In the present study, we examined the extent to which encoding specificity influences the relation between individual differences in working memory capacity (WMC) and episodic recall. Participants performed a paired associates cued recall task in which a rhyme or a semantic judgment was made during encoding. During recall participants were presented with the cue word along with either a rhyme o...

professor abolghasem gorji was an outstanding professor and also an eminent jurist of contemporary iran whose valuable works were chiefly on jurisprudence and law and then on the quranic sciences – as his edition of quranic commentary jawami‘ al-jami‘ as well as annotations found in the end of a treatise entitled “criteria of veraciousness of commentaries” can clearly prove. presenting a biogra...

Children with a history of epilepsy are almost six times more likely than their unaffected siblings to be referred for speech or language therapy. However, the abnormalities in neural pathway that cause these delays are poorly understood. We recorded evoked fields using whole-head magnetoencephalography during real and non-word visual and auditory rhyme tasks in 15 children with non-localized c...

In typical readers, orthographic knowledge has been shown to influence phonological decisions. In the present study, we used visual rhyme and spelling tasks to investigate the interaction of orthographic and phonological information in adults with varying reading skill. Word pairs that shared both orthography and phonology (e.g., throat/boat), differed in both orthography and phonology (e.g., s...

Five groups of participants—healthy young, healthy young-old, healthy old-old, very mildly demented, and mildly demented individuals of the Alzheimer type (DAT)—participated in a 2-phase experiment that entailed a rhyme judgment task followed by a lexical decision task, in which half of the stimuli were earlier presented in the rhyme judgment task. The results of the rhyme task indicated that h...

We used eye-tracking to investigate lexical processing in aphasic participants by examining the fixation time course for rhyme (e.g., carrot-parrot) and cohort (e.g., beaker-beetle) competitors. Broca's aphasic participants exhibited larger rhyme competition effects than age-matched controls. A re-analysis of previously reported data (Yee, Blumstein, & Sedivy, 2008) confirmed that Wernicke's ap...

This article expresses how the Qur’an responds to reality of cultural society by examining multiculturalism aspects within revelations. study applied a thematic interpretation method through four steps: description themes, data compilation, organization, and analysis. The compiled were verses Qur’an, asbāb al-nuzul hadiths related theme. organized sorting based on their revelations classifying ...

quranic knowledge and injunctions can be explained and understood in three levels, and its full grasp will not be possible without considering the prophet¨s interpretation of the qur'an. it is necessary for an interpreter of the qur'an to have access to the prophet¨s interpretation. that is why imam ali, the rightful successor of the prophet, is regarded as the second interpreter or, ...