In the present EEG study we investigated whether semantic knowledge for object use is represented in motor-related brain areas. Subjects were required to perform actions with everyday objects and to maintain either a meaningful or a meaningless end posture with the object. Analysis of the EEG data focused on the beta-frequency band, as previous studies have indicated that the maintenance of a p...

The relative importance of meaning (semantic context) and spaces between words during reading was investigated. Sub jects read paragraphs of coherent or incoherent text aloud; some paragraphs were presented normally, others with spaces between words removed. Coherent paragraphs were taken from a short story. Incoherent paragraphs had the same words and punctuation as the coherent paragraphs, bu...

Recent studies have shown that the suggestion for participants to construe words as meaningless symbols reduces, or even eliminates, standard Stroop interference in highly suggestible individuals (Raz, Fan, & Posner, 2005; Raz, Kirsch, Pollard, & Nitkin-Kaner, 2006). In these studies, the researchers consequently concluded that this suggestion de-automatizes word reading. The aim of the present...

The conception of formalism as uninterpreted, but interpretable, systems that was wavering into focus during the 1920s achieved clarity in Godel's 1931 paper. The historical irony here is that while this clarity fulfilled one of Hilbert's demands for firm foundations, the Godel results themselves have been seen as frustrating Hilbert's central epistemological desire. Due in part to Hilbert's va...

The neuromagnetic activities evoked by semantic processing were localized by magnetoencephalography (MEG). We observed distinct time courses of the activities in native speaking Japanese subjects (Japanese speaker) and German subjects (German speaker) during silent reading of Japanese letters; Kanji and meaningless figures made by deforming the Arabian letters. There were significant difference...

Current security systems suuer from the fact that they fail to account for human factors. This paper considers two human limitations: First, people are slow and unreliable when comparing meaningless strings; and second , people have diiculties in remembering strong passwords or PINs. We identify two applications where these human factors negatively aaect security: Validation of root keys in pub...

This is the companion document to my dissertation It contains pages of schematics and pages of VHDL code It is pretty meaningless without the dissertation and it only exists because I felt that I should archive this information somewhere