Spanish displays a set of diverse contexts in which constituents are frozen inside the VP: only direct objects and postverbal subjects but not preverbal subjects or IP material are licensed. These environments include: indefinites licensed by modals, syntactically-marked focus (as opposed to stress-focus), evidentials, etc. It is argued that all of these contexts involve a projection exactly ab...

The paper proposes advancement of a stratum demographic model characterized by the presence two strata — Center and Periphery, which are different in respects their way life, development level social values. processes convergence depopulation heterogeneous system Center-Periphery type were studied. Various variants “catch-up development” Periphery considered within framework numerical simulatio...

We have recently proposed a center-periphery organization based on resolution needs, in which objects engaging in recognition processes requiring central-vision (e.g., face-related) are associated with center-biased representations, while objects requiring large-scale feature integration (e.g., buildings) are associated with periphery-biased representations. Here we tested this hypothesis by co...

The perceived contrast of a central stimulus can be decreased (surround suppression) or increased (surround facilitation) by the presence of surround stimuli. In this report we examined center-surround interactions in foveal and peripheral vision using contrast-matching tasks. We found that: (1) surround suppression became markedly stronger as the center-surround stimulus was moved toward the p...