A recent study conducted by the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology in Budapest, Hungary, explores the similarities between certain behavioral patterns in dogs and human psychiatric disorders. The study focuses on dog behavior resembling human hemispatial neglect, a condition characterized by a deficit in attention and awareness of one side of space. The researchers used various tests to measure spatial attention in both humans and dogs and found that the visuo-spatial search task detected individual variations in side preferences for both species. However, the study did not find a correlation between performance in different tasks for the subjects. This research provides insights into the measurement of behavioral conditions in dogs and highlights the need for appropriate diagnostic tools in veterinary science. [Extracted from the article]
Lukács, Ágnes, Kemény, Ferenc, Lum, Jarrad A. G., and Ullman, Michael T.
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SPECIFIC language impairment in children, CHILDREN, EXPLICIT memory, LEARNING, MEMORY disorders
Abstract
We examined learning and retention in nonverbal and verbal declarative memory in Hungarian children with (n = 21) and without (n = 21) SLI. Recognition memory was tested both 10 minutes and one day after encoding. On nonverbal items, only the children with SLI improved overnight, with no resulting group differences in performance. In the verbal domain, the children with SLI consistently showed worse performance than the typically-developing children, but the two groups showed similar overnight changes. The findings suggest the possibility of spared or even enhanced declarative memory consolidation in SLI. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]