1 Binding It has long been observed that pronouns (he/she/him/her, etc.) and reflexives (himself/herself, etc.) seem to be in complementary distribution in English. This means that in the same structural position a pronoun and a reflexive will have different interpretations. In (1) for example, a pronoun in object position is barred from taking the subject as its antecedent, but a reflexive in ...

The paper proposes a fuzzy model reference adaptive control approach with evolving antecedent part. The proposed algorithm has the possibility of controlling a plant with poorly known and/or time-varying nonlinearity which is an advantage over approaches with fixed antecedent part. It is intended for control of a large class of nonlinear plant models with the dominant dynamics of the first orde...

Oculomotor events such as blinks and saccades transiently interrupt the visual input and, even though this mostly goes undetected, these brief interruptions could still influence the percept. In particular, both blinking and saccades facilitate switching in ambiguous figures such as the Necker cube. To investigate the neural state antecedent to these oculomotor events during the perception of a...

Typical reactive system languages are programmed by means of rules of the form if antecedent then consequent. However, despite their seemingly logical character, hardly any reactive system languages give such rules a logical interpretation. In this paper, we investigate a simplified reactive system language KELPS, in which rules are universally quantified material implications, and computation ...

BACKGROUND Reactive and proactive subtypes of aggressive 10-11-12-year-old children were compared with non-aggressive children to examine whether the two forms of aggression were differentially related to antecedent and subsequent measures. METHOD A large community sample of boys and girls was used. Reactive and proactive aggression was measured through teacher ratings when the children were ...

Past research has suggested that negative affect may be a causal factor for eating disordered behaviors. More specifically, research has shown that anger appears to be one aspect of negative affect that is particularly relevant in bulimic patients. Previous studies have also shown that the relationship between negative affect and eating disordered behaviors may partially depend upon personality...

Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded while 14 males and 14 females read sentences containing a reflexive pronoun that referred to a definitionally or stereotypically male or female antecedent noun. Pronouns that disagreed with the gender definition or gender stereotype of the antecedent elicited a large-amplitude positive wave. Violations of gender definitions elicited a larger p...