Although ventral parietal cortex (VPC) activations can be found in a variety of cognitive
domains, these activations have been typically attributed to cognitive operations specific to …

Working memory is characterized by neural activity that persists during the retention interval
of delay tasks. Despite the ubiquity of this delay activity across tasks, species and …

Page 1 OXFORD APPLIED LINGUISTICS The Psychology of Second Language Acquisition
Zoltán Dörnyei OXFORD ih The Ben Warren International House Trust Prize Winner 2009 Page …

The idea of one's memory" filling up" is a humorous misconception of how memory in
general is thought to work; it is actually has no capacity limit. However, the idea of a" full …

Recognizing printed words requires the mapping of graphic forms, which vary with writing
systems, to linguistic forms, which vary with languages. Using a newly developed meta …

We used the activation likelihood estimation (ALE) method to quantitatively synthesize data
from 19 published brain mapping studies of phonological processing in reading, six with …

Conduction aphasia is a language disorder characterized by frequent speech errors,
impaired verbatim repetition, a deficit in phonological short-term memory, and naming …

Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the speed and accuracy of accessing
representations of recently processed information. It documents the types of retrieval …

The phonological loop system of Baddeley and colleagues' Working Memory model is a
major accomplishment of the modern era of cognitive psychology. It was one of the first …

The cerebellum is often active in imaging studies of verbal working memory, consistent with
a putative role in articulatory rehearsal. While patients with cerebellar damage occasionally …