The three leaders have been locked in a verbal match since last year, touring the length and breadth of the country to give speeches and meet people.
However, left posterior superior temporal activation was not highest when there was a successful (congruent) verbal match.
Verbal matching, relative to all other conditions, increased activation in a region of the left superior temporal sulcus that has previously been associated with phonological processing.
In this paper, the impact of eight factors on the size of the effect for the difference in social attention between these two groups are evaluated: age, non-verbal IQ matching, verbal IQ matching, motion, social content, ecological validity, audio input and attention bids.
Nevertheless, the Wernicke's aphasia and semantic aphasia groups showed a similar decline in verbal and non-verbal matching performance as competition increased in later cycles, and in both groups, this decline in performance with repetition was associated with damage to left inferior frontal gyrus.
In these verbal and non-verbal matching tasks, a small set of semantically-related items are repeatedly presented over several cycles so that the target on one trial becomes a distractor on another (building up interference and eliciting semantic 'blocking' effects).
Later, during one of their verbal sparring matches, Gil reinforces this impression.
The scenes between them come across as verbal tennis matches, like Hildy and Walt in His Girl Friday, but less shrill.
He appeared as Henry II again in The Lion in Winter (1968), a film notable for the witty verbal sparring matches between O'Toole and costar Katharine Hepburn.
Verbal Jousting Matches The story of Sir Thomas More's battle to satisfy the desires of his petulant king without betraying the demands of his own faith is played, in "A Man for All Seasons," as a kind of grand verbal jousting match.
