Archive for November, 2004
04-11-14
Tags: Memory. 1994 Jun;2(2):103-27. Links The Children's Test of Nonword Repetition: a test of phonological working memory.
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Gathercole SE, Willis CS, Baddeley AD, Emslie H.
Department of Psychology, University of Bristol, UK.
This
article presents findings from the Children's Test of Nonword
Repetition (CNRep). Normative data based on its administration to over
600 children aged between four and nine years are reported. […]
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04-11-14
Tags: 4Suite's 4xml.exe does xInclude. Tried a few examples from ZVon's XInclude tutorial
and it worked as expected (see below). The first launch is a little
slow — it's probably starting Python at the backend. Successive runs
were fairly fast.
This should be very useful for matching emXML with other information
such as SEG. I spent a couple of hours […]
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04-11-13
Tags: Original Man's Traveler Sweatshirt
URL:
Front: "I'm sorry my president's an idiot. I didn't vote
for him." (in the six official UN languages). Black text
on ash gray.
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04-11-13
Tags: Original URL: As expected from an "arbitrary list of landmarks in the history of Timeline of the History of Information
information", events noted by Nunberg focuses on two main themes –
print and computation. Are these the essense of information?
This is a pretty arbitrary list of landmarks in
the history of […]
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04-11-11
Tags: Original URL: An Economic Analysis of Scientific Research Publishing […]
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04-11-11
Tags: Original URL: Costs and Business Models in Scientific Research Publishing In September 2003 the Wellcome Trust published 'Economic analysis of
scientific research publishing', […]
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04-11-11
Tags: Original URL: NIH is pushing a revolution. If everything goes as planned, grantees of
NIH will be requested (not required?) to submit electronic copies
of publications supported by NIH, and these files will be publically
accessible 6 months after the official publication date.
Given that a large portion of APA's journal articles are supported by
NIH, this will have […]
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04-11-11
Tags: Original Years back Greg Murphy made me swear in the hallway of Beckman Building not to join APA …
URL:
I still did, but am sitting on the renewal form this year. I disagree
with many policies and priorities of APA, and am disappointed with
their services, to me and to the psychological science in general.
Should I put […]
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04-11-10
Tags: Original Sigmund Freud Action Figure $9 This Sigmund Freud toy goes where no action figure
URL:
has gone before:
He can leap long couches in a single session, run faster
than an untamed id and stop a
speeding phallic symbol using only his cigar. All while
wearing a simple gray suit
over a single item of his mother's underwear - […]
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04-11-10
Tags: Original URL: This can be useful. trueFresco.Org
TrueFresco Referrer Feed Service allows you to instantly (as soon as
someone visits your page through that link) see which website has a
link to your site and on which page the link to your site is located as
well as which page of your site they linked […]
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04-11-10
Tags: Original By way of Mark Liberman's post Doreen Kimura Department of Psychology Simon Fraser http://www.sfu.ca/%7Edkimura/articles/NEL.htm Neuroendocrinology Letters 2002;
URL:
on LanguageLog
University 8888 University Drive Burnaby, B.C.,
V5A1S6 Canada
Sex Hormones
Influence Human Cognitive
Pattern
23(Suppl.4):67-77.
Doreen
Kimura
Abstract
The major sex differences
in cognitive skills
are summarized, and the role of sex hormones in early organization and
possible
maintenance of these differences is discussed. Using animal models and
human hormonal
anomalies, a good case can […]
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04-11-08
Tags:
Developmental
Review
Volume
24, Issue 4, Pages 343-478 (December 2004)Memory development in the
new millennium Edited by D.F.
Bjorklund
1.
Special
Issue: Memory Development in the New Millennium Pages 343-346
David F. Bjorklund
2.
Getting
explicit memory off the ground: Steps toward construction of a
neuro-developmental account of changes in the first two […]
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04-11-08
Tags: Computers in Human Behavior Volume 21, Issue 1 This Document Abstract […]
,
January 2005,
Pages 105-125
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04-11-07
Tags: DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2004.02.001 Content analysis of the homepages of academic psychologists Kitty Dumont, , a and Wolfgang Frindteb Abstract
a Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africab
Department of Communication Psychology, Institute of Psychology,
Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Am steiger 3 haus 1, D-07743, Jena,
Germany
Available online 17 March 2004.
In the last decade, the […]
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04-11-07
Tags: Vision Res. 1987;27(1):45-60. Links Reading twisted text: implications for the role of saccades.
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Kowler E, Anton S.
These
experiments investigated how the quality of saccadic skill limits the
acquisition of visual information during a reading task. Subjects read
text in which the spatial pattern of saccades was varied by reversing
the order of words in a line, the order of letters […]
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04-11-07
Tags: This must be the latest attempt to play the space game in Chinese … Percept Mot Skills. 2000 Feb;90(1):81-92. Links Effects of word spacing on reading Chinese text from a video display terminal.
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Hsu SH, Huang KC.
Department of Industrial Management, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. shhsu@im.ntust.edu.tw
This
study investigated the effects of designing space between words in
Chinese […]
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04-11-07
Tags: Vision Res. 2004 Feb;44(3):321-38. Links
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Eye movements in reading isolated words: evidence for strong biases towards the center of the screen.
Vitu F, Kapoula Z, Lancelin D, Lavigne F.
CNRS,
Universite Rene Descartes, Laboratoire de Psychologie Experimentale, 71
Avenue Edouard Vaillant, 92 774 Boulogne-Billancourt Cedex, France.
francoise.vitu@psycho.univ-paris5.fr
Three experiments were
conducted that compared the eye movement pattern to a peripheral word
or letter […]
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04-11-07
Tags: Biomed Tech (Berl). 2003 Jun;48(6):176-81. Links Evaluation of two algorithms for counting forward saccades in a reading task.
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Menozzi M, Koga K, Ohta Y, Bergande E.
Institute
of Hygiene and Applied Physiology, Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology, Zurich, Switzerland. menozzi@iha.bepr.ethz.ch
We
compared two algorithms, which are used to assess the number of forward
saccades in a reading task from records of eye […]
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04-11-07
Tags: ntegr Physiol Behav Sci. 1991 Apr-Jun;26(2):108-16. Links Blinks as an index of cognitive activity during reading.
Related Articles,
Orchard LN, Stern JA.
Washington University Behavior Research Laboratory, Department of Psychology, St. Louis, MO 63130.
Horizontal
and vertical EOG recordings of eye movements were analyzed to determine
the spatial and temporal distribution of blinks and the patterns of eye
movements (saccades and fixation pauses) […]
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04-11-07
Tags: Recent papers from Rayner lab, categorized Phonological processing
Foley, B., & Pollatsek, A. (1999). Phonological processing and
reading abilites in adolescents and adults with severe congenital
speech impairments. Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 15, 156-168.
Jared, D., Levy, B.A., Rayner, K. (1999).
The role of phonology in the activation of word meanings during
reading: Evidence from proofreading and eye movements. Journal of Experimental […]
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