Overt and implicit prosody contribute to neurophysiological responses previously attributed to grammatical processing.

Recent neurophysiological research suggests that slow cortical activity tracks hierarchical syntactic structure during online sentence processing. Here we tested an alternative hypothesis: electrophysiological activity peaks at constituent phrase as well as sentence frequencies reflect cortical tracking of overt or covert (implicit) prosodic grouping. Participants listened to series of sentences presented in three conditions while electroencephalography (EEG) was recorded.

Language and music phrase boundary processing in Autism Spectrum Disorder: An ERP study.

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is frequently associated with communicative impairment, regardless of intelligence level or mental age. Impairment of prosodic processing in particular is a common feature of ASD. Despite extensive overlap in neural resources involved in prosody and music processing, music perception seems to be spared in this population.

Neurophysiological Correlates of Musical and Prosodic Phrasing: Shared Processing Mechanisms and Effects of Musical Expertise.

The processing of prosodic phrase boundaries in language is immediately reflected by a specific event-related potential component called the Closure Positive Shift (CPS). A component somewhat reminiscent of the CPS in language has also been reported for musical phrases (i.e.

[Analysis of a change in the position of the hyoid bone when displacing the lower jaw in patients with dentofacial malformations].

Objective: To estimate the magnitude of a change in the position of the hyoid bone when displacing the lower jaw during surgical treatment in patients with dentofacial abnormalities.

Material And Methods: Fifty patients with dentofacial abnormalities (25 and 25 patients with distal and mesial occlusion, respectively) were examined and treated. All the patients underwent multislice spiral computed tomography before and 6 months after surgery.

[Molecular targets for searching of endothelial-protective substances].

Endothelial dysfunction underlies the development of many cardiovascular diseases. Thus endothelium becomes an independent therapeutic target, and the search of new substances with endothelial-protective action to date is one of the promising tasks for pharmacotherapy and medicinal chemistry. Molecular modeling is an effective tool for solving this problem.