If Children Understand Drawing Straws and Flipping Coins, Research Participants Can Understand Randomization

How Can Parents Understand Their Children?

met sufficiently by the courses in home economics that are at present so much in vogue? Or has the work been accomplished by the mothers' clubs and social-center work that is being pushed by our ardent social workers? How can the art of understanding and awakening intellect and providing for its further development be taught? Many courses have been introduced, looking to the physical comfort of...

How can Merlin understand?

To what extent can children with autism understand desire?

Previous studies of theory of mind abilities in young people with autism have found that their understanding of false belief is specifically impaired, but that simple aspects of desire are understood in line with mental age. We explored the possibility that more complex aspects of desire (in which comparison of goals with outcomes is not a sufficient strategy) are not understood by children wit...

We Can and Must Understand Computers NOW

From the endlessly quotable Ted Nelson—whose neologisms pepper the language we use to understand the present, from “hypertext” to “visualization”—perhaps no phrase is better known than, “You Can and Must Understand Computers NOW.” It was emblazoned across the Computer Lib side of his 1974 Computer Lib/Dream Machines ( CL/DM ), the most infl uential book in the history of computational media. 1 ...

Young children understand some implicatures

Various recent studies have claimed that children have difficulty using contrastive stress in language comprehension (Solan, 1980; Gualmini et al., 2003; McDaniel et al., 1992; Reinhart, 1999, 2004) and that failure to access alternatives generated by focus may create problems for interpreting sentences with only (Paterson et al., 2003). Other researchers have shown that children also have diff...