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Michelle L. Rizzella; Edward J. O'Brien – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
We examined the impact of prospective information on the processing of information occurring within the present timeline of narrative stories. Participants read target sentences that were consistent with events occurring within a protagonist's present timeline but inconsistent with events in the protagonist's future. When prospective information…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Information Processing, Sentences, Memory
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Bogels, Sara; Schriefers, Herbert; Vonk, Wietske; Chwilla, Dorothee J. – Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2011
The present study addresses the question whether accentuation and prosodic phrasing can have a similar function, namely, to group words in a sentence together. Participants listened to locally ambiguous sentences containing object- and subject-control verbs while ERPs were measured. In Experiment 1, these sentences contained a prosodic break,…
Descriptors: Sentences, Intonation, University Presses, Semantics
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Keown, Kirsten; Gannon, Theresa A.; Ward, Tony – Journal of Sexual Aggression, 2008
Child sexual offenders are hypothesized to hold offence-supportive beliefs that set them apart from others. The current study seeks support for this view via a cognitive-experimental approach. Child sexual offenders and offender controls were exposed to pictures of semi-clothed children (priming condition) or clothed, mature adults (control…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Information Processing, Criminals, Priming