Title of dissertation: AGING, ILLUSORY CONJUNCTIONS, AND ATTENTION Lisa Jean Murphy, Doctor of Philosophy, 2006 Dissertation directed by: Professor Ellin K. Scholnick Department of Psychology Elderly adults do not perform as well as young adults on complex tasks. Elderly adults' poorer performance may be partly due to an age-related increase in the occurrence of illusory conjunctions. To invest...

The empirical focus of this paper is a conversational turn-taking phenomenon in which conjunctions produced immediately after a point of possible syntactic and pragmatic completion are treated by co-participants as points of possible completion and transition relevance. The data for this study are audio-video recordings of 5 unscripted face-to-face interactions involving native speakers of US E...

A language grounding problem is considered for nonuniform sets of modal conjunctions consisting of conjunctions extended with more than one modal operator of knowledge, belief or possibility. The grounding is considered in the context of semiotic triangles built from language symbols, communicative cognitive agents and external objects. The communicative cognitive agents are assumed to be able ...

Illusory conjunctions (ICs) provide evidence for a binding problem that must be resolved in vision. Objects that are perceptually grouped are more likely to have their features erroneously conjoined. We examined whether semantic grouping, determined by category membership (letter vs. number), also influences illusory conjunction rates. Participants were instructed to detect an "L" or a "7" amon...

This article presents a semantic analysis of indirect speech reports. The aims to explain combination two phenomena. First, there are true utterances sentences the form α said that φ which used report an utterance u sentence wherein φ's content is not u's content. implies in uttering single sentence, one can say several things. Second, when complements these reports (and indeed, themselves) pla...