Reply to Cohen and Denning

Reply to Quintner and Cohen.

I thank Drs. Quintner and Cohen for their interest in my editorial [1] about the study by Albrect et al. [2]. Drs. Quintner and Cohen have raised several concerns about my discussion of the implications of that study, especially of the concept that peripheral nociception by myofascial trigger points initiates central sensitization. They object to the idea that peripheral nerve sensitization is ...

On Perceptual Information and Fitting Models to Data: A Reply to Massaro and Cohen (1993)

Cutting, Bruno, Brady, and Moore (1992) investigated the properties of Massaro's (1987) fuzzy-logical model of perception (FLMP) and other models. Among their results, they found that FLMP and an additive model fit the data of individuals' judgments of depth about equally well, that the additive model fit the group data better, and that FLMP fit random data better. Massaro and Cohen (1993) ques...

How not to search for isochores: a reply to Cohen et Al.

In a recent paper in these pages, Cohen et al. search for isochores in the human genome, based on a system of attributes that they assign to isochores. The putative isochores that they find and choose for presentation are almost all below 45% GC and cover only about 41% of the genome. Closer inspection reveals that the authors' methodology systematically loses GC-rich isochores because it does ...

A Concluding Note on the Stability of Punishment: Reply to Blumstein, Cohen, Moitra, and Nagin

Beyond Cyberspace Group Leader : Peter J . Denning

First, the group noted that reaching beyond cyberspace probably has to do with grasping for what would usually be thought of in today's time frame as "secondary effects" or "unintended consequences." That is, leading-edge technologies often have what seem like unexpected by-products that later turn out to be major outcomes as these technologies become ubiquitous and converge in varied ways with...