The study investigates the electrophysiological signature for Categorical Perception (CP) of lexical tones. Mandarin level and rising tones are the targets and nonspeech counterparts, using pure tones with the same pitch contours, are synthesized as controls. The results show that in lexical tone condition, across-category deviant elicits Mismatch Negativity (MMN) but within-category deviant do...

The feature-integration theory of attention posits that auditory features are first processed independently at early stages. We tested the theory by examining the neural processing integrality of vowels and tones at the early pre-attentive auditory level. Twenty native Cantonese listeners participated in the event-related potential (ERP) experiment. We adopted the mismatch negativity (MMN) addi...

In the current COVID-19 pandemic, this paper attempts to empirically find out increasing workplace bullying effect on project performance with employee deviant behaviour as a mediator, internal, and external locus of control moderators. The random sampling technique was used gather data from 777 employees, working in construction companies Pakistan. examination established using WarpPLS softwar...

Background. In adolescence and youth, physical pain is associated not only with a tendency to somatization hypochondrization but also signs of aggressive suicidal behaviour. Objective. The study aimed at approbation Russian-­language versions the Discomfort Intolerance Scale, Pain Catastrophization Scale Fear questionnaire in adolescents young people. Methods. Questionnaire (Short Form), Body H...

An impressive number of inquiries across an array of methodological specifications has demonstrated that deviant peers are an important correlate of various criminological outcomes, which include withinindividual change and stability in offending behavior. Still, the causal mechanisms of peer influence arguably remain underdeveloped (Giordano, 2003; Warr, 2002). In an attempt to expand the dial...

Global dynamics of a non-linear Cellular Automata is, in general irregular, asymmetric and unpredictable as opposed to that of a linear CA, which is highly systematic and tractable. In the past efforts have been made to systematize non-linear CA evolutions in the light of Boolean derivatives and Jacobian Matrices. In this paper two different efforts have been made: first we try to systematize n...

Clinical work with offenders histories of sexual violence is an important aspect forensic practice. A key feature this the clinical interview, which allows individual and offence-related issues to be explored. Research suggests that some offences contain motivations may therefore related deviant fantasies. This case study reports on assessment formulation a patient detained in regional secure u...

This study examined how maturation and the size of deviance affect the development of mismatch responses to Mandarin lexical tones by a multi-deviant oddball paradigm with both large deviant T1/T3 and small deviant T2/T3 pairs in newborns and 6-month-olds. The T1/T3 pair elicited a positive mismatch response (P-MMR) at birth but an adult-like mismatch negativity (MMN) at 6 months of age. For th...