You Can Look It Up: or Maybe Not

‘ You Can Always Look It up ’ . . . or Can You ?

Auntie Mame with its Park Avenue version of my progressive experience, you will know that progressive theories in the 1940s were mainly confined to private schools; they hadn't seeped very far into the public school domain. At Metairie Park, my entire ninth-grade curriculum consisted of two " integrated, " " multidisciplinary " projects, as they would now be called. They were: participating in ...

Do not do processing, when you can look up: Towards a Discrimination Net for WSD

The task of Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) incorporates in its definition the role of ‘context’. We present our work on the development of a tool which allows for automatic acquisition and ranking of ‘context clues’ for WSD. These clue words are extracted from the contexts of words appearing in a large monolingual corpus. These mined collection of contextual clues form a discrimination net in ...

Integration, independence or employment? Or can you have it all?

Are You Smarter Than a Teenager? Maybe Not When It Comes to Reinforcement Learning

Adolescence is a time of tumultuous behavior that may result, in part, from brain circuitry that enhances reward seeking. In this issue of Neuron, Davidow et al. (2016) present a convincing argument that adolescent brain functionality can be adaptive in certain contexts, particularly probabilistic learning environments.

You do not find your own face faster; you just look at it longer.

Previous studies investigating the ability of high priority stimuli to grab attention reached contradictory outcomes. The present study used eye tracking to examine the effect of the presence of the self-face among other faces in a visual search task in which the face identity was task-irrelevant. We assessed whether the self-face (1) received prioritized selection (2) caused a difficulty to di...