Kutas, M. & Federmeier, K.D. Electrophysiology reveals semantic memory use in language comprehension.
Researchers think this plays a key role in comprehension.
One such study used individuals with brain injuries determine which areas of the brain were used in the comprehension of sarcasm.
The commonly-used illustrations on the medication labels used in this study were of little or no use in improving patients' comprehension of the accompanying written instructions.
Even in the school years, children are still converging on the representational structures and processing strategies that adults typically use in everyday language comprehension and production (Berger et al. 1996; Metsala 1997; Brooks and MacWhinney 2000).
This differs from previous studies which have reported age-related declines in comprehension using off-line measures, which make it difficult to dissociate age-related changes in language processing from age-related changes in other cognitive task components, such as memory (for review, see Burke and MacKay 1997).
In 2007, a major comparison of reading programs conducted by the Department of Education found that Voyager had "potentially negative effects," because students using it showed a decline in comprehension.
George Miller, the Democratic chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, said that the situation was "very close to a criminal enterprise". In 2007, a major comparison of reading programs conducted by the Department of Education found that Voyager had "potentially negative effects," because students using it showed a decline in comprehension.
Cognitive interviews were used to test for uniformity in comprehension and comfort with response formats, instructions, and skip patterns.
In addition, the researcher made use of two comprehension tests consisting of the same collocations covered in the translation tests.
Because we were primarily interested in comprehension skills, we used questions from the two relevant categories, Comprehension, and Evaluation and Analysis (20 items from each category).
