Abstract So far, processing studies on grammatical norm violations (GNVs) in Dutch (i.e. als ‘as’ comparatives) have mainly focused general differences between GNVs and their ungrammatical counterparts. The present study is the first to also systematically investigate between-participant between-construction variation of GNVs, using a self-paced reading task. Age educational level were investig...

In this paper, a novel weighted nonlocal total variation (WNTV) method is proposed. Compared to the classical nonlocal total variation methods, our method modifies the energy functional to introduce a weight to balance between the labeled sets and unlabeled sets. With extensive numerical examples in semi-supervised clustering, image inpaiting and image colorization, we demonstrate that WNTV pro...

Listeners are faced with enormous variation in pronunciation, yet they rarely have difficulty understanding speech. Although much research has been devoted to figuring out how listeners deal with variability, virtually none (outside of sociolinguistics) has focused on the source of the variation itself. The current experiments explore whether different kinds of variation lead to different cogni...

Emotional dysregulation is a core characteristic of many psychiatric diseases, including the anxiety disorders. Although heritable influences account for a significant degree of variation in risk for such disorders, relatively few candidate susceptibility factors have been identified. A coding variant in one such gene, encoding the dopamine catabolic enzyme catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT Va...