The avoidance of regular but not irregular plurals inside compounds (e.g. *rats eater vs. mice eater) has been one of the most widely studied morphological phenomena in the psycholinguistics literature. To examine whether the constraints that are responsible for this contrast have any general significance beyond compounding, we investigated derived word forms containing regular and irregular pl...

Several studies have demonstrated that as listeners hear sentences describing events in a scene, their eye movements anticipate upcoming linguistic items predicted by the unfolding relationship between scene and sentence. While this may reflect active prediction based on structural or contextual expectations, the influence of local thematic priming between words has not been fully examined. In ...

This study measured the time course of psychophysical end-stopping and compared it with the time course of masking. For a 10' D6 target on an 18' D6 pedestal, two abutting end-zone masks (each 13.5' long) covering the filter end-zones reduce masking. This facilitatory 'end-stopping' effect was measured over a range of exposure durations and stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs). We found that psyc...

Two groups of participants were trained to perceive an ambiguous sound [s/f] as either /s/ or /f/ based on lexical bias: One group heard the ambiguous fricative in /s/-final words, the other in /f/-final words. This kind of exposure leads to a recalibration of the /s/-/f/ contrast, e.g. [4]. In order to investigate when and how this recalibration emerges, test trials were interspersed among tra...

5.1 The Schrödinger and Heisenberg pictures 5.2 Interaction Picture 5.2.1 Dyson Time-ordering operator 5.2.2 Some useful approximate formulas 5.3 Spin1 precession 2 5.4 Examples: Resonance of a Two-Level System 5.4.1 Dressed states and AC Stark shift 5.5 The wave-function 5.5.1 Position representation 5.5.2 Momentum representation 5.5.3 Schrödinger equation for the wavefunction 5.6 Feynman’s pa...

Microarray experiments have been used to measure genes’ expression levels under different cellular conditions or along certain time course. Initial attempts to interpret these data begin with grouping genes according to similarity in their expression profiles. The widely adopted clustering techniques for gene expression data include hierarchical clustering, self-organizing maps, and K-means clu...

It has been known for decades that frequency analysis in the auditory system reveals the existence of bandpass filter-like channels—the Critical Bands—a finite number of which cover the whole range of audible frequencies, with the consequence that nearby frequencies are not resolved individually. Because critical bands are formed already in the cochlea, they appear with no delay: their contours...

We carried out time-series analysis in 12 U.S. cities to estimate both the acute effects and the lagged influence of weather on total daily deaths. We fit generalized additive Poisson regressions for each city using nonparametric smooth functions to control for long time trend and barometric pressure. We also controlled for day of the week. We estimated the effect and the lag structure of both ...

Metonymic words have multiple related meanings, such as college, as in the building ("John walked into the college") or the educational institution ("John was promoted by the college"). Most researchers have found support for direct access models of metonymy but one recent study, Lowder and Gordon (2013), found delayed reading times for metonymic sentences relative to literal controls, in suppo...