Neurodevelopmental differences on rapid naming tasks

Absolute pitch correlates with high performance on interval naming tasks.

Absolute pitch, the rare ability to identify or produce a musical tone without a reference tone, has been shown to be advantageous in some musical tasks; however, its relevance in musical contexts primarily involving relative pitch has been questioned. To explore this issue, 36 trained musicians-18 absolute pitch possessors and 18 non-possessors with equivalent age of onset and duration of musi...

Hand/Mouth Cooperation in Pointing-Naming Tasks

Marion Dohen, Amélie Rochet-Capellan, Coriandre Vilain, Benjamin Roustan, Rafael Laboissière & Jean-Luc Schwartz Speech & Cognition Department, GIPSA-lab, France 2 Motor Control Lab, McGill University, Canada 3 INSERM, U864, Espace et Action, France 4 Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Germany [email protected]; [email protected]; coriandre.vilain@gi...

Semantic effects in naming perceptual identification but not in delayed naming: implications for models and tasks.

Previous research has demonstrated that the subjective danger and usefulness of words affect lexical decision times. Usually, an interaction is found: Increasing danger predicts faster reaction times (RTs) for words low on usefulness, but increasing danger predicts slower RTs for words high on usefulness. The authors show the same interaction with immediate auditory naming. The interaction disa...

Knowledge and RAN 1 Deficits in Orthographic Knowledge in Children Poor at Rapid Automatized Naming ( RAN ) Tasks ?

Poor readers of Chinese respond slower than good readers in phonological, rapid naming, and interval timing tasks.

The role of information processing deficits in poor readers of nonalphabetic scripts such as Chinese is not well documented. Here, we examined perceptual processing in good and poor readers of Chinese. Specifically, two groups of third grade children comprising 20 "good readers" and 19 "poor readers," drawn from a larger pool of 254 students, were tested using an auditory version of the Stop Re...