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The present study examined four kinds of vocabulary knowledge: Definitional knowledge, using vocabulary in context, relational knowledge, and morphological knowledge. A measure was developed that assessed all four kinds of vocabulary...
Two experiments tested the competing item-specific and semantic cohesion hypotheses of emotional memory enhancement. The item-specific hypothesis predicts that emotional words receive more item-specific and less relational processing...
The present study investigated the effects of an auditory distraction on the lexical semantic retrieval skills of ten monolingual English speaking children and ten Spanish-English speaking children between 3 and 5 years of age. The...
A subpopulation of neurons in the chick cochlear nucleus, nucleus magnocellularis (NM), dies following cochlea removal. Previous studies using a "candidate molecule" approach, in which molecules known to regulate cell death in other...
Fluency is the ease of processing information, and is commonly seen as a component of familiarity. The major evidence that fluency is a basis for familiarity is a paradigm where fluency is manipulated by briefly priming participants with...
Being reminded of a previous instance when encountering new items leads to a large memory benefit. However, little is known about what factors influence whether one will be reminded. In three experiments, I explored the influence of...
The present research suggests that people's bodily states affect their beliefs about free will. The more intensely people felt sexual desire, physical tiredness, and the need to urinate, the less they believed in free will (Study 1)....
Little is known about emotional processing in individuals with Histrionic Personality Disorder (HPD). Research shows that HPD is correlated with psychopathy and both disorders are associated with a deficit in emotional experience. If...
Memory for individual negative items, such as words and pictures, is consistently superior to memory for individual neutral items; however, recent research has found that relational memory for pairs of negative items is not enhanced...
This study investigated whether the Spanish language and literacy skills of 116 Spanish-speaking bilingual preschool children in Miami-Dade County had incremental validity in predicting their English early language and literacy skills...
Recent experiments in embodied social cognition have documented a number of links between physical and psychological states. Warm temperature sensations, in particular, have been the subject of much investigation. Many studies have...
Working memory (WM) and inhibitory control (IC) are considered related but separable executive functions (EFs) among adults and adolescents. Although available evidence seems to suggest that these two constructs have not yet diverged...
Mating is a socially rewarding experience that yields protective benefits to health, confers resistance to stress, and lowers anxiety-related behaviors in a number of mammalian species, including humans and rodents. These beneficial...
The effect of alcohol on performance during single-feature and conjunctive-features visual search tasks was examined in 18 normal, young adult participants (nine women), using a counterbalanced, within-subjects design that examined...
In this Dissertation, I detail how two vocal motor pathways (vocal motor pathway and anterior forebrain pathway) contribute to the vocal production in zebra finch adult song. I first describe a model of rapid dissolution and recovery...
The aim of the present study was to examine the validity of classifying juvenile sexual offenders (JSO) by victim age based subgroups. JSOs were categorized into one of three subgroups (those who only offend against children, those who...
Improving group cooperation and coordination is one of the fundamental functions served by group leaders. Leaders therefore often work to increase the positive social bonds among group members. In the present research, the authors...
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