The Effect of Gestural Facilitation on the Acquisition of Noun-Verb Labeling Responses with Severely Retarded Individuals

1983 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 20-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pieter C. Duker ◽  
Dorine van Grinsven ◽  
Winckelsteegh
Keyword(s):  
Potential Role ◽  
Verbal Stimuli ◽  
Verbal Responses

It is often stated that pairing of verbal stimuli and gestures may facilitate the acquisition of verbal responses. This hypothesis was tested with three severely developmentally retarded individuals. It was found that verbal training only and verbal training plus gestures both resulted in the acquisition of noun-verb labeling responses. So, the procedures did not differentially influence the percentage of correct verbal labeling responses. The finding that gestural responses, although never explicitely followed by reinforcement, were shown across all conditions was discussed in terms of their potential role in maintaining verbal reponses.

Latency of Echoic Verbal Responses by Three-Year-Old Children

1970 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
John H. Saxman ◽  
Warren H. Fay
Keyword(s):  
Response Latency ◽  
Verbal Response ◽  
Average Response ◽  
Verbal Stimuli ◽  
Verbal Comprehension ◽  
Verbal Responses ◽  
Routine Administration ◽  
Average Latency ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Average Response Latency

The echoic responses of 59 three-year-old children were tape recorded during the routine administration of a verbal comprehension test. They were unsolicited echoes of the examiner’s statements rather than requested imitations as in previous latency studies of verbal responses. The response latency distribution was skewed positively with the mean and median latencies occurring at 0.88 and 0.78 sees, respectively. Comparisons between average latency values at three levels of stimulus conceptual complexity did not result in significant differences. Average response latency values were found also not to be different for verbal stimuli intending a motor response or verbal stimuli intending a verbal response. The results tended to support descriptions of echolalia as a relatively simple verbal response though further research is indicated. It was concluded also that the echoic response latency is independent of the linguistic parameters of the eliciting stimulus.

scholarly journals Studies of Context Variables in a Verbal Episode

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Ueliton Santos Gomes ◽  
Ítalo Rodrigues Freitas Mendes ◽  
Sherman Calixto Prado ◽  
Antônio Carlos Godinho dos Santos ◽  
Elisa Tavares Sanábio Heck ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Single Case ◽  
Verbal Instruction ◽  
Single Case Design ◽  
Experimental Conditions ◽  
Verbal Stimuli ◽  
Verbal Responses ◽  
Verbal Instructions ◽  
Following Instructions ◽  
Context Variables ◽  
Case Design

Abstract: The goal of the present work was to investigate the relations between the independent variables, which in this study were verbal (instructions) and non-verbal (figures and images of objects) contexts and their effects in the dependent variable, which was the descriptive behavior of OBJECTS and ACTIONS in a total verbal episode. An experiment was conducted as a verify: 1) if verbal and non-verbal contexts exert control over verbal responses in a total verbal episode. This experiment was conducted with ten (10) participants with ages varying from 19 to 25 yeas. Each participant was exposed to 4 different experimental conditions (CONDITIONS 1, 2, 3 and 4) in a single-case design. During the CONDITIONS 1, 2 and 3 the following instructions was presented: “QUEIME LOGO SUA PONTA AÍ”, being that in the CONDITIONS 2 and 3 the following non-verbal stimuli were presented: MATCHES and a STRING (figures and images) and in the CONDITION 3: MATCHES and a CANDLE (figures and images). In the CONDITION 4 the instruction presented was “QUEIME LOGO ESSA PONTA AÍ. CALMA SENHOR, SENÃO ACABO ESTRAGANDO A ROUPA”. In each condition the participant was asked to write his answers. A categorization of the textual responses as referent to OBJECT or ACTION was used for analysis. We verified a considerable frequency of textual verbal responses that made reference to the related objects (figures/images) and actions. We concluded that both the verbal (instruction) and non-verbal (objects) contexts, when altered, controlled changes in the participants’ responses across the experimental conditions in a systematic way. Keywords: context. verbal episode. verbal behavior. behavior analysis. Experimental psychology -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Estudos de variáveis de contexto em um episódio verbal Resumo: O presente trabalho teve como objetivo investigar as relações entre as variáveis independentes, que neste estudo foram os contextos verbais (instrução) e não verbais (Figura/imagem de objeto) e seu efeito na variável dependente, que foram os comportamentos que descreviam respostas referentes à OBJETOS e a AÇÃO em um episódio verbal total. Foi realizado um experimento para verificar: 1) se contextos verbais (instruções) e não verbais (objetos) exercem controle sobre respostas verbais em um episódio verbal total. Este experimento foi realizado com dez (10) participantes com idades entre 19 a 25 anos. Cada participante foi submetido a 4 condições experimentais diferentes (CONDIÇÃO 1, 2, 3 e 4) em um delineamento de sujeito como seu próprio controle. Nas CONDIÇÕES 1, 2 e 3 foi apresentada a seguinte instrução “QUEIME LOGO ESTA PONTA AÍ”, sendo que nas CONDIÇÕES 2 e 3 foram apresentados os seguintes estímulos não verbais CONDIÇÃO 2: FÓSFORO e BARBANTE (Figuras/imagens) e na CONDIÇÃO 3: FÓSFORO e VELA (Figuras/imagens). E na CONDIÇÃO 4 foi apresentado a instrução “QUEIME LOGO ESTA PONTA AÍ. CALMA SENHOR, SENÃO ACABO ESTRAGANDO A ROUPA”. Em cada condição o participante foi solicitado a responder suas respostas por escrito. A análise foi realizada com a categorização das respostas textuais referentes a OBJETO e a AÇÃO. Verificou-se que uma frequência considerável de respostas verbais textuais que faziam referencia aos objetos relacionados (Figuras/imagens) a ações. Concluiu-se que tanto o contexto verbal (instrução) quanto o contexto não-verbal (objetos) quando alterados, também alteravam sistematicamente o responder dos participantes nas diversas condições experimentais. Palavras-Chave: contexto. episódio verbal. comportamento verbal. análise do comportamento. psicologia experimental -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ■ Text in Portuguese

Non-verbal responses to verbal stimuli

Synthese ◽  
1956 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 246-258
Author(s):  
P. H. Esser
Keyword(s):  
Verbal Stimuli ◽  
Verbal Responses

scholarly journals Token Reinforcement of Verbal Responses Controlled by Temporally Removed Verbal Stimuli

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee L. Mason ◽  
Donald Davis ◽  
Alonzo Andrews
Keyword(s):  
Token Reinforcement ◽  
Verbal Stimuli ◽  
Verbal Responses

POPDC proteins and cardiac function

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 1393-1404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Brand
Keyword(s):  
Potential Role ◽  
Striated Muscle ◽  
Short Review ◽  
Effector Proteins ◽  
Muscle Disease ◽  
Disease Genes ◽  
Protein Protein Interaction ◽  
Interaction Partners ◽  
And Function

Abstract The Popeye domain-containing gene family encodes a novel class of cAMP effector proteins in striated muscle tissue. In this short review, we first introduce the protein family and discuss their structure and function with an emphasis on their role in cyclic AMP signalling. Another focus of this review is the recently discovered role of POPDC genes as striated muscle disease genes, which have been associated with cardiac arrhythmia and muscular dystrophy. The pathological phenotypes observed in patients will be compared with phenotypes present in null and knockin mutations in zebrafish and mouse. A number of protein–protein interaction partners have been discovered and the potential role of POPDC proteins to control the subcellular localization and function of these interacting proteins will be discussed. Finally, we outline several areas, where research is urgently needed.

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