Archive for May, 2006
06-05-31
Tags:Computing EEG EOG ERP eye movement Research tobii Watch List Modular EEG Recording Caps are made in every desired electrode configuration and […]
EASY CAP is what we are using at RIKEN.
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06-05-31
Tags:c# Computing eye movement programming Research retrace
More code bits. Trying to determine refresh retrace signal on a monitor using C#, I had to import the DLPortIO library, which let me bypass the Windows securities and access IO ports directly. Trouble is the DLL is not an ActiveX or COM object. […]
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06-05-30
Tags:Computing Research another coding project that won’t make sense to anybody other than me. Here I am trying to display a Flash movie on the second monitor in a dual display set up using C#. Why, you may ask. It’s too long a story to tell here. Blame it on Tobii and Microsoft.
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06-05-29
Tags:dog Education OddsnEnds reading Teaching Meet your child’s new teacher, Ms Bulldog.
New City Library begins dog-reading program for kids reports:
"Its one of those simple ideas," said Hoag, a Nanuet resident. "Kids aren’t intimidated by animals. Children who may have difficulty in reading out loud in class or they may in general […]
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06-05-26
Tags:grant NIH OddsnEnds politics Research
Psychological Science Agenda, the newsletter of Association of Psychological Sciences, reports on the difficulty in getting NIH grant money in the past a few years. A week ago, NIH Director Dr. Elias Zerhouni commented on the situation:
Dr. Zerhouni noted that more applications are coming in […]
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06-05-25
Tags:Education Profiles reading FSU names top literacy researcher as its newest Eppes Professor: FSU News by Connie Harris
FSU names top literacy researcher as its newest Eppes Professor
An internationally recognized scholar in the areas of reading and language development will join Florida State University’s College of […]
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06-05-24
Tags:OddsnEnds Profiles Teaching Harold Bloom (Wikipedia) depicted the career development of a poet, which is not unlike that of a scientist. (via LanguageLog)
…The first of these books,Yeats, a magisterial examination of William Butler Yeats, challenged the conventional critical view of his poetic career. In the introduction to this volume, Bloom set out the basic […]
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06-05-24
Tags:Chinese Education Linguistics reading reading acquisition Teaching writing Discussion about Chinese is rare in LanguageLog, let alone literacy acquisition in Chinese. This guest post is noticable not only because of its rarety but also for its strong opinion — what on LanguageLog is not anyways?
Victor Mair started with a all-too-familiar […]
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06-05-24
Tags:ajax Computing javascript Watch List web 2.0 ZK is yet another AJAX-like framework for web 2.0 applications. It uses XUL as an intermediate technology and generates HTML for the brower. It depends less on Javascript because of this, but with the present implementation it requires a lot of things done on the […]
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06-05-22
Tags:OddsnEnds … is essentially what Michael McPherson, president of Spencer Foundation, said in his 2004-05 vision document (see full quote below). I don’t know which Great American Sprit it reflects: risk-taking or illogicality. I mean, there has to be something wrong in a mistake, but not in making it? The Spencer Foundation: President’s Comments
There is nothing at […]
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06-05-22
Tags:eye movement History OddsnEnds Research If ears emit sounds, maybe eyes indeed emit light.
CiteULike: Spontaneous narrowband acoustic signals emitted by human ears
by Zurek PM, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 69, No. 2. (1981), pp. 514-523.
Abstract
In the ears of many persons, a spontaneous and continuous […]
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06-05-19
Tags:evidentiality Linguistics Research theory of mind Seeing is believing, yet most of our information sources are hearsay at the best. Children — and adults, too — have to learn not to trust every word you hear. They have to realize that your information sources may or may not have first hand knowledge, may […]
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06-05-15
Tags:Education Linguistics misspelling OddsnEnds Research spelling Since we are on misspelling, here is a nice graphical representation from Spelling Therapy, which also offers a list of color-coded common misspellings. What I am trying to do with Spelling Therapy is get people who memorize words as images […]
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06-05-15
Tags:OddsnEnds Lying Baby
This kid was 3 years old. He told everyone in town that he was 87 years old. By coincidence, the next day some huge wrestler came into town and said, "I’m a big wrestling guy! I’m here looking for a fight! I’ll fight anyone who’s 87 years old!"
Some guy heard that and […]
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06-05-15
Tags:Linguistics misspelling OddsnEnds Research spelling
scrooble csrooble srcooble scoroble scrooble scrobole scroolbe scroobel crooble srooble scooble scroble scroble scroole scroobe scroobl acrooble wcrooble ecrooble dcrooble xcrooble zcrooble sxrooble sdrooble sfrooble svrooble sceooble sc4ooble sc5ooble sctooble scfooble scruoble scrioble scr9oble scr0oble scrpoble scrloble scrouble scroible scro9ble scro0ble scropble scrolble scroovle scroogle scroohle scroonle […]
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06-05-08
Tags:Education IRA OddsnEnds
On IRA’s 51st annual conference today, Timothy Shanahan, professor of urban education at the UIC, becomes the president of International Reading Association.
According to a UIC news release:
Shanahan is perhaps best known for his service with the Chicago Public Schools’ Chicago Reading Initiative. In that role, he was director […]
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06-05-08
Tags:complexity Computing cybernetics Linguistics OddsnEnds Paperville psychology Research statistics writing writing system I’ve noticed Mark Changizi’s work since last year, where he and colleagues published the paper analyzing the number of strokes of written symbols. Somehow they argue that there is an optimal number of strokes, […]
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(Computing, Research, Odds'n'Ends, Paperville, Psychology, Linguistics, Statstics) | 2
06-05-08
Tags:brain Education OddsnEnds Teaching Scanned from junk mail I got today, this to me illustrates the absurdity of the movement more than anything else.
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06-05-04
Tags:dyslexia Education Linguistics neuroscience Paperville psychology reading Research Teaching A bit short of 5 years ago Science published an influencial paper on dyslexia by Paulesu et al. The paper attempts to redefine dyslexia as a neurological deficit that is independent of reading. The logic is illustrated in a […]
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(Research, Teaching, Paperville, Psychology, Education, Linguistics) | 1
06-05-04
Tags:corpus French Linguistics orthography Research statistics Lexique 2 is: A database of 130 000 words with phonemic representation, syllabled form, gramatical category, gender, number, frequency, lemma, number of phonemes, number of letters, unicity point, web frequency, etc. [Lexique]
A database with surface frequencies (letter, bigram, trigram, syllable, and phonemes) [Surface]
A […]
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