processing deficit

collocation in English

meaningsofprocessinganddeficit

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processing
noun[U]
uk
/ˈprəʊ.ses.ɪŋ/
us
/ˈprɑː.ses.ɪŋ/
the act of dealing with documents or people in an ...
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deficit
noun[C]
uk
/ˈdef.ɪ.sɪt/
us
/ˈdef.ə.sɪt/
the total amount by which money spent is more than ...
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(Definition ofprocessinganddeficitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Can a perceptualprocessingdeficitexplain the impairment of inflectional morphology in developmental dysphasia?
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Over the longer term, a visualprocessingdeficitleads to some degradation of these memory representations.
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Can a perceptualprocessingdeficitexplain the impairment of inflectional morphology in development dysphasia?
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Do autistics have a generalized faceprocessingdeficit?
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The possibility of explaining the early absence of overt subjects in these null subject languages as the result of an early sentenceprocessingdeficitis explored and rejected.
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The results of our study show that locating the speech inputprocessingdeficitat a single level is problematic.
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Whereas for girls a single emotionprocessingdeficitincreased their likelihood of displaying aggressive tendencies, for boys deficits were required in two of the three emotion processing domains.
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Even the most minimum hearing impairment or auditoryprocessingdeficitcan considerably affect language development.
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The authors of this study conclude that their data support a specific faceprocessingdeficitin schizophrenia.
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These results suggest possible visual processing deficits, in both brain and behavior, in dyslexics who also have welldocumented phonological processing differences in brain and behavior.
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One task has been particularly useful for evaluating context processing deficits and their relationship to dorsolateral prefrontal cortical functioning in schizophrenia.
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Specificity of prefrontal dysfunction and context processing deficits to schizophrenia in a never-medicated firstepisode sample.
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These data suggest that context processing deficits may be diagnostically specific and, among schizophrenia patients, trait related.
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We agree that dysfunction in the coordination of cognitive functions (disconnection) is also indicated for many of the linguistic processing deficits documented for schizophrenia.
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Naming speed performance and stimulant effects indicate effortful, semantic processing deficits in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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Nevertheless, they provide intriguing preliminary evidence that the importance of context processing deficits extends beyond concurrent symptoms and into the domain of future functioning.
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Naming speed performance and stimulant effects indicate effortful, semantic processing deficits in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
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