One important finding with the picture–word interference paradigm is that picture-naming performance is facilitated by the presentation of a distractor (e.g., CAP) formally related to the picture name (e.g., “cat”). In two picture-naming experiments we investigated the nature of such form facilitation effect with Mandarin Chinese, separating the effects of phonology and orthography. Significant...

This study investigates the orthographic and phonological contribution of visually masked primes to reading aloud in Dutch. Although there is a relatively clear mapping between spelling and sound of words in Dutch, words starting with the letter are ambiguous as to whether they begin with the phoneme /s/ (e.g., FLWURHQ ‘lemon’) or with the phoneme /k/ (e.g., FRPSORW ‘conspiracy’). Therefore...

Only the known integrable cases of the Kodama-Hasegawa higherorder nonlinear Schrödinger equation pass the Painlevé test. Recent results of Ghosh and Nandy add no new integrable cases of this equation. Being a true high-technology application of a mathematical object, the optical soliton in fiber optical lines of communications is an ideal carrier of information because the integrability of its...

J. Econ. Enlomol. 72: 599-601 (1979) Time of tuber infestation by Phthorimaea operculeLla (Zeller) was markedly affected by the type of irrigation system employed. Tuber infestation under furrow irrigation was above 25% for 4 wk prior to vine senescence while sprinkler irrigated potatoes sustained less than 5% damage during this period. After irrigation was terminated, infestation increased rap...

The last decades have seen a surge in research into interval timing (for recent reviews, see Merchant et al., 2013; Wittmann, 2013; Allman et al., 2014; van Rijn et al., 2014), with some work focussing on the more abstract mechanisms underlying interval timing (e.g., Taatgen et al., 2007) or the role of cognitive faculties such as memory and decision processes on interval timing tasks (e.g., Ta...

Normative data are described and compared for 34 Italian-speaking children (5-6 years of age) and 50 Italian-speaking adults in a timed picture-naming task, with 250 pictures (simple line drawings). Dependent measures include overall nameability, percent agreement on the most frequent name (target), number of alternative names provided, overall reaction time and latency to produce the target na...

Multimodal representations are representations containing a combination of text and schemas and/or pictures. According to the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning such representations can be powerful learning tools. The study described here approaches this theory from the domain of history in co-construction tasks. In an experimental study, the dialogues of pupils who co-constructed either t...

Fedorenko (2014) examines “the relationship between high-level language processing and domain-general cognitive control, with a focus on the brain systems that support these cognitive capacities (ital hers).” She addresses two questions –“(i) when (i.e., under what circumstances) the cognitive control mechanisms get engaged during language understanding; and (ii) whether this engagement is nece...

One of the most intriguing and challenging questions in the interdisciplinary study of mental processes and underlying brain mechanisms is how language is related to thought. The question is by no means new. Scholars have attempted to unravel the relationship between language and thought since the early days of Western philosophy. Recent theories range from strictly modular accounts of linguist...

Using the blocked-translation paradigm with healthy participants, we examined Crutch and Warrington’s hypothesis that concrete and abstract concepts are organized by distinct principles: concrete concepts by semantic similarities and abstract ones by associations. In three experiments we constructed two types of experimental blocking (similar vs. associative) for both abstract and concrete word...