Archive for the 'Research' Category
07-06-05
Tags:ajax Computing Research scripting zotero Zotero is ready to take off, rolling over Endnotes on the runway.
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But - you know it’s coming - here are some of the things I’d like to change. Sorry, no time for links now.
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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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07-05-17
Tags:Computing eye movement modeling reading Research statistics Roger HS Carpenter, whom I read with great respect, recently published a paper with Scott McDonald, where they applied his LATER model (Linear Approach to Threshold with Ergodic Rate) of saccade response time (fixation duration) to reading (see also Mike […]
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07-05-17
Tags:eye movement Research statistics George McConkie et al. (1988) concluded that in reading English the landing position distribution — where the eye fixate within a word — is effectively a truncated Gaussian (Normal) distribution. It’s truncated because, presumably, some fixations were meant to be on the word but were landed on adjacent words by […]
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07-05-14
Tags:CiteULike Research
LibraryThing on Second Life. Two completely different birds I was after oddly met a couple of months ago.
LibraryThing is a social network site for bookworms. It claims to become the 2nd largest library by Summer, with over 13 million books "held" by their members. Many nice features, particularly for social networking. […]
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07-05-14
Tags:Computing Research
Book Burro sit on the old gum tree, via Duke Library’s Libraryhacks.
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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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07-04-28
Tags:English History Linguistics Paperville Research spelling
Jack Lynch has a collection of texts from Samuel Johnson. Of interests to me are:
A Plan of an English Dictionary
Preface to the Dictionary
Crystal (Cambridge Encyc of English, p. 74) mentioned that Johnson began with a prescriptive vision of the dictionary (in the Plan) but ended […]
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07-04-17
Tags:Research The Tectonics of Western Expression is the Ch3 of Lanham’s "Economy of attention" book online. It contains two versionso of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ Spring And Fall.
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There is a slight difference from the print version, though. The Scriptio Continua version is in 20 letter column, where here it’s about 12 letters. 20 letter […]
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07-04-14
Tags:evolution Linguistics reading Research symbol system Teaching STEPHEN JAY GOULD: THE PATTERN OF LIFE’S HISTORY
Natural selection didn’t build our brains to write or to read, that’s for sure, because we didn’t do those things for so long.
This quote, or similar sentiments, has been widely used to support the notion that […]
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07-04-13
Tags:Computing eye movement Research Watch List Smart Eye - if you want reality SMART EYE PRO 4.0 RELEASED! Smart Eye Pro 4.0 is, basically, the improvement of two dimensions of eye tracking. We have combined the accuracy of corneal reflection with the head box of image processing. By using up to six cameras […]
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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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07-03-21
Tags:Paperville Research The Questia Online Library has excerpt from the following chapter, where it was claimed that 2nd graders were not affected by space-fillers. I am not sure the study was actually published — have to track it down. Beginning readers do spend a lot more time on refixating the same words, in which case […]
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07-03-16
Tags:Education Linguistics OT phonological awareness reading Research
Reading Acquisition (1992) by Philip B. Gough,Linnea C. Ehri,Rebecca Treiman has a number of papers that are quite revealing, 15 later.
Ch1. Brian Byrne summarized ove 10 small studies on various attempts to teach prereading children simple words and to test transfers. It is […]
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