Research examining the neurocognitive mechanisms involved in the resolution of ambiguity have sought to systematically manipulate the point in a spoken sentence where ambiguous material is resolved (Rodd et al. 2012).
This is tricky, ambiguous material, seemingly better fitted to a short literary novel than to a movie, and it could have gone wrong in a hundred ways, yet Baumbach handles it with great assurance.
She had fallen in with the Nazi hierarchy who crowded into her Paris cabaret, L'Ecrin, in the early hours after her spectaculars at the ABC and the Casino de Paris music halls, alternately titillated and scandalised by her performances of such dangerous and ambiguous material as the Yiddish hit Bei Mir Bist Du Schön, and the degenerate, but glorious, Divine Beguine (Begin the Beguine).
We employed lexically ambiguous material in our experiment to control the influence of lexical and prosodic features on comprehension.
The combination of these two research projects might help us to verify that the slower listener reactions are not merely due to lower-quality stimuli or the amount of morphing, or due to the possibility that participants can identify their own voices and therefore exert extra effort. 1 The other ambiguous material we used can be found in the appendix.
Elashi's father, Ghassan, was charged under the ambiguous Material Support Statute for sending humanitarian aid, such as books and backpacks, to a Palestinian charity committee in Gaza.
Firstly, when spontaneously avoiding negative sentences, there was less recruitment of executive attentional areas when exposed to emotional ambiguous material (where avoidance of negative content occurred) than to neutral material (in which no avoidance was required).
Thus both tasks required the adoption of the non-threatening meanings of ambiguous material and rejection of alternatives that were made increasingly similar to realistic worry content.
In order to assess the effect of the interpretation training procedure on children's spontaneous interpretation of novel ambiguous material, children complete a set of realistic ambiguous vignettes pre- and posttraining (Vassilopoulos et al., 2009, 2012).
Consistent with the latter account, the present findings clearly suggest that the repeated processing of emotional information will only serve to alter the resolution of novel ambiguous material if such information initially activates alternative emotional meanings (i.e. is ambiguous).
