Archive for the 'Research' Category
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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07-08-02
Tags:Linguistics phonological awareness Research Sanskrit Teaching writing system Richard Sproad mentioned in the following chapter the possibility that inventers of the Brahmi script prepared themselves for the segmental challenges through the practice of the Ghana-patha.
Richard Sproat, "A Formal Computational Analysis of Indic Scripts", International Symposium on Indic Scripts: […]
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07-07-06
Tags:English Linguistics Paperville Research spelling Flaps is notoriously hard in spelling. Becky Treiman and others have shown that young children (at some point during their literacy development) tend to spell as they hear the sounds, such as <*SDAR> for <STAR>. Does Eddington suggest here that children actually have an "underlying" lexical representation […]
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07-06-21
Tags:Computing Research Watch List Tobii offers 120Hz eye trackers, up from 60Hz. The trade off is smaller head movement tollerance, from 44cm to 30cm at 120Hz. You can downsample to 60Hz and get larger range. Tobii X120 Eye Tracker Tobii x120 Eye Tracker Accuracy Drift Data rate Freedom of movement Binocular tracking Eye […]
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07-06-13
Tags:CiteULike Research
Duke’s Library Hack notes an articles on the UK journal Ariadne titled “Citeulike: A Researcher’s Social Bookmarking Service“
This article describes Citeulike, a fusion of Web-based social bookmarking services and traditional bibliographic management tools. It discusses how Citeulike turns the linear ‘gather, collect, share’ process inherent in academic research into a circular ‘gather, collect, […]
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07-06-06
Tags:evolution language Linguistics OED Research Teaching While we are on evolution, I might as well add some etymology to the mix. It turned out that my folk etymology of the word had a big hole. evolving, as in turning […]
The word Evolution used to bring up the following thoughts in my mind.
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07-06-06
Tags:evolution Linguistics Paperville Research symbol symbol system
David and Ann Premack’s 2005 commentary on Science got it right (Evolution Versus Invention — Premack and Premack 307 (5710): 673b — Science):
…it is not language per se that is critical for understanding the transition from analog to digital numeracy, but the change from […]
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07-06-05
Tags:ajax Computing Research scripting zotero Zotero is ready to take off, rolling over Endnotes on the runway.
[all the praise go here ]
But - you know it’s coming - here are some of the things I’d like to change. Sorry, no time for links now.
Automatic PDF fetching
Looks like the screen […]
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07-06-02
Tags:eye movement Paperville reading Research
I stumbled on a surprisingly comprehensive entry on Wikipedia on Eye movement in music reading.
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07-05-31
Tags:Computing Research Watch List
Citation Style Language is what Zotera uses.
CSL is based on a notion of citation class, around which all validation is structured. If one […]
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07-05-31
Tags:language Paperville Research symbol symbol system vygotsky Vygotsky: Thinking and speaking: Written, Inner and Oral Speech The development of writing does not repeat the developmental history of speaking. Written speech is a separate linguistic function, differing from oral speech in both structure and mode of functioning. Even its minimal development requires […]
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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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07-05-31
Tags:Research symbol symbol system Chris Chatham, a graduate student at Boulder and a leading neuroscience blogger on ScienceBlogs.com, has a couple of recent posts about symbol uses (The Blessing and Curse of Analytic Depth in Understanding Symbol Use, Neural Substrates of Symbol Use).
He offers the following in the first post:
Conclusions
The cognitive neuroscience […]
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07-05-17
Tags:eye movement modeling Paperville Research Schall’s work, which RHS Carpenter cited as neurological evidence for the LATER model, is very striking. Some of his papers are on my to-read list, which is piling up really fast. Jeffrey D. Schall, Ph.D
Neural Control of Voluntary Movement Initiation
D.P. Hanes and […]
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