Mental fatigue induced by an earlier cognitive task can impair performance on a subsequent physical task. The current study investigated whether such impairment could be mitigated feedback. In experimental sequential-task design, 63 sport science students completed series of three tasks: 5-min (pre-test), 20-min cognitive, (post-test). Participants were randomly allocated to one groups: feedbac...

Three experiments investigated serial position effects in immediate and final free recall. Each word in a 10-item list was both preceded and followed by a 15-sec period of distraction activity. In Experiment 1, half of the lists were immediately followed by either a recall test or a recognition test; the remaining lists were not tested, but were followed by a different distraction activity. Aft...

Stowe (1989) reported that semantic information eliminates garden paths in sentences with the direct-object vs. subject ambiguity, such as Even before the police stopped the driver was very frightened. Three experiments are presented which addressed some methodological problems in Stowe's study. Experiment 1, using a word-by-word, self-paced reading task with grammaticality judgements, manipula...

PM, Propositional Model, is a highly interactive model of language comprehension which can be contrasted with language processing models which assume an autonomous syntactic component. Models assuming an autonomous syntax can be divided into two basic types: (a) Strong Autonomy Models which assume that only the part of speech of lexical items is available to the syntactic analyzer, and (b) Weak...

UNLABELLED Mismatch Negativity is a functional index of the supratemporal auditory cortex. AIM The aim of the present study on Mismatch Negativity (MMN) in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients was to evaluate if the MMN can be correlated with cognitive deficits assessed by the Paced Auditory Addition Task--PASAT. METHOD a clinical study in forty females and 20 males separated in two groups: con...

This study reports results from a sentence completion task and a self-paced reading experiment examining relative clause (RC) attachment preferences in native speakers of Greek. To determine the role of lexical-semantic as well as referential context information for RC attachment, we examined two constructions under different context conditions: RCs preceded by complex noun phrases with genitiv...

BACKGROUND Anorexia Nervosa (AN) has a mortality rate among the highest of any mental illness, though the factors involved in the condition remain unclear. Recently, the potential neurobiological underpinnings of the condition have become of increasing interest. Saccadic eye movement tasks have proven useful in our understanding of the neurobiology of some other psychiatric illnesses as they ut...

To determine whether chronic bradycardial pacing could change myoeardial capillary density and heart performance, we used transvenous right atrial pacing to reduce the heart rate of rabbits to about 66% of normal for up to 52 days. We compared control animals, animals which had been chronically paced, and sham-operated animals. The chronically paced animals showed no cardiac hypertrophy [heart;...

Abstract Coherence relations are expressed differently across languages, often leading to language learners misusing discourse connectives. We argue that the ability detect these errors crucially depends on coherence relation under scrutiny, as may remain unnoticed when is clause-internal and marked with a highly optional connective. focus, therefore, specifications, German-speaking sometimes s...

This paper investigates, in English, the widely reported mismatch asymmetry, or plural attraction production of subject-verb agreement and relatively less observed reversed singular comprehension. Through a self-paced reading experiment, read-aloud task pen-and-paper questionnaire, we examined whether is genuine effect comprehension it could be due to experimental materials few studies that it....