Story structure and reader affect in American and Hungarian short stories

Running title: Story structure and reader affectBibliography: leaves 31-32Supported in part by the National Institute of Education under contract no. NIE-C-400-81-003

Similarity-Based and Explanation-Based Learning of Explanatory and Nonexplanatory Information

We suggest that human learners employ both similarity-based learning (SBL) and explanation-based learning (EBL) procedures and that the successful use of these procedures is determined by the characteristics of the information to be learned. In a domain without underlying causal structure, multiple examples can lead to successful SBL, but not to successful EBL. In a domain with underlying causal structure, the use of appropriate background knowledge can lead to successful EBL, but not to SBL. A series of experiments was carried out in which a common initial passage was followed with a variety of different types of information (a second similar instance, a second contrasting instance, frequency data, or explanations). EBL occurred only when subjects had sufficient background knowledge and when the information to be learned could be causally structured. SBL occurred when there were multiple examples, even in domains without causal structure

A Comparison of Measures of Finger Recognition

The relationship between the Benton tests of finger localization and the Kinsbourne-Warrington tests of finger differentiation and order was investigated. Kinsbourne and Warrington have stated that finger sense as tested by their tests and finger localization as tested by Benton\u27s tests cannot be closely compared.\u27\u27 This hypothesis was tested by giving both tests to 31 mentally retarded subjects. There was a high significant correlation between the two tests. The findings do not support Kinsbourne and Warrington\u27s hypothesis and suggest that it is not necessary to distinguish between finger sense and finger localization.\u27\u2

Meta-analysis of Human Papillomavirus Infection Concordance

Estimates of human papillomavirus (HPV) concordance among sexual partners are important for various public health activities, from counseling individual patients to predicting the impact of HPV vaccination

Schema Acquisition from One Example: Psychological Evidence for Explanation-Based Learning

Coordinated Science Laboratory was formerly known as Control Systems LaboratoryOffice of Naval Research / N00014-86-K-0309University of Illinois Cognitive Science/AI fellowship

The Structure of Episodic Memory: Ganeri's ‘Mental Time Travel and Attention’

We offer a framework for assessing what the structure of episodic memory might be, if one accepts the Buddhist denial of persisting selves. This paper is a response to Jonardon Ganeri's paper "Mental time travel and attention", which explores Buddhaghosa's ideas about memory. (It will eventually be published with a reply by Ganeri)

What the disjunctivist is right about

There is a traditional conception of sensory experience on which the experiences one has looking at, say, a cat could be had by someone merely hallucinating a cat. Disjunctivists take issue with this conception on the grounds that it does not enable us to understand how perceptual knowledge is possible. In particular, they think, it does not explain how it can be that experiences gained in perception enable us to be in ‘cognitive contact’ with objects and facts. I develop this chal- lenge to the traditional conception and then show that it is possible to accommo- date an adequate account of cognitive contact in keeping with the traditional conception. One upshot of the discussion is that experiences do not bear the explanatory burden placed upon them by disjunctivists

Optical Atomic Clock Comparison through Turbulent Air

We use frequency comb-based optical two-way time-frequency transfer (O-TWTFT) to measure the optical frequency ratio of state-of-the-art ytterbium and strontium optical atomic clocks separated by a 1.5 km open-air link. Our free-space measurement is compared to a simultaneous measurement acquired via a noise-cancelled fiber link. Despite non-stationary, ps-level time-of-flight variations in the free-space link, ratio measurements obtained from the two links, averaged over 30.5 hours across six days, agree to $6\times10^{-19}$, showing that O-TWTFT can support free-space atomic clock comparisons below the $10^{-18}$ level