The study presented here investigated the role of memory in normal sentence processing by looking at ERP effects to normal sentences and sentences containing grammatical violations. Sentences where the critical word was in the middle of the sentence were compared to sentences where the critical word always occurred in sentence-final position. Grammaticality judgments were required at the end of...

Branching ratios and CP noninvariance of nonleptonic rare exclusive B decays without charm particles in the final state are studied. Decay channels, such as Bd K tt, K* p, B, K p, K p, Bd, K K,K* K,K K*,K* K, etc. , that can give direct evidence for the W-loop diagrams are pointed out. Some decay modes have large (tens of percent) CP noninvariance of partial-decay-rate diff'erences. Decays such...

INTRODUCTION In subject-object-verb (SOV) languages, such as Japanese, sentence processing proceeds incrementally to the late presentation of the head (verb). Japanese case particles play a crucial role in sentence processing; however, little is known about how these particles are processed. In particular, it is still unclear how the functional difference between case particles is represented i...

Estimation of sentence order (sometimes referred to as sentence ordering) is one of the problems that arise in sentence generation and sentence correction. When generating a text that consists of multiple sentences, it is necessary to arrange the sentences in an appropriate order so that the text can be understood easily. In this study, we proposed a new method using supervised machine learning...

Multijet final states are characteristic of a large class of important phenomena present in highenergy hadronic collisions. QCD interactions generate multijet final states via radiative processes at high orders of perturbation theory (pure QCD processes). Heavy particles in the Standard Model (SM), such as W and Z bosons or the top quark, t, decay to multiquark configurations (eventually leadin...

This thesis investigates the use of sentence final particles (SFPs) in heritage Cantonese. Heritage speakers are early or sequential bilinguals who, in adulthood, are more proficient in the dominant language of their society than in their first, “heritage” language. Heritage speakers exhibit systematic divergence from the baseline (the language they were exposed to), a number of which can be at...

OBJECTIVE The study investigated (a) to what extent semantic/emotional processing modulates the N400 wave of the event-related potentials (ERPs) during reading, (b) the influence of impulsivity trait on neurocognitive systems underlying semantic/emotional processing related to the generation of the N400 wave. METHODS A canonical semantic sentence processing paradigm, known to selectively elic...

We used event-related potentials (ERPs) to examine the time-course of processing metaphorical and literal sentences in the brain. ERPs were measured to sentence-final (Experiment 1) and mid-sentence (Experiment 2) critical words (CWs) as participants read and made plausibility judgments about familiar nominal metaphors ("A is a B") as well as literal and semantically anomalous sentences of the ...

If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is the atomic hypothesis (or the atomic fact, or whatever you wish to call it) that all things are made of atoms—little particles that move around in perpetual motion, at...