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BeautyCheck is a great resources on face morphing, attractiveness.

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left: image of an average face (made from 16 female faces)
that has been created using the ‘overlay technique’ as it has been widely
used in former studies on human facial attractiveness (from Grammer, 1995,
"Signale der Liebe", dtv Verlag, Germany). It was created in 1990 […]

Achievement
in grade 3 by children who participated in perceptual training during
kindergarten
Perceptual And Motor Skills, Volume 36, Issue 3,
June 1973, Pages 763-766
Slater, B R
Dyslexia:
reversal of eye - movements during reading
Neuropsychologia,
Volume 10, Issue 3, September 1972, Pages 371-373
Zangwill, O L;
Blakemore, C
Eye
- movements of stutterers and […]

Every so often you see a paper that raises your eyebrows. Here is one.
Callu, D., Giannopulu, I., Escolano, S., Cusin, F., Jacquier-Roux, M.,
& Dellatolas, G. (in press). Smooth pursuit eye movements are
associated with phonological awareness in preschool children. Brain and
Cognition.

Smooth pursuit eye movement is measured by … what is
the scoring […]

"Mr. Armagan is an important figure in the history of
picture-making, and in the history of knowledge. His work is
remarkable. I was struck by the drawings he has made as much as by his
work with paint. He has demonstrated for the first time that a blind
person can develop on his or her own pictorial […]

Brain plasticity … it costs $5 to access, though.

Senses special: The feeling of colour

29 January 2005

Helen Phillips

Magazine issue 2484

You
may think there’s a picture of the world in glorious technicolour
inside your head. But it’s an illusion, says Helen Phillips

ERIK
WEIHENMAYER lost his sight when he […]

And the fees are 10,000円, or $900 for non-members!

日本認知科学会第22回大会のご案内(第1号通信)

2005年度の大会を，以下の要領にて京都大学で開催するはこびとなりました．多
数の皆様のご参加をお待ち申し上げております．

大会委員長　乾　敏郎(京都大学)
実行委員長　齋木　潤(京都大学)

大会の最新情報は以下の大会ホームページをご参照ください．
http://www.cog.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/JCSS2005/

会期・会場
会期：
2005年7月29日(金)，7月30日(土)，7月31日(日)の3日間
会場：
京都大学時計台記念館(京都市左京区吉田本町)
http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/top2/11-top.htm
京都大学へのアクセスについては，
http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/access/kmap/map6r_y.htm
をご参照ください．

論文発表申込

大会において論文発表(口頭・ポスター)を希望される方は，発表論文のアブス
トラクトを提出してください．提出されたアブストラクトの査読を行い，採否
をご連絡いたします．採録された論文の著者へは論文執筆の手引きをお送りい
たしますので，それに従って大会発表論文集に掲載する論文(2ページ)を作成
し，期限までに提出していただきます．申込みはWWWもしくは電子メールでお
願いいたします．同じアブストラクトをWWWと電子メールの両方で送付するこ
とは混乱の元になりますので，絶対におやめ下さい．

日程
発表申込み開始：
2005年2月1日(火)
発表申込み締切：
2005年2月28日(月) 必着
採否通知：
2005年4月25日(月)
論文集原稿締切：
2005年5月27日(金) 必着

This is an AP story carried on MIT Technology Review a couple of days ago.
Why were military officials "quick to point out" that these were not
(yet) autonomous killing machines? It seems to me they should hailed
for such an invention if it were not for the PR. What do they care? Men
killing men is […]

This one was mentioned in LanguageHat.
I got #1, 2, 3 (which are often in use in Mainland China), 7, 9, 10,
11, 14, 27, 31. I probably can guess a few more. That makes about
33-40%. The 第二次汉字简化方案, from which these strange characters were
selected, was published in 1977, or when I was in 2nd […]

A great article from 化　境　神　似 on Luo Dayou (罗大佑), whom neohet calls the Godfater of Chinese mucic".

2005年 01月01日
The Godfather Returns

BeautIsland by Luo Dayou (罗大佑，《美丽岛》)
THE
END OF 2005 has certainly made my ears happy. First, there was the new
U2 CD I was able to pick up (the CD database IDs it as […]

Good to know.

No Evidence of ‘Cancer Personality’ -Study
Mon Jan 24, 2005 12:07 PM ET
By Amy Norton

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Being open and easy-going can win you
friends, and it probably won’t raise your cancer risk either, according
to a study published Monday.

The findings, from a long-running study of nearly 30,000 Swedish […]

Isn’t this what David proposed to do a couple of years back?

Memory Training Helps Kids with ADHD
Mon Jan 24, 2005 02:43 PM ET
By Alison McCook

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A computer program that improves one type
of memory appears to help kids with attention-deficit/hyperactivity
disorder (ADHD), new study findings suggest.

After around 40 […]

Now this would make a great (counter-)example in teaching experiment design and conditional probability.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews more likely to jaywalk

22 January 2005

IT’S rarely said that religious types live dangerously, but it seems
they do when it comes to crossing roads. A new study in Israel suggests
devout […]

The journal Pediatrics has a CitationMap function. Not as dynamic as one would wish, it’s nonetheless steps ahead of APA.

ELECTRONIC ARTICLES:
Siri H. Opdal and Torleiv O. Rognum
The Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Gene: Does It Exist?
Pediatrics,
Oct 2004;
114:
e506 - e512.

Abstract

Full Text

PDF

Citation Map

Citation Map

What is it?
Citation Map is a graphical representation of the articles citing or […]

The following, part of a signiture from
an online forum, is interesting for 2 reasons. The first paragraph
relates to an a-couple-year-old meme, which I discussed before on this
blog. The 2nd part is the last line. Believe or not, I followed this
guy’s instruction (you’ll have to type the last line and hit return
right there). I […]

Should become available this month. Hope it’s better than the HP Scanjet 4670.

CanoScan LiDE 500F

Color Image Scanner

Item Code: 9555A002
est. street price: $129.99†
Available in January 2005

Brilliant Performance and Smart Design.

Power scanning begins here.
The CanoScan LiDE 500F Color Image Scanner combines sleek styling with
heavyweight performance. One convenient cable provides both power and a
USB connection, […]

I know you are not looking, Zhen and Mei, but this one is for you. It
makes me wonder whether we Homo Sapiens were bred for running or
for the maze. Or which one we should have been. But for those who are
motivated by this news to run 10 more minutes a day, talk to […]

 
 
American
Psychologist
Volume
60, Issue 1,  Pages 5-134 (January 2005)

 
1.
Genes,
Race, and Psychology in the Genome Era: An Introduction
Pages
5-8
Norman B. Anderson and Kim J. Nickerson
 

 
2.
Race
and Ethnicity in the Genome Era: The Complexity of the Constructs

Pages 9-15
Vence L. Bonham, Esther Warshauer-Baker and Francis S.
Collins
 

 
3.
Race
as Biology Is Fiction, Racism as a Social Problem Is Real: […]

Links are to a 2002 survey of mortality in general. Only a few pages
for infant death, which is separated into neonatal (<28 days) and
postneonatal (28-1yr).

Infant
Deaths/Mortality
(Data are for U.S. in 2001)

Number of infant
deaths: 28,034

[…]