Recent articles on familiarity (e.g. Whittlesea, B.W.A, 1993. Journal of Experimental Psychology 19, 1235) have argued that the feeling of familiarity is produced by unconscious attribution of fluent processing to a source in the past. In this article, we refine that notion: We argue that is not fluency per se, but rather fluent processing occurring under unexpected circumstances that produces ...

The goal of the current study was to compare the quality of esophageal speech and voice to videofluoroscopic features of the esophagus and pharyngoesophageal (PE) segment. The speech and voice characteristics of 30 laryngectomized patients were rated by 5 speech-language pathologists. Based on these ratings, patients were divided into 3 categories: fluent (n = 9), moderately fluent (n = 10) and...

Sentence processing is an extraordinarily complex and speeded process, and yet proceeds, typically, in an effortless manner. What makes us so fluent in language? Incremental models of sentence processing propose that speakers continuously build expectations for upcoming linguistic material based on partial information available at each relevant time point. In addition, statistical analyses of c...

An "additive" fluent is a fluent with numerical values such that the effect of several concurrently executed actions on it can be computed by adding the effects of the individual actions. We show how queries about additive fluents can be answered using the Causal Calculator. The examples discussed in this paper involve buying and selling, applying forces and moving groups of objects. The additi...

BACKGROUND The UK South Asian population has poorer health outcomes. Little is known about their process of care in general practice, or in particular the process of communication with GPs. AIM To compare the ways in which white and South Asian patients communicate with white GPs. DESIGN OF STUDY Observational study of video-recorded consultations using the Roter Interactional Analysis Syst...