Archive for the 'Psychology' Category
07-06-04
Tags:Linguistics OED psychology What is a "word?"
A question that linguists cannot answer is not a problem for psychologists, it seems. While Larry Trask treats the word as a collection of related but separate units in different linguistic domains — phonological words, orthographic words, grammatical words, lexical words ("dictionary words"), among others — your Psych101 […]
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07-05-31
Tags:language Paperville psychology Research symbol symbol system Perhaps the […]
I revisited Premack’s 2004 Science piece on human uniqueness ("Is language the key to human intelligence?" 16 Jan., p. 318) and particularly his response to a question about humans having 6 symbol systems (Language and Systems of Symbols). A number of interesting points:
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07-05-07
Tags:Education psychology reading Research Historical Textbooks Collection […]
Special Collections at Harvard Graduate School of Education Library has several special collections on education history:
Special Collections include:
Public School Reports
Private School Catalogs
History of Education and Teacher Training Collection
Action for Children’s Television Collection
Other manuscript and book collections
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07-04-14
Tags:psychology symbol system writing system Cognition and Brain Lab: Publications Szekely, A., Jacobsen, T., D’Amico, S., Devescovi, A., Andonova, E., Herron, D., Lu, C., Pechmann, T., Pléh, C., Wicha, N., Federmeier, K., Gerdjikova, I., Gutierrez, G., Hung, D., Hsu, J., Iyer, G., Kohnert, K., Mehotcheva, T., Orozco-Figueroa, A., Tzeng, A., and […]
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07-04-07
Tags:psychology Research Bouma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I, too, encountered this in Saenger’s book, but I doubt he invented it. The term bouma (pronounced "bowma") is sometimes used in the work of cognitive psychology to mean the shape of a cluster of letters, often a whole word.
Some typographers believe that, when reading, people […]
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07-04-06
Tags:Paperville psychology Research Barrett and Kurzban (2006) lays out a number of arguments for and against modularity. They are on the FOR side, but I find the discussion fair and informative. Specifically, on pages 638-639, they discussed the possibility of a "reading module" (looks like suggested by Coltheart, 2002) and how it might be […]
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07-02-18
Tags:Education Linguistics psychology Research William Gray (1956) concluded that:
“These studies demonstrate that the general nature of the reading act is essentially the same among all mature readers. … The mature reader, as he seeks the meaning of the passage, follows the lines in an alternation of short eye movements and pauses. At […]
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06-11-29
Tags:autism OddsnEnds Paperville psychology Research theory of mind A discussion about Theory of Mind : From an Autistic Perspective J. Blackburn, K. Gottschewski, Elsa George, and Niki L, "A discussion about Theory of Mind : From an Autistic Perspective," Proceedings of Autism Europe’s 6th International Congress, Glasgow 19-21 May 2000, in […]
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06-10-30
Tags:OddsnEnds Paperville Psy97 psychology self Teaching theory of mind Elephents passed the Mirror Test! […]
The news is all over, and I thought it’s too ____ to not mention here. It’s work from Frans de Waal’s group at Emory. Picture here and 3 video clips on the PNAS supporting info site.
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06-10-12
Tags:eye movement Paperville psychology Research Teaching I thought this is pretty cool. Caspi, A., Hirschberger, G., Ein-Dor, T., & Zivotofsky, A. Z. (2006). Looking away from death: The influence of subliminal […]
Journal of Vision - Looking away from death: The influence of subliminal priming on eye movement decisions, by Caspi, Hirschberger, Ein-Dor, & Zivotofsky
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06-09-28
Tags:Education eye movement psychology reading An older news featuring Eric Reichle and his mindless reading studies; typical for how the media present research and researchers. USATODAY.com - Mindless reading seen as fundamental WASHINGTON (AP) — Better pay attention, reader. This whole story may be a […]
Mindless reading seen as fundamentalPosted 7/3/2006 2:24 PM ET
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06-09-19
Tags:culture dyslexia Education medicalization psychology Teaching In the latest issue of Society (Vol 43, issue 6, Sep/Oct, 2006, SocietyTOC-SeptOct.pdf for ToC, no online access) there is a paper symposium on medicalization. Frank Furedi argued that medicalization in modern America is no longer dominated by the interests of physicians. A combination of forces, […]
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06-09-14
Tags:Japanese Linguistics Paperville psychology Research University of Richmond CogSci lab
Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics: Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics […]
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06-08-04
Tags:communication Education neuroscience Paperville psychology Teaching
Usha Goswami posted the following question Neuroscience and education: from research to practice?, which sounds like having already been answered by many — From Neurons to Neighborhoods jumps to mind. Despite early optimism, Goswami argues here that it’s premature and potentially dangerous to […]
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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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06-08-03
Tags:cross culture Education math Paperville psychology Teaching Chris Correa » Teachers’ Knowledge of Fractions The Journal of Contemporary Educational Psychology is publishing an article entitled Knowing and teaching fractions: A cross-cultural study of American and Chinese mathematics teachers. 90 U.S. teachers and 70 Chinese teachers participated in an assesment of pedagogical content […]
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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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06-07-25
Tags:card sorting Paperville psychology Research The Dimensional Change Card Sort (DCCS): a method of assessing executive function in children : Nature Protocols Protocol Nature Protocols 1, - 297 - 301 (2006)doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.46
Subject Category: Utilizing model organisms
The Dimensional Change Card Sort (DCCS): a method of assessing executive function in children
Philip David Zelazo1
ABSTRACT
The dimensional change card sort […]
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06-07-25
Tags:Computing psychology Research Watch List
PEBL sounds like an opensource competitor of E-Prime.
PEBL is software for creating psychology experiments. PEBL offers a simple programming language tailor-made for creating and conducting many standard experiments. It is Free software, […]
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06-07-25
Tags:executive control psychology Research We used a very much simplified version of this with 3 & 5-yr-olds. Initially, four stimulus cards are presented to the participant: the first has one red triangle, the second has two green stars, the third has three yellow crosses, and […]
Wisconsin card sort - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Method
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