The bill suggests effacing all the effects of "sentences and sanctions inflicted on the grounds of alleged breaches of public loyalty".
Our previous study had tested the effects of sentence-extraneous material on within-sentence processing only for the same type of information, that is, semantic-semantic and syntactic-syntactic interactions.
The effect of sentence scrambling shows that both valence and arousal are enhanced by, though not completely dependent upon, general comprehension of meaning.
Here, in the right hemisphere homolog of Broca's area, there is no significant effect of sentence structure on the auditory response; indeed, there is barely any appreciable event-related response.
The primary effect of sentences like these is a powerful immersion.
"I don't believe that judges are sitting there consciously discriminating against black defendants, but if you look at the cumulative effect of sentencing decisions there is no rational explanation for the discrepancies.
Whatever the reasons for the here-observed ERP-effect of sentence-extraneous semantic information, on a more general level the present findings confirm our previous observation that semantic processing is open to external information even when this information is presented in a different modality.
For comparison, stimulations of u'4 at 1 Hz (3 mA) had no such disruptive effects on sentence understanding, but stimulations of this region at 50 Hz (1 mA) triggered auditory illusions, described by the patient as 'echo' whereas applying the same stimulation to a site 15 mm more medial to u'4 triggered auditory hallucinations, i.e. perception of high-pitch sounds.
One is, of course, the frightening example of the Chinese, whose comfort with this practice raises concerns about potential effects on sentencing of possible "societal good" resulting from execution.
Focusing on the potential effects of the sentence length opens a host of questions for future work, says James Moody, a sociologist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
