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Helder, Anne; van den Broek, Paul; Karlsson, Josefine; Van Leijenhorst, Linda – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2017
This functional magnetic resonance imaging study examined the neural correlates of coherence-break detection during reading in the context of a contradiction paradigm. Young adults (N = 31, ages 19-27) read short narratives (half contained a break in coherence) that were presented sentence by sentence in a self-paced, slow event-related design.…
Descriptors: Correlation, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Diagnostic Tests, Cognitive Processes
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Kalverboer, A. F.; Brouwer, W. H. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 1983
While only minor differences in behavioral organization and efficiency were found between males and females, girls with lower neurological status showed more signs of lack of motor inhibition. No effect was found for time-pressure for groups with a different neurological status. (MP)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Individual Differences, Neurological Organization, Perceptual Motor Coordination
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Maassen, Ben; Pasman, Jaco; Nijland, Lian; Rotteveel, Jan – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2006
It has long been recognized that from the first months of life auditory perception plays a crucial role in speech and language development. Only in recent years, however, is the precise mechanism of auditory development and its interaction with the acquisition of speech and language beginning to be systematically revealed. This paper presents the…
Descriptors: Neuropsychology, Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, Clinical Diagnosis