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Dudschig, Carolin; Kaup, Barbara; Liu, Mingya; Schwab, Juliane – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2021
Negation is a universal component of human language; polarity sensitivity (i.e., lexical distributional constraints in relation to negation) is arguably so while being pervasive across languages. Negation has long been a field of inquiry in psychological theories and experiments of reasoning, which inspired many follow-up studies of negation and…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Morphemes, Psycholinguistics, Semantics
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Mirandola, C.; Paparella, G.; Re, A. M.; Ghetti, S.; Cornoldi, C. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
Enhanced semantic processing is associated with increased false recognition of items consistent with studied material, suggesting that children with poor semantic skills could produce fewer false memories. We examined whether memory errors differed in children with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and controls. Children viewed 18…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Semantics, Children, Error Patterns
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Alt, Mary; Gutmann, Michelle L. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2009
Purpose: This study was designed to test the word learning abilities of adults with typical language abilities, those with a history of disorders of spoken or written language (hDSWL), and hDSWL plus attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (+ADHD). Methods: Sixty-eight adults were required to associate a novel object with a novel label, and then…
Descriptors: Adults, Language Impairments, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Language Processing