The Little Candle

"How far that little candle throws his beams".

Candle auctions

We define an auction inspired procedure through which an agent A (the so called initial auctioneer) allocates a chore to one agent from a predefined set of sub-agents by letting them arrange the things among themselves including the definition of the compensation for the losing sub-agent. The compensation is a multiple of the fee f that A fixes at his will and the selected sub-agents are called...

Candle-Candle-Candle-Candy: Continuous Attraction Toward Previously Seen Phonological Competitors

Mouse-tracking provides rich information about temporally sensitive mental processing. In two experiments, we applied this methodology to a phonological cohort task that can be interpreted as a version of the A-not-B task. In the first experiment, participants had to click a word such as “candle” three times in a row on the same side of the computer screen. They then had to click a phonological...

The core of the candle problem.

A romantic evening at home surrounded by candlelight may pose a not-so-romantic health hazard. Some candles made with metal wicks emit lead into the air when burned, finds a study by environmental chemist Jerome Nriagu of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, scheduled for publication in an upcom-ing issue of Science ofthe Total Environment. The dark, shiny metal wick cores are used to make ...

Dopamine: Burning the Candle at Both Ends

Dopamine neurons are well known for signaling reward-prediction errors. In this issue, Matsumoto and Takada (2013) show that some dopamine neurons also signal salient events during progression through a visual search task requiring working memory and sustained attention.