Vocabulary

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A case for developing domain-specific vocabularies for extracting suicide factors from healthcare notes. 
  • A novel method for measuring learning opportunities provided by parents to young children with autism spectrum disorder. 
  • A study of the science of taste: on the origins and influence of the core ideas. 
  • ACCF/AHA 2011 key data elements and definitions of a base cardiovascular vocabulary for electronic health records: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Data Standards. 
  • Acquiring the transitive construction in English: the role of animacy and pronouns. 
  • Adult age differences in the use of distractor homogeneity during visual search. 
  • Adult age differences in visual word identification: functional neuroanatomy by positron emission tomography. 
  • Age-related differences in medial temporal lobe involvement during conceptual fluency. 
  • Aging-related gains and losses associated with word production in connected speech. 
  • An intricate relationship between executive function and second-language ability in a cohort of Uyghur-Chinese bilingual children. 
  • Are There Linguistic Markers of Suicidal Writing That Can Predict the Course of Treatment? A Repeated Measures Longitudinal Analysis. 
  • At 6-9 months, human infants know the meanings of many common nouns. 
  • Brief report: effect of intravenous methotrexate dose and infusion rate on neuropsychological function one year after diagnosis of acute lymphoblastic leukemia. 
  • Characterizing North Carolina's Deaf and Hard of Hearing Infants and Toddlers: Predictors of Vocabulary, Diagnosis, and Intervention. 
  • Children aged 2 ; 1 use transitive syntax to make a semantic-role interpretation in a pointing task. 
  • Deconstructing racial differences: the effects of quality of education and cerebrovascular risk factors. 
  • Differential age effects in semantic and episodic memory. 
  • Do domestic dogs learn words based on humans' referential behaviour? 
  • Early maternal language input and classroom instructional quality in relation to children's literacy trajectories from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade. 
  • Effects of motivationally significant stimuli on the regulation of dominant responses. 
  • Electrophysiological evidence for the involvement of the approximate number system in preschoolers' processing of spoken number words. 
  • Emergence of Japanese infants' prosodic preferences in infant-directed vocabulary. 
  • False memories and semantic lexicon arrangement. 
  • Familiar verbs are not always easier than novel verbs: how German pre-school children comprehend active and passive sentences. 
  • Familiarity plays a small role in noun comprehension at 12-18 months. 
  • Flexibility in the semantics and syntax of children's early verb use. 
  • Forget all that nonsense: The role of meaning during the forgetting of recollective and familiarity-based memories. 
  • French children's use and correction of weird word orders: a constructivist account. 
  • From hippocampus to whole-brain: The role of integrative processing in episodic memory retrieval. 
  • Functional neuroimaging of emotionally intense autobiographical memories in post-traumatic stress disorder. 
  • How selective are 3-year-olds in imitating novel linguistic material? 
  • How toddlers and preschoolers learn to uniquely identify referents for others: a training study. 
  • Infants communicate in order to be understood. 
  • Influence of age and processing stage on visual word recognition. 
  • Influence of encoding difficulty, word frequency, and phonological regularity on age differences in word naming. 
  • Joint attention on actions: acquiring verbs in ostensive and non-ostensive contexts. 
  • Language-general biases and language-specific experience contribute to phonological detail in toddlers' word representations. 
  • Lexical and sublexical components of age-related changes in neural activation during visual word identification. 
  • Memory for emotional words following unilateral temporal lobectomy. 
  • Modeling children's early grammatical knowledge. 
  • Multicenter U.S. bilateral MED-EL cochlear implantation study: speech perception over the first year of use. 
  • Nature and origins of the lexicon in 6-mo-olds. 
  • Object permanence and relational words: a lexical training study. 
  • Overlapping parietal activity in memory and perception: evidence for the attention to memory model. 
  • Point, walk, talk: Links between three early milestones, from observation and parental report. 
  • Predicting the unbeaten path through syntactic priming. 
  • Processing down the garden path in Japanese: processing of sentences with lexical homonyms. 
  • Receiving right/wrong feedback: consequences for learning. 
  • Recollection- and familiarity-based memory in healthy aging and amnestic mild cognitive impairment. 
  • Relationship of cognitive reserve and APOE status to the emergence of clinical symptoms in preclinical Alzheimer's disease. 
  • Semantics of the transitive construction: prototype effects and developmental comparisons. 
  • Sex differences in serial learning for aged persons with high verbal ability. 
  • Speech segmentation by native and non-native speakers: the use of lexical, syntactic, and stress-pattern cues. 
  • Test-induced priming of false memories. 
  • The Lexical Stroop Sort (LSS) picture-word task: a computerized task for assessing the relationship between language and executive functioning in school-aged children. 
  • The acquisition of abstract words by young infants. 
  • The development of the ability to recognize the meaning of iconic signs. 
  • The effect of previously learned words on the child's acquisition of words for similar referents. 
  • The effects of age and task context on Stroop task performance. 
  • The influence of emotional distraction on verbal working memory: an fMRI investigation comparing individuals with schizophrenia and healthy adults. 
  • The role of preschoolers’ social understanding in evaluating the informativeness of causal interventions 
  • The role of standards in creating a health information infrastructure. 
  • The unexplained nature of reading. 
  • Two-year-olds exclude novel objects as potential referents of novel words based on pragmatics. 
  • Two-year-olds use primary sentence accent to learn new words. 
  • Using neural pattern classifiers to quantify the modularity of conflict-control mechanisms in the human brain 
  • Validation of affective and neutral sentence content for prosodic testing. 
  • Young German children's early syntactic competence: a preferential looking study. 
  • Young Infants' Word Comprehension Given An Unfamiliar Talker or Altered Pronunciations. 
  • Young children follow pointing over words in interpreting acts of reference. 
  • Young children learn to produce passives with nonce verbs. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Cabeza, Roberto, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke Science & Society