There is long-standing evidence for verbal working memory impairments in both children and adults with dyslexia. By contrast, spatial memory appears largely to be unimpaired. In an attempt to distinguish between phonological and central executive accounts of the impairments in working memory, a set of phonological and spatial working memory tasks was designed to investigate the key issues in wo...

Moral judgments are not produced by a unified “moral faculty.” Instead, they are influenced by a combination of automatic emotional responses and controlled cognitive processes with distinctive cognitive profiles (Cushman, Young, & Hauser, 2006; Greene, Morelli, Lowenberg, Nystrom, & Cohen, 2008; Moore, Clark, & Kane, 2008; Paxton, Ungar, & Greene, 2011) and neural substrates (Greene, Sommervil...

It is well-established that non-verbal emotional communication via both facial and vocal information is more accurate when expresser and perceiver are from the same cultural group. Two accounts have been put forward to explain this finding: According to the dialect theory, culture-specific learning modulates the largely cross-culturally consistent expressions of emotions. Consequently, within-g...

background: the main purpose of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of play therapy training to mothers of autistic children on verbal and non-verbal improvement of their children. m aterials and methods: 30 autistic children with intermediate degree of autism were selected based on availability sampling procedure and were divided into experimental and control groups. having ...

The purpose of this paper is to present a general approach to verbal inflection with special emphasis on suppletion phenomena. The approach is applied to French in this paper, but it extends straightforwardly to other languages.1 The first part of the paper describes an analysis of suppletion in inflectional morphology with two design requirements. First, we attempt to provide an analysis which...

MF-$0.65 HC-$3.29 *Form Classes (Languages) ; *Nominals; *Paired Associate Learning; *Recall (Psychological); Sentence structure; Structural Analysis; *Structural Grammar Second and sixth graders were asked to learn noun pairs linked by various types of verbal connectives: Verbs, unmarked and marked comparative adjectives, polar antonym adjective pairs, and Conjunctions. Results indicated that ...