background and aim: although recent research has revealed the positive effects of bilin­gualism on children's cognitive abilities, little information is available on the relationship bet­ween bilingualism and working memory. working memory is generally composed of four dis­tinct parts, among which the phonological loop plays an important role in speech and language development, reading skills, ...

147 Word count (body): 3420 Word count (notes + Acknowledgement) 581 Author Notes Most of this work was done while the author was with Cambridge Basic Research, Nissan Research & Development, Inc., Cambridge, MA USA. Many thanks to Duncan Bryce, Puishan Lam, Nayantara Santhi, and Monica Strauss for their help in running the experiments. Correspondence should be addressed to R.A. Rensink, Depart...

introduction: hearing loss is one of the most common problems in elderly people. functional side effects of hearing loss are various. due to the fact that hearing loss is the common impairment in elderly people; the importance of its possible effects on auditory memory is undeniable. this study aims to focus on the hearing loss effects on auditory memory.   materials and methods: dichotic audit...

An important and often laborious task in foreign language acquisition is vocabulary learning. Research has repeatedly demonstrated that performing iconic gestures together with novel words has a beneficial effect on learning performance. Can these findings be transferred onto virtual agents applied in gesture-supported vocabulary training? We present a study investigating whether iconic gesture...