Event-related brain potentials were examined in 6 to 8-year-old children with primary language disorder before and after a 5-week narrative-based language intervention. Participants listened to sentences ending with semantically congruous or incongruous words. By comparison with typical controls, the children with primary language disorder exhibited no pretreatment differences in their N400 res...

The trigram ‘I love being’ is expected to be followed by positive words such as ‘happy’. In a sarcastic sentence, however, the word ‘ignored’ may be observed. The expected and the observed words are, thus, incongruous. We model sarcasm detection as the task of detecting incongruity between an observed and an expected word. In order to obtain the expected word, we use Context2Vec, a sentence com...

Words that are semantically congruous with their preceding discourse context are easier to process than words that are semantically incongruous with their context. This facilitation of semantic processing is reflected by an attenuation of the N400 event-related potential (ERP). We asked whether this was true of emotional words in emotional contexts where discourse congruity was conferred throug...

In this note the chasm between shareholder and stakeholder interests in running of corporation an emerging economy general, third world country particular, is considered. A study two corporate governance models undertaken with intention to demonstrate that inclusive which does not relegate periphery more efficient under Two-Tier Board than Anglo-Saxon model followed South Africa. The reality en...

Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded while subjects read statements followed by words that were either semantically congruous or incongruous with the preceding .phrase, and during a subsequent recognition test. Congruous words yielded smaller N4OOs and better memory than did incongruous statements. In addition, the ERPs to correctly recognized old words were characterized by an e...

Origins of impaired adaptive functioning in schizophrenia remain poorly understood. Behavioral disorganization may arise from an abnormal reliance on common combinations between concepts stored in semantic memory. Avolition-apathy may be related to deficits in using goal-related requirements to flexibly plan behavior. The authors recorded event-related potentials (ERPs) in 16 patients with medi...

This study investigates by means of the event-related brain potential whether mechanisms of lexical priming and semantic integration are already developed in 14-month-olds. While looking at coloured pictures of known objects children were presented with basic-level words that were either congruous or incongruous to the pictures. The event-related potential of 14-month-olds revealed an early neg...

Quantitative perimetric studies in two patients with involvement of a lateral geniculate nucleus (caused by astrocytoma in one and a small arteriovenous malformation in the other) revealed strikingly incongruous defects in the contralateral homonymous fields of vision. The patterns of these hemianopias were analysed and correlated anatomically in terms of established patterns of retinal project...