Syntactic dependencies are head/modifier relations between words in a sentence that organize sentences into a syntactic tree structure. The general principle that languages have a preference to group syntactically related words close together can be made precise as a preference for shorter dependencies. We examine evidence for this principle in the development of languages’ grammars as well as ...

The research reported here examines the impact of field dependency on the way people structure brand information in memory. The authors propose that an individual's level of field dependency is an important determinant of the way information is stored in one's mind. Specifically, the authors argue that field independents are more likely to extract and integrate episodic information to form over...

counts Ii)t' some island effcet (t;hc noun-coml~lemcnt ca',ms oi" Complex NP Consh':dnt) which is c.rre~:Lly unexplained by slatic approaches i:~ I, raditioua.] theories o1 syntax. This ex-']'he purpose of the present article, is to aceounI; for sy:itac tic constrai,:ts on some aspects of unborn:deal dependency (UBD he~'eafter) phenomeua, by means el a computational model. A COml)ul, a.donal mo...

Social learning has been shown to be an evolutionarily adaptive strategy, but can be implemented via many different cognitive mechanisms. Sensitivity to statistical dependency in the behavior of other people is a factor that discriminates between possible mechanisms: simple rule based strategies may be unaffected by dependency, while more sophisticated social learning strategies should take it ...

introduction: multiple sclerosis (ms) is a chronic, autoimmune, and inflammatory nervous system disease. it leads to the loss of myelin in the white matter of brain, spinal cord and optic nerves. as a chronic disease with sudden and unpredictable side effects and complications of the disease will lead to disability and dependency in life. causes neurologic symptoms and sig. the purpose of the p...

BACKGROUND deprescribing habits among physicians managing older, frailer, cognitively impaired patients have not been well investigated. METHODS an anonymised electronic survey was disseminated to all members of an international geriatric society/local advanced trainee network (N = 930). This comprised a Likert-scale analysis of factors influencing desprescribing, and five case vignettes, det...

This study integrates research on problematic Internet use to explore the cognitive and psychological predictors of negative consequences associated with playing massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs). Participants recruited from online discussion boards completed self-report measures on their online game-related cognitions and psychological condition, social skills, psychological well-bein...