What counts?

Public health emergencies: What Counts?

Where What You Count is What Really Counts

We noticed that human subjects were notably faster and more accurate in concurrent counting of three location-based events while they ignored the identity of targets, compared to concurrent counting of three identity-based events while they ignored the locations. In a control experiment, subjects performed a location-based triple counting task, while now also paying attention to the target iden...

What counts in grammatical number agreement?

Both notional and grammatical number affect agreement during language production. To explore their workings, we investigated how semantic integration, a type of conceptual relatedness, produces variations in agreement (Solomon & Pearlmutter, 2004). These agreement variations are open to competing notional and lexical-grammatical number accounts. The notional hypothesis is that changes in number...

What counts as success in genetic counselling?

The question of what counts as a successful outcome of the process of genetics counselling has recently become central because of the increasing calls for efficiency in health care, and for means of measuring efficiency. Angus Clarke has drawn attention to this trend, and has argued against both a measure in terms of the number of terminations of pregnancy performed as a result of counselling, ...

What Counts in the Immunological Synapse?

Molecular interactions at the interface between helper T cells and antigen-presenting B cells govern the ability to produce specific antibodies, which is a central event in protective immunity generated by natural infection or man-made vaccines. In order for a T cell to deliver effective help to a B cell and guide affinity maturation, it needs to provide feedback that is proportional to the amo...