Harmonic priming studies have shown that a musical context with its tonal center influences target chord processing. In comparison with targets following baseline contexts, which do not establish a specific tonal center, processing is facilitated for a strongly related target functioning as the tonic, but inhibited for unrelated (out-of-key) and…

The present study sought to observe, through online treatments, whether explicit information assists acquisition in a way that has not been measured in previous processing instruction (PI) studies. Two experiments examined learners' behavior while they processed Spanish sentences with object-verb-subject (OVS) word order and Spanish subjunctive…

Although there are some studies documenting structural brain changes during late adolescence, there are few showing functional brain changes over this period in humans. Of special interest would be functional changes in the medial frontal cortex that reflect response monitoring. In order to examine such age-related differences, the authors…

Prior eye-tracking studies of spoken sentence comprehension have found that the presence of two potential referents, e.g., two frogs, can guide listeners toward a Modifier interpretation of "Put the frog on the napkin..." despite strong lexical biases associated with "Put" that support a Goal interpretation of the temporary ambiguity (Tanenhaus,…

This research tested the response inhibition account of the hand-advantage found in the finger precuing task. According to this account, the advantage of preparing two fingers on one hand (represented in one hemisphere) as opposed to preparing two fingers on two hands (represented in two hemispheres) is due, in part, to a response inhibition…

To study action monitoring in anorexia nervosa, behavioral and EEG measures were obtained in underweight anorexia nervosa patients (n=17) and matched healthy controls (n=19) while performing a speeded choice-reaction task. Our main measures of interest were questionnaire outcomes, reaction times, error rates, and the error-related negativity ERP…

The growing literature on semantic memory suggests that many concepts normally believed to belong to certain semantic categories functionally belong to other categories. This determination can be explored by a variety of priming methodologies in which a subject's reaction time is analyzed while making certain judgements about a visually presented…

In a study involving eight mildly mentally retarded and ten CA-matched nonretarded Ss, retarded Ss demonstrated slower overall choice mean reaction times than nonretarded Ss. Results also suggested that the processing difference lies in the memory scanning as opposed to the encoding decision/response of the linear model. (Author/CL)

Two experiments investigated alternative interpretations of simple reaction time to the one proposed by Christina et al. (1982). Results are presented which do not support the alternative interpretations. The authors conclude that an increase in simple reaction time is due more to number of movement parts than to accuracy demands. (Author/MT)

Null hypotheses were: (1) There are no significant differences among groups after counseling in any of the seven areas of adjustment tested by the Reaction Time Test, and (2) There are no significant differences among groups after counseling in anxiety level as measured by the IPAT Anxiety Scale. Null positions were confirmed. (Author/CJ)

Data for this study are from a dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment for the Ph.D. degree, University of Illinois, 1967.

Reexamination of three studies was undertaken to investigate factors involved in reaction time of mildly retarded Ss in high speed scanning. It was suggested that specification of processing stages where efficiency varies across populations may not be possible based on results from high speed scanning tasks. (CL)

Objective: Panic disorder (PD) has been linked to perturbed processing of threats. This study tested the hypotheses that offspring of parents with PD and offspring with anxiety disorders display relatively greater sensitivity and attention allocation to fear provocation. Method: Offspring of adults with PD, major depressive disorder (MDD), or no…

We compare native and non-native processing of homonyms in sentence context whose two most frequent meanings are nouns (e.g., sentence) or a noun and a verb (e.g., trip). With both participant groups, we conducted a combined reaction time (RT)/event-related brain potential (ERP) lexical decision experiment with two stimulus-onset asynchronies…

Can observational learning be effector dependent? In 3 experiments, observers watched a model respond to a 6-item unique sequence in a serial reaction time task. Their sequence knowledge was then compared with that of controls who had performed an unrelated task or observed a model responding to random targets. Observational learning was indicated…