Because cracking the alphabetic code will not occur in the same way for all children, sufficiently early pedagogic interventions are of vital importance. International research inspired by the groundbreaking study of Ingvar ...

Vocal training with a semi-occluded vocal tract has been used for a long period of time. One way to obtain a semi-occlusion is by phonating through a straw or tube while keeping the free end of the tube in air or submerged ...

Novel word learning has been rarely studied in people with aphasia (PWA), although it can provide a relatively pure measure of their learning potential, and thereby contribute to the development of effective aphasia treatment ...

The main focus of the present thesis was at verbal episodic memory processes that are particularly vulnerable to preclinical and clinical Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Here these processes were studied by a word learning ...