objective: attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (adhd) is a common mental disorder in adults that was under-diagnosed until recently. due to probable consequences of adhd such as occupational and educational dysfunctions and substance use, this disorder is becoming more and more of a concern. this study aimed to investigate adhd symptoms among students of zahedan university of medical scien...

than others. The study looked at comprehension and application of irony compared to subjective affective evaluation of irony reported by Polish-speaking adults and with relation to nonverbal intelligence measured with the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised-Polish versions (WAIS-R(PL), 2004). Fifty-four subjects aged 20-66 years (28 females and 26 males) participated in Study 1 on subject...

This is deceptive, however, because when housing costs are considered the number of recently arrived migrant income units from non-English-speaking countries with incomes below the poverty line rises to 18 000 or 12.3. per cent, which is nearly double the overall figure of 6.7 per cent for all adult income units. On an after-housing basis these recently arrived migrants represent 6.9 per cent o...

Abstract Little is known about the effects of bilingualism and distributional properties word relationships on children's development semantic convergence, operationalized as ability to produce associates that mirror adults’ responses in a association task. Forty-five Mandarin–English bilingual, 32 Spanish–English 28 English-speaking monolingual children, aged 4 7, produced three each 15 single...

This paper gives an overview of recent studies on the use of phonological means (accent placement and choice of accent type) to encode focus in Dutch-speaking children aged between 1;9 and 8 in both spontaneous and elicited production. It is argued that learning to use the phonological means to encode focus is a gradual process. In the light of current findings, a first proposal was put forward...

The "bilingual advantage" theory stipulates that constant selection and suppression between 2 languages results in enhanced executive control (EC). Behavioral studies of EC in bilinguals have employed wide-ranging tasks and report some conflicting results. To avoid concerns about tasks, we employed a different approach, measuring gray matter volume (GMV) in adult bilinguals, reasoning that any ...

Adults’ linguistic backgrounds influence their sequential statistical learning in an artificial language characterized by conflicting forward-going and backward-going transitional probabilities. English-speaking adults favor backward-going transitional probabilities, consistent with the head-initial structure of English, while Korean-speaking adults favor forwardgoing transitional probabilities...