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06-02-17

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Douglas Engelbart (ibiblio, Wikipedia, Bootstrap Institute) was influenced by Worf’s "principle of linguistic relativity". His seminal work, "Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework" broadened linguistic determinism to technologies and human artifacts. This is a topic of a length discussion I had with […]

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06-01-26

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Patrick Bateson (sub_department of animal behaviour, U of Cambridge) is giving a talk, as I write, at Duke, titled "Taking the stink out of instinct."  
Some of his recent publications:
 
261. 2005 Gluckman, P.D., Hanson, M.A., Spencer, H.G. & Bateson, P. Environmental influences during development and their later consequences for health and disease: implications for the […]

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06-01-25

Tags: W. Garrett Mitchener:

  I’m currently a post-doctoral research associate at Duke University in the math department. I just finished my PhD at Princeton University in the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics. I did […]

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05-12-14

Tags: Lynn Nichols @ Berkeley Linguistics

Lynn Nichols Assistant Professor
(Syntactic theory, semantics, Burmese, Southwestern Pueblo Languages, Korean)
Ph.D., Linguistics, Harvard University, 1998. Assistant Professor Harvard University, 1997-2002. Visiting Scholar Rutgers, 2000. She combines research in generative syntax and formal semantic theory with an interest in a wide variety of syntactic and morphosyntactic phenomena. […]

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05-10-22

Tags:Education OddsnEnds Profiles Oh, no! Not another reading guru!
I was washing dishes as I listened to Weekend America on WUNC, when the topic suddenly shifted from baseball to reading.
Reading scores are low, the title says. Big news, I thought. But let’s hear what the guest has to say. The guest was Pat Wyman, […]

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05-10-19

Tags: Michele Miozzo’s Language Lab has some new papers on phonological processes in reading and writing:

Miozzo, M., Jacobs, M., & Singer, N. W. S. (in press). The representation of homophones: evidence from anomia. Cognitive Neuropsychology.
Caccappolo-van Vliet, E., Miozzo, M., & Stern (in press). Phonological dyslexia: a test case for reading models. Psychological […]

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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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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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05-10-04

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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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05-09-29

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Viorica Marian has some interesting publications on bilingualism and eye tracking from her dissertation work.  Her later research seems to concentrate on memory.

 
Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
v-marian@northwestern.edu […]

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05-08-24

Tags: Hannes Rakoczy

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology […]

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05-08-22

Tags: Starting next week, Dr. Lorraine Tuck will be the Coordinator for Assessment & Accountability at Durham Public School District. She will be responsible for external research programs in Durham Public Schools. This DPS news article from 2003 provides a good summary of her background.

Lorraine Tuck named principal of Club Boulevard Humanities Magnet Elementary School
April […]

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05-08-22

Tags: I met Professor 北村裕(Kitamura, Yutaka) at ECEM12 and ECEM13. The first time he didn’t feel well and this time he was struggling with the jetlag. But despite all troubles, he is a very smart and open person. He speaks excellent English, although he constantly refuses.
I forgot what he presented at ECEM12 but I […]

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05-08-19

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Lorenz "Max" Sichelschmidt is not a stern person as this picture depicts. I had the pleasure to chat with him at a Thai restaraunt at Bern during ECEM. He is soft spoken and fun.  
Lorenz Sichelschmidt , born in 1954, is a lecturer and researcher at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. He received a […]

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05-08-19

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Erik Reichle and Patryk Laurent reported their first effort to model eye movement programming in reading using a reinforcement learning algorithm on ECEM13. That’s a route I have been thinking since my dissertation work. I’ve played with a toy model, but should get back to it now.
I was looking for someone at Duke who does […]

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05-08-14

Tags: Sounds quite interesting. Raymond Bertram and Jukka Hyönä will give a talk at ECEM13 on teh effect of predictability in Finnish words.

Kaakinen J K, Bertram R & Hyönä J (2004)
Research on the eye movement of readers: from recognizing words to text comprehension strategies
Psykologia 39:92-104. Vammala ISSN 0355-1067.
This article summarizes recent findings from our eye movement […]

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05-08-14

Tags: Rudolf Groner will also present at ECEM13 on the 18th, although he also has a lot of other activities at the conference — he is local.

 Prof. Dr.    Rudolf Groner    Universität Bern    Institut für Psychologie    Postfach    3000 Bern 9 Phone: 031 631 40 46    Email: rudolf.groner@psy.unibe.ch

Professor for psychology and their quantitative methods at the University of […]

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05-08-14

Tags: Walter Bischof will head a symposium at ECEM13 on Formal Models of Eye Movements on Aug 18th. Unfortunately my flight is earlz in the morning and will have to miss the szmposium. From his webpages he has a quite unusual career trajectorz, at least for a pszchologist. Bz the waz, he was from Bern.
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/people/faculty/wfb.php

 
Walter […]

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05-07-31

Tags: I met Edson Miyamoto ( ミヤモト・エジソン) during my poster presentation at the JCSS2005 meeting. A very impressive sharp thinker, he is interested in Japanese sentence parsing in reading as well. Some of his questions implied that syntactic processes would guide eye movements in reading Japanese, which I doubt (in most cases during normal reading). […]

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05-07-27

Tags: Natsumi Kajii (梶井 夏実), a former student of Naoyuki Osaka (苧阪直行), coauthored a paper with Tatjana A. Nazir in 2001. Jajii was involved in a project on the split-fovea reading model with Michal Lavidor, who is the herone of this post.

Dr Michal Lavidor
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