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The influence of task-irrelevant music on language processing: syntactic and semantic structures.
2011
Recent research has suggested that music and language processing share neural resources, leading to new hypotheses about interference in the simultaneous processing of these two structures. The present study investigated the effect of a musical chord's tonal function on syntactic processing (Experiment 1) and semantic processing (Experiment 2) using a cross-modal paradigm and controlling for acoustic differences. Participants read sentences and performed a lexical decision task on the last word, which was, syntactically or semantically, expected or unexpected. The simultaneously presented (task-irrelevant) musical sequences ended on either an expected tonic or a less-expected subdominant ch…
Genetic Variability and Taxonomical Considerations about Six Species of European Cardueline Finches (Aves, Passeriformes)
1997
Abstract Electrophoretic patterns of seven enzyme systems and two nonenzymatic proteins, albumin and haemoglobin, representing 13 loci, have been investigated in six species of cardueline finches with Palearctic distribution. A new locus, SOD-3, has been characterized in this subfamily. The two nonenzymatic proteins turned out to be the best genetic markers. From the analysis of the genetic distances it emerges that the mean values between species are higher than those reported for other groups of birds. However, the same results were obtained for other species of the same subfamily native to North America. In both cases this result is probably due to a classification that disagrees with th…
Boosting working memory with accelerated clocks
2021
Our perception of time varies with the degree of cognitive engagement in tasks. The perceived passage of time accelerates while working on demanding tasks, whereas time appears to drag during boring situations. Our experiment aimed at investigating whether this relationship is mutual: Can manipulated announcements of elapsed time systematically affect the attentional resources applied to a cognitive task? We measured behavioral performance and the EEG in a whole report working memory paradigm with six items of different colors that each had to be reported after a short delay period. The 32 participants were informed about the current time after each 20 trials, while the clock was running at…
LA MORTE TRAGICA NEL CINQUECENTO. POETICHE A CONFRONTO IN TRISSINO E IN TASSO
2018
Una riflessione sul teatro tragico cinquecentesco, tra formulazioni teoriche e prassi poetiche, invita all’analisi di due opere significative per gli sviluppi della drammaturgia tragica, la Sofonisba di Gian Giorgio Trissino e Il Torrismondo di Torquato Tasso. Le più recenti indagini nel campo teorico e poetico hanno evidenziato le principali direzioni intraprese dalle sperimentazioni dei maggiori autori, da Trissino a Giraldi Cinzio da Rucellai e Alemanni a Tasso, mostrando il passaggio da un modello – quello esemplato dalla Sofonisba trissiniana – che, pur inaugurando la drammaturgia tragica italiana in versi sciolti, è saldamente ancorato alla teorica aristotelica, a un altro – quello ta…
The Role of the Cerebellum in Social and Non-Social Action Sequences: A Preliminary LF-rTMS Study
2021
An increasing number of studies demonstrated the involvement of the cerebellum in (social) sequence processing. The current preliminary study is the first to investigate the causal involvement of the cerebellum in sequence generation, using low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (LF-rTMS). By targeting the posterior cerebellum, we hypothesized that the induced neuro-excitability modulation would lead to altered performance on a Picture and Story sequencing task, which involve the generation of the correct chronological order of various social and non-social stories depicted in cartoons or sentences. Our results indicate that participants receiving LF-rTMS over the cerebe…
Hallittu tasa-arvo : sukupuolten välinen tasa-arvo ja argumentaatio kuntien tasa-arvosuunnitelmissa
2008
Tutkielman kohteena ovat kunnissa laaditut henkilöstöpoliittiset tasa-arvosuunnitelmat. Laki naisten ja miesten välisestä tasa-arvosta (Tasa-arvolaki) velvoittaa kaikki säännöllisesti yli 30 henkilöä työllistävät työpaikat laatimaan tasa-arvosuunnitelman, jonka tarkoitus on edistää tasa-arvoa. Tutkimuksen tehtävänä on selvittää retoriikka- ja tekstianalyysin avulla sitä, millaista tasa-arvoa aineiston tasa-arvosuunnitelmissa rakennetaan, millaisia argumentteja niissä esitetään ja pohtia näiden kautta sitä, millaisia tasa-arvopolitiikan instrumentteja suunnitelmat ovat – toteutuuko tasa-arvo suunnitelmilla. Aineistoni tasa-arvosuunnitelmat ovat tiukasti hallinnolliseen kontekstiinsa sidottuj…
Creation of a food taste database using an in-home "taste" profile method
2014
International audience; The purpose of this study was to create a food 'taste' database using an innovative in-home profile method. The five basic tastes and fat sensation were studied. The proposed method consisted in an intensive training in laboratory (55 h, 5 months) immediately followed by an in-home measurements phase (8 months) during which 12 trained panelists had to evaluate the five tastes and fat sensation of the foods they typically consumed. The rating scales were inspired by scales used in the Spectrum (TM) method. During the in-home measurement phase, ratings were reported thanks to a web-based tool and each month the panelists returned to the laboratory for a 2-h retraining …
Evolution of the taste of a bitter camembert cheese during ripening : characterization of a matrix effect
2001
The objective of this study was to characterize the effect of ripening on the taste of a typically bitter Camembert cheese. The first step was to select a typically bitter cheese among several products obtained by different processes supposed to enhance this taste defect. Second, the evolution of cheese taste during ripening was characterized from a sensory point of view. Finally, the relative impact of fat, proteins, and water-soluble molecules on cheese taste was determined by using omission tests performed on a reconstituted cheese. These omission tests showed that cheese taste resulted mainly from the gustatory properties of water-soluble molecules but was modulated by a matrix effect d…
Enhancing salty taste through odour–taste–taste interactions: Influence of odour intensity and salty tastants’ nature
2013
WOS:000315557500017 ; www.elsevier.com/locate/foodqual; International audience; Decreasing the sodium content in food products without changing consumer acceptability has become an important challenge for the food industry, and several strategies are currently under investigation to reach this goal. This study investigated the effectiveness of saltiness enhancement by an odour to maintain the perception of saltiness in reduced salt content solutions. In the first experiment, we tested the hypothesis that odour intensity drives the level of saltiness enhancement. The results showed that odour can increase the salty intensity by 25%, while no clear influence of odour intensity either in taste…
Equi-intensity across the SpectrumTM taste scales
2015
Abstract This work aimed to study the equi-intensity across the Spectrum™ taste scales. The approach consisted of a comparison of four reference points illustrating the same level of intensity across the scales using two very different methods: 2-alternative forced-choice (2-AFC) and Labeled Magnitude Scale (LMS). The comparisons across these scales were based on caffeine, citric acid, sodium chloride, sucrose, and monosodium glutamate in water solutions, at different concentrations, prepared according to the guidelines given for the Spectrum™ method. A scale concerning the umami taste, designed in the spirit of the Spectrum™ scales, was also studied in this work. Both procedures produced s…