Archive for the 'Research' Category
07-12-10
Tags:Research Roaming around in the neighborhood, with rocks in hands, aiming at streetlamps or the kid who beat you yesterday. That was a partial description of my childhood, the more exciting part of it. Turns out there is a branch of science that studies it. ScienceDirect - Journal of Human Evolution : Age-related differences in the performance, […]
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07-12-10
Tags:Computing Research LibX browser extension for Duke Libraries
Add Duke Libraries to your Web Browser
LibX is a web browser extension (also known as a plug-in or add-on) that places a toolbar in your browser, visual "cues" in certain web pages that link to Duke Library resources related to the item you’re viewing, and new menu items […]
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07-11-28
Tags:Computing Research EndNote Web 2.0 Use Cite While Your Write™ in […]
EndNote Web delivers tools to:
- Search online resources
- Save ISI Web of KnowledgeSM records directly to an online library
- Collect and organize references
- Format citations and footnotes or a bibliography
Did you know, when you register for EndNote Web
you can take advantage of any of these features:
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07-11-09
Tags:Research This is interesting.
NIMH Center for the Study of Emotion and Attention
Affective Norms for English Text (ANET)
The Affective Norms for English Text (ANET) provides normative ratings of emotion (pleasure, arousal, dominance) for a large set of brief texts in the English language for use in experimental investigations of emotion and attention. The […]
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07-11-04
Tags:distribution Research statistics 1.3.6.6. Gallery of Distributions
I don’t remember if I blogged about this before, but NIST put together a number of useful distributions together, along with PDF, CDF, Hazard functions, plus more. The Johnson, Kotz, and Balakrishnan (1994) is a definite reference, but most chapters do not include hazard functions.
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07-11-04
Tags:matlab modeling Paperville Research rt statistics
TRISHA VAN ZANDT - Ohio State University has a number of Matlab scripts to model response time distributions, including exgaussian and other distributions. Looks like it requires the Statistics Toolbox.
Related publications:
Van Zandt, T.(2000). How to fit a response time distribution. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, […]
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07-11-02
Tags:Computing Research Snob is the grandfather of MML software. I was looking for tools for Gamma mixture modeling and was lead to Snob by Yudi Agusta and David Dowe’s (2003) work on Gamma distribution mixtures. From David Dowe’s Snob page:
Snob uses the Minimum Message Length (MML) principle to do mixture modelling to infer MML finite […]
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07-10-15
Tags:Research Watch List I am on ASL’s email list and got this today. Don’t think I will be watching, but maybe you will.
Dear Gary:Sharing eye tracking research, even if it’s not in your specific discipline, can always be interesting.
That’s why we’d like you to be aware that ASL’s Mobile Eye takes to the football field […]
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07-10-15
Tags:Paperville Research A Bibliography on Writing and … - Google Book Search
This bibliography provides information on research about writing and written language in the late 20th century. It contains a selection of some 27,500 titles and covers literature in all scientific fields relating to writing. Emphasis is placed on the interdisciplinary organization.
Published 1996 […]
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07-10-08
Tags:Research Teaching Matthew Nisbit & Dietram A. Scheufele have a cover story for The Scientist on Framing science communication. It starts with a quote from Larry Page, Google Co-founder, that "science has a serious marketing problem." Here’s the take home message: Tailoring communication efforts to fit with publics […]
The Scientist : The Future of Public Engagement
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07-10-02
Tags:Computing Paperville Research Carol Whitney has a number of Publications on the SERIOL model of word recognition, which emphasize on the problem of letter position encoding. The Internet Archive has a video of her talk back in 2006 on this topic at the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, UC Berkeley .
Relevant […]
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07-09-13
Tags:Linguistics Research XI International Congress For The Study of Child Language (IASCL)
Welcome to the IASCL 2008 Conference.
University of Edinburgh, Monday 28th July to Friday 1st August 2008.
These dates immediately precede the annual Edinburgh International Festival, which usually begins in the second week of August and lasts […]
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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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07-09-08
Tags:Computing Research Watch List zotero This is as cool as it gets when you play with bibliographic information. Zotero - The Next-Generation Research Tool » Blog Archive » Visualize Your Zotero Collections in Timelines
The other day I had a scarry experience — now that most of my references are on Zotero, it […]
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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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07-09-04
Tags:Research Don’t know yet if I will go to:
ICP Congress 2008: XXIX International Congress of Psychology
The Final Announcement and Call for Abstracts of ICP 2008 has been published. Please download the Final Announcement here.
Online Registration has started. Please register here.Please download the Registration Form here
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07-08-29
Tags:economics modeling rationality reading Research Teaching I generally do not read newspapers, but this one strikes either a chord or a dischord, something I am still trying to figure out. Steven Pearlstein - On Poverty, Maybe We’re All Wrong - washingtonpost.com
… after doing lots of reading and giving it extensive thought, […]
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07-08-28
Tags:psychology Research I will not go to Cognitive Development Society Conference 2007.
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07-08-27
Tags:ai algorithm Computing evolution Paperville Research Eric Baum’s 1997 manuscript has the coolest title I’ve seen for years. Toward a Model of Intelligence as an Economy of Idiots
By the time it was published on Machine Learning in 1999,"idiots" became "agents", and it lost it.
It sounds like a really cool paper, though. […]
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07-08-02
Tags:distribution Paperville Research statistics word frequency Many natural phenomena exhibit self-similarity, and statistically this often shows in the frequency distribution of events. Word frequency is a classic example. If you rank words from most frequent to the least, and plot its frequency distribution on a log-log scale, you will get a straight […]
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