Traditionally, event-related brain potential (ERP) studies of language processing have presented words at a fixed rate using rapid serial visual presentation. Recent studies suggest, however, that the processes engaged during sentence comprehension are contingent on word presentation rate. These findings underscore the importance of allowing participants to read at a natural pace. The present s...

BACKGROUND Recent evidence suggests that physical decline and slower gait may be associated with early signs of dementia, but more information on healthy older adults is needed. METHODS We determined associations between cognitive function, gait speed, and self-reported measures of physical function in 3035 healthy mobile participants of the Ginkgo Evaluation of Memory Study evaluated in 2000...

This paper investigates, in English, the widely reported mismatch asymmetry, or plural attraction production of subject-verb agreement and relatively less observed reversed singular comprehension. Through a self-paced reading experiment, read-aloud task pen-and-paper questionnaire, we examined whether is genuine effect comprehension it could be due to experimental materials few studies that it....

Prior experience of fatiguing tasks is considered essential to establishing an optimal pacing strategy. This study examined the pacing behavior of inexperienced children during self-paced, 800 m running, both individually and within a competitive environment. Thirteen children (aged 9-11 y) completed a graded-exercise test to volitional exhaustion on a treadmill (laboratory trial), followed by ...

Cortical stimulation is a useful way of elucidating the cortical control of eye movements. The aim of this study was to determine the type of eye movements evoked in response to intraoperative electrical stimulation of the frontal eye field (FEF) region in a fully awake patient during surgery for a frontal lobe glioma. A train of low-intensity electrical pulses within an area in the precentral ...

BACKGROUND Performing exercise in thermally stressful environments impairs exercise capacity and performance. Cooling during exercise has the potential to attenuate detrimental increases in body temperature and improve exercise capacity and performance. OBJECTIVE The objective of this review was to assess the effectiveness of practical cooling strategies applied during continuous exercise in ...

While being short on time can certainly limit what one remembers, are there always such costs? The current study investigates the impact of time constraints on selective memory and the self-regulated study of valuable information. Participants studied lists of words ranging in value from 1-10 points, with the goal being to maximize their score during recall. Half of the participants studied the...

Metacognitive monitoring and control must be accurate and efficient in order to allow self-guided learners to improve their performance. Yet few examples exist in which allowing learners to control learning produces higher levels of performance than restricting learners' control. Here we investigate the consequences of allowing learners to self-pace study of a list of words on later recognition...

Exploiting the information from multiple views can improve clustering accuracy. However, most existing multi-view clustering algorithms are nonconvex and are thus prone to becoming stuck into bad local minima, especially when there are outliers and missing data. To overcome this problem, we present a new multi-view self-paced learning (MSPL) algorithm for clustering, that learns the multi-view ...

Latent variable models are a powerful tool for addressing several tasks in machine learning. However, the algorithms for learning the parameters of latent variable models are prone to getting stuck in a bad local optimum. To alleviate this problem, we build on the intuition that, rather than considering all samples simultaneously, the algorithm should be presented with the training data in a me...