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Kurt Winsler – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The visual system is tuned by its inputs. The behavior of reading offers a unique way to examine tuning for visual representations (letters) because readers have massive experience recognizing letters in a systematic context (reading). One aspect of reading is that letters are highly crowded within words, which severely limits their…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Reading Processes, Word Recognition, Comparative Analysis
Jayden J. Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The functional neuroanatomy of language localization in dyslexia has primarily been studied in the context of reading. However, dyslexia is sometimes referred to as a "language-based learning disability," yet the functional signature of the core language comprehension network in dyslexia is far less understood. This thesis presents a…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Comparative Analysis, Speech Communication
Sophia Lall – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Word finding difficulty is a frequently reported subjective cognitive concern among persons with Multiple Sclerosis (pwMS). Word-finding relies on several information retrieval processes, including search and retrieval from the conceptual store, the phonological store, the syllabary, as well as other stores of information. Neuropsychological…
Descriptors: Diseases, Language Fluency, Semantics, Psycholinguistics
Emily Corinne Saunders – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Prelingually and profoundly deaf individuals learn to read without complete access to the sounds of language. Nevertheless, many become proficient readers, and the neurocognitive underpinnings of deaf readers' processes differ from those of hearing readers, particularly in orthographic processing. In English, morphological structure is relatively…
Descriptors: Deafness, Morphology (Languages), Reading Processes, Brain Hemisphere Functions
Sarah Frances Phillips – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Bilinguals are able to compose expressions across their languages with seeming ease. This phenomenon, commonly referred to as "code-switching," has challenged both theoretical models in linguistics as well as neurobiological models of language processing. And yet, our models of the bilingual brain and the language processing mechanism…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Processing, Psycholinguistics, Linguistic Input
Ciochina, Ludmila – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Language is a quintessentially human trait. Many decades of neurolinguistic research provided evidence of neural structures which specialize in complex linguistic and cognitive processes supporting human communications. Because the world is multilingual, (Crystal, 2010; de Bot, 2019) a prominent question related to brain processes supporting…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Multilingualism, Neurolinguistics, Cognitive Processes
Christina Marie Blomquist – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The long-term objective of this project was to better understand how shorter auditory experience and spectral degradation of the cochlear implant (CI) signal impact spoken language processing in deaf children with CIs. The specific objective of this research was to utilize psycholinguistic methods to investigate the mechanisms underlying observed…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Assistive Technology, Comparative Analysis, Hearing Impairments
Jeanne Gallee – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is an acquired neurodegenerative syndrome that has specific and devastating effects on an individual's speech and language ability. Based on a detailed assessment of behavior and cognition, combined with structural neuroimaging data and pathological evidence, PPA is typically classified into three variants: the…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Language Processing, Language Research, Pathology
Gerwin, Katelyn Lippitt – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Purpose: Children with speech sound disorder (SSD) mispronounce more speech sounds than is typical for their age and a growing body of research suggests that a deficit in speech perception abilities contributes to development of the disorder. However, little work has been done to characterize the neurophysiological processes indexing speech…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Phonetics, Diagnostic Tests, Preschool Children
Saleem, Hafiz M. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This mixed methods research studied the effect of the Journey Method with Google Maps, a memorization strategy for memorizing informational text, on the recallability levels in high school biology students at an urban high school in Paterson, New Jersey. This memorization technique was based on an ancient memorization strategy, called the method…
Descriptors: Geographic Information Systems, Computer Software, Memorization, Maps
Guigelaar, Ellen R. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Late second language (L2) learners often struggle with L2 prosody, both in perception and production. This may result from first language (L1) interference or some property of how a second language functions in a late learner independent of what their L1 might be. Here we investigate prosody's role in determining information structure through…
Descriptors: English, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Mandarin Chinese
Wah-Mei Kodimer – ProQuest LLC, 2015
The purpose of the proposed study is to add to the literature regarding the assessment of effort and malingering in the field of neuropsychology using the Rey Complex Figure Test (RCFT). The majority of the literature on this measure has been in the specific areas for which the instrument was developed, namely those of visual spatial and…
Descriptors: Psychological Evaluation, Neuropsychology, Recognition (Psychology), Test Construction
Sanchez, Laura V. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Adult literacy training is known to be difficult in terms of teaching and maintenance (Abadzi, 2003), perhaps because adults who recently learned to read in their first language have not acquired reading automaticity. This study examines fast word recognition process in neoliterate adults, to evaluate whether they show evidence of perceptual…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, Literacy, Adult Literacy, Task Analysis
Politzer-Ahles, Stephen – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The present study examines the representation and composition of meaning in scalar implicatures. Scalar implicature is the phenomenon whereby the use of a less informative term (e.g., "some") is inferred to mean the negation of a more informative term (e.g., to mean "not all"). The experiments reported here investigate how the…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Diagnostic Tests
Davenport, Tristan S. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The most important information conveyed by language is often contained not in the utterance itself, but in the interaction between the utterance and the comprehender's knowledge of the world and the current situation. This dissertation uses psycholinguistic methods to explore the effects of a common type of inference--causal inference--on language…
Descriptors: Inferences, Language Processing, Diagnostic Tests, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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