nuanced conclusions than the report's authors do. They also emphasize the need for more comprehensive approaches to shared story reading in preschool than those found in…
Descriptors: Story Reading, Emergent Literacy, Intervention, Preschool Evaluation
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Kurvers, Jeanne; Uri, Helene – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2006
This study explores the ability to access word boundaries of pre-school children, using an on-line methodology (Karmiloff-Smith, Grant, Sims, Jones, & Cockle (1996). "Cognition, 58", 197-219.), which has hardly been used outside English-speaking countries. In a cross-linguistic study in the Netherlands and Norway, four and…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Metalinguistics, Foreign Countries, Preschool Children