Despite increasing interest in the topic, the extent to which linguistic processing demands attentional resources remains poorly understood. We report an empirical re-examination of claims about lexical processing made on the basis of the picture-word interference task when merged in a dual-task psychological refractory period (PRP) paradigm. Two experiments were conducted in which participants...

The techniques of agriculture and animal husbandry at Tell Humeida, a Middle Uruk Period (Late Chalcolithic) site on the middle Syrian Euphrates, were studied using stable isotopes bone collagen domestic wild mammals from cereal ruderal plant seeds. Two archaeological campaigns in 2009 2011 yielded small collection bones, most which taxonomically indeterminable. work had to be interrupted due p...

Transformations of hand movements by tools such as levers or electronic input devices can invoke performance costs compared to untransformed movements. This study investigated by means of the Psychological Refractory Period (PRP) paradigm at which stage of information processing such tool-transformation costs arise. We used an inversion transformation, that is, the movement of the operating han...

Suppose g ≥ 1, and let α = (α1, . . . , αn) be a partition of 2g− 2, and let H(α) be a stratum of Abelian differentials, i.e. the space of pairs (M,ω) where M is a Riemann surface and ω is a holomorphic 1-form on M whose zeroes have multiplicities α1 . . . αn. The form ω defines a canonical flat metric on M with conical singularities at the zeros of ω. Thus we refer to points of H(α) as flat su...

In a number of field theoretical models the vacuum angle θ enters physics in the combination θ/N , where N stands generically for the number of colors or flavors, in an apparent contradiction with the expected 2π periodicity in θ. We argue that a resolution of this puzzle is related to the existence of a number of different θ dependent sectors in a finite volume formulation, which can not be se...

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Three experiments examined the effects of task switching and response correspondence in a psychological refractory period paradigm. A letter task (vowel-consonant) and a digit task (odd-even) were combined to form 4 possible dual-task pairs in each trial: letter-letter, letter-digit, digit-digit, and digit-letter. Foreknowledge of task transition (repeat or switch) and task identity (letter or ...