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Yigitoglu, Nur. "Exploring Second Language Writing Teacher Cognition." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/alesl_diss/17.

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Second language (L2) teacher cognition has in recent years attracted the attention of an increasing number of researchers. While much L2 teacher cognition research focuses on the teaching of grammar (e.g. Phipps & Borg, 2009), L2 writing teacher cognition has received considerably less attention. It has, however, been suggested that L2 writing teachers’ perceptions of themselves as writers (Casanave, 2004) and as language learners may play a crucial role in their decision making as teachers of L2 writing. In an attempt to address this gap in the L2 teacher cognition literature, this study inve

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Winters, James Richard. "Context, cognition and communication in language." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/23546.

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Questions pertaining to the unique structure and organisation of language have a long history in the field of linguistics. In recent years, researchers have explored cultural evolutionary explanations, showing how language structure emerges from weak biases amplified over repeated patterns of learning and use. One outstanding issue in these frameworks is accounting for the role of context. In particular, many linguistic phenomena are said to to be context-dependent; interpretation does not take place in a void, and requires enrichment from the current state of the conversation, the physical si

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Borg, Simon. "Teacher cognition in second language grammar teaching." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.284617.

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Chen, Zen-Yong. "Language, cognition and the corpus callosum in adults with developmental language disorders." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.412721.

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Baker, Amanda A. "Pronunciation Pedagogy: Second Language Teacher Cognition and Practice." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/alesl_diss/16.

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Over the past few decades, increasing research has examined the cognitions (knowledge and beliefs) of second language (L2) teachers. Such efforts have provided insight into what constitutes teachers' beliefs and knowledge about teaching, how these cognitions have developed and how they are reflected in classroom practice (see Borg, 2006). Although numerous studies have been conducted into the curricular areas of L2 grammar and, to a lesser extent, L2 literacy, far fewer have examined L2 teachers' cognitions concerning L2 pronunciation instruction. The purpose of the present study, therefore, w

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Bonfieni, Michela. "Bilingual continuum : mutual effects of language and cognition." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/31365.

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One of the main findings of research on bilingualism in the last twenty years is the fact that both languages are always active, to some extent, and interact with each other. This interaction gives rise to a computationally complex feature of the bilingual mind, namely that the two languages compete with each other. Many studies have addressed the linguistic consequences of this competition (e.g. differences in linguistic attainment), while others have instead addressed the cognitive consequences (e.g. training effects on cognitive control). These two strands of research, when brought together

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Poss, Nicholas. "Hmong Music and Language Cognition: An Interdisciplinary Investigation." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1332472729.

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Ferdinand, Vanessa Anne. "Inductive evolution : cognition, culture, and regularity in language." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/11741.

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Cultural artifacts, such as language, survive and replicate by passing from mind to mind. Cultural evolution always proceeds by an inductive process, where behaviors are never directly copied, but reverse engineered by the cognitive mechanisms involved in learning and production. I will refer to this type of evolutionary change as inductive evolution and explain how this represents a broader class of evolutionary processes that can include both neutral and selective evolution. This thesis takes a mechanistic approach to understanding the forces of evolution underlying change in culture over ti

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Lundine, Jennifer Peterson. "The Language of Learning: Expository Discourse and the Influences of Cognition and Language." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1466118192.

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Irvine-Niakaris, Christine. "Teaching reading in English as a foreign language : a language teacher cognition study." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.681501.

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Language teacher cognition research originated from teacher cognition studies in general education. It is a well-established domain of research concerned with what teachers think, know and believe and the relationship of these mental constructs to their classroom practice. Although research in the field of language teaching cognition has proliferated in the last 10 years, particularly in the teaching of grammar, there are very few studies on the teaching of reading in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and no specific studies which relate to the teaching of advanced level reading to adults in

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Chong, Janice Ellen. "Changes in second language and cognition through the lifespan." University of Western Australia. School of Psychology, 2007. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0102.

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Those who work with older people frequently report that people who have learned a second language appear to lose facility in that language as they age. This phenomenon has also been observed by the friends and relatives of those older persons who have learned more than one language. However, there is very little research investigating changes in second (or other) languages across the lifespan. In contrast, extensive research exploring first language change in ageing has provided ample evidence of patterns of change in first language abilities across the lifespan. There is also much research li

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Cohen, Randi Weisberger. "The relationship between cognitive profiles and proficiency in Spanish of first-year high school students." Connect to resource, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1264533917.

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Lowry, Mark D. "Evaluating Theories of Bilingual Language Control Using Computational Models." Scholar Commons, 2019. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7852.

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Bilingual language control refers to how bilinguals are able to speak exclusively in one language without the unintended language intruding. Two prominent verbal theories of bilingual language control have been proposed by researchers: the inhibitory control model (ICM) and the lexical selection mechanism model (LSM). The ICM posits that domain-general inhibition is employed in order to suppress the unintended language’s activation. The LSM posits that inhibition is not used; rather a lexical selection mechanism targets only the intended language’s words. In order to better test the theories’

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De, Villiers Tanya. "Mind and language : evolution in contemporary theories of cognition." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1092.

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Fancourt, Amy. "Exploring musical cognition in children with specific language impairment." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2013. http://research.gold.ac.uk/10151/.

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This aim of this thesis was to investigate musical cognition in children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) and typical development. The studies carried out utilised a combination of standardised assessments and experimental measures to investigate low-level perceptual to higher-order musical competencies. The theoretical framework motivating the studies comes from three broad theoretical accounts that differentially accentuate the auditory processing, cognitive and linguistic deficits in children with SLI, as well as from neuroimaging and behavioural studies showing that aspects of music

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Flumini, Andrea <1978&gt. "Cognition in context: Evidence on affordances and verbal language." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2014. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/6449/.

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This thesis investigated affordances and verbal language to demonstrate the flexibility of embodied simulation processes. Starting from the assumption that both object/action understanding and language comprehension are tied to the context in which they take place, six studies clarified the factors that modulate simulation. The studies in chapter 4 and 5 investigated affordance activation in complex scenes, revealing the strong influence of the visual context, which included either objects and actions, on compatibility effects. The study in chapter 6 compared the simulation triggered by visual

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Saldana, Carmen Catalina. "Simplifying linguistic complexity : culture and cognition in language evolution." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/31395.

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Languages are culturally transmitted through a repeated cycle of learning and communicative interaction. These two aspects of cultural transmission impose (at least) three interacting pressures that can shape the evolution of linguistic structure: a pressure for learnability, a pressure for expressivity, and a pressure for coordination amongst users in a linguistic community. This thesis considers how these sometimes competing pressures impact linguistic complexity across cultural time. Using artificial language and iterated learning experimental paradigms, I investigate the conditions under w

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Humphries, Stacey Alexandra. "Gestural communication in Parkinson's disease : language, action and cognition." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.692611.

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Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative condition which results in severe motor impairment. Deterioration in multiple domains of cognition is another hallmark of PD. Together, these motor and cognitive impairments impact substantially on language and communication. Co-speech gestures are a form of action and are also part of linguistic processes, yet have rarely been explored in PD. Gestures can provide imagistic depictions of concepts described by speech and contribute to communication in healthy individuals. They rely on visual, spatial, and motor simulations and imagery, which may b

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Roberts, Anna I. "Emerging language : cognition and gestural communication in wild and language trained chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/3091.

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An important element in understanding the evolutionary origin of human language is to explore homologous traits in cognition and communication between primates and humans (Burling, 1993, Hewes, 1973). One proposed modality of language evolution is that of gestural communication, defined as communicative movements of hands without using or touching objects (de Waal, 2003). While homologies between primate calls and language have been relatively well explored, we still have a limited understanding of how cognitive abilities may have shaped the characteristics of primate gestures (Corballis, 2003

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Jarvis, Catherine Ellen. "Case, cognition and categorization : a second language acquisition study of Russian /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Stadelmann, Vera [Verfasser]. "Language, cognition, interaction : Conceptual blending as discursive practice / Vera Stadelmann." Gießen : Universitätsbibliothek, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1064024068/34.

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Connell, Timothy M. "The role of the basal ganglia in cognition and language." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2001. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phc75235.pdf.

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Bibliography: p. 379-435. A thesis which aims to clarify the role of the basal ganglia in higher mental processes by investigating the role of the dorsolateral prefrontal circuit, the lateral orbital frontal circuit and the anterior cingulate circuit and other language related circuitry. Twenty five right-handed people with verified lesions of this circuitry were tested for attention, perfomance of complex motor programs, executive functions, memory and language skills and compared to a control group. It was found that mental processing associated with the basal cortical circuitry was orchestr

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Brown, Lisa Jane. "The effects of severe global deprivation on language and cognition." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2004. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/17850/.

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The impetus for this research derives largely from the need to understand the course of human ontogenetic development in abnormal circumstances. The specific focus of the research is the emergence of language and cognition and social and communicative behaviour in children who have suffered extreme global deprivation at an early age. The crucial research issue, however, concerns the extent to which normal language acquisition is still possible given an initial environment that is largely language-less and lacking in social stimulation and interaction. In the early 1990s, thousands of cases of

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Long, Madeleine Rebecca Anne. "Lifelong interplay between language and cognition : from language learning to perspective-taking : new insights into the ageing mind." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/31398.

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A fundamental question in language research is the extent to which linguistic and cognitive systems interact. The aim of this thesis is to explore that relationship across new contexts and over the entire adult lifespan. This work centers on two branches of empirical research: the first is an investigation into the impact of later-life language learning on cognitive ageing (chapters 2-4), and the second examines the cognitive mechanisms underlying communicative perspective-taking from young adulthood into old age (chapter 5). The results of these chapters demonstrate that changes to one's ling

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Fraser, Christopher J. "Similarity and standards : language, cognition, and action in Chinese and western thought /." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B20933964.

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Kalnberzina, Vita. "The interaction between affect and meta-cognition in language use : the case of foreign language anxiety." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.404260.

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O'Rourke, Thomas. "A role for the glutamate system in modern human language and cognition." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/672533.

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The human capacity for language is made up of various cognitive subcomponents, the convergence of which allows our species a unique ability to relay our thoughts. Identifying these subcomponents and establishing how they mechanistically interact is a necessary step in approaching any satisfactory explanation for how language evolved. Even given the unique combination of underlying parts that make up the language faculty, comparative research has individuated many language-relevant traits in other species that can serve as useful models to study the biological basis of their human equivalents.

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VAN, CLEAVE MATTHEW JAMES. "THE ROLE OF LANGUAGE IN COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1186060901.

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MARCILESE, MERCEDES. "ON THE ROLE OF LANGUAGE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIGHER COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS: REPRESENTATION, RECURSION AND NUMERICAL COGNITION." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2011. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=17819@1.

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CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO<br>Esta tese investiga a possível relação existente entre dois aspectos tidos como centrais na cognição humana: a capacidade de qualquer criança sem impedimentos de ordem neurológica ou social adquirir uma língua e a possibilidade de habilidades cognitivas superiores que, tais como a língua, são específicas da espécie, serem desenvolvidas. No que tange às habilidades superiores, são focalizadas habilidades numéricas dependentes do cálculo com quantidades exatas e a habilidade de integrar informações provenientes de diferentes domíni

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Schalling, Ellika. "Speech, voice, language and cognition in individuals with spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) /." Stockholm, 2007. http://diss.kib.ki.se/2007/978-91-7357-221-7/.

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Egger, Evelyn. "Development of biliteracy in bilingual children : effects on language and cognition." Thesis, University of Reading, 2017. http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/78760/.

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The present thesis provides a comprehensive assessment of Greek-English bilingual children’s language and literacy skills in both languages as well as their cognitive abilities. Moreover, patterns of predictors of word reading and reading comprehension are compared between monolinguals and bilinguals, and across the two languages. Different indices of biliteracy were calculated to assess their predictive validity with regard to oral language and executive function skills. Results showed clear bilingual profile effects which were more pronounced in the minority language Greek. Vocabulary was fo

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Cullen-Conway, Margaret Anne. "Exploring Cognition, Language, and Emergent Literacy in Young Children with Asthma." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1587571251522506.

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DeChant, Ryan C. "Mindreading, Language and Simulation." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/philosophy_theses/74.

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Mindreading is the capacity to attribute psychological states to others and to use those attributions to explain, predict, and understand others’ behaviors. In the past thirty years, mindreading has become the topic of substantial interdisciplinary research and theorizing, with philosophers, psychologists and, more recently, neuroscientists, all contributing to the debate about the nature of the neuropsychological mechanisms that constitute the capacity for mindreading. In this thesis I push this debate forward by using recent results from developmental psychology as the basis for critiques of

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Hobbs, Kathryn Virginia. "Infants' and toddlers' reasoning about others: Connections to prosocial development and language." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:13065030.

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Often overlooked in the study of theory of mind (ToM) development, the understanding of motivational states, such as goals and desires, is both an important capacity in its own right and also a likely precursor to more advanced social and cognitive skills. This dissertation explored infants' and toddlers' reasoning about agents' motivational states, linking those representations to the domains of language and prosocial development. Parts I and II of the dissertation asked about toddlers' abilities to use representations of others' motivational states to guide helping behaviors. Part I used a s

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Klein, Caronia. "It's not catharsis, it's cognition : a new approach to emotion in composition /." View online, 2010. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131524472.pdf.

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McVeigh, Claire. "Language and cognition in developing bilinguals : examing working memory and executive control." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.602587.

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The overall research aim was to examine the cognitive development of Irish and English speaking developing bilingual children. Caveats from previous research indicated the importance of considering language factors such as acquisition, proficiency and use, which informed a further research aim of conducting a comprehensive examination of language background information for immersion educated children, through multiple sources. Working memory and executive control were of particular research interest as prior international " research with developing bilingual children produced mixed findings fo

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Athanasopoulos, Panagiotis. "The effects of second language acquisition on cognition : the case of number." Thesis, University of Essex, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.426017.

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Shannon-Gutierrez, Priscilla. "The relationship of education policy to language and cognition in deaf children." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1998. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1472.

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Mosdell, Jill. "Development and validation of a neurocognitive screening battery : language and spatial cognition." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10644.

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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 108-121).<br>There is great need for an effective neurocognitive screening tool in South Africa. The outdated and diagnostically limited Mini Mental State Exam (MMSE) is currently the only widespread form of cognitive screening. This and virtually all other neurocognitive tests widely used in South Mrica were developed in Europe and North America and are inappropriate for South Africa's population. The present study aided in the development and validation of the first theory-driven neurocognitive screening tool specifically designed for South African

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Almutrafi, Fatimah. "Language and cognition : effects of grammatical gender on the categorisation of objects." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/3047.

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One of the key testing grounds for investigating linguistic relativity is to study the effects of grammatical gender on speakers of two languages (bilinguals) who have the category of gender present in only one of their languages. Previous studies have shown that speakers of grammatically gendered languages think of objects as being either masculine or feminine according to the grammatical gender of the objects’ nouns. This study investigates the possible effects of grammatical gender on Arabic-English bilinguals and on two ‘control’ monolingual speakers of Arabic and English. Specifically, tw

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Khan, Manizeh. "Thinking in Words: Implicit Verbal Activation in Children and Adults." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10786.

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The relationship between language and thought has long been a topic of interest and controversy in cognitive science. In this dissertation, I address one aspect of this issue: when is language present during internal thought? Simple introspection tells us that we sometimes use inner speech, but is this the exception or the rule? Using eye-tracking measures, we investigated whether infants, children and adults implicitly activate verbal labels while silently looking at pictures of objects. In the first study, 4-year-olds, 7-year-olds and adults completed a working memory task. While the two old

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Harrison, Avery. "Exploring Measurement Estimation Through Learners Actions, Language, and Gestures." Digital WPI, 2019. https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/etd-theses/1282.

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This thesis intends to advance educational research by providing exploratory insights about the roles of, and relationships between, the actions, language, and gestures of college and elementary-aged students surrounding measurement estimation. To the best of my knowledge, prior research has examined the role of speech and gestures as they relate to areas of mathematics such as algebra and geometry, however, this work has not been extended to the area of measurement. Similarly, language and gesture have been explored but the three-way interplay between actions during problem-solving,

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Rewaj, Phillipa Jane. "Nature of language impairment in motor neurone disease." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9744.

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Background: Language impairment associated with Motor Neurone Disease (MND) has been documented since the late 19th century, yet little is understood about the pervasiveness or nature of these deficits. The common clinical view among healthcare professionals is that communication difficulties can be attributed solely to the motor speech disorder dysarthria. Recent literature raises the possibility of more central processing deficits. Impairments in naming ability and comprehension of complex grammatical constructs have been frequently reported in some patients with MND. However, there is now g

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Tio, Yee Pin. "THE LINK BETWEEN LANGUAGE EXPERIENCE AND COGNITION: THE LEARNING OF CHINESE NUMERAL CLASSIFIERS AND ITS IMPACT ON COGNITIVE PROCESSING." OpenSIUC, 2020. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1880.

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In recent years, within research on the relationship between language and cognition, there has been growing interest in examining how language-specific features, such as Mandarin Chinese numeral classifiers (NCs), influence cognitive processing (Kuo & Sera, 2009; Srinivasan, 2010). This dissertation project aims to understand the impact of language learning on cognitive processing of categorization, inhibition, and count-mass distinction. Two experiments were conducted to investigate the extent to which potential moderator variables mediate the impact of language on the cognitive outcome measu

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Paterson, Helena M. "The perception and cognition of emotion from motion." Thesis, Connect to e-thesis, 2002. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1072/.

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Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Glasgow, 2002.<br>Ph.D. thesis submitted to the Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow, 2002. Includes bibliographical references. Print version also available.

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MacDonald, R. G. "Gaze cues and language in communication." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2014. https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/476122c4-9264-44aa-8f08-c70f6dbb14d8.

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During collaboration, people communicate using verbal and non-verbal cues, including gaze cues. Spoken language is usually the primary medium of communication in these interactions, yet despite this co-occurrence of speech and gaze cueing, most experiments have used paradigms without language. Furthermore, previous research has shown that myriad social factors influence behaviour during interactions, yet most studies investigating responses to gaze have been conducted in a lab, far removed from any natural interaction. It was the aim of this thesis to investigate the relationship between langu

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Moxley-Paquette, Elizabeth Ann. "Testing a Structural Equation Model of Language-based Cognitive Fitness." ScholarWorks, 2014. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1545.

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The normative development of language is often taken for granted, yet problems with language development can result in stress for the individual and family. A challenge with these language development problems lies within the contemporary education system, which assumes that children have appropriate skills when they begin school. The purpose of the study was to test a theoretical model of language readiness known as language-based cognitive fitness, which includes measures associated with structural concepts of language involving receptive language, expressive language, spontaneous narrative

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Lobina, Bona David James. "Recursion in cognition: a computational investigation into the representation and processing of language." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/81711.

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La recursividad entendida como auto-referencia se puede aplicar a varios constructos de las ciencias cognitivas, como las definiciones teóricas, los procedimientos mecánicos, los procesos de cálculo (sean éstos abstractos o concretos) o las estructuras. La recursividad es una propiedad central tanto del procedimiento mecánico que subyace a la facultad del lenguaje como de las estructuras que esta facultad genera. Sin embargo, tanto las derivaciones sintácticas de la gramática, que constituyen un proceso computacional abstracto, como las estrategias de procesamiento del parser, que son un proce

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Ramos, Sara da Silva. "Grammatical gender in language and cognition : a comparison between Portugese and English speakers." Thesis, University of Essex, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.446016.

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Viger, Christopher David. "Mental content in a physical world : an alternative to mentalese." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=35953.

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In an attempt to show how rational explanation of human and animal behaviour has a place in the scientific explanation of our physical world, Fodor advances the language of thought hypothesis. The purpose of this dissertation is to argue that, contrary to the language of thought hypothesis, we need not possess a linguistic internal representational system distinct from any natural language to serve as the medium of thinking. I accept that we have an internal representational system, but by analyzing Fodor's theory of content, I show Fodor's argument that the internal system must be as expressi

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