scholarly journals Limits on the contribution of priming to attentional control settings: Evidence from long-term memory control sets.

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. 1031
Author(s):  
Maria Giammarco ◽  
Jackson Hryciw ◽  
Blaire Dube ◽  
Naseem Al-Aidroos
2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. 306
Author(s):  
Maria Giammarco ◽  
Kate Turner ◽  
Emma Guild ◽  
Naseem Al-Aidroos

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (10) ◽  
pp. 952
Author(s):  
Lindsay Plater ◽  
Maria Giammarco ◽  
Naseem Al-Aidroos

2020 ◽  
Vol 149 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay Plater ◽  
Maria Giammarco ◽  
Chris Fiacconi ◽  
Naseem Al-Aidroos

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elise Thayer ◽  
Jeffrey R Stevens

Human-animal interaction has clear positive effects on people's affect and stress. But less is know about how animal interactions influence cognition. The aim of this study is to investigate whether interacting with animals improves cognitive performance, specifically executive functioning. To test this, we conducted two experiments in which we had participants self-report their affect and complete a series of cognitive tasks (long-term memory, attentional control, and working memory) before and after either a brief interaction with a dog or a control activity. We found that interacting with a dog improved positive affect and decreased negative affect, stress, and anxiety compared to the control condition. However, we did not find effects of animal interaction on long-term memory, attentional control, or working memory. Thus, we replicated existing findings providing evidence that interacting with animals can improve affect, but we did not find similar improvements in cognitive performance. These results suggest that either our interaction was not of sufficient dose to elicit effects on cognition or the mechanisms underlying effects of human-animal interaction on cognition differ from effects generated by other cognition-enhancing interventions such as exposure to nature. Future research should continue to grow the connection between nature exposure and human-animal interaction studies to build our understanding of cognition in response to animal interactions.


2014 ◽  
Vol 72 ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrich Mayr ◽  
David Kuhns ◽  
Jason Hubbard

Author(s):  
I. N. Akimova ◽  
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E. A. Akimova ◽  
N. M. Logacheva

Communication in any language involves first of all the formation of skills not only of speaking, but also of understanding speech by ear. Auding is a process of listening, recognition and understanding of a sounding speech. Auding is a receptive form of speech activity. The object of the audit is the other person's statement. The result of auding is an understanding or a misunderstanding of the statement. The auding process is directly dependent on the properties of the working memory, on the volume of the long-term memory, the ability of the trainee to predict and understand what is perceived, on the qualities of aural and logical memory. Control is needed in the formation of auding skills. The purpose of any control is to determine the level of formation of speech skills and how accurately and fully a particular audio text is heard by students. As one of the goals of teaching, auding is at the same time an important means of teaching. Auding promotes the mastery of verbal communication in a foreign language.


2016 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary C. Potter

AbstractRapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) of words or pictured scenes provides evidence for a large-capacity conceptual short-term memory (CSTM) that momentarily provides rich associated material from long-term memory, permitting rapid chunking (Potter 1993; 2009; 2012). In perception of scenes as well as language comprehension, we make use of knowledge that briefly exceeds the supposed limits of working memory.


2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 710-727
Author(s):  
Beula M. Magimairaj ◽  
Naveen K. Nagaraj ◽  
Alexander V. Sergeev ◽  
Natalie J. Benafield

Objectives School-age children with and without parent-reported listening difficulties (LiD) were compared on auditory processing, language, memory, and attention abilities. The objective was to extend what is known so far in the literature about children with LiD by using multiple measures and selective novel measures across the above areas. Design Twenty-six children who were reported by their parents as having LiD and 26 age-matched typically developing children completed clinical tests of auditory processing and multiple measures of language, attention, and memory. All children had normal-range pure-tone hearing thresholds bilaterally. Group differences were examined. Results In addition to significantly poorer speech-perception-in-noise scores, children with LiD had reduced speed and accuracy of word retrieval from long-term memory, poorer short-term memory, sentence recall, and inferencing ability. Statistically significant group differences were of moderate effect size; however, standard test scores of children with LiD were not clinically poor. No statistically significant group differences were observed in attention, working memory capacity, vocabulary, and nonverbal IQ. Conclusions Mild signal-to-noise ratio loss, as reflected by the group mean of children with LiD, supported the children's functional listening problems. In addition, children's relative weakness in select areas of language performance, short-term memory, and long-term memory lexical retrieval speed and accuracy added to previous research on evidence-based areas that need to be evaluated in children with LiD who almost always have heterogenous profiles. Importantly, the functional difficulties faced by children with LiD in relation to their test results indicated, to some extent, that commonly used assessments may not be adequately capturing the children's listening challenges. Supplemental Material https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.12808607


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