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04-12-03

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Pammer, K., Lavis, R., et al. (2004). Symbol-string sensitivity and children’s reading. Brain and Language 89(3): 601-610.
In this study of primary school children, a novel
’symbol-string’ task is used to assess sensitivity to the position of
briefly presented non-alphabetic but letter-like symbols. The results
demonstrate that sensitivity in the symbol-string […]

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Neither Duke nor UNC has e-access to it.

Educational Assessment
1999, Vol. 6, No. 1, Pages 41-70

(doi:10.1207/S15326977EA0601_4)

The Developmental Spelling Analysis: A Measure of Orthographic Knowledge
Kathy Ganske
Department […]

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Was looking for bibilographic info of Weber (1970; for graphical
similarity between words), and found this. It cited Weber but didnot
give reference. Nonetheless, it’s sort of interesting and might be
useful for teaching

MISCUE ANALYSIS: A CRITIQUE
Dr. Kerry Hempenstall
Department of Psychology and Intellectual Disabilities,
RMIT, Plenty Rd., Bundoora. 3083.
Ph. 9925 7522
Email: hempenstall@rmit.edu.au
The assessment of children’s reading […]

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The paper seems to find what already know. However, the formula for
orthographical similarity, though historical, is interesting.

Miellet, S., & Sparrow, L. (2004). Phonological codes are
assembled before word fixation: Evidence from boundary paradigm in
sentence reading. Brain and Language, 90, 299-310.
Appendix B. Van Orden’s (1987) index

Van Orden adapted an estimate from Weber (1970). Weber’s […]

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European Journal of Cognitive Psychology

ISSN: 

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It’s been a while since I read the QMLE model they have. Now they include lognormal, Wald, and Weibull support in their QMPE, in addition to ex-Gaussian. They also make their data available.
All the papers on RT distributions I’ve read assume that there is a
single underlying stochastic process, and that the the […]

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A recent post on LanguageLog reminded me of this

"… if you search on Dolly, Google finds Dolly Parton, Scirus finds the cloned sheep."

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The problem raised by Clark (1973) has been in my mind for years. Need to follow up on these papers by Raaijmakers.

Prof. Dr. Jeroen G.W. Raaijmakers
Department of Psychology
University […]

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04-12-02

Tags: I blogged about the TUT Language back in April, but had completely forgotton about it, if it were not for a spam comment on it.
Gave a second look, and it may very well be a critical part of our OT-PA project. Ordered the book/tape.
Several things about TUT make it interesting:

TUT is a "language" […]

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04-12-02

Tags: by Redford Neal, Stats prof. at U Toronto. The MCMC support sounds appealing. Referred by Kevin Murphy.
Software for flexible Bayesian modeling
and Markov chain sampling.

This software implements Bayesian models for regression and classification
based on neural networks and on Gaussian processes and […]

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Kevin Murphy, who is not at UBC, is a consultant of this project.

PNL is a full function, free, open source, graphical models library released under a BSD style license.
Public release is now available, see download section below. PNL is
part of the collection of Intel’s Open Source Libraries intended to
promote and foster the […]

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Intel’s PNL may use the Genie interface in the future.

GeNIe |
Features
GeNIe
2 Online Help
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HOW AFRICAN AMERICAN MOTHERS ASSIST THEIR EARLY ADOLESCENT DAUGHTERS WITH READING TASKS

Authors:
ALICE SCALES1; ALICE SNYDER2
Source:
Reading Psychology, Oct-Dec 2004, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 297-312(16)

Three African American mothers and their daughters participated in
three, 30-minute reading sessions. During each session, daughters read
narrative text for 15 minutes and expository text for the other 15
minutes. Categories of […]

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Dr. Bruce A. Murray

Auburn University, AL 36849-2512
(334) 844-6934
FAX (334) 844-6789
murraba@mail.auburn.edu
Bruce A. Murray is an associate professor in the Department of
Curriculum and Teaching in the College of Education. He teaches
courses […]

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Kai
von Fintel
Associate
Professor of Linguistics (Semantics, Syntax)
Class of 1942 Career Development Professor
Kai […]

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04-12-01

Tags: Original URL, from Science Magazine’s CareerBlog (Physics is for Girls, Oct 21, 2004), which I got from Kai von Fintel’s geek notes. 

I am having a bit of identify crisis now — my right hand shows the
typical male pattern of a shorter index finger, but my left hand says I
am a girl. I read […]

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04-12-01

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of this Article

Science,
Vol 306,
Issue 5701,
1482-1483
, 26 November 2004
[DOI: 10.1126/science.1103788]

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY:Why Ordinary People Torture Enemy Prisoners
Susan T. Fiske, Lasana T. Harris, Amy J. C. Cuddy

Accounts of prisoner abuse and other institutional violence often blame
a few isolated individuals, but social psychology emphasizes social
contexts, which can make almost anyone oppress, conform, and obey in
abetting […]

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Hongqui asked about Kappa for interrater reliability. Here is a good source of information (with references).

Statistical Methods for Rater Agreement

This site is a resource for the analysis of agreement among raters,
diagnostic tests, observers, judges or experts. It contains background
discussion on different methods, examples, references, software, and
information on recent methodological developments.
Kappa Coefficients

Pros

Kappa statistics […]

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