In second language learning, relative clauses are widely studied. However, research comparing Indonesian and foreign learners’ based on animacy has not been done. Besides, affects the difficulty of producing clauses. Therefore, this study investigates role in production clauses, relationship between movement distance conformity with rules This employs a descriptive case study. Data was collecte...

To cite: Masuda K, Ishitobi Y, Tanaka Y, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bcr-2014-206019 DESCRIPTION Fetishism is a disease characterised by sexual arousal caused by inanimate objects, often including clothing such as pants, bras, and stockings and women’s shoes. Patients with fetishism often show a strong interest in non-genital body parts. Hy...

Language production studies tend to investigate central tendencies, though there are extensive individual differences in any production task. Studying this variability in behavior can be revealing of the motivations and consequences of production choices. In a picture-description task, participants used either active object or passive relative clauses to describe animate or inanimate entities i...

Theoretical accounts as well as behavioral studies reporting animacy effects offer inconsistent and sometimes contradictory results. A possible explanation for these inconsistencies may be inadvertent biases in the stimuli selected for test - with category-specific effects driven by characteristics of test stimuli other than animacy per se. In this study, we pit animacy against feature structur...

BACKGROUND There is a rising prevalence of both hospital-acquired and community-associated strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections. Both strains are found in patients presenting to emergency departments (EDs). OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to identify objects in the ED that might contribute to the spread of MRSA. METHODS This was a cross-sectional ...

We investigated the prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus on shopping baskets in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. Multilocus sequence typing was performed to determine the genotypes of S. aureus isolates, and then a polymerase chain reaction method was used to detect staphylococcal enterotoxins and antibiotic resistance genes. In addition, desiccation tolerance of S. aureus isolates was evaluated in vitr...

Humans interpret others' goals based on motion information, and this capacity contributes to our mental reasoning. The present study sought to determine whether Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) perceive goal-directedness in chasing events depicted by two geometric particles. In Experiment 1, two monkeys and adult humans were trained to discriminate between Chasing and Random sequences. We the...

Anthropomorphism, the process of attributing human physical or mental characteristics to living beings, such as plants and animals, inanimate objects, events, is one most effective ways connect consumers businesses. Anthropomorphism creates an opportunity for identify themselves with businesses, products, services. This study explores effect anthropomorphic mascots on purchasing intention in ex...

People's behavior in relation to objects depends on whether they are owned. But how do people judge whether objects are owned? We propose that people expect human-made objects (artifacts) to be more likely to be owned than naturally occurring objects (natural kinds), and we examine the development of these expectations in young children. Experiment 1 found that when shown pictures of familiar k...

The literature on deception in human-robot interaction (henceforth HRI) could be divided between: (i) those who consider it essential to maximise users' end utility and robotic performance; (ii) unethical, because is potentially dangerous for individuals' psychological integrity. However, has now been proven that humans are naturally prone anthropomorphism emotional attachment inanimate objects...