During spoken language interpretation, listeners rapidly relate the meaning of each individual word to what has been said before. However, spoken words often contain spurious other words, like day in daisy, or dean in sardine. Do listeners also relate the meaning of such unintended, spurious words to the prior context? We used ERPs to look for transient meaning-based N400 effects in sentences t...

variability, in particular relating to ENSO events. Off California, anchovy spawning expands northwards during El Niño events (Checkley et al., 2009). Likewise, the northern limit of California sardines in Canadian waters is broadly related to sea surface temperature, expanding north during the months of June through August and returning south when sea temperatures begin to cool (McFarlane et a...

Using implanted archival tags, we examined the effects of meal caloric value, food type (sardine or squid) and ambient temperature on the magnitude and duration of the heat increment of feeding in three captive juvenile Pacific bluefin tuna. The objective of our study was to develop a model that can be used to estimate energy intake in wild fish of similar body mass. Both the magnitude and dura...

Understanding the key factors influencing population dynamics of fish stocks requires knowledge their spatial distribution and seasonal habitat selection, but these spatio-temporal are often not explicitly included in ecological studies stock assessment models. This study standardized data sardine fishery-dependent catch-per-unit- effort (CPUE) from west coast Portugal using Bayesian hierarchic...