in the past decades, we have witnessed a renascence of interest in vocabulary assessment (bachman, 2000). however, most researchers have focused on testing breadth rather than depth of vocabulary or receptive-productive dimensions of vocabulary knowledge (read, 2000; nation, 2001; wesche & paribahkt, 1996). the present research investigates the predicting variables of vocabulary knowledge acros...

Alonso, Jose-Manuel and Harvey A. Swadlow. Thalamocortical specificity and the synthesis of sensory cortical receptive fields. J Neurophysiol 94: 26–32, 2005, doi:10.1152/jn.01281.2004. A persistent and fundamental question in sensory cortical physiology concerns the manner in which receptive fields of layer-4 neurons are synthesized from their thalamic inputs. According to a hierarchical model...

A fundamental question concerning representation of the visual world in our brain is how a cortical cell responds when presented with more than a single stimulus. We find supportive evidence that most cells presented with a pair of stimuli respond predominantly to one stimulus at a time, rather than a weighted average response. Traditionally, the firing rate is assumed to be a weighted average ...

The Third Meeting of the Federation of European Societies of Neuropsychology (ESN) took place at the Congress Centre in Basel, Switzerland, from 7–9 September 2011. The theme of this meeting, which assembled more than 400 clinicians and researchers from many European countries as well as from North America, Asia and Australia, was ‘Neuropsychology across the Lifespan’. This theme gave the oppor...

The work of Mircea Steriade demonstrated that the neocortex could synchronize large regions of the thalamus within 10-100 milliseconds (for review see Steriade and Timofeev, 2003, Steriade, 2005). Unlike the synchrony generated by the cortex, the retinal afferents synchronize a restricted group of neighboring thalamic neurons with <1-millisecond precision (Alonso et al., 1996, Yeh et al., 2003)...

Contrast-dependent interactions between classical (CRF) and non-classical regions (nCRF) of visual neuron receptive fields are well documented in primate visual cortex. Physiological models that describe CRF and nCRF interactions in single neurons have recently been applied to psychophysical measures of spatial summation and suppression in motion perception of young adults (Tadin & Lappin, 2005...

objectives: one of the factors predicting language impairments is an early limited lexicon in children. an early limited lexicon can also lead to limited performances in other language areas. this study was aimed to examine receptive and expressive vocabulary in 8-16 month-old children with cleft lip and palate as a predictor of development in other language areas. materials: the macarthur-bate...

Background Earlier it was believed that uterine fluid (UF) or secretions are not relevant after the embryo implantation in humans. However, recent reports suggest that uterine secretions continue to play important role till the first trimester of human pregnancy. Evidences also suggest that uf mirrors endometrial functions or dysfunctions. Considering the relevance of uf in endometrial function...