To investigate if perception of changes in bar velocity (PCV) can be used as a substitute for tracking devices commonly to monitor resistance-exercises. Twenty-one professional male soccer athletes (21±4 years) first went through load-power profile assessment determine their optimal power load the back-squat. In next three experimental sessions, completed four sets six repetitions loaded with l...

Recency and repetition are two factors that have large effects on human memory performance. One way of viewing the beneficial impact of these variables on recognition memory is to assume that both factors modulate a unidimensional memory trace strength. Although previous functional neuroimaging studies have indicated that recency and repetition may modulate similar brain structures, particularl...

Verbal transformation effect – an auditory imagery task equivalent to Necker's cube in visual imagery – recruits a specific working memory, the so-called articulatory or phonological loop. Is this mechanism sensitive to articulatory control constraints, i.e. phase relationships between vowel and consonant gestures? In our experiment, 56 French students repeatedly pronounced aloud non-sense syll...

We tested the effect of Auditory-Motor Mapping Training (AMMT), a novel, intonation-based treatment for spoken language originally developed for minimally verbal (MV) children with autism, on a more-verbal child with autism. We compared this child's performance after 25 therapy sessions with that of: (1) a child matched on age, autism severity, and expressive language level who received 25 sess...

Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is a pediatric motor speech disorder characterized by poor motor planning/programming skills (ASHA, 2007). Treatment of CAS focuses on improving motoric processes for speech production. One important consideration within the therapeutic context is the complexity of speech targets. While many studies have examined complexity across linguistic domains (Gierut, 20...

This study examines repair practice by English as a Foreign Language ( EFL) college students to address the understanding problems that may cause communication breakdowns in classroom conversations. Conversational data were elicited from 40 second-semester performing jigsaw and information gap communicative tasks. Using conversation analysis theory methodological approach, recorded transcribed ...

Number facts are commonly assumed to be verbally stored in an associative multiplication fact retrieval network. Prominent evidence for this assumption comes from so-called operand-related errors (e.g., 4 × 6 = 28). However, little is known about the development of this network in children and its relation to verbal and non-verbal memories. In a longitudinal design, we explored elementary schoo...