Three groups of children of different ages who were considered by their teachers as showing symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and matched controls were tested in a series of expressive writing tasks, derived from a standardized writing test. In the first study, 24 sixth- and seventh-grade children with ADHD symptoms wrote a description of an image. The ADHD group's exp...

This study presents productive L2 French grammar data obtained at the end of grade 1 from 186 elementary school children learning in bilingual (CLIL) or regular programs Germany. The completed a picture description task to assess their oral skills and two standardized cognitive tests on nonverbal intelligence sustained attention. results did not indicate any significant effects child-internal v...

Grammatical encoding has been suggested to be driven by communicative efficiency – a balance between production ease and success. Evidence for this view comes from studies indicating that speakers their use of morphosyntactic cues grammatical functions with respect animacy. However, these have not taken in the discourse context into account. In picture-description task, we investigate influence...

Image annotation, the task of automatically generating description words for a picture, is a key component in various image search and retrieval applications. Creating image databases for model development is, however, costly and time consuming, since the keywords must be hand-coded and the process repeated for new collections. In this work we exploit the vast resource of images and documents a...

Adults are sophisticated language users, and there is much debate as to the maturational and experiential changes that occur throughout childhood to bring about these abilities. We propose that the onset of literacy may be an important event in the course of language development, as it marks a qualitative shift in the linguistic patterns to which an individual is exposed. In Experiment 1, we in...

Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy which deals with the study of emotions in relation to the sense of beauty. Nowadays, there is a tremendous increase in the use of digital images as a means for representing and communicating information. With the considerable increase of consumer photos, evaluating the quality of photos has become a difficult task. People are more interested in photos that a...

Language production studies tend to investigate central tendencies, though there are extensive individual differences in any production task. Studying this variability in behavior can be revealing of the motivations and consequences of production choices. In a picture-description task, participants used either active object or passive relative clauses to describe animate or inanimate entities i...

The present study utilized functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine the neural processing of concurrently presented emotional stimuli under varying explicit and implicit attention demands. Specifically, in separate trials, participants indicated the category of either pictures or words. The words were placed over the center of the pictures and the picture-word compound-stimuli we...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of visual supports on the performance of the Test of Gross Motor Development (TGMD-2) for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Participants (N = 22) performed the TGMD-2 under three different protocols (traditional protocol, picture task card protocol, and picture activity schedule protocol). Gross motor quotient scores on the TGMD-2...