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 […]

">Word, n.
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07-05-31

Tags:language Paperville psychology Research symbol symbol system
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:

Perhaps the […]

">Premack 2004: Language, Writing, and Systems of Symbols

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07-05-07

Tags:Education psychology reading Research
Special Collections at Harvard Graduate School of Education Library has several special collections on education history:
 
 
Special Collections include:

Historical Textbooks Collection
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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">Gutman Library & Jean Chall Collection

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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 […]

">Can you graphically represent “pure” verbs?

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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 […]

">Bouma shape

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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 […]

">modularity in cognition: framing the debate
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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 […]

">Gray (1956): Reading eye movements in 14 languages
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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 […]

">A discussion about Theory of Mind : From an Autistic Perspective

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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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">Happy, the self-recognizing dumbo

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06-10-12

Tags:eye movement Paperville psychology Research Teaching I thought this is pretty cool. 
Journal of Vision - Looking away from death: The influence of subliminal priming on eye movement decisions, by Caspi, Hirschberger, Ein-Dor, & Zivotofsky

Caspi, A., Hirschberger, G., Ein-Dor, T., & Zivotofsky, A. Z. (2006). Looking away from death: The influence of subliminal […]

">Looking away from death

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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
 

 
Mindless reading seen as fundamentalPosted 7/3/2006 2:24 PM ET

WASHINGTON (AP) — Better pay attention, reader. This whole story may be a […]

">Mindless reading seen as fundamental

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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, […]

">The American way of medicalization

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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 […]

">Out: Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics (Vol.2: Japanese)

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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 […]

">Neuroscience and education: from research to practice? : Nature Reviews Neuroscience
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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 […]

">Commentary on Hunter (1997) NEEDED:. A BAN ON THE SIGNIFICANCE TEST
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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 […]

">Chris Correa » Teachers’ Knowledge of Fractions

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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 […]

">Henny Yeung

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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 […]

">The Dimensional Change Card Sort (DCCS): a method of assessing executive function in children : Nature Protocols

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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, […]

">PEBL: The Psychology Experiment Building Language
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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.  
Wisconsin card sort - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 

  
Method

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 sorting

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