Do People Serve as Cues to Smoke?

Who do I serve?

COMMENTARY This talk is inspired by the story of Matthew about whom you will hear in a few moments. This ceremony acknowledges a transition in your medical education: A rite of passage from the study of basic medical science in classrooms to new encounters with patients at bedsides and in clinics. On choosing and being chosen You are an exceptional group of women and men. In the style of praise...

Object names and object functions serve as cues to categories for infants.

Can object names and functions act as cues to categories for infants? In Study 1, 14- and 18-month-old infants were shown novel category exemplars along with a function, a name, or no cues. Infants were then asked to "find another one," choosing between 2 novel objects (1 from the familiar category and the other not). Infants at both ages were more likely to select the category match in the fun...

Do In-Work Tax Credits Serve as a Safety Net?

The cash and near cash safety net in the U.S. has undergone a dramatic transformation in the past fifteen years. Federal welfare reform has led to the “elimination of welfare as we know it” and several tax reforms have substantially increased the role of “in-work”' assistance. In 2010, we spent more than 5 dollars on the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for every dollar spent on cash benefits th...

Do intersections serve as basic features in visual search?

The status of 'intersection' as a basic feature in visual search tasks has been controversial. Under some circumstances, a target possessing this attribute (eg a plus) 'pops out' of a display of distractors that lack the attribute (eg Ls). However, those cases may be artifacts of other features such as relative size or number of line terminators. We report two sets of experiments with stimuli i...

How Long Do They Serve?