Candle power at Browns Ferry

Dopamine: Burning the Candle at Both Ends

Dopamine neurons are well known for signaling reward-prediction errors. In this issue, Matsumoto and Takada (2013) show that some dopamine neurons also signal salient events during progression through a visual search task requiring working memory and sustained attention.

The Mrs. Browns of Modernism

Candle auctions

We define an auction inspired procedure through which an agent A (the so called initial auctioneer) allocates a chore to one agent from a predefined set of sub-agents by letting them arrange the things among themselves including the definition of the compensation for the losing sub-agent. The compensation is a multiple of the fee f that A fixes at his will and the selected sub-agents are called...

Sanitation and Parasitism at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

One focus of historical archaeology at Harpers Ferry Na­ tional Historical Park, West Virginia, is tracing the devel­ opment of sanitation at the town through the 1800s and 1900s. Historical documentation indicates that there was a degree of resistance to the modernization of village sanita­ tion. This study attempts to verify this resistance through examination of privy soils for parasites ind...

Candle-Candle-Candle-Candy: Continuous Attraction Toward Previously Seen Phonological Competitors

Mouse-tracking provides rich information about temporally sensitive mental processing. In two experiments, we applied this methodology to a phonological cohort task that can be interpreted as a version of the A-not-B task. In the first experiment, participants had to click a word such as “candle” three times in a row on the same side of the computer screen. They then had to click a phonological...