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Andreau, Jorge Mario; Funahashi, Shintaro – Brain and Cognition, 2011
The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is known to contribute to memory processes such as encoding representations into long-term-memory (LTM) and retrieving these representations from LTM. However, the details of the PFC's contribution to LTM processes are not well known. To examine the characteristics of the PFC's contribution to LTM processes, we analyzed…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Memory, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Associative Learning
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Cargin, J. Weaver; Maruff, P.; Collie, A.; Masters, C. – Brain and Cognition, 2006
Mild memory impairment was detected in 28% of a sample of healthy community-dwelling older adults using the delayed recall trial of a word list learning task. Statistical analysis revealed that individuals with memory impairment also demonstrated relative deficits on other measures of memory, and tests of executive function, processing speed and…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Aging (Individuals), Word Lists, Neurological Impairments
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Devitto, Zana; Burgess, Curt – Brain and Cognition, 2004
The effect of second language experience and vocabulary ability was investigated in a semantic priming experiment with weakly related English word pairs (e.g., "city"-"grass"). Participants made lexical decisions to targets preceded by unrelated or weakly related primes or to nonword targets preceded by words. Reliable priming was found for…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Monolingualism, Semantics, Paired Associate Learning