Sentences with phrase «of nonsense syllables»

The most famous of the naturals was the Russian journalist S. V. Shereshevski, who could recall long lists of numbers memorized decades earlier, as well as poems, strings of nonsense syllables, and just about anything else he was asked to remember.

After coming up with a list of nonsense syllables, he memorized series of different lengths, uncovering patterns in the time it takes to learn, relearn and forget.

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«Toward the end of your baby's first year, he'll babble in longer strings of varied short nonsense syllables, using the intonation and rhythm mimicking that of an adult,» Artemenko says.

An experimenter's synchronized taps on an elbow or knee enabled 4 - month - olds to notice nonsense words embedded in spoken strings of syllables, say psycholinguist Amanda Seidl of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., and...

In minutes, he memorized complex math formulas, passages in foreign languages and tables consisting of 50 numbers or nonsense syllables.

The study enrolled 10 adult American English speakers who listened to a series of recordings of spoken nonsense syllables that began with sounds ranging between «s» to «shl» — a combination not found at the beginning of English words — and indicated by means of a button push whether they heard an initial «s» or «sh.»

This exhibition will present several of Camille Utterback's highly original interactive digital installations including Text Rain, in which letters seem to drop slowly and come to rest on the projected image of the gallery visitor, forming words and nonsense syllables into human shape.