1 It is important to understand the role of individual differences in working memory capacity 2 (WMC). We investigated the relation between differences in WMC and N1 in event-related 3 brain potentials as a measure of early selective attention for an auditory distractor in 4 three-stimulus oddball tasks that required minimum memory. A high-WMC group (n = 13) 5 showed a smaller N1 in response to...

The present paper investigated the event-related brain potential correlates of the processing of word stress related acoustic changes. We studied the processing of non-speech stimuli containing similar intensity and f0 changes as speech stimuli in a passive oddball paradigm. Contrary to our previous results using speech stimuli with a trochaic stress pattern contrasted with a iambic stress patt...

Plastic pollution represents a threat to marine ecosystems and has therefore been gaining space in the realm of public interest. In this study, we investigated ingestion food non-food items (i.e., plastic particles) by fish crabs. These animals are commonly collected trawling with double-ring net along coast Cananéia, state São Paulo, Brazil; some them consumed as local population. Fish crab st...

This investigation was carried out to determine the feeding habits of blue swimming crab, Portunus segnis from around waters Boushehr, Coast of Persian Gulf, South Iran. Sampling was performed trawl net during winter and spring seasons (January 2011 to June 2012) as processed 426 crabs was collection. After freezing, the samples were transferred to the laboratory in order for further analysis. ...

European Union Regulation 258/97 defines novel foods as food products and food ingredients that have not been consumed to a significant degree in the European Union before May 1997. However, there are new foods that for some reason are not considered as novel foods, though we think that safety of these products is not always a priori established. We defined a 'grey area' which consists of such ...