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Introduction: Persons with preclinical Alzheimer’s disease (AD) show impairments in semantic and associative memory years before the onset of clinical symptoms. However, many tasks used to assess these deficits make use of previously learned stimuli, often within well-establishe…

Verbal behavior (language) is the primary characteristic that separates humans from all other animal species. The influence of language on behavior manifests primarily as antecedent factors within a behavior/environment relationship often impacting multiple individuals (Houmanfa…

Researchers across domains of behavior analysis agree that complexities of language acquisition can be defined by the degree to which an individual acquires language relations in the absence of direct training. In a series of studies, I examined the role of voluntary echoic resp…