Lise Abrams
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Leon S, Altmann L, Abrams L, Gonzalez Rothi L, Heilman K
Creat Res J
. 2017 Apr;
26(1):21-29.
PMID: 28446859
Divergent thinking is the ability to produce a range of responses or solutions and is an element of creative processing. Divergent thinking requires disengagement, the ability to associate between words...
12.
Shafto M, James L, Abrams L, Tyler L
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci
. 2016 Jul;
72(1):100-106.
PMID: 27371482
Objective: We tested the claim that age-related increases in knowledge interfere with word retrieval, leading to word finding failures. We did this by relating a measure of crystallized intelligence to...
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White K, Abrams L, Koehler S, Collins R
Psychon Bull Rev
. 2016 Jun;
24(2):489-495.
PMID: 27271052
While both semantic and highly emotional (i.e., taboo) words can interfere with speech production, different theoretical mechanisms have been proposed to explain why interference occurs. Two experiments investigated these theoretical...
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Davis D, Abrams L
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn
. 2015 Jul;
42(1):75-90.
PMID: 26147668
When people read questions like "How many animals of each kind did Moses take on the ark?", many mistakenly answer "2" despite knowing that Noah sailed the ark. This "Moses...
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Pelham S, Abrams L
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn
. 2013 Dec;
40(2):313-25.
PMID: 24294916
Previous research has documented advantages and disadvantages of early bilinguals, defined as learning a 2nd language by school age and using both languages since that time. Relative to monolinguals, early...
16.
Farrell M, Abrams L
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove)
. 2013 Aug;
67(3):525-41.
PMID: 23931573
While previous research has shown that high syllable frequency can facilitate speech production at the level of phonological/phonetic encoding, little is known about its influence on prephonological processes, specifically lexical...
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White K, Abrams L, Zoller S
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci
. 2012 Nov;
68(5):681-90.
PMID: 23161347
Objectives: This research investigated three potential asymmetries in the production and perception of homophone spelling errors: aging, homophone dominance, and priming. A homophone spelling error occurs when a contextually appropriate...
18.
White K, Abrams L, Palm G, Protasi M
Psychol Aging
. 2011 Jul;
27(1):67-79.
PMID: 21787089
Two experiments investigated age differences in how semantic, syntactic, and orthographic factors influence the production of homophone spelling errors in sentence contexts. Younger and older adults typed auditorily presented sentences...
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Farrell M, Abrams L
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn
. 2011 Jan;
37(1):277-85.
PMID: 21244118
Syllable frequency has been shown to facilitate production in some languages but has yielded inconsistent results in English and has never been examined in older adults. Tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) states represent...
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Abrams L, Farrell M, Margolin S
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci
. 2010 Jul;
65(6):680-3.
PMID: 20616153
Objectives: Previous research has suggested that older adults' ability to detect a word as correctly or incorrectly spelled is intact, relative to younger adults. The purpose of the present experiment...