1. INTRODUCTION A phenomenon is defined as any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning, and thus is an observable event, especially something special or unusual. Many geophysical phenomena can be observed and monitored using space-based and ground-based sensors or simulated in numerical models. Research studies on geophysical phenomena rely on the data co...

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■ The purpose of this study was to relate a psycholinguistic processing model of picture naming to the dynamics of cortical activation during picture naming. The activation was recorded from eight Dutch subjects with a whole-head neuromagnetometer. The processing model, based on extensive naming latency studies, is a stage model. In preparing a picture’s name, the speaker performs a chain of sp...

The authors evaluated the NEO Personality Inventory-Revised (NEO-PI-R) as a predictor of dietary quality in 850 married couples, focusing on associations among each participant’s personality as a predictor of their own dietary quality and their spouses’ dietary quality. Diet was based on a modified version of the US Department of Agriculture Healthy Eating Index. Openness was associated with se...

■ This study tested the hypothesis that Williams syndrome, a rare genetic neurodevelopmental disorder with an unusual cognitive phenotype, involves spared abilities in the domain of understanding other minds. A group of retarded adults with Williams syndrome was compared to an age-, IQ-, and languagematched group of adults with Prader-Willi syndrome, another genetic disorder without the cogniti...