The steady flood of war films and first-person shooter video games aside, the business community has for a long time now spoken the language of strategic dominance -- white knight, black knight, hostile takeover, regulatory capture, and so on.
It sold two wars packaged in unequivocally masculine rhetoric, using the language of strength and dominance to distract from ― in the case of the Iraq War ― a lack of evidence of weapons of mass destruction or of Iraqi involvement in the 9/11 attacks.
Using fMRI we conducted three memory tasks with different memory material (words, faces, landscape images) alongside with a paradigm for the determination of language dominance in 44 healthy subjects.
"Elevating one language to a position of dominance is tantamount to giving a huge handout to the country or countries that use it as a native language," he insists.What about the Europe outside the bubble of EU politics?
We will apply the Bergen dichotic listening test [ 76] both as a measure of language dominance and as an effect parameter, i.e. as a measure of cognitive control since it has been shown that varying instructions about attention focus while performing the dichotic listening task reveals capacity for cognitive control [ 77].
Although an important reason might be that a lot of countries and regions have reputable peer-reviewed local or regional journals in their own language, the dominance of English as lingua franca of scientific communication offers a huge advantage to English native speakers [ 19].
Helmstaedter et al. studied patterns of language dominance, as assessed by IAT, in TLE patients.
Participants were categorized into typical and atypical lateralization groups according to LI values in Broca's region as this most closely correlates with results from invasive tests of language dominance (Lehericy et al., 2000; Liegeois et al., 2002).
Star News will be presented in Hindi, which is India's national language but has an area of dominance still mainly confined to the northern and western parts of the country.
These initial results demonstrate that cerebellar activation is contralateral to the activation of the frontal cortex even under conditions of different language dominance.
