Appositive constructions (My friend Sophie, (who is) a classical violinist, performed a piece by Mozart.) have stood at the center of debates concerning the range of possible meanings, and more specifically the status of not-at-issue entailments. However, it remains an open question what precisely their semantic contribution is to the sentence in which they appear. Here, we address this questio...

Traditional neuroanatomic models of language comprehension have emphasized a core language network situated in peri-Sylvian cortex. More recent evidence appears to extend the neuroanatomic network beyond peri-Sylvian cortex to encompass other aspects of sentence processing. In this study, we evaluate the neuroanatomic basis for processing the ambiguity in doubly-quantified sentences. For exampl...

Current research in cognitive development shows that people’s reasoning and decisionmaking strategies are deeply grounded in contexts of use. They are situated and thus cannot, as many developmentalists have it be gauged according to logical criteria alone. Two broad empirical approaches can be used to study children’s embodied thinking. On the one hand, we have ethological studies which preser...

More and more information is available recently. To find a chance i.e., an important event for decision-making, we have to be prepared for the chance. Recent progress of automatic summarization may contribute to Chance Discovery in that it helps a user read a lot of documents easily and be prepared for the chance. In this paper, we develop a new method for multi-document summarization which ext...

UNLABELLED Clinicians raise several information needs in the course of care. Most of these needs can be met by online health knowledge resources such as UpToDate. However, finding relevant information in these resources often requires significant time and cognitive effort. OBJECTIVE To design and assess algorithms for extracting from UpToDate the sentences that represent the most clinically u...

We combine prior research on ethical decision-making in organizations with a rational choice theory of corporate crime from criminology to develop a model of corporate offending that is tested with a sample of U.S. managers. Despite demands for increased sanctioning of corporate offenders, we find that the threat of legal action does not directly affect the likelihood of misconduct. Managers’ e...

During trial, jurors may experience a variety of emotions, many of which are negative. The current study examined the effects the negative emotions anger, fear, and sadness had on jurors’ sentencing decisions and explored whether Cognitive Appraisal Theory or the Intuitive Prosecutor Model could explain these effects. Jurors viewed the sentencing phase of a capital murder trial and were asked t...

Emotion and cognition are both considered influential factors in language learning. In this study, the role of "emotioncy" (which is a combination of emotion and frequency) in the cognitive load and sentence comprehension of a group of language learners was examined. Emotioncy includes emotions that are evoked by the senses. To this aim, 200 English as a foreign language (EFL) learners were ask...

Almost all Bengalis who own smartphones also have social media accounts. People from different regions occasionally employ regional Slang that is unfamiliar to outsiders and confuses the meaning of sentence. Nearly languages can now be translated thanks modern technology, but only in very basic ways, which a concern. Bengali terms are difficult translate due dearth rich corpora frequently occur...