Processing demands during mental operations

The Processing Demands of Writing

To facilitate the production of the text that you are now reading I (MT) am using a common word processing application running on a personal computer. As I write, the word processor is monitoring what I type for spelling errors. If I asked it to, it would also check to see if the text I produce is grammatical (according to its own, somewhat arcane criteria). Elsewhere on the computer I have an ...

What’s behind a P600? Integration Operations during Irony Processing

The combined knowledge of word meanings and grammatical rules does not allow a listener to grasp the intended meaning of a speaker's utterance. Pragmatic inferences on the part of the listener are also required. The present work focuses on the processing of ironic utterances (imagine a slow day being described as "really productive") because these clearly require the listener to go beyond the l...

Inventory and Pricing in Global Operations: Learning From Observed Demands

We develop a two-period model applicable to global sourcing by considering a firm that operates in two markets: one is located in the U.S. and the second is in a country having a selling season that does not overlap with the U.S.' selling season. Demand for each market depends linearly on the selling 'price and includes an unknown scale parameter. We assume that the firm learns from sales in th...

Demands made for inquiry into operations of reproductive health agency.

Temporal distribution of attentional demands during a tennis serve

In the current research, the dual-task paradigm was used to examine the temporal distribution of attentional demands during a tennis serve. Twenty experienced tennis players to performed tennis serves. The participants were asked to respond verbally to an auditory tone presented at four probe positions (PPs) during tennis serves. The probe reaction time measure of attention was administered dur...