People Profile: Allen Williams

Contextual effect in people with Williams syndrome.

This study was aimed at investigating the semantic integration ability of people with WS in building up a coherent and gist theme from the context of presented sentences. Previous studies have indicated rich lexical semantic knowledge and typical semantic priming in this clinical group, but atypical brainwave patterns have been reported in studies of semantic comprehension. An integration diffi...

Williams syndrome: eye movements 1 Williams syndrome and its cognitive profile: the importance of eye movements

People Profile: Jeffrey Beall

Williams syndrome cognitive profile also characterizes Velocardiofacial/DiGeorge syndrome.

No, Brian Williams, Your Job Isn't to Scare People

It's not an exaggeration to say that the American public hates the media. A poll conducted by Gallup [2] last year showed that merely 32% of Americans had a "great deal" or "fair amount" of trust in the mass media. A Harvard poll, reported by The Hill [3], concluded that 65% of Americans think the media publishes fake news. Who can we thank for Americans' disgust with the media? Journalists lik...