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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"auditory comprehension"”.
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Reading experience predicts eye movements during online auditory comprehension
… in the language they experience to constrain comprehension as language unfolds, predicting that properties of the linguistic input, such as frequency and predictability, will affect online processing (MacDonald, Pearlmutter, & Seidenberg, 1994; Hale, 2001; MacDonald & Christiansen, 2002; Levy, …
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Auditory comprehension: from the voice up to the single word level
Auditory comprehension, the ability to understand spoken language, consists of a number of different auditory processing skills. In the five studies presented in this thesis I investigated both intact and impaired auditory comprehension at different levels: voice versus phoneme perception, as well …
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The Effects of Semantic Redundancy and Frequency of Word Occurrence on The Auditory Comprehension of Aphasics
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The Relationship Between the Prereading Abilities of Preschool Children and Their Home Literary Environments
… from the Diagnostic Reading Scales to assess auditory comprehension; a prereading skills battery based on research done by Hirsch, Jansky, and Langford; and a judgment rating based on Spache's Readiness Checklist. Parents of the children completed questionnaires dealing with various aspects …
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Time Windows for Indexing Language Comprehension in Adults With and Without Aphasia
… study incorporating the Multiple Choice Test of Auditory Comprehension (MCTAC). The MCTAC consists of eight subtests of linguistic stimuli of varying length and complexity. Mean proportion of fixation duration (PFDT) on the target item was observed across time windows with additive duration from …
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Language Dysfunction in Traumatic Brain Injury While Controlling for Effort
… Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-III Verbal Comprehension Index and the Vocabulary, Similarities, Information, and Comprehension subtests; the Boston Naming Test; the Phonemic and Semantic cue conditions of the Controlled Oral Word Association Test; the Auditory Comprehension subtest of the …
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Understanding and repeating words: evidence from aphasia
… underlying impairments in aphasic disorders of auditory comprehension and repetition. The findings are interpreted within a cognitive neuropsychological framework. Models of normal language processing are discussed in the light of this evidence. Information processing models of the lexicon …
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A Descriptive Analysis of the Relationship of Reading Performance and Selected Characteristics of Pupils with Special Educational Needs
… language, reading achievement, orientation, and auditory comprehension ratings of teachers. They were less alike on locus of control, reading readiness, spoken language ratings of teachers, and expressive language. The group differed most in number of children in the home, number of errors on the …
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Perspectives on ICT-delivered aphasia rehabilitation: exploring feasibility, usability and acceptance of this mode of rehabilitation
… ICT-delivered aphasia rehabilitation targeting auditory sentence comprehension deficits 2) explore the experiences and perspectives of people with aphasia engaging in this form of rehabilitation and 3) explore the perspectives of SLTs on the use of ICT in aphasia rehabilitation. Methods: The …
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Development of Age Normative Data for the Oral Language Sentence Imitation Screening Test
… Exam (DASE), and the Screening Test For Auditory Comprehension of Language (STACL) were used to determine if each child's articulation and receptive language abilities were within normal limits. Each subject's scores on the OLSIST were then compared with his/her score on the CELI to …
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A MEG investigation of lexical access in aphasia
… that occurs secondary to brain damage, and auditory comprehension deficits are a defining component of aphasia. At the single-word level, these deficits are thought to arise from impaired phonological processing, semantic representations, or both. The present study examined spreading lexical …
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Context Effects on Sublexical Processing in Older and Younger Neurologically Typical Adults
… development of new assessments or treatments for auditory comprehension deficits.