Archive for the 'Profiles' Category
08-03-21
Tags:Bayesian book Profiles psychology reasoning statistics
New from BBS:
Below is a link to the forthcoming précis of a book accepted for Multiple Book Review in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS). Please note that it is the *BOOK*, not the precis, that is to be reviewed.
BOOK: Bayesian Rationality: […]
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07-09-30
Tags:Education eye movement google Profiles psychology Teaching Watch List
Tried "eye movements" subject:"Reading, Psychology of" - Google Book Search today and I was impressed with what Google offers. They do not offer PDF downloads, but google’s fulltext search is better than Acrobat.
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07-09-20
Tags:evolution language Linguistics Profiles psychology symbol system Pinker’s Anti-Whorfian Hypothesis According to Booles, Pinker puts semantics before syntax. […]
Edmund Blair Booles posted a series of reviews of Steve Pinker’s new book on his blog site: Babel’s Dawn.
Pinker’s book came out on Sept 11th. Booles’ 4-part review includes:
Abstract/Concrete Divide
Concept or Attention?
Repressing the Obvious
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07-08-13
Tags:alphabet Greek Linguistics OT Paperville Profiles I’ve been reading Roger Woodard’s 1997 book on the origin of Greek Alphabet:
So far I am very impressed. He makes a strong argument that the Greek alphabet was adopted by scribes who were proficient in syllabic writing. The chapters on the rules of syllabic systems […]
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07-04-14
Tags:Paperville Profiles From Ruth Millikan’s home page My research interests span many topics in the philosophy of biology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and ontology. The unity is in method rather than subject matter. The aspects of these fields that interest me are continuous with relevant scientific work and with the philosophy […]
Ruth G. Millikan
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07-01-26
Tags:Education Profiles Research Sam Odom gave a very interesting talk today on peer acceptance and rejection among preschool children with disabilities. They used a mixed method approach based on
Caracelli & Greene (1997). Crafting mixed-methods evaluations design. In Caracelli & Greene (Eds.), Advances in mixed-method evaluation: the challenges and benefits of integrating (pp. 19-32). SF: […]
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06-11-09
Tags:EEG Profiles Research Ramesh Srinivasan trained in Electrical Engineering (B.S. U of Pennsylvania, 1989) and Biomedical Engineering (Ph.D., Tulane University, 1995) and received postdoctoral training in Psychology (Oregon, 1997) and Neurosciences (Neurosciences Institute, 1999). He is presently Associate Professor of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. […]
Satellite Meeting, SFN 2006, Atlanta
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06-10-30
Tags:evolution game theory language Linguistics Profiles Research symbol system syntax
Paul Vogt (no, not the comedian) recently published a series of very interesting papers simulating the emergence of grammar — broadly defined as composionality — from unstructured tokens communication.
He also provides the simulation platform, THSim, online:
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06-10-03
Tags:CiteULike Computing Profiles Research Richard Cameron has a degree in mathematics from Cambridge University. He spent […]
USC’s Annenberg Center for Communications held a workshop on social software in the Academy (SSAW) back in May, 2005. Their Presenter Bios includes one for Richard Cameron, author of CiteULike.org.
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06-10-02
Tags:Education Profiles psy145 Teaching 05.30.06 Low-cost education providers see a world of opportunity; With focus on poor, firms vie for piece of global market […]
Josh Benton, Dallas Morning News Education Columnist wrote a series of interesting articles about recent trends in the for-profit education world. This was back in May.
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06-09-22
Tags:internet history Profiles
More on Dan Cohen:
I’m an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University and the Director of Research Projects at the Center for History and New Media. My own research is in European and American intellectual history, the history of science (particularly mathematics), and the […]
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06-08-03
Tags:Paperville Profiles psychology significance test statistics
Some think significance testing is a necessary evil. Not John E. Hunter, who had argued for a moratorium of significance tests for years. His 1997 piece on Psychological science, reference here at CiteULike: NEEDED:. A BAN ON THE SIGNIFICANCE TEST, summaries his arguments. I agree with […]
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06-07-29
Tags:aspect CogSci conference counterfactual Linguistics Profiles
Yasuhiro Shirai came to our poster the last, after pretty much everybody had left the floor. I knew he is a friend of Li Ping and had edited a book together on children’s aquisition of aspect, but didn’t know — should have guessed — that […]
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06-07-29
Tags:duke infant Linguistics Profiles psychology speech Ran into Henny Yeung today, who worked with Reiko as an undergraduate and graduated from Duke 3 years ago. I was on his honor’s thesis and he took my Psych of Reading course, the only time I offered it. Absolutely a fascinating guy. He […]
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06-07-29
Tags:counterfactual ERP Linguistics P300 Profiles
Don Loritz stopped by my poster. This was about 3 hours ago at the CogSci 2006 meeting, where Li and I presented the Chinese Counterfactual stuff. A very pleasant guy and we chatted about aspect, counterfactual, and all the nonsense people have said about Chinese language. He […]
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06-07-24
Tags:Profiles Research statistics
Tom Griffiths, currently at Brown but moving to Department of Psychology at UC Berkeley, who was also recently named one of "AI’s 10 to watch" by the IEEE Intelligent Systems magazine, will hold a workshop at CogSci 2006 on Bayesian models of inductive learning. […]
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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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06-03-10
Tags:cognition History Profiles psychology Research Teaching Independent, The (London): Obituary: Peter Wason Obituary: Peter Wason Independent, The (London), Apr 22, 2003 by Jonathan St B.T. Evans
PETER WASON was one of the most creative and influential British psychologists of the post-war era.
He challenged the orthodox view of […]
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06-02-19
Tags: Nick C. Ellis Professor of Psychology
Research Scientist, English Language Institute
University of Michigan
Publications:
Ellis, N. C. (Ed.) (1994). Implicit and explicit learning of languages. (599 pp.) London: Academic Press. ISBN: 0-12-237475-4.
Brown, G . D. A., & Ellis, N. C. (Eds.) (1994). Handbook of spelling: Theory, process and intervention. (542 pp.) Chichester: John Wiley […]
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