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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Language and cognition"”.
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Reexamining Linguistic Relativity: What Adult Bilinguals Can Teach Us About Culture, Language, And Cognition
… contexts, one would argue that a speaker's first language (L1) influences her thinking and behavior under second language (L2) conditions. According to one interpretation of LR, inter-language relativity, L1 instills in its speakers habitual ways of thinking and thus influences their perception …
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Translating Embodiment: A Look at Language and Cognition of Dance Performance from Studio to Stage
“Cognition is embodied insofar as it emerges not from an intricately unfolding cognitive program, but from a dynamic dance in which body, perception, and world guide each other’s step,” says cognitive dance researcher Edward C. Warburton. This research connects phenomenological theories of …
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Transdiagnostic approach to language and cognition in the logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia and Alzheimer’s disease
Language is commonly affected in many dementias as a dominant or adjunctive symptom. Speech and/or language deficits are the primary symptom in primary progressive aphasia (PPA), associated with frontotemporal lobar degeneration and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Language deficits are also frequently …
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Metaphor and ideology in film
… but must be regarded as a central process in language and cognition. This dissertation explores the possibility to employ Max Black's interactional theory of metaphor and cognitive metaphor theory to study metaphor in film language. This point of view has not yet been considered within film …
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Technology for enabling : the implications for management science of a hermeneutics of distinction
… a context is presently not clearly ennunciated, and why such a lack hinders communications of the model together with its consequent effective take-up by the student or practitioner. The epistemological grounding of the VSM will be described as concerning the ontology of the individuals who apply …
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The impact of prematurity on language skills at school age
… The two groups were matched for age, sex, race, and parental education. Data came from the Western Reserve Reading Project and included discourse-level language samples collected at three points in time, each a year apart. In addition, standardized test results were obtained for IQ, digit span, …
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Time of day effects on language discourse in healthy aging and dementia
This study’s purpose was to investigate whether language discourse follows a diurnal pattern across one 10-hour day in normal healthy aging individuals (NHA) and individuals with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease. Ten healthy older adults; and ten older adults clinically labeled with probable …
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Improvisation in Jíbaro Music: A Structural Analysis
… the simple rural farmer of Puerto Rico's heartland, involves the complicated art of improvising in décima, a ten-line poetic form, as well as improvisation of melodic lines played on the cuatro, a small guitar-like instrument. Since jíbaro improvisation is an art that is transmitted orally and …
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Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Decrease High-Prevalence Psychopathology by Targeting Self-Compassion: A Randomized Controlled Trial
… that is treating oneself with kindness and understanding and without harsh judgment in difficult times, has been presented as an alternative to both self-criticism and self-esteem. It has been conceptualized by Kristin Neff to consist of self-kindness, mindfulness, and common humanity. …
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The rules of perception : American color science, 1831-1931
… was seldom studied in Antebellum America, color and color perception became a critical field of scientific inquiry in the United States during the Gilded Age and progressive era. Through a historical investigation of color science in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth …
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Parenting Styles, Parental Involvement and Kindergarten Children's Readiness for Elementary School in Shanghai, China
… parenting styles (authoritarian, authoritative, and permissive) and parental involvement (home-based involvement, school-based involvement, and home-school conferencing) in relationship to children’s overall school readiness among third-year kindergarten children (5-6 years olds). In addition, …
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Philosophical enquiry and autism: story/ing/ied bags of unexpected human and more-than-human encounters in speech-language therapy and classroom spaces
… education, early childhood intervention and childhood dis/ability studies. The aim of the thesis is to explore the concept of ontoepistemic injustice for autistic children with/in educational and therapeutic settings. Current pedagogies and interventions are embedded in human-centric …
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Language, communication, and cognition: A study of slum-dwelling women in a nutrition education programme in India
… focused on outcomes of nutritional status and nutrition knowledge. The demand for language and cognitive skills, barriers they may present, and the potential beneficial effects on these skills, specifically within individuals with low literacy skills, have been unexplored. This …
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AN EXAMINATION OF THE EFFECTS OF FEEDBACK AND ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT TRAINING ON DIRECT SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVE TREATMENT IMPLEMENTATION, STRESS, AND JOB SATISFACTION
… Frame Theory (RFT; Hayes, Barnes-Holmes, and Roche, 2001) describes verbal contingencies as networks of relations between overt and covert stimuli. RFT posits that the ability to form these relational networks is a key component of language and cognition. These relations can become …
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Der Gebrauch lexikalischer Erwerbsbeschränkungen bei Kindern mit Williams-Beuren-Syndrom
… Trotzdem gilt das Lexikon jugendlicher WBS-Probanden im Vergleich zu Probanden mit anderen Syndromen als elaboriert (Wang et al. 1995). Dies könnte auf sich spät entwickelnde Sprachfähigkeiten hindeuten. Es wird vermutet, dass ab 11 Jahren Veränderungen stattfinden, durch die das typische Profil …
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Language and conflict detection in the development of executive function
The ability to override habit and exercise conscious control over thought, emotion and action, termed `executive function' (EF), is a defining feature of human cognition. While a great deal is understood about the underlying cognitive processes and neural substrates of EF, much remains unknown …
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Said the River: The Confluence of Ecotheology and Water
… environmental advocates, as well as scientists and engineers. Water experts have approached water issues from a scientific and engineering framework, which has led them to preference material and technical solutions. Yet those solutions have been insufficient. The interdisciplinary field of …
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