We show that comprehenders' expectations about upcoming discourse coherence relations influence the resolution of local structural ambiguity. We employ cases in which two clauses share both a syntactic relationship and a discourse relationship, and hence in which syntactic and discourse processing might be expected to interact. An off-line sentence-completion study and an on-line self-paced rea...

Stereotype threat impairs performance in situations where a stereotype holds that one’s social group will perform poorly. A study of women’s college students examined whether this effect influenced performance on spatial cognition tasks when participants were presented with threat on the basis of gender socialization. Transgender and cisgender participants, all designated female at birth, were ...

Using classical finite difference schemes often generates numerical drawbacks such as spurious oscillations in the solution of the famous Black–Scholes partial differential equation. We analyze the fully implicit scheme, frequently used numerical method in Finance, that in the presence of discontinuous payoff and low volatility arises spurious oscillations. We propose a modification of this sch...

We analyse boundary conformal field theories on random surfaces using the conformal gauge approach of David, Distler and Kawai. The crucial point is the choice of boundary conditions on the Liouville field. We discuss the Weyl anomaly cancellation for Polyakov’s non-critical open bosonic string with Neumann, Dirichlet and free boundary conditions. Dirichlet boundary conditions on the Liouville ...

The goal of this study was to extend prior reports of implicit learning in visual search (e.g., Chun & Jiang, 1999) by employing eye movement monitoring and reaction time measures to contrast implicit and explicit learning. Towards this end, participants’ eye movements were monitored as they performed a visual search task in the ‘change blindness’ flicker paradigm. In each trial, participants w...

BACKGROUND Human movement can be guided automatically (implicit control) or attentively (explicit control). Explicit control may be engaged when learning a new movement, while implicit control enables simultaneous execution of multiple actions. Explicit and implicit control can often be assigned arbitrarily: we can simultaneously drive a car and tune the radio, seamlessly allocating implicit or...

Research on the effect of implicit and explicit instruction on developing learners’ explicit knowledge by the use of measures of explicit knowledge abounds in the literature. However, measuring learners’ implicit knowledge employing fine-grained measures has rarely been the concern of researchers in the field. Therefore, the present study is an attempt to scrutinize the effectiveness of implici...

Sphere tracing is a new numerical method for nd-ing the intersection of a ray with an implicit surface. Unlike Newton's method or regula falsi, it is robust, converging if and only if the ray intersects the implicit surface, and it converges on the rst intersection | the intersection closest to the ray origin. It is signiicantly simpler to implement than other robust intersection techniques, su...

We investigated if perceiving an out-group as a threat to one's mating opportunities enhanced the implicit negative attitudes toward that out-group. In addition, we examined the moderating effect of disease threat on the relationship between an out-group mating threat and implicit negative attitudes toward that out-group. In Experiment 1, an out-group mating threat led to stronger implicit nega...

OBJECTIVE Our research utilized two popular theoretical conceptualizations of implicit self-esteem: 1) implicit self-esteem as a global automatic reaction to the self; and 2) implicit self-esteem as a context/domain specific construct. Under this framework, we present an extensive search for implicit self-esteem measure validity among different cultural groups (Study 1) and under several experi...