Search results for "Sentence"

Gesture’s body orientation modulates the N400 during semantic integration of gesture and visual sentence

2020

AbstractBody orientation of gesture entails social-communicative intention, and may thus influence how gestures are perceived and comprehended together with auditory speech during face-to-face communication. To date, despite the emergence of neuroscientific literature on the role of body orientation on hand action perception, limited studies have directly investigated the role of body orientation in the interaction between gesture and language. To address this research question, we carried out an EEG experiment presenting to participants (n=21) videos of frontal and lateral hand gestures of five-seconds (e.g., raising a hand), followed by visually presented sentences that are either congrue…

2015

Sir, We read with interest the scientific commentary by Hornberger and Bertoux (2015) on our study on the specificity of prefrontal cortex subregions for strategy use, verbal initiation and suppression (Robinson et al. , 2015). We administered Section 1 and 2 of the Hayling sentence completion task (Burgess and Shallice, 1997) to a large group of frontal and posterior patients. Section 1, assessing verbal initiation, requires the subject to complete sentences with an appropriate word (e.g. ‘ The captain stayed with the sinking …’ could be completed by saying ‘ ship ’). Section 2, assessing inhibition/suppression, requires the completion of sentences with an unconnected word (e.g. ‘ London i…

Detecting impaired language processing in patients with mild cognitive impairment using around‐the‐ear cEEgrid electrodes

2021

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is the term used to identify those individuals with subjective and objective cognitive decline but with preserved activities of daily living and an absence of dementia. Although MCI can impact functioning in different cognitive domains, most notably episodic memory, relatively little is known about the comprehension of language in MCI. In this study, we used around-the-ear electrodes (cEEGrids) to identify impairments during language comprehension in patients with MCI. In a group of 23 patients with MCI and 23 age-matched controls, language comprehension was tested in a two-word phrase paradigm. We examined the oscillatory changes following word onset as a fu…

2018

The pre-supplementary motor area (pre-SMA) is engaged in speech comprehension under difficult circumstances such as poor acoustic signal quality or time-critical conditions. Previous studies found that left pre-SMA is activated when subjects listen to accelerated speech. Here, the functional role of pre-SMA was tested for accelerated speech comprehension by inducing a transient "virtual lesion" using continuous theta-burst stimulation (cTBS). Participants were tested (1) prior to (pre-baseline), (2) 10 min after (test condition for the cTBS effect), and (3) 60 min after stimulation (post-baseline) using a sentence repetition task (formant-synthesized at rates of 8, 10, 12, 14, and 16 syllab…

Time-Course of Grammatical Processing in Deaf Readers: An Eye-Movement Study.

2019

Abstract Twenty participants who were deaf and 20 chronological age-matched participants with typical hearing (TH) (mean age: 12 years) were asked to judge the correctness of written sentences with or without a grammatically incongruent word while their eye movements were registered. TH participants outperformed deaf participants in grammaticality judgment accuracy. For both groups, First Pass and Total Fixation Times of target words in correct trials were significantly longer in the incongruent condition than in the congruent one. However, whereas TH students showed longer First Pass in the target area than deaf students across congruity conditions, deaf students made more fixations than t…

Detecting impaired language processing in MCI patients using around-the-ear cEEgrid electrodes

2021

AbstractMild cognitive impairment (MCI) is the term used to identify those individuals with subjective and objective cognitive decline but with preserved activities of daily living and an absence of dementia. While MCI can impact functioning in different cognitive domains, most notably episodic memory, relatively little is known about the comprehension of language in MCI. In this study we used around-the-ear electrodes (cEEGrids) to identify impairments during language comprehension in MCI patients. In a group of 23 MCI patients and 23 age-matched controls, language comprehension was tested in a two-word phrase paradigm. We examined the oscillatory changes following word onset as a function…

Legal nature of the Supreme Court resolutions

2020

Przedmiotem opracowania jest charakter prawny uchwał Sądu Najwyższego. Charakter ten jest sporny w doktrynie. W tym zakresie występują trzy odmienne stanowiska. Według jednego z nich „uchwały Sądu Najwyższego są orzeczeniami”. Drugie stanowisko przyjmuje, iż „uchwały Sądu Najwyższego stanowią odrębną grupę orzeczeń, nie są jednak orzeczeniami sądu, które dotyczą przedmiotu procesu, ponieważ nie rozstrzygają wprost o jego przedmiocie”. Trzeci kierunek głosi, że „uchwały Sądu Najwyższego, wydawane na podstawie art. 441 § 1 k.p.k., rozstrzygające zagadnienia prawne, nie należą do kategorii orzeczeń”. Przeprowadzone rozważania w niniejszym artykule prowadzą zatem do konkluzji, że uchwały Sądu N…

Machine Learning Models for Measuring Syntax Complexity of English Text

2019

In this paper we propose a methodology to assess the syntax complexity of a sentence representing it as sequence of parts-of-speech and comparing Recurrent Neural Networks and Support Vector Machine. We have carried out experiments in English language which are compared with previous results obtained for the Italian one.

'It's like a Sentence before the Sentence' - Exploring the Pains and Possibilities of Waiting for Imprisonment

2020

This article explores the implications of the ‘imprisonment queue’ in Norway. Based on interview data (N = 200), we show that while interviewees waiting to serve their sentences enjoy certain benefits such as being able to prepare for or negotiate the terms of their imprisonment, they also suffer from uncertainty and powerlessness. The suspension of their lives while they wait hinders them in pursuing their ground projects, things that really matter to them. This peculiar phenomenon has not received attention from prison scholars generally, as well as scholars writing on Nordic Exceptionalism specifically. This article addresses that gap and poses questions about the relative mildness of th…

Refranes y sentencias en la Edad Media: estudio de algunas correspondencias

2015

La denominación de género sentencioso convoca materiales de muy distinta índole: cuentos, fábulas, proverbios, sentencias y refranes que se caracterizan por una vocación sapiencial y didáctica común. Estos términos, si bien albergan realidades textuales distintas, a menudo fueron considerados como voces sinónimas por los autores medievales. El análisis minucioso de las colecciones dedicadas a dos de estos subgéneros, sentencias y refranes, y de las diferentes formas que en ellas aparecen, propicia una reflexión taxonómica cuya meta es una aproximación más exacta a sus afinidades y diferencias, a sus naturalezas intrínsecas y a sus propiedades.