This study was designed to examine factors associated with literal interpretations of homonyms. Participants were 212 second graders, ages 7;0-8;11, who listened to a story containing 16 key words. The key words were homonymous words ('pseudo-homonyms'), nonsense words, or familiar words used accurately. While listening to the story, children selected an illustration of each key word. Later, th...

While eye movements were recorded and brains scanned, 29 children with and without specific learning disabilities (SLDs) decided if sentences they read (half with only correctly spelled words and half with homonym foils) were meaningful. Significant main effects were found for diagnostic groups (non-SLD control, dysgraphia control, and dyslexia) in total fixation (dwell) time, total number of f...

A Middle Miocene (Early Badenian) Rissooidea assemblage with 19 species of ten genera is described and illustrated from the fossiliferous locality at Letkés (Börzsöny Mts, Hungary). The material represents most highly diverse occurrence superfamily in Pannonian Basin System. Nine are recorded for first time this region. Rissoa federicoi nom. nov. proposed as new name junior homonym Rissoia (Tur...

To successfully comprehend a sentence that contains a homonym, readers must select the ambiguous word's context-appropriate meaning. The outcome of this process is influenced both by top-down contextual support and bottom-up, word-specific characteristics. We examined how these factors jointly affect the neural signatures of lexical ambiguity resolution. We measured the similarity between multi...

Collections from four localities, two of the High Plateau and two of the Eastern Mountains Municipality of Chiapas, near the border with Guatemala, included 26 species with four new species records for Mexico: Lutzomyia (Helcocyrtomyia) hartmanni (Fairchild & Hertig, 1957), Dampfomyia (Coromyia) disneyi (Williams, 1987), Psychodopygus bispinosus (Fairchild & Hertig, 1951), and Psychodopygus cor...

Taxonomic status of Paratrilobus Micoletzky, 1922 Bastian (1865) established the genus Trilobus with T. gracilis as type species. Trilobus {Paratrilobus) with T. (Paratrilobus) grandipapilloides as type was set up by Micoletzky in 1922. Generic rank was given to this subgenus by Baylis and Daubney (1926). Filipjev and Schuurmans Stekhoven (1941) also gave it generic rank, but as a synonym of Tr...

Little work has been done with the African species of Cremnops since their original descriptions. Herein we propose new combinations for five species that are currently placed in Cremnops, i.e., C. atripennis Szépligeti 1914 and C. elegantissima Szépligeti 1908 are moved to Disophrys; C. borealis (Szépligeti 1914) and C. rubrigaster Masi 1944 are moved to Biroia; and C. pulchripennis Szépligeti...

Thirty-eight species of crabs of Calappidae, Matutidae, Iphiculidae, and Leucosiidae were identified from material collected during the SANTO 2006 Expedition to Espiritu Santo Island, Vanuatu. Of these, 32 (14 calappids, one matutid, four iphiculids, and 13 leucosiids) are reported for the first time from Vanuatu. The leucosiid genus Euclosia Galil, 2003, is a junior homonym of Euclosia Mulsant...

With 552 species group names available (excluding misspellings), the Microdontinae constitute the smallest of the three subfamilies of Syrphidae. Paradoxically, this subfamily is taxonomically the least organized of the three: 388 species names were previously classified in a single genus, Microdon Meigen, 1803. The present paper introduces a new generic classification of the Microdontinae, rel...