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- Bilingualism Characteristics in Second Generation Latin American Immigrants.
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- Ortega, Alexandra, Rosselli, Monica
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This study examined the linguistic characteristics of a sample of second-generation Latin American immigrants and a control group of English monolinguals. Participants included both males and females from 18-40 years old. For all the bilingual participants L1 was Spanish but they had been schooled mostly in English (L2). The examined language domains included: grammatical and semantic judgment, vocabulary, reading, writing, and fluency of both L1 and L2. It was observed that L2 significantly...
Show moreThis study examined the linguistic characteristics of a sample of second-generation Latin American immigrants and a control group of English monolinguals. Participants included both males and females from 18-40 years old. For all the bilingual participants L1 was Spanish but they had been schooled mostly in English (L2). The examined language domains included: grammatical and semantic judgment, vocabulary, reading, writing, and fluency of both L1 and L2. It was observed that L2 significantly overwrote L1, becoming the dominant language. Grammatical judgment as well as reading and writing became more accurate, vocabulary was larger, and fluency was greater in English than in Spanish. Interference from English to Spanish in reading, writing and vocabulary was significant, whereas interference in the opposite direction was minimal. Two questions are discussed: the switch of the dominant language from L1 to L2 and the language profile in each one of the two languages.
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- 2014
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA0005033
- Subject Headings
- College students --Research --United States.
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- Influence of Bilingualism in Simple Arithmetic.
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- Nishat, Towhid, Rosselli, Monica, Graduate College
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It has been widely hypothesized that while doing arithmetic individuals use two distinct routes for phonological output. A direct route requires exact arithmetic which is thought to have been linked to language dependent areas of the brain. In addition, an indirect route thought to be language independent is active during arithmetic approximation that relies on visuo-spatial skills. The arithmetic double route has been incorporated on the triple code model that consists of Visual Arabic code...
Show moreIt has been widely hypothesized that while doing arithmetic individuals use two distinct routes for phonological output. A direct route requires exact arithmetic which is thought to have been linked to language dependent areas of the brain. In addition, an indirect route thought to be language independent is active during arithmetic approximation that relies on visuo-spatial skills. The arithmetic double route has been incorporated on the triple code model that consists of Visual Arabic code for identifying string of digits, magnitude code for knowledge in numeral quantities, and verbal code for rote arithmetic fact. Our goal is to investigate whether language experience has an effect on the processing of exact/approximation math using bilingual participants who have access to two languages. We will measure the 2 groups monolinguals/bilingual processing speed to complete the 2 tasks Exact/Approximation in 2 codes Arabic digit/Verbal. We hypothesized a faster reaction time in exact arithmetic task in comparison to approximation due to it being language dependent. We expect a positive correlation between self rated language proficiency and exact arithmetic in verbal code. We also expect a main effect for the task Exact vs. Approximation independent of the input code when the stimulus was presented in either Arabic digit and/or verbal codes. Results from this study have implications in understanding the importance of the input code when processing numbers. Further neuroimaging studies need to be compiled to investigate brain activation during simple arithmetic when bilinguals use verbal or Arabic digit coding.
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- 2014
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005844
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- Mirror Neurons: Imitation and Emotional Differences Among Males and Females, Preliminary Results.
- Creator
- Reale, AmberRose, Rosselli, Monica, Graduate College
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The mirror neuron system MNS consists of a specific class of visuomotor neurons, which fire for both observation of an action, and for execution of that action, as well as showing differences for empathy and gender. We studied the effect of different emotions on accuracy and response time of an imitative motor finger sequencing task for males and females. Method: A sample of 56 individuals aged 19-40 26 males, 30 females living in South Florida were All participants had Alexithymia scores of...
Show moreThe mirror neuron system MNS consists of a specific class of visuomotor neurons, which fire for both observation of an action, and for execution of that action, as well as showing differences for empathy and gender. We studied the effect of different emotions on accuracy and response time of an imitative motor finger sequencing task for males and females. Method: A sample of 56 individuals aged 19-40 26 males, 30 females living in South Florida were All participants had Alexithymia scores of 60 or below and were free of any traumatic head injuries or current psychological disorders. No differences in years of education or age were found across groups. Results: 1. A one way ANOVA showed a significant difference in empathy or males and females F1,546.55, p .05, with a higher score for females. 2. A repeated measures ANOVA was conducted to compare levels of empathy and accuracy of the two emotion trials happy and angry among gender. The test of within-subjects effects showed a trend toward significance for the interaction between the emotion task and empathy level F1,533.05, p .087. Additionally, the interaction between the emotion task and gender shows a strong trend toward significance F1,533.73, p .059. No significant interaction was found for response time and empathy. Discussion: These preliminary results support differences for empathy levels among gender. It is expected that with a larger sample and more statistical power, significance in reached. These finding may offer a connection between empathy and gender effects in the MNS.
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- 2014
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- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005849
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- Bilingualism and arithmetic - a pilot study.
- Creator
- Nishat, Towhid, Perez, G., Rosselli, Monica, Graduate College
- Date Issued
- 2013-04-12
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3361333
- Subject Headings
- Bilingualism, Arithmetic
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- Arithmetic and language proficiency in Spanish/English billinguals.
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- Perez, G., Nishat, Towhid, Rosselli, Monica
- Date Issued
- 2013-04-05
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3361163
- Subject Headings
- Bilingualism, Arithmetic
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- Cognitive performance predicted by recreational drug use.
- Creator
- Paz, Andres L., Rosselli, Monica, Graduate College
- Date Issued
- 2013-04-12
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3361952
- Subject Headings
- Drug abuse, Cognition
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- Association between BMI and executive functioning.
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- Lalwani, Laxmi N., Rosselli, Monica, Graduate College
- Date Issued
- 2013-04-12
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3361940
- Subject Headings
- Body Mass Index, Executive Function
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- Cognitive differences between professional musicians and non-musicians: a research proposal.
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- Kofman, Olga Loraine, Rosselli, Monica
- Date Issued
- 2013-04-05
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3361107
- Subject Headings
- Mozart effect, Music, Brain, Cognition
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- Impact of gender and age on confrontation naming and linguistic facility in aging populations.
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- Gonzalez, Katherine, Rosselli, Monica, Velez-Uribe, Idaly
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Word retrieval often presents a problem for aging populations. The Boston Naming Test (BNT) is a prevalent neuropsychological exam that uses word retrieval to reveal relevant information leading to a diagnosis of cognitive disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease or dementia. This study investigated the effects of age and gender on a confrontation naming test. Confrontation naming was assessed using the Boston Naming Test. The sample included 538 participants (185 males, 383 females) individuals...
Show moreWord retrieval often presents a problem for aging populations. The Boston Naming Test (BNT) is a prevalent neuropsychological exam that uses word retrieval to reveal relevant information leading to a diagnosis of cognitive disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease or dementia. This study investigated the effects of age and gender on a confrontation naming test. Confrontation naming was assessed using the Boston Naming Test. The sample included 538 participants (185 males, 383 females) individuals residing in South Florida. Participants were divided into two groups, a high cognitive functioning and a low cognitive functioning group, based on the participant’s scores on the mini mental state examination (MMSE). Results did support the hypothesis that age has a significant effect on confrontational naming test ability in both cognitive groups. Conversely, the anticipation that gender would play a role on performance on the BNT for either group was not supported by the results.
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- 2014
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA0005018
- Subject Headings
- College students --Research --United States.
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- Broca's area network in language function: a pooling-data connectivity study.
- Creator
- Bernal, Byron, Ardila, Alfredo, Rosselli, Monica
- Date Issued
- 2015-05-22
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUIR000183
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- The Network of Brodmanns Area 22 in Lexico-semantic Processing: A Pooling-data Connectivity Study.
- Creator
- Bernal, Byron, Ardila, Alfredo, Rosselli, Monica
- Date Issued
- 2016
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUIR000182
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- Epidemiology of alcohol use among Florida college students.
- Creator
- Keim, Carley, Gonzalez, Paz B., Avila, R.R., Rosselli, Monica
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When considering the evolving nature of problematic drinking, it is important to continually assess its prevalence throughout various demographics. Our goal was to analyze significant demographical data from a longitudinal pilot study measuring drinking behavior relative to inhibitory functioning among the young adult college population. Post hoc analyses revealed that when comparing African Americans (M=19.40, SD=±3.286) to European Americans (M=15.75, SD=±2.173) and Hispanics/Latinos (M=16...
Show moreWhen considering the evolving nature of problematic drinking, it is important to continually assess its prevalence throughout various demographics. Our goal was to analyze significant demographical data from a longitudinal pilot study measuring drinking behavior relative to inhibitory functioning among the young adult college population. Post hoc analyses revealed that when comparing African Americans (M=19.40, SD=±3.286) to European Americans (M=15.75, SD=±2.173) and Hispanics/Latinos (M=16.06, SD=±2.886), African Americans reported a significantly older age of drinking onset. ANOVA analyses revealed men and European Americans to consume significantly more alcohol than others. The age at which one began drinking significantly predicted numerous drinking behaviors: average number of drinks consumed, b=-.35, t(47)=-2.56, p < .05; largest number of drinks consumed per occasion, b=-.43, t(48)=-3.26, p < .01. Conversely, older age of one’s first binge drinking experience significantly predicted future frequent drinking behaviors.
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- 2014
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA0005026
- Subject Headings
- College students --Research --United States.
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- Document (PDF)
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- Associations Between Alcohol and Drug Use Among Collegiate Young Adults: Preliminary Findings.
- Creator
- Gonzalez, Brianna, Paz, Andres L., Keim, C.A., Avila, R.R., Rosselli, Monica
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The current study aims to examine correlates between binge drinking behavior with licit and illicit drug use among college students. Thirty-seven undergraduates (6 male) completed questionnaires concerning alcohol consumption throughout the one month duration of the study. Participants performed three cognitive computer tasks at both baseline (T1) and follow-up (T2) assessment. At T2 participants also filled out a drug usage questionnaire. This study stems from a larger longitudinal pilot...
Show moreThe current study aims to examine correlates between binge drinking behavior with licit and illicit drug use among college students. Thirty-seven undergraduates (6 male) completed questionnaires concerning alcohol consumption throughout the one month duration of the study. Participants performed three cognitive computer tasks at both baseline (T1) and follow-up (T2) assessment. At T2 participants also filled out a drug usage questionnaire. This study stems from a larger longitudinal pilot study. Strong correlations were found for increased cigarette use: the number of drinking days reported, r (34) = .442, p =.007, as well as non-binge drinking days and marijuana use, r (34) =.465, p =.004. Cigarette smokers were more likely than not to partake in multiple drinking behaviors. Marijuana was found to be used more on days in which binge drinking did not occur alluding to a preference to smoke rather than drink excessively while smoking marijuana.
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- 2014
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA0005019
- Subject Headings
- College students --Research --United States.
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- Document (PDF)
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- A Cross-Lingustic Analysis of Language Effects on Personality Measures in Spanish-English Bilinguals.
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- Gonzalez, Katherine, Velez-Uribe, Idaly, Rosselli, Monica, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
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The Big Five inventory is a 44-item scale that classifies participants based on five dimensions of personality with versions available in English and Spanish. Previous studies have found differences in BFI dimensions of Spanish-English bilinguals. We asked if Spanish-English bilinguals described themselves differently when answering in different languages. The present study investigated how Spanish-English bilinguals are classified when answering the BFI in both languages. In a cross...
Show moreThe Big Five inventory is a 44-item scale that classifies participants based on five dimensions of personality with versions available in English and Spanish. Previous studies have found differences in BFI dimensions of Spanish-English bilinguals. We asked if Spanish-English bilinguals described themselves differently when answering in different languages. The present study investigated how Spanish-English bilinguals are classified when answering the BFI in both languages. In a cross-linguistic design, we assessed a sample of Spanish-English bilinguals. We hypothesized that we would find that bilinguals would score significantly different in both languages in the dimensions of extraversion and conscientiousness, with English scores being expected to be significantly higher than Spanish scores. Results revealed significantly different scores in Spanish and English in all five dimensions of the BFI. These results emphasize the issue of language in psychological evaluations, with the possibility of language dependence skewing the results for bilingual patients.
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- 2015
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- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005193
- Subject Headings
- College students --Research --United States.
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- Effects of parents’ educational level, school type and gender on the development of attention and memory.
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- Esmeralda Matute Villaseñor, Araceli Sanz Martín, Emilio Gumá Díaz, Mónica Rosselli, Alfredo Ardila
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Information about the influence of environmental factors on the development of attention and memory is scarce. This study analyzed the relationship between parents’ educational level, school type and sex on the development of attention and memory. Four hundred and seventy six children (age 5 to 16 years) of public (PuS) and private schools (PrS) participated. The sample was divided in two age groups: G1, age 5 to 8 years and G2, age 9 to 16 years. Attention and memory sub-tests from the...
Show moreInformation about the influence of environmental factors on the development of attention and memory is scarce. This study analyzed the relationship between parents’ educational level, school type and sex on the development of attention and memory. Four hundred and seventy six children (age 5 to 16 years) of public (PuS) and private schools (PrS) participated. The sample was divided in two age groups: G1, age 5 to 8 years and G2, age 9 to 16 years. Attention and memory sub-tests from the Evaluación Neuropsicológica Infantil-ENI (Matute, Rosselli, Ardila and Ostrosky, 2007) were analyzed. There was a significant effect of age on all sub-tests scores where older children obtained higher scores. Also, there was a significant effect of sex and type of school in some tasks, where girls had higher performance than boys and, the students of PrS scored higher than students of PuS. An interaction between type of school and sex was also evident: PrS girls showed higher performance than other groups in some tasks of attention and memory, especially those that imply verbal information processing. There was a significant correlation between the parents’educational level and the performance in G2. Sons of parents with high educational level show better performance than sons of parents with low educational level. The results are discussed in terms of the environmental variables effect on the development of attention and memory.
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- 2009
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUIR000487
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- Document (PDF)
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- Language and Visual Perception Associations: Meta-Analytic Connectivity Modeling of Brodmann Area 37.
- Creator
- Ardila, Alfredo, Bernal, Byron, Rosselli, Monica
- Date Issued
- 2015
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUIR000181
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