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Macedonia, Manuela; Muller, Karsten; Friederici, Angela D. – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2010
Learning vocabulary in a foreign language is a laborious task which people perform with varying levels of success. Here, we investigated the neural underpinning of high performance on this task. In a within-subjects paradigm, participants learned 92 vocabulary items under two multimodal conditions: one condition paired novel words with iconic…
Descriptors: Semantics, Word Recognition, Memory, Memorization
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Schneiderman, E. I.; Desmarais, C. – Second Language Research, 1988
Examination of memorization strategies, cerebral dominance and lateralizations, and other characteristics of two adults who acquired second language fluency after puberty supported hypotheses concerning neurocognitive flexibility as a substrate underlying talent for second language learning. (CB)
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Academically Gifted, Adult Learning, Brain Hemisphere Functions