Letter names play an important role in early literacy. Previous studies of letter name learning have examined the Latin alphabet. The current study tested learners of Hebrew, comparing their patterns of performance and types of errors with those of English learners. We analyzed letter-naming data from 645 Israeli children who had not begun formal reading instruction: a younger group (mean age 5...

Letter names play an important role in early literacy. Previous studies of letter name learning have examined the Latin alphabet. The present study tested learners of Hebrew, comparing their patterns of performance and types of errors to those of English learners. We analyzed letter naming data from 645 Israeli children who had not begun formal reading instruction, a younger group (mean age 5 y...

Leiomyomatosis peritonealis disseminata is a very rare condition characterized by the development of multiple smooth muscle-like nodules in the peritoneal cavity. It is associated with increased serum levels of gonadal steroids. The present report describes a 29-year-old patient underwent transabdominal hysterectomy and Bilateral Salpingo oophorectomy six years ago because of leiomyomatosis per...

Numerous experiments in the past decades recurrently showed that a transposed-letter pseudoword (e.g., JUGDE) is much more wordlike than replacement-letter control JUPTE). Critically, there an ongoing debate as to whether this effect arises at perceptual level uncertainty assigning letter position of array visual objects) or abstract language-specific via “open bigrams” between and word levels)...

leiomyomatosis peritonealis disseminata is a very rare condition characterized by the development of multiple smooth muscle-like nodules in the peritoneal cavity. it is associated with increased serum levels of gonadal steroids. the present report describes a 29-year-old patient underwent transabdominal hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo oophorectomy six years ago because of leiomyomatosis per...