This study examines a large corpus of online gaming chat and avatar names to explore gender differences in virtual world (VW) language use. In particular, we examine the relevance of socio-­‐linguistic observations of gender in face-­‐to-­‐ face conversation to the contemporary ...

Objective We tested the claim that age-related increases in knowledge interfere with word retrieval, leading to word finding failures. We did this by relating a measure of crystallized intelligence to tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) states and picture naming accuracy. Method Participants were from a large (N = 708), cross-sectional (aged 18-88 years), population-based sample from the Cambridge Cent...

We investigated the influence of phonological neighbourhood density (PND) on the performance of aphasic speakers whose naming impairments differentially implicate phonological or semantic stages of lexical access. A word comes from a dense phonological neighbourhood if many words sound like it. Limited evidence suggests that higher density facilitates naming in aphasic speakers, as it does in h...

aphasia is prevalent in people following stroke, which can have a significant impact on the quality of life of the patients with stroke. one of the new methods for treatment of patients with aphasia is constraint‑induced aphasia therapy (ciat). the aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy of ciat on naming deficits in individuals with chronic aphasia. this study had a prospective, sing...

In this study, we analysed the cognitive abilities that predict reading and writing attainment in Chinese language for Mandarin-speaking children. A total of 140 third-graders studying Ningbo, Zhejiang were evaluated their visual cognition including perception memory, naming speed, vocabulary knowledge, phonological skills, nonverbal intelligence, to read write. The results multiple regression ...

The processes required for object naming were addressed in a study of patients with semantic dementia (a selective decline of semantic memory resulting from progressive temporal lobe atrophy) and in a computational model of single-word production. Although all patients with semantic dementia are impaired in both single-word production and comprehension, previous reports had indicated two differ...

An experimental treatment study designed to improve both the accuracy and the speed of reading was administered to a patient with pure alexia and impaired letter naming. The study focused on the use of letter-by-letter reading. A two-stage approach was employed. The first stage implemented a tactile-kinesthetic strategy to improve accuracy. The second stage concentrated on speed. At the end of ...

While letter-naming ability is a well-known preschool predictor of the later acquisition literacy, little known about an appropriate benchmark (i.e., how many letter names children must know at given age) and it may vary among different writing systems. The present study aimed to establish in Japanese Hiragana for pre-elementary (age 5 6 years) examined whether this predicts risk or success rea...