Synaptic neurotransmitter release is restricted to active zones, where the processes of synaptic vesicle tethering, priming to fusion competence, and Ca2+-triggered fusion are taking place in a highly coordinated manner. We show that the active zone components Munc13-1, an essential vesicle priming protein, and RIM1, a Rab3 effector with a putative role in vesicle tethering, interact functional...

How language represents meaning remains a central topic of debate in linguistics. On some accounts, the noun phrases in a sentence are identified semantically by a list of independent atomic labels (thematic roles), ordered relative to one another depending on the position of the nouns around the verb (e.g., AGENT-THEME-GOAL). Others instead capture such interdependencies with complex, non-atom...

Four structural priming experiments investigated whether the lexical boost is due to repeated head verb of primed structure or repetition any verb, testing ditransitive structures (The hotel owner decided loan tourist a tent/a tent tourist). In Experiments 1–3, we manipulated matrix (decided) that not syntactic in structure. The results showed abstract embedded but did priming. addition manipul...

Abstract Syntactic structures and meaning appear to independently contribute structural priming within English alternations. Japanese uses scrambling of case-marked phrases create syntactic alternations, it is not clear how impacts scrambling-based choices. To examine this issue, overlap with dative targets was manipulated in two experiments. In Experiment 1, datives primed targets, but structu...

This priming study investigates the role of conceptual structure during language production, probing how English speakers encode information about motion events. Participants read prime sentences aloud before describing dynamic motion events. Primes differed in 1) syntactic frame, 2) distribution of manner and path elements within frames, and 3) degree of conceptual overlap with target events. ...