Mark My Words

Sticks and stones may break my bones but words may also kill me: how culturally competent is political correctness?

"The Strategic Eye": Another Look Review Exchange

I was delighted to read Mark Rollins’ review and reflection on my book, Image and Brain (1994), for two reasons: First, this is a wonderful example of ways in which philosophers can help laboratory scientists. They not only can sweep away cobwebs of "conceptual confusion," but – at least as important – can suggest testable hypotheses. Rollins has done a bit of both in his review. Second, Rollin...

Mark My Words: Tone of Voice Changes Affective Word Representations in Memory

The present study explored the effect of speaker prosody on the representation of words in memory. To this end, participants were presented with a series of words and asked to remember the words for a subsequent recognition test. During study, words were presented auditorily with an emotional or neutral prosody, whereas during test, words were presented visually. Recognition performance was com...

Using Different Strategies to Aid in the Acquisition of Sight Words for Students with Specific Learning Disabilities

The objective of my research was to establish a differentiated learning plan to support students who struggle with the acquisition of common sight words, thus experience difficulty reading. The research was conducted in my second grade classroom with two students who had been identified with specific learning disabilities. Both students were reading at a kindergarten level and experienced great...

Words

Turn on a TV news channel in the US and you are likely to see some well-spoken, attractive personality referring to opponents of the Iraq war as members of the ‘hard left’. A large fraction of the American public opposes the war, of course, but we are inured to this prejudicial use of language. At least one network speaks quite purposefully, but one wonders about the others — are the announcers...