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an example of Conceptual Graph representation of a modal sentence. More CG Examples.

Tom believes that Mary wants to marry a sailor.

A context is a concept with a nested conceptual graph that describes
the referent. In Figure 4, the concept of type Proposition is
a context that describes a proposition that Tom believes.
Inside that […]

Sowa is a major force in Conceptual Graphs, which is on the way to become an ANSI standard.

John F. Sowa

John F. Sowa spent thirty years working on research and development
projects at
IBM
and another seven years teaching, writing, and consulting.
He has an SB degree in mathematics from MIT,
an AM in applied mathematics from […]

I’ve always been very impressed with Tobii. The E’ package makes it very attractive.

November 2004. PST announces Tobii / E-Prime integration package
Tobii Technology’s partner Psychology Software Tools officially
announces the Tobii / E-Prime integration package. E-Prime is a
world-leading software for experimental design and data collection in
behavioural research.
With
this package, eye tracking researchers will now […]

Formerly knowns as MIES. P2P and RDF exchange is an interesting combination. The sourceforge-page for KnoBot is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/knobot/.
"Development of WYMIWYG meta information exchange
system (mies) is currently stalled since its functionality will be
integrated into KnoBot."

KnoBot - An agent for decentralised knowledge exchange
WYMIWYG KnoBot combines semantic web technology with
a P2P design to build a […]

(Kevin, are you there? This one is for you
By the MAENAD team. Vannotea is based on W3C’s Annotea framework. Only a screenshot is provided, though. They did say prototypes, didn’t they?

Vannotea, Collaborative video editing, discussion and annotation. Key features:

Supports MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and still images
[…]

Annotea Project
Overview
Annotea is a W3C LEAD
(Live Early Adoption and Demonstration) project under Semantic Web Advanced
Development (SWAD). Annotea enhances collaboration via […]

Fortunately, you can drag-n-drop a page of note to the desktop (don’t
do that to Word, which will crash both programs!!!), which will give
you […]

What Dick Hudson says about Michael Gasser’s e-book:
New in 2004: If you’re a real beginner in linguistics, you might like to look at a free on-line introduction to linguistics by Michael Gasser which takes a cognitive and functionalist view that I feel comfortable with.

The author: Michael Gasser

I am an Associate Professor of Computer […]

One thing leads to another in the blogosphere. Dick Hudson is the founder of the Word Grammar (cached here), which sidesteps Chomskyan formal grammar. In the spirit of WordNet, he also developed the WGNet, and the WGNet++ to simulate the spread of activation.
Further readings on WG:

New in 2002: A
[…]

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Revealing the […]

On the face of it, it’s bad news. On the rare of it, it’s still is. Another of those NewScientist’s $4.95 stories.

2005 preview: ‘Global crude death rate’ to rise

08 January 2005

Magazine issue 2481

It
will rise for the first time since the dawn of civilisation, reflecting
the fact that populations are aging on a global […]

I didn’t bother to pay $4.95 to read the rest, but if the findings are true, then I’ve been on the way of rejuvenation lately.

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Bedtimes could pinpoint the end of adolescence

08 January 2005

Andy Coghlan

Magazine issue 2481

The
transition from adolescence to adulthood has no clear end point, but
new […]

The Fund in 1990 established the John Merck Scholars Program in the
Biology of Developmental Disabilities in Children. This program
supports research into the underlying neurobiology of developmental
disabilities and associated cognitive impairments. Its goal is to gain
insights that eventually might lead to breakthroughs in prevention and
treatment.
Every year, a panel of eminent scientists in […]

Ronald Carver
Professor
Education Research and Psychology

Keith Rayner and Ron Carver (who recently passed away) are cited here in this Slate article on speed reading.

The 1,000-Word Dash
College-educated people who fret they read too slow should relax. Nobody reads much faster than 400 words per minute.
By Timothy Noah
Posted Friday, Feb. 18, 2000, at 6:30 PM PT

Aloysius
reads 300 books […]

Esther Thelen

CHARLESTON - Esther
Thelen, a prominent developmental psychologist who studied how the
brains of human babies help them move, learn and generally function,
died Dec.29 at a hospital in Bloomington, Ind. Thelen, who had cancer,
was 63.Based at Indiana University, Thelen was a psychology professor
and […]

Title:
Learning to Read Words in Albanian: A Skill Easily Acquired.

Authors:
Hoxhallari, Lorenc1 pspa02@bangor.ac.uk
Van Daal, Victor H. P.1
Ellis, Nick C.1

Source:
Scientific Studies of Reading; 2004, Vol. 8 Issue 2, p153, 14p, 2 charts, 2 graphs

Document Type:
Article

Subject Terms:
*ALBANIANS
*CHILDREN
*LANGUAGE & languages — Orthography & spelling
*LEARNING
*READING

Abstract:
Effects
of orthographic transparency were examined by comparing children
learning to read in Albanian, Welsh, and English. […]

Title:
Effects of Reading Decodable Texts in Supplemental First-Grade Tutoring.

Authors:
Jenkins, Joseph R.1 jjenkins@u.washington.edu
Peyton, Julia A.2
Sanders, Elizabeth A.2
Vadasy, Patricia F.2

Source:
Scientific Studies of Reading; 2004, Vol. 8 Issue 1, p53, 33p, 3 charts, 1 graph

Document Type:
Article

Subject Terms:
*READING (Early childhood)
*READING — Phonetic method
*READING comprehension
*TEACHING
*TUTORS & tutoring

Abstract:
At-risk
1st […]

1.
Introduction to This Special Issue: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Reading. By: Poldrack, Russell A.; Sandak, Rebecca. Scientific Studies of Reading, 2004, Vol. 8 Issue 3, p199, 4p; (AN 13669713)
  

2.
Investigation of the Functional Neuroanatomy of Single Word Reading and Its Development. By: Palmer, Erica D.; Brown, Timothy […]

Title:
The Implicit and Explicit Learning of Orthographic Structure and Function of a New Writing System.

Authors:
Min Wang1 minwang@umd.edu
Ying Liu2
Perfetti, Charles A.2

Source:
Scientific Studies of Reading; 2004, Vol. 8 Issue 4, p357, 23p, 2 charts, 5 graphs

Document Type:
Article

Subject Terms:
*LANGUAGE & languages — Orthography & spelling
*LEARNING
*LEXICOLOGY
*READERS
*WRITING

Abstract:
Two
experiments were carried out to examine how adult readers of […]