Identification of visually presented objects and words is facilitated by implicit memory for past visual experiences with those items. Several behavioral and neuroimaging studies suggest that this form of memory is dependent on perceptual processes localized in the right occipital lobe. We tested this claim by examining implicit memory in patients with extensive right occipital lobe lesions, us...

The purpose of this study was to examine speech sound production errors in an aphasic subject in an attempt to determine the level of speech production processing from which such errors arose. Speech production tasks included: 1) the Boston Naming Test; 2) picture descriptions from the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination, the Western Aphasia Battery and the Minnesota Test for Differential Dia...

dependence on computers and internet has given birth to digital literacy. however, research into its influences on the reading process is still in its infancy. to fill the gap, this study was designed to investigate the ways in which text presentation mode (paper vs. digital) affects reading comprehension, as well as reading attitudes. to this end, a sample of 30 male and female english major s...

This paper presented two complex span tasks in Persian as measures of working memory capacity (WMC). Firstly, the construct of working memory (WM) and possible WM measures that could assess this construct efficiently were critically reviewed. Accordingly, as measures of domain-general components of WM, a reading span task and an operation span task which were documented to assess this construct...

This research casts the problem of exploration into one of collecting information and enables the completion of complex exploration tasks by considering multiple sources of information. This paper describes a methodology to solve exploration tasks which computes the expected information gain, for each information source, from a sensor reading. It also proposes a greedy search algorithm to colle...