Previous Negro Movements

Trading Places: From Black Power Activist to "Anti-Negro Negro"

In March of 1988, the faculty of the Afro-American Studies Department at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst unanimously demanded that the University remove one of its most distinguished members, Professor Julius Lester. The official reason given for this unprecedented request was that Lester had become an "anti-Negro-Negro." In making this extraordinary demand, Lester's colleagues were ...

Rhisosensitization in the American Negro.

Rational eye movements in reading combining uncertainty about previous words with contextual probability

While there exist a range of sophisticated models of eye movements in reading, it remains an open question to what extent human eye movement behavior during reading is adaptive given the demands of the task. In this paper, we help to answer this question by presenting a model of reading that corrects two problems with a rational model of the task, Mr. Chips (Legge, Klitz, & Tjan, 1997). We show...

Object files across eye movements: Previous fixations affect the latencies of corrective saccades

One of the factors contributing to a seamless visual experience is object correspondence-that is, the integration of pre- and postsaccadic visual object information into one representation. Previous research had suggested that before the execution of a saccade, a target object is loaded into visual working memory and subsequently is used to locate the target object after the saccade. Until now,...

Negro-Vilar to Join Wyeth-Ayerst