However, there is a problem with such an analysis in that there is a regular paradigmatic gap in the distribution of f-. Malagasy verbs have three forms, here referred to as Actor Topic (AT), Circumstantial Topic (CT), and Theme Topic (TT); the form of the verb determines which argument in the clause appears in the sentence-final subject position. Of the three forms, AT and CT freely accept f-n...

Resilience, exhibiting intact psychological functioning despite exposure to trauma, is one perspective as to why some people who are exposed to trauma do not develop symptoms. This study examines the prisoner of war experience to expand our understanding of this phenomenon in extreme cases of trauma such as prolonged captivity, malnourishment, and physical and psychological torture. The study e...

Current theories of emotion perception posit that basic facial expressions signal categorically discrete emotions or affective dimensions of valence and arousal. In both cases, the information is thought to be directly "read out" from the face in a way that is largely immune to context. In contrast, the three studies reported here demonstrated that identical facial configurations convey strikin...

Sawtooth waves differing only in rise time are identifiable as plucked or bowed notes from a stringed instrument. We previously reported (Cutting & Rosner, 1974) that these nonlinguistic sounds are perceived categorically. We also synthesized a continuum of speech sounds by varying only rise time. Listeners identified these sounds as Itfa/ or I fal, as in CHOP or SHOP, respectively, and perceiv...

In this paper, I present results from simulations using three different maximum entropy phonotactic models (Hayes & Wilson, 2008; Moreton et al., 2017): one that can only represent Sour Grapes, standard, attested harmony, and has the expressive power to capture both patterns. then an experiment designed test predictions of these find humans behave most like model generalizations—challenging...

The context in which objects are presented influences the speed at which they are named. We employed the blocked cyclic naming paradigm and perfusion functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate the mechanisms responsible for interference effects reported for thematically and categorically related compared to unrelated contexts. Naming objects in categorically homogeneous context...

The areas of the brain that encode color categorically have not yet been reliably identified. Here, we used functional MRI adaptation to identify neuronal populations that represent color categories irrespective of metric differences in color. Two colors were successively presented within a block of trials. The two colors were either from the same or different categories (e.g., "blue 1 and blue...

Mormyrid electric fish communicate using a fixed electric organ discharge (EOD) produced with a variable sequence of pulse intervals (SPI). Through a combination of spike train analysis techniques and multivariate statistics, we develop quantitative methods for analysing temporal patterns in the SPI in Brienomyrus brachyistius. Previous research has indicated the existence of distinct temporal ...

It is well established that the time to name target objects can be influenced by the presence of categorically related versus unrelated distractor items. A variety of paradigms have been developed to determine the level at which this semantic interference effect occurs in the speech production system. In this study, we investigated one of these tasks, the postcue naming paradigm, for the first ...