Archive for October, 2005
05-10-11
Tags: Bert Meuffels and Huub van den Bergh had a workshop at LOT Winter School 2004 on their Multilevel approach to the classic "language-as-fixed-effect" fallacy (Clark, 1973) in psycholinguistics. On the workshop webpage:
Starting with the traditional analysis of variance and treating practical solutions for the problem of the ‘fixed effect fallacy’, we also will […]
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05-10-10
Tags:Education policy reading Teaching … whether several publishers got preferential treatment because Reading First advisers also consulted for them, for […]
USATODAY.com - Reading program raises questions for lawmakers reports a potential investigation into Bush’s Reading First program, which has a price tag of $1b x 6 years. Specific accusations mentioned in the article include:
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05-10-10
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The new AAP Revises SIDS Prevention Recommendations
The AAP no longer recognizes side sleeping as a reasonable alternative to fully supine (lying on back) sleeping.
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05-10-10
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Bill Poser wrote on LanguageLog a few days abou about the Hangul Day. There are several points of interests in his discussion.
First, about the regularity of Hangul. Anybody is a better expert than I am when it comes to Hangul, and particularly Bill Poser. But from I read and heard there are some ambiguities. […]
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05-10-08
Tags:Education Paperville statistics Correction: the title should read "All maps of parameter estimates are misleading", which is the title of Gelman and Prince (1999). Andrew Gelman referred to their paper when he discussed a common pitfall in comparing statistics from different regions when sample sizes are small and unequal (Are smaller schools better?). The […]
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(Paperville, Education, Statstics) | 0
05-10-08
Tags: When I blogged about Xu Bing and The Crimson Hour, I wanted to design an eye-tracking study in which native English readers read English in a different typographic arrangement, such as the ones Xu Bing created. It would be interesting to see how skilled readers could adapt to a new script and what changes will happen […]
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(Research, Odds'n'Ends, Linguistics) | 1
05-10-08
Tags: I’ve always assumed that writing can go all directions except from bottum to top. For some reason I believed that it is one of the fundamental biases of human cognition (if I had the time I’d add some of the psychological studies on how space is mapped to non-spatial cognition). I was, of course, wrong. The […]
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05-10-08
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Kennedy Center: The Festival of China is fantastic. We drove 6 hours to DC to see the opening ceremony last Friday, planning to come back Sunday morning. We didn’t until 2am on Monday.
If you have read this post or The Crimson Hour, the logo of the festival should look familiar. Indeed it was designed by […]
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(Odds'n'Ends) | 0
05-10-07
Tags:Education History literacy Paperville psychology reading Research review Teaching President Bush speaks at Townsend Elementary School in Tennessee
You teach a child to read and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.
This quote has been on bushism sites for some years. It is also […]
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(Research, Teaching, Paperville, Psychology, Education) | 1
05-10-07
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Che Kan Leong has written extensively on dyslexia and Chinese reading acquisition.
Research Professor […]
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(Profiles, Psychology) | 1
05-10-07
Tags: FLUID DYNAMICS: Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow of International University Bremen, Germany and the University of Oulu , Finland; and Jozsef Gal of Loránd Eötvös University, Hungary, for using […]
Winners of the Ig® Nobel Prize were unable to attend the awared ceremony "because they could not obtain United States visas to visit the United States."
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(Odds'n'Ends) | 0
05-10-06
Tags:Education Profiles reading Research tutoring Roger Azevedo has an interesting line of research on reading tutoring, a topic that I have long wanted to study (I still have active IRB to do observations) but was advised not to. His recent publication What Do Reading Tutors Do? A Naturalistic Study of More and […]
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05-10-05
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Progress in Brain Research is an unusual journal in that every issue is a special issue on a chosen topic, often including top authors and 20+ papers with commentaries and discussions.
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05-10-04
Tags: CiteULike: Mass and count nouns show distinct EEG cortical processes during an explicit semantic task
P. Bisiacchi and colleagues found differential EEG responses to mass versus count nouns in a lexical decision (is this a word) task. The difference appears between 120-160ms, and the 2-page brief report didn’t give much details about how and why this […]
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(Psychology, Linguistics) | 0
05-10-04
Tags: "Count nouns, like cat, chair or fork, apply (Macnamara & Reyes, 1994) to perceptual entities that in combination do not yield another entity of the same kind. Mass nouns, like water, salt or oil […]
Following is a note I posted on my CiteULike library for the paper The (neuro)-psychology of mass and count nouns
by C. Semenza
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(Psychology, Linguistics) | 0
05-10-04
Tags: openEyes: VisTool is geared toward perceptual studies and is probably not for reading research. But it’s a welcome addtion to the open source eye tracking platform. VisTool This visualization tool, developed in Matlab, is based on the ideas presented in Wooding (2002). The tool is […]
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(Computing, Research) | 0
05-10-04
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Chris Correa’s blog is unaccessible for some reason, so I am re-posting this:
Urie Bronfenbrenner passed away on Sunday.
He was one of the more important developmental psychologists of the last century. He’s probably best known for his ecological approach to human development. In other words, he recognized that children did not develop […]
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05-10-03
Tags: 词的认知基础——评王立《汉语词的社会语言学研究》 was published on 山东大学学报 (Journal of Shandong University), about a month ago. It’s a book review of Wang Li’s "A Sociolinguistic study of Chinese Words" (2003, ShangWu Press). The author of this review pits Wang Li’s work against "Character-based" theories (Pan Wenguo, 2002, Xu Dongqiang, 2005). I think the two lines of work address […]
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(Linguistics) | 0