Does watching Han Solo or C-3PO similarly influence our language processing?

C-3PO Cross Stitch Chart

Discourse processing-examining our everyday language experiences.

Studies of discourse processing focus on the ways in which readers and listeners comprehend language. The linguistic segments of interest to the field tend to be larger than sound, word, or sentence-level units; they include the books and conversational communications that comprise our everyday cognitive and social interactions. The current review focuses on discourse comprehension (specificall...

How Does Social Context Influence Our Brain and Behavior?

1Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience (LPEN), Institute of Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience (INCYT), INECO Foundation, Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 3Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, 4Faculty of Education, National University of Cuyo (UNCuyo), Mendoza, Arg...

Does surgical technique influence post-tonsillectomy haemorrhage? Our experience.

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Tonsillectomy represents one of the main surgical procedures for the otolaryngologist, with haemorrhage being the most common postoperative. The objective of this study was to determine the post-tonsillectomy haemorrhage rate, and relate the surgical technique, diagnosis and patient age. METHODS This was a retrospective study, from April 2012 to January 2014, cover...

Does Social Information Influence Sentence Processing?

Does knowledge of sociolinguistic variation influence how we perceive and understand speech coming from different kinds of people? A series of experiments investigated whether listeners have knowledge about t/d deletion, a sociolinguistic variable, and, if so, whether this knowledge influences their language comprehension. Experiment 1 investigated listeners’ knowledge of the social correlates ...