Whether unconscious stimuli can modulate the preparation of a cognitive task is still controversial. Using a backward masking paradigm, we investigated whether the modulation could be observed even if the prime was made unconscious in 100% of the trials. In two behavioral experiments, subjects were instructed to initiate a phonological or semantic task on an upcoming word, following an explicit...

In this paper, we describe a structured approach for user behavior recognition in an automatic prompting system that assists users with cognitive disabilities in the task of brushing their teeth. We analyze the brushing task using qualitative data analysis. The results are a hierarchical decomposition of the task and the identification of environmental configurations during subtasks. We develop...

l2 research has shown that instruction in l2 pragmatics is necessary. the current study evaluated the impact of explicit instruction on efl learner's awareness and production of three speech acts of request, apology, and complaint. it also probed whether learners’ language proficiency plays any role in incorporating pragmatic instruction into the l2 classroom. iranian undergraduate students maj...

Research into automatic extraction of instruction-level parallelism and data parallelism from sequential languages by compilers has been going on for many years. However, task parallelism has been almost unexploited by parallelizing compilers. It has been shown that coarse-grain task parallelism is a useful additional resource of parallelism for multiprocessors, but the simple and restricted ex...

Research into automatic extraction of instruction-level parallelism and data parallelism from sequential languages by compilers has been going on for many years. However, task parallelism has been almost unexploited by parallelizing compilers. It has been shown that coarse-grain task parallelism is a useful additional resource of parallelism for multiprocessors, but the simple and restricted ex...

Nowadays, development of processors which support concurrent multi-thread execution is becoming a trend. Most of these processors are aimed at exploiting instruction level parallelism (ILP). But many researchers feel that the limits of ILP exploitation are rapidly being reached. In addition, exploiting more ILP makes the circuitry of processor very complicated. We are taking another simpler app...

This quasi-experimental study examined the effects of input-based, meaning-based output (MO) and traditional instruction (TI) on EFL learners’ grammar learning. To this end, 120 junior high school students were selected from 4 intact classes. Each class was assigned to an instructional condition, that is, textual enhancement (TE), input flood (IF), MO, and TI. Before the treatment, a multiple-c...