The restrictions on his freedom and the drug treatment were imposed as part of a two-year "community control" sentence imposed last November, after he broke his probation on the 1999 cocaine and prostitution solicitation charges.
The task required them to remember lists of neutral words over short intervals while simultaneously processing sentences describing dysfunctional trauma-related thoughts (relative to neutral control sentences).
In the fMRI scanner, participants read sentences containing puns (e.g. To write with a broken pencil is pointless) and control sentences (literal meaning) presented in a blocked design format.
Future studies might consider including an appropriate baseline condition (e.g. reading non-emotional control sentences) to allow a comparison between each of the two emotion conditions (social and basic emotions) and baseline to further explore this question.
Our central study hypothesis, then, was that trauma survivors with a lifetime history of PTSD would show impaired WMC on our novel emotional reading span task when the operation component (the sentences) was PTSD-related, compared with a control sample of trauma survivors who had never had PTSD, and relative to their performance with neutral control sentences as the operation component.
When the ERPs were time-locked to single probe words that were related to jokes and not to control sentences, a smaller N400 was observed to joke-relevant probes, whereas a subsequent anterior positivity 700 900 ms after stimulus onset was larger to unrelated probes (Coulson & Wu, 2005).
To be able to directly investigate the interaction of word length and frequency effects we employed controlled sentence frames with embedded target words in an experimental design in which length and frequency were manipulated independently of one another.
In an often-cited 2002 poll by The New York Times, for example, 79percentt of respondents favored changing the law to give judges control over sentencing.
There are the Legislature and governor, who control the sentencing laws and the state budget; defense attorneys, and the state's 62 muscular prosecutors, one a county.
Putin went on to give an answer that was meant to sound convincing, but was lacking in specifics; he vaguely promised to increase housing funds in Danila's region, and claimed that the country's judges, not its President, control the sentencing of corrupt officials.
