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In text-readout speech, pauses occur unconditionally at sentence boundaries and with high probability at major syntactic boundaries such as clause boundaries, but more or less arbitrarily at minor syntactic boundaries. Pause duration tends to be longer at the end of a longer syntactic unit. A ...
In one case, there is a change in the environment and, in the other, the initial change is in the dog. Spontaneous actions such as this are ‘self-initiated’ or ‘self-generated’. These terms are used loosely here to include decisions both as to when to act and as to which action...
it was also possible that participants used an alternative auditory strategy to keep the emotional information in mind in this study (i.e., internally repeating an emotion word, instead of actually holding a conceptualized emotional feeling in mind). Thus, the correct interpretation of these ...
Foster, Dastjerdi and Parvizi also found that the PMC circuitry activated by a recall task took close to a half-second to fire up, ruling out the possibility that this circuitry's true role was in reading or making sense of the sentence on the screen. (These two activities are typically...
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A similar procedure has been used in previous studies (Duarte et al., 2008; Dulas & Duarte, 2012). Time courses were down-sampled to the middle slice to form covariates for the general linear model (GLM). For each participant, six covariates per session representing the residual movement-...
sentence lists. Critically, we used expository texts to minimize mental state content. Medial frontal but not posterior ToM regions exhibited small but reliable increases in their responses to texts relative to unconnected sentences, suggesting a role for these regions in discourse comprehension ...
In each trial, the critical (target) sentence was preceded by a sentence (prime) that implied the same trait, the opposite trait, or no trait at all. The results revealed robust adaptation from prime to target in the ventral mPFC only during trait conditions, as expected. Adaptation was ...
The amplitude and intracranial distribution of these AMTL field potentials were consistent with those in our previous study in which anomalous sentence-ending words were used as stimuli (McCarthy et al., in press). The neocortex, in the region of the collateral sulcus and anterior fusiform gyrus...