In two experiments we provided evidence for a joint interference effect in picture naming. Participants took longer to name pictures when they believed that their partner concurrently named pictures than when they believed their partner was silent (Experiment 1) or concurrently categorized the pictures as being from the same or from different semantic categories (Experiment 2). However, picture naming latencies were not affected by beliefs about what one's partner said. These findings are consistent with the idea that speakers represent whether another speaker is preparing to speak, but not what they are preparing to say.

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Objective: A significant proportion of adjuvant-treated breast cancer patients experience cognitive decline, challenging the person’s ability to return to normal activities after treatment. However, not every patient experiences cognitive problems, and even in patients with impairments, determining clinically important cognitive decline remains challenging. Our objective was to explore differences in neuropsychological performance following adjuvant chemotherapy (CT) in patients with breast cancer. Method: We conducted a prospective observational study in an Oncology Breast Clinic and assessed neuropsychological performance before and after adjuvant CT and in non-CT-treated women with breast cancer and healthy controls (HCs). Standardised between-group differences and regression-based change scores were calculated. Results: CT-treated patients (n = 66) performed significantly different from non-CT-treated patients (n = 39) and HCs (n = 56). There was a significant effect on verbal fluency (p = .0013). CT performed significantly worse than non-CT and HC [effect size (ES) = .89, p < .001 and ES = .61, p ≤ .001, respectively] and from HCs with regard to proactive interference (ES = .62, p ≤ .001). Regression-based scores revealed more severe cognitive decline in the CT-treated group [24.24% (16/66)] than in the non-CT-treated group [15.20% (6/39)] and HC group [7.14% (4/56)]. Patients who underwent CT and showed cognitive decline were less educated and older, with significantly lower baseline scores. Conclusions: CT-treated patients showed more vulnerability on cognitive control and monitoring than non-CT-treated breast cancer patients and HCs. Older patients with less education and lower baseline cognitive performance represent a group at risk for cognitive decline following CT. Identification of patients at risk for decline could improve targeted support and rehabilitation.

The phenomenon of wobbling can only occur for a nuclear shape with stable triaxial deformation. To date, only a few examples of this exotic collective mode have been observed in lutetium and tantalum isotopes. A search for a wobbling sequence was performed in 171 Re to determine if this feature can be observed in Z > 73 nuclei. No evidence was found for wobbling; however, an interaction between the πi 13/2 sequence and another positive-parity band may give an indication on why wobbling may not occur in this nucleus. The level scheme for 171 Re was significantly extended and interpretations for the decay sequences are proposed within the context of the cranked shell model.

1Many studies have reported evidence suggesting that resources involved in linguistic structural 2 processing might be domain-general by demonstrating interference from simultaneously presented non-3 linguistic stimuli on the processing of sentences (Slevc, Rosenberg, & Patel, 2009). However, the 4 complexity of the analyzed linguistic processes often precludes the interpretation of such interference as 5 being based on structural -rather than more general -processing resources (Perruchet & Poulin-6 Charronnat, 2013). We therefore used linguistic structure as a source of interference for another structural 7 processing task, by asking participants to read sentences while processing experimentally manipulated 8 pitch sequences. Half of the sentences contained a segment with either an "out-of-context" sentential 9 violation or a "garden path" unexpectancy. Furthermore, the pitch sequences contained a cluster shift 10 which did or did not align with the sentential unexpectancies. A two-tone recognition task followed each 11 pitch sequence, providing an index of the strength with which this structural boundary was processed. 12When a "garden path" unexpectancy (requiring structural reintegration) accompanied the cluster shift, the 13 structural boundary induced by this shift was processed more shallowly. No such effect occurred with 14 non-reintegratable "out-of-context" sentential violations. Furthermore, the discussed interference effect 15 can be isolated from general pitch recognition performance, supporting the interpretation of such 16 interference as being based on overlapping structural processing resources (Kljajevic, 2010; Patel, 2003).