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What makes working memory spans so predictive of high-level cognition?
2005
Working memory (WM) span tasks involving a complex activity performed concurrently with item retention have proven to be good predictors of high-level cognitive performance. The present study demonstrates that replacing these complex self-paced activities with simpler but computer-paced processes, such as reading successive letters, yields more predictive WM span measures. This finding suggests that WM span tasks evaluate a fundamental capacity that underpins complex as well as elementary cognitive processes. Moreover, the higher predictive power of computer-paced WM span tasks suggests that strategic factors do not contribute to the relationship between WM spans and high-level cognition.
Development and Retest Reliability of a German Version of the Sexual Behaviour Questionnaire (SBQ-G)
2007
A German version of the Sexual Behaviour Questionnaire (SBQ-G) is a short self-rating instrument covering the four domains of sexual function using colloquial words. Frequency of sexual dysfunction was counted and chance-corrected retest reliability was calculated. Eleven women and 12 men participated. Reception of the SBQ-G was favourable and more females than males reported at least moderate sexual dysfunction. Sexual arousal and ability to enjoy sex showed the lowest retest stability. The SBQ-G is a recommendable clinical instrument with high practicability and satisfactory retest reliability. However, gender differences and a high variability of sexual functioning in healthy subjects sh…
Precocity of the acquisition of language and type II spinal muscular atrophy in 3–4-year-old children: a study of 12 cases
2005
We studied the development of language in 3-4-year-old children with type II spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) (10 boys and two girls), aged 36-47 months (mean age 39.83+/-4.68 months) and compared our findings to a control group of 26 healthy children (mean age 40.00+/-4.43 months, 22 boys and four girls). We carried out a lexicogrammatical analysis of the data and we observed significant differences in the "vocabulary", "nouns", "verbs", "words" and "adverbs" variables between the children with SMA and the controls. Three- to four-year-old children suffering from type II spinal muscular atrophy, an autosomal genetic disease causing severe physical handicap (motor, functional, respiratory), pr…
Minimum information about a biofilm experiment (MIABiE): standards for reporting experiments and data on sessile microbial communities living at inte…
2014
The minimum information about a biofilm experiment (MIABiE) initiative has arisen from the need to find an adequate and scientifically sound way to control the quality of the documentation accompanying the public deposition of biofilm-related data, particularly those obtained using high-throughput devices and techniques. Thereby, the MIABiE consortium has initiated the identification and organization of a set of modules containing the minimum information that needs to be reported to guarantee the interpretability and independent verification of experimental results and their integration with knowledge coming from other fields. MIABiE does not intend to propose specific standards on how biof…
Angļu valodas vārdu krājuma attīstīšanas veidi tehnikuma ēdināšanas pakalpojumu specialitātes audzēkņu apmācībā
2019
Dotā zinātniskā pētījuma temats ir izpētīt dažādus angļu valodas vārdu krājuma attīstīšanas veidus tehnikuma ēdināšanas pakalpojumu specialitātes audzēkņu apmācībā. Viena no problēmām apgūstot profesionālo vārdu krājumu ir, ka nav pietiekošu mācību materiālu, kas palīdzētu audzēkņiem uzlabot to un mūsdienu skolēniem vairs nepatīk tradicionālā mācīšanās no grāmatām, kā tas bija agrāk. Bez tam, neviens mācību līdzeklis nepievērš uzmanību skolēnu mācīšanās stiliem, kas ietekmē viņu mācīšanās rezultātus. Pamatojoties uz teorētiskās literatūras izpēti par angļu valodas mācīšanu īpašiem nolūkiem, vārdu krājuma attīstīšanu vispārīgajā un profesionālajā angļu valodā un dažādiem mācīšanās stiliem, t…
Development and Practical Use of a Medical Vocabulary-Thesaurus-Dictionary for Patient Empowerment
2018
Health empowerment can be obtained through an informative and educational intervention to increase one's ability to think critically and act autonomously. Medical texts are usually written by professionals and can be difficulty understood by non experts who do not have the same skills and vocabularies. Thus, it would be desirable to have an online medical vocabulary-thesaurus-dictionary that can help a non expert to easily find the consumer equivalent of medical (technical) terms and additional consumer information. To this end, we have developed an online multilingual medical vocabulary-thesaurus-dictionary by interconnecting different online sources, i.e., medical vocabularies to create a…
Izglītojošās spēles vārdu krājuma bagātināšanai angļu valodas stundās pieaugušajiem
2017
Diplomdarba autors pasniedzēju darbības novērošanas procesā atzīmēja, ka izglītojošo spēļu izmantošana angļu valodas jauniešu apmācībā bieži atstāta novartā. Tādēļ, šī darba mērķis bija pētījums: kā izglītojošās spēles bagātina jauniešu vārdu krājumu angļu valodas nodarbībās. Pētījuma metode ir gadījumu izpēte, kas ietver pārbaudes, lai apkopotu rezultātus pēc nodarbībām, izmantojot izglītojošās spēles, un darba lapas ar vingrinājumiem, aptauju par iemācīto leksiku un diskusiju, lai saņemtu atsauksmes no studējošiem. Tika atrasts, ka izglītojošo spēļu ietekmei uz angļu valodas apmācību ir daudz priekšrocību, tādas kā: koncentrācijas palielināšanos un uzmanības ilguma palielināšanos, nogurum…
Daudzveidīgo spēju teorija angļu valodas vārdu krājuma apguves veicināšanai 5. klasē
2017
Diplomdarbā autore aplūko daudzveidīgo spēju teoriju angļu valodas vārdu krājuma apguves veicināšanai stundās pamatskolā. Angļu valodas vārdu krājuma apguve tiek uzskatīta par skolēnu galveno izaicinājumu. Ņemot vērā, ka katram skolēnam piemīt savs mācīšanās veids, ikviens izprot pasauli un uzlabo valodas prasmes savādāk, tika sagatavoti dažādi jauno vārdu prezentēšanas un praktizēšanas uzdevumi, kas balstīti uz daudzveidīgo spēju teoriju. Diplomdarba mērķis ir izpētīt, kā daudzveidīgo spēju teorija var tikt izmantota angļu valodas vārdu krājuma apguves veicināšanā 5.klasē. Lai sasniegtu Diplomdarbā izvirzīto mērķi, tika veikts teorētiskās literatūras apkopojums un, kā pētniecības metode, t…
Sequential effects in the lexical decision task: the role of the item frequency of the previous trial.
2003
Two lexical decision experiments were conducted to determine whether there is a specific, localized influence of the item frequency of consecutive trials (i.e., first-order sequential effects) when the trials are not related to each other. Both low-frequency words and nonwords were influenced by the frequency of the precursor word (Experiment 1). In contrast, high-frequency words showed little sensitivity to the frequency of the precursor word (Experiment 2), although they showed longer reaction times for word trials preceded by a nonword trial. The presence of sequential effects in the lexical decision task suggests that participants shift their response criteria on a trial-by-trial basis.
The frequency effect for pseudowords in the lexical decision task
2005
Four experiments were designed to investigate whether the frequency of words used to create pseudowords plays an important role in lexical decision. Computational models of the lexical decision task (e.g., the dual route cascaded model and the multiple read-out model) predict that latencies to low-frequency pseudowords should be faster than latencies to high-frequency pseudowords. Consistent with this prediction, results showed that when the pseudowords were created by replacing one internal letter of the base word (Experiments 1 and 3), high-frequency pseudowords yielded slower latencies than low-frequency pseudowords. However, this effect occurred only in the leading edge of the response …