But a region deep in the brain, the left caudate did register the change in language, responding strongly to "salmon" when preceded by "lachs," but only weakly when preceded by "trout".
Otto Warmbier, 22, who arrived in the United States on Tuesday, is stable but "shows no sign of understanding language, responding to verbal commands or awareness of his surrounding," said Dr. Daniel Kanter, medical director of the neuroscience intensive care unit at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.
In a two-choice go/nogo experimental design, native speakers of the three languages responded to pictures by pressing buttons and producing utterances in their native language while their brain potentials were recorded.
NICE - not known for its strong use of language - responded by saying it was "really disappointed" in the approach taken by the drugs firm.
Another male English language participant responded with a comment that because he was "trying to eat healthy", he did not believe he would get colon cancer.
A number of language learners responded to the group embedded figures test, willingness to communicate scale, Michigan proficiency test, and a reading comprehension test battery.
"Hmmm, food, now that's my language," she responded.
We performed a non-responder analysis to assess potential differences in sex and language between responding and non-responding AS.
Both the antiwar protesters and some of the police officers who could be assigned to watch over them used the same language to respond to the mayor's remarks about free speech being a privilege that can be lost.
They read his body language and respond with impressive accuracy.
But supporters of language revival respond that the idea of "freedom of choice" is highly problematic, especially in the case of American Indian languages, which were frequently aggressively suppressed.
