Shadow

Johannes
ZIEGLER
Université
d’Aix-Marseille
LPC/CNRS UMR
6146
case 66
3, place Victor Hugo
13331 Marseille Cedex 3

Ziegler, J. C., Tan, L. H., Perry, C. & Montant, M.
(2000). Phonology Matters: The Phonological Frequency Effect in Written
Chinese. Psychological Science, 11,
234-238.
Coltheart, M., Rastle, K., Perry,
C., Langdon, R., & Ziegler, J. C. (2001). DRC: A Dual […]

hmm… chiropterarium, an -arium for chiropteran. But it’s not in the dictionary. Chiroptorium, maybe? Certainly not Cheiropterygium.

Our bird aviary
…
Geraint Jennings tells me he once saw a "bat aviary". That would
not please the pedant one bit, of course. It should be
called (he would say) a chiropterarium.
Posted by Geoffrey K. […]

This, and Mark Liberman’s follow up post, go to the teaching folder.

January 10, 2005
? taR .rM, siht si egaugnal tahW

Various news organizations, like Al
Jazeera and CNN,
are running with a great new animal language story. You might prefer to
get it from the horses mouth - full text of the
Journal of Experimental Psychology […]

Sex, religion, and communism — Mark Liberman’s LanguageLog post on a Vietnamese disguised language game involving spoonerism.

January 08, 2005
Noi lai and contrepets
One of the talks I plan to hear at the LSA today
is by Marcy Macken and Hanh Nguyen, on the topic "Phonological
Constituents". According to a copy of the handout that […]

Stole this one from Kevin

qtcompatible.smil
(click to play - IE only)
QuickTime Player is a popular media player that is SMIL 1.0 compatible.
Most features work the same way as […]

Larry Sanger’s widely cited/critisized blog entry about the
anti-elitism problem of Wikipedia. It’s a problem that SPIN has to
watch for.

Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism (Op-Ed)

By lsanger
Fri Dec 31st, 2004 at 12:42:24 AM EST

Wikipedia has started to hit the big time. Accordingly, several critical
articles have come out, including "The Faith-Based
Encyclopedia" […]

Celebrating the 3,000th post!

The 2,000th article was posted on Jan 30, 2004, some 345 days ago.

Stud Health Technol Inform. 1999;68:365-8.
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A signal analysis method for
impulse-like eye movements.
Juhola M, Aalto H, Hirvonen T.
Department of Computer
Science, University of Tampere, Finland.
Eye movement investigations
are performed in several fields of medicine. […]

Need to talk with Dr. David Aman about our studies.
Anyone interested in doing research in Durham Public Schools is asked
to contact David Aman, Director of Assessment & Accountability, at
919-560-2060 or David.Aman@dpsnc.net.

An informative book on Regression toward the mean by Donald Campell and Dave Kenny.
A book that require intermediate level of stats (psych grad courses),
it contains numerous examples of how the phenomenon creeps in studies
of many different fields in the social science. The squeez plots are
interesting and direct illustration of the phenomenon. The time-reverse
analysis […]

Ok, I promise this is the last post of today. Podcasting, coined by
Roush at MIT Technology Review today, may actually be something of
interests locally — I mean at Duke. It’s probably is the most
populated – by iPods — land in the whole universe.
Armed with a Belkin Universal iPod Microphone Adapter,
Duke students may […]

TinyP2P
The World’s Smallest P2P Application
Written by Ed Felten,
with help from
Alex Halderman.

TinyP2P is a functional peer-to-peer file sharing application, written in
fifteen lines of code, in the Python programming language.
I wrote TinyP2P to illustrate the difficulty
of regulating peer-to-peer applications. Peer-to-peer apps
can be very simple, and any moderately skilled programmer can write one, so
attempts to […]

SD Card Doubles as USB Flash Drive
http://www.everythingusb.com/news/index/5929.htm
Wednesday 22 December 2004, 7:00 AM
Taiwanese-manufacturer Digimaster has released the first SD card that doubles as a USB flash drive,
or vice versa. […]

Volume 45, Issue 6
,
March 2005,
Pages 765-774
doi:10.1016/j.visres.2004.05.019
Pro-saccades
and anti-saccades to […]

Here she goes, again!

Diane McGuinness is a reading consultant and Emeritus Professor of
Psychology at the University of South Florida. She is the author of Why Our Children Can’t Read and What We Can Do about It, Early Reading Instruction (MIT Press, 2004), and other books on reading and learning.

May 2004
ISBN […]

June 2004ISBN 0-262-53256-57 x 9, 480 pp., 54 illus.
$40.00/£25.95 (PAPER)
Causation and Counterfactuals
Edited by John Collins, Ned Hall and L. A. Paul

Contributors
ix

1
Counterfactuals and Causation: History, Problems, and Prospects
L. A. Paul, John Collins and Ned Hall Sample Chapter - Download PDF (310 KB)
1

The primary psychological function of counterfactual thinking is to
discover and/or (dis)confirm causality (Yours Truly, right now). Just
look at when people spontenuously engage in counterfactual
reasoning/production, and why counterfactual first appear in the
context of children’s play.

Counterfactual Theories of Causation
The basic idea of counterfactual theories of causation is that the
meaning of a singular causal claim […]

How is this different from the simulationist’s view?

Actualism
To understand the thesis of actualism, consider the following example.
Imagine a race of beings — call them
‘Aliens’ — that is very different from any life-form that
actually exists anywhere in the universe; different enough, in fact,
that no actually existing thing could have been an Alien, […]