George Douglas Pinker

Autopsy on Sir George Douglas, A.D. 1636.

ON 12 March 1636, the inhabitants of the town of Demmin in Pomerania were astonished to hear the bells of Saint Bartholomew's Church ringing out. Their astonishment was due to the fact that it was not a Sunday when the church services took place but a Saturday and the time was eight-thirty in the evening when most good people were abed. As the bells continued to ring loud and strong, the govern...

Steven Pinker.

Professor van der Lely has been barred from entering her laboratory, accessing her data, managing her grants, using her email, and communicating with her students and colleagues at UCL. This is an extraordinary and unjust punishment. The career of a scientist depends on continuous interaction with students, collaborators, funding agencies, and research subjects. This is especially true for a sc...

George

not much worried whether they be right or wrong. His desire to be the center of attraction may lead him to do things considered irrational when viewed from other angles. If he is in the upper 10 per cent of his class at school, it might be well to advance him to the next grade, provided he is sufficiently interested to show that he is capable of doing the work. If convenient, the teacher should...

George Kachergis: George Kachergis Doctoral Dissertation

Language acquisition is a ubiquitous, challenging problem involving fundamental cognitive abilities of attention, learning, and memory. From infants to adult travelers, language learners are faced with figuring out which words refer to which referents from situations that contain many words and referents. By remembering the words and referents (e.g., objects) that co-occur most frequently over ...

Pinker Orientation - Dependent Mechanisms in Shape Recognition : Further Issues