In remaining trials, the sequence of presenting sentences and images switches.
The auditorily presented sentences continued to play after the visual targets appeared and after participants made the lexical decisions.
Davoli, Du, Montana, Garverick, and Abrams (2010) presented sentences between participants' hands and asked them to judge whether or not they made sense.
To ensure that the participants paid attention to the auditorily presented sentences in addition to making lexical decisions, a questionnaire composed of 10 sentences, among which 5 appeared in the previous experimental block, was administered after each experimental block.
But when asked what makes sentences about the past true or false, we would probably also say that it is the facts of the past that make present sentences about the past either true or false.
Participants were directed to listen to the presented sentence and to make a decision as accurately as possible, which emotional category the emotional prosody of the presented sentences corresponded to.
In one condition, adjectives within visually presented sentences of the structure [Det]-[Noun]-[Adjective]-[Verb] were semantically correct or incorrect.
Results confirmed a genuine positive bias for observed items only (comparison participants: t(20) = 8.063, p<.0000001, r = .87; participants with AS: t(17) = 3.026, p<.008, r = .59), i.e. a conservative bias towards responding 'new' to the presented sentences.
First, decisions to externally presented sentences positively activate AG, whereas word tasks, for example, do not.
