Archive for the 'Psychology' Category
08-05-27
Tags:adoption Paperville Psy97 psychology race Teaching
This is material for teaching Developmental Psych: De-emphasis on Race in Adoption Is Criticized, according to NY Times. I skimmed through the executive summary of the report. What struck me was that the psychological and sociological publications cited are mostly 5-15 years old. It looks […]
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08-03-30
Tags:Linguistics psychology
Back in Sept 2007 Scientific American has an article on the potential evolution advantages of schizophrenia. The claim was that schizophrenia is a language disorder — hmm…
It’s No Delusion: Evolution May Favor Schizophrenia Genes: Scientific AmericanCo-author Crespi says that a number of theories have been floating around regarding the persistence of schizophrenia’s genetic […]
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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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08-03-20
Tags:Computing psychology Now that CRT monitors are fast going out of the market, it may be a good news for LCD lovers, but not for eye-tracking research. In order to do gaze-contingent display changes, we need monitors that can refresh at very high rates — mine is a ViewSonic PF790 CRT running at 120Hz. In […]
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08-03-06
Tags:brain evolution number Paperville psychology Research It’s always exciting to speculate what the authors will say when you see a fascinating title like this. I haven’t read it, and the following is NOT a response to the paper, but reactions to the abstract.
TITLE: From Numerical Concepts to Concepts of Number
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08-02-15
Tags:Psy97 psychology Teaching
BJS: Basic Causality & Animacy Demo
For our review article, we also created an analogue of the infamous ‘perceptual animacy’ demonstration of Heider and Simmel (1944). This is provided here both with symmetric ‘blocks’ as shapes, and also with oriented ‘darts’ as shapes. Though Heider & Simmel did not study these […]
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08-01-23
Tags:psychology Peirce’s Arisbe - Quotes of the Day
The psychologists undertake to locate various mental powers in the brain; and above all consider it as quite certain that the faculty of language resides in a certain lobe; but I believe it comes decidedly nearer the truth (though not really true) that language resides in the tongue. […]
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07-12-12
Tags:psychology Research Teaching fMRI in the public eye Nat Rev Neurosci. 2005 February; 6(2): 159–164.
Nat Rev Neurosci. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2006 July 31.
Published in final edited form as:
doi: 10.1038/nrn1609.
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fMRI in the public eye
Eric Racine
The Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, 701 Welch Road, Building A, Suite 1105, Palo […]
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07-12-08
Tags:Psy97 psychology Teaching Childhood Development Resources for Parents - Children’s Learning and Cognitive Development - HelloFelix.com
Dinosaurs, Turtles, and Overimitation
When do children have a harder time solving simple puzzles than chimps? In a research study that will be published next week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Yale developmental psychologists Derek […]
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07-10-29
Tags:psychology Teaching Two particularly striking ones. 1st prize - © 2007 Kingdom, Yoonessi & Gheorghiu
One from http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com, winner of this year’s Best Visual Illusion Contest.
And the next from; by way of Kevin’s blog; the original source […]
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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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07-09-26
Tags:Chinese conference Linguistics psychology I will not be able to go to PEARL 2007 You are invited to attend the 12th International Conference on the Processing of East Asia Related Languages (formerly under the name of International Conference on the Cognitive Processing of Chinese and Other East Asian Languages), which will […]
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07-09-25
Tags:language evolution Linguistics Paperville psychology Teaching Commentary on a new paper on FoxP2. Echolocating bats fly in the crowded darkness and find food.
Babel’s Dawn: The Latest on the FoxP2 Gene
Surprising news from China finds extensive indications of evolution in the so-called language gene, FOXP2, among bats that use echolocation to find prey on […]
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07-09-21
Tags:Education Linguistics Paperville psychology Teaching Is ‘Do Unto Others’ Written Into Our Genes? - New York Times In a series of recent articles and a book, “The Happiness Hypothesis,” Jonathan Haidt, a moral psychologist at the University of Virginia, has been constructing […]
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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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07-09-12
Tags:Computing Paperville psychology statistics This is the rationale for using SEM to model fMRI data, because […]
Amos Storkey (University of Edinburgh) published a paper this year that elucidates the relation between SEM and Gaussian Dynamic Baysian Networks, or Kalman Filters. Concise, but this is the clearest explanation I have seen so far:
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07-09-11
Tags:psychology Research Teaching Reviewing a manuscript using Structural Equational Modeling, I was reminded an old idea that I haven’t revisited for a long while. The Nomological Network The nomological network is an idea that was developed by Lee Cronbach and Paul Meehl in 1955 (Cronbach, L. and Meehl, P. (1955). Construct validity in […]
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07-09-06
Tags:Linguistics Paperville psychology Research statistics The paper itself is short, […]
Bob McMurray will be visiting next Tuesday, and I look forward to meeting with him. Am reading his latest paper on Sciense: Defusing the Childhood Vocabulary Explosion — McMurray 317 (5838): 631 — Science. Bob also has a webpage dedicated to the paper.
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07-08-28
Tags:psychology Research I will not go to Cognitive Development Society Conference 2007.
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07-06-21
Tags:Linguistics psychology SYMBOLS INVOLVE ICONS . . . we do not have to reflect upon the word as a sign but . . . it comes to affect the intellect as though it had that quality which it connotes. I call […]
Writings of Charles S. Peirce 1,172f 1865 MS 94 Harvard Lecture I
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