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labiallabial concept uttered with the participation of one or both lips. (from merriam-webster.com)
labiodentallabiodental concept consonants articulated with the lower lip and the upper teeth. (from Wikipedia)
languagelanguage concept The mental ability to encode and decode information, and translate this information into verbal, acoustic and visual representations, according to a set of rules that are common across a population.
language acquisitionlanguage acquisition concept the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive, produce and use words to understand and communicate. (From Wikipedia)
language comprehensionlanguage comprehension concept The ability to understand communication from others, such as speech, written text, gestures, or sign language. (from http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?language+comprehension)
language learninglanguage learning concept No definition submitted yet
language processinglanguage processing concept the way human beings process speech or writing and understand it as language. (From Wikipedia)
language productionlanguage production concept is translating a concept or set of ideas into spoken, signed or written form
laryngeallaryngeal concept of, relating to, or used on the larynx; produced by or with constriction of the larynx. (from merriam-webster.com)
late closurelate closure concept No definition submitted yet
lateral inhibitionlateral inhibition concept the capacity of an excited neuron to reduce the activity of its neighbors. (From Wikipedia)
learninglearning concept The process of acquiring new skills/knowledge/information
lemmalemma concept a proposition proved, or sometimes assumed, to be true and used in proving a theorem; the subject of a composition, gloss, or note, esp. when used as a heading; a term glossed in a list. (from yourdictionary...
letter fluency test letter fluency test task No definition submitted yet
letter n-back taskletter n-back task task A task in which participants view a continuous stream of letter stimuli. The object of the task is to identify letter repetitions that occur n-trials preceding to the current stimulus.
Letter naming taskLetter naming task task No definition submitted yet
letter number sequencingletter number sequencing task a task that requires the reordering of an initially unordered set of letters and numbers
lexical accesslexical access concept No definition submitted yet
lexical ambiguitylexical ambiguity concept the presence of two or more possible meanings within a single word. (from grammar.about.com)
Lexical decision taskLexical decision task task a procedure used in many psychology and psycholinguistics experiments; the basic procedure involves measuring how quickly people classify stimuli as words or nonwords. Subjects are presented, either visually or auditorily, with a mixture of words and pseudowords (nonsense strings that respect the phonotactic rules of a language, like trud in English)...
lexical encodinglexical encoding concept No definition submitted yet
lexical processinglexical processing concept A general term referring to the processing of single words, typically in the context of visual or auditory word recognition.
lexical retrievallexical retrieval concept No definition submitted yet
lexiconlexicon concept The vocabulary of a language, including its words and expressions.
linguistic competencelinguistic competence concept No definition submitted yet
listeninglistening concept to pay attention to sound; to hear something with thoughtful attention, give consideration; to be alert to catch an expected sound. (from merriam-webster.com)
listening span tasklistening span task task A task in which subjects must listen to a set of sentences and remember the last word in the sentence. The number of words that can be recalled is the "listening span."
logiclogic concept a science that deals with the principles and criteria of validity of inference and demonstration; the science of the formal principles of reasoning. (from merriam-webster.com)
logical reasoninglogical reasoning concept No definition submitted yet
logical thinkinglogical thinking concept the process in which one uses reasoning consistently to come to a conclusion. (from http://www.learninginfo.org/logical-thinking.htm)
long term memorylong term memory concept a system for permanently storing, managing, and retrieving information for later use, items of information stored as long-term memory may be available for a lifetime. (from http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art...
loss aversionloss aversion concept The tendency of individuals to be more sensitive to the possibility of losing objects or money than they are to the possibility of gaining the same objects or amounts of money.
lyinglying concept marked by or containing falsehoods. (from merriam-webster.com)

a horizontal position. (from Wikipedia)