When a lexical item is selected in the language production process, it needs to be explained why none of its superordinates gets selected instead, since their applicability conditions are fulfilled all the same. This question has received much attention in cognitive modelling and not as much in other branches of NLG. This paper describes the various approaches taken, discusses the reasons why t...

Graded interference effects were tested in a naming task, in parallel for objects and actions. Participants named either object or action pictures presented in the context of other pictures (blocks) that were either semantically very similar, or somewhat semantically similar or semantically dissimilar. We found that naming latencies for both object and action words were modulated by the semanti...

In October 2004, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS) organized a workshop in Kyoto Japan to outline the fundamental aspects and future directions of the then emerging science of “Toxicogenomics.” The output of this three-day meeting was summarized in the Report of the OECD/IPCS workshop on Toxicogenomics (OE...

In the literature, a distinction has been made between two separate visual pathways: a (more or less) nonspatial “what” path and a spatial “where” path (e.g., Bridgeman, Peery, & Anand, 1997; Goodale & Milner, 1992). It has been assumed that these two pathways serve different functions: One is concerned with what is generally considered as “visual perception,” whereas the other feeds directly i...

The following species of Curculionoidea are recorded from Canada for the first time, in ten cases also representing new records at the generic level: Ischnopterapion (Ischnopterapion) loti (Kirby, 1808); Stenopterapion meliloti (Kirby, 1808) (both Brentidae); Atrichonotus taeniatulus (Berg, 1881); Barinus cribricollis (LeConte, 1876); Caulophilus dubius (Horn, 1873); Cionus scrophulariae (Linna...

Results from chronometric and speech errors studies provide convergent evidence for both lower and upper bounds on interaction within the speech production system. Some degree of cascading activation is required to account for patterns of speech errors in neurologically intact and impaired speakers as well as the results of recent chronometric studies. However, the strength of this form of inte...

Background Tumour Necrosis Factor inhibitors (TNFi) are effective in Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) and axial SpondyloArthritis (axSpA), but associated with a somewhat increased infection risk, patient burden, high costs. Treat-to-target (T2T) tapering might ameliorate these drawbacks, no quality T2T studies have been done PsA axSpA. Objectives To investigate whether strategy is non-inferior to with...

A central issue in research on speech production is whether or not the retrieval of words from the mental lexicon is a competitive process. An important experimental paradigm to study the dynamics of lexical retrieval is the blocked naming paradigm, in which participants name pictures of objects that are grouped by semantic category (‘homogenous’ or ‘related’ blocks) or not grouped by semantic ...

A modular approach is presented for the construction of 2-manifolds of higher genus, corresponding to the connected sum of multiple Klein bottles. The geometry of the classical Klein bottle is employed to construct abstract geometrical sculptures with some aesthetic qualities. Depending on how the modular components are combined to form these “Super-Bottles” the resulting surfaces may be single...

Four experiments investigated potential influences of spelling on single word speech production. A form-preparation paradigm that showed priming effects for words with initial form overlap was used to investigate whether words with form overlap, but different spelling (e.g., ‘‘camel’’-‘‘kidney’’) also show priming. Experiment 1 demonstrated that such words did not benefit from the form overlap,...