Objectives: Listening to speech in adverse listening conditions is effortful. Objective
assessment of cognitive spare capacity during listening can serve as an index of the effort …

Globalization is on everyone's tongue, and the discussion is not only limited to economic
exchange, but expands to the intermingling of cultural values. To be truly successful in the …

Recent results obtained with a neural-network model of the language cortex suggest that the
memory circuits developing for words are both distributed and functionally discrete. This …

What governs the way in which people work together and handle technology in high risk
environments? The understanding of decision making, communication and the other …

While most studies on neural signals of online language processing have focused on a few—
usually western—subject-verb-object (SVO) languages, corresponding knowledge on …

Hundreds of C-test studies have been published since Klein-Braley's (1981) dissertation
work in Duisburg, Germany (Grotjahn, 2016). C-tests are popular because many claim they …

In order to test the frequent assumption that lexical access in visual word recognition would
proceed independent of central attention, the overlapping task paradigm has recently been …

Recently, we observed that the perception of word meaning, as measured with the N400
component of the event-related brain potential, is delayed but unimpaired by various …

Neuronal mechanisms of error processing under multitasking and their impact on the
processing of a concurrent task were examined. Twenty-one younger and twenty older …

Change blindness—the failure to detect changes in visual scenes—has often been
interpreted as a result of impoverished visual information encoding or as a failure to …