Biomedical subjects

V Mildner

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Temporal structure of spoken-word recognition in Croatian in light of the cohort theory.

This article addresses two issues related to spoken-word recognition: the relationship between the amount of acoustic material and the degree of recognizability at the lexical and phonemic levels and the influence of segmentation ambiguities on the speed and success of the recognition process. The analyses were done on Croatian language materials using the gating paradigm. The results indicate that the degree of recognizability is directly proportional to signal duration and inversely proportional to the complexity of segmentation. A combination of bottom-up and top-down processing is involved in successful word recognition.

Cognition↗

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Some quick arithmetic.

Mathematical abilities for the four simple arithmetic operations were studied on a sample of 53 female right-handers. True and false statements were presented auditorily and a manual response was required as to the trueness of the statements. Response times, accuracy, and laterality index showed no significant ear advantage, but the responses to true statements were significantly faster than to the false ones. The shortest response times were found for addition problems, and the longest for subtractions. The correlation between the size of the difference between the two operands and response time was not conclusive but the trend was unexpectedly positive.

Adolescent↗

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Is the hand to speech what speech is to the hand?

Interference between the manual and the verbal performance on two types of concurrent verbal-manual tasks was studied on a sample of 48 female right-handers. The more complex verbal task (storytelling) affected both hands significantly, the less complex (essentially phonemic) task affected only the right hand, with insignificant negative influence on the left-hand performance. No significant reciprocal effects of the motor task on verbalization were found.

Adult↗