Archive for the 'Psychology' Category

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, […]

">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 […]

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06-07-24

Tags:CogSci conference psychology Research Talks I have to miss because of the return flight:
July 29th, 2006. 10:30AM-12:00PMSession 7-29-2D: Language and Non-Verbal Behavior(Chair: Danielle McNamara) Grand Ballroom D

Is There Evidence for a Probabilistic Language Faculty? by Rens Bod

Grounding Dialogue: Eye Movements Reveal the Coordination of Attention during Conversation by Daniel Richardson, Rick Dale

A Model […]

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06-07-24

Tags:CogSci conference eye movement psychology Research Something I won’t be able to attend, a workshop by Mariana Matos da Silva, Research Fellow at UCLIC, Psychology Department and Anna Cox.

CogSci 2006 Conference: Workshop Program

Workshop W1: Mariana M. Silva and Anna L. Cox: What have eye movements told us so […]

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06-07-13

Tags:Computing psychology The man who can open his e-mails by power of thought - World - Times Online

 
 
“In one example, neural output was coupled to a prosthetic hand, and he was able to open and close the hand under volitional control . . . he achieved this action after a few trials while looking […]

">The man who can open his e-mails by power of thought - World - Times Online

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06-05-08

Tags:complexity Computing cybernetics Linguistics OddsnEnds Paperville psychology Research statistics writing writing system I’ve noticed Mark Changizi’s work since last year, where he and colleagues published the paper analyzing the number of strokes of written symbols. Somehow they argue that there is an optimal number of strokes, […]

">How letters are made from branches
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06-05-04

Tags:dyslexia Education Linguistics neuroscience Paperville psychology reading Research Teaching A bit short of 5 years ago Science published an influencial paper on dyslexia by Paulesu et al. The paper attempts to redefine dyslexia as a neurological deficit that is independent of reading. The logic is illustrated in a […]

">Defining Dyslexia: 5-year anniversary of an old debate
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06-04-21

Tags:child development open access Paperville psychology publications statistics
Got this in the email newsletter. Don’t know how they counted, and who has access to their online PDF files. 

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Fathers and Mothers at Play With Their 2- and 3-Year-Olds: […]

">Child Development - Top 10 Article Downloads

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06-04-04 Steve Ceci: Is tenure justified
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06-04-03

Tags:cognition language Linguistics psychology Sapir Whorf hypothesis
Lila Gleitman gave a talk at UNC-Chapel Hill over the past weekend. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to attend. Li has a brief note from the talk posted on her blog on Blogger, along with my comment.
Really wish I went. 

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06-03-22

Tags:Psy97 psychology Teaching theory of mind video
Michael J. Black offers this QuickTime movie based on the film by Heider and Simmel (1944). He credits it to Emre Yilmaz.

">Heider & Simmel (1944) movie
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06-03-21

Tags:cross culture cross linguistic Education letter Linguistics orthography OT Paperville phonology psychology Research spelling IngentaConnect Table Of Contents: Written Language & Literacy

 

Written Language & Literacy
ISSN 1387-6732
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">From letter to sound: New perspectives on writing systems

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06-03-17

Tags:brain fMRI Linguistics neuroscience Paperville psychology reasoning Research syllogism Via NeuroDude, and see reference at CiteULike: fMRI Evidence for a Three-Stage Model of Deductive Reasoning

J Cogn Neurosci. 2006 Mar;18(3):320-34.
Related Articles, Links

FMRI evidence for a three-stage model of deductive reasoning.
Fangmeier T, Knauff […]

">CiteULike: fMRI Evidence for a Three-Stage Model of Deductive Reasoning

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06-03-15

Tags:CogSci computational linguistics Folk psychology Linguistics Profiles psychology Research text corpus theory of mind Seems to be an interesting project/resource, but the 2002 CogSci paper raised many questions. 
Commonsense Psychology Resource Page by Andrew Gordon

In an effort to better understand the relationship between language and representation, we have authored […]

">Andrew Gordon: Commonsense Psychology and Language

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06-03-14

Tags:History OddsnEnds psychology What psychologists used to do 70 yeras ago (via Modern Mechanix):

Modern Mechanix » Women and Smokers Have Steadier Nerves, Device Proves

Women and Smokers Have Steadier Nerves, Device Proves
Source: Modern Mechanix 6-1935
WOMEN are better than men when it comes to a steady hand and certainty of aim, […]

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06-03-12

Tags:Education evolution intelligent design OddsnEnds Paperville psychology Research Teaching The following article is unfortunately published on a journal that is not open-access. Well, not exactly the fault of the journal or its editors. It’s the evil publisher…

ScienceDirect - Trends in Cognitive Sciences : The Intelligent Design controversy: lessons […]

">The Intelligent Design controversy: lessons from psychology and education

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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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