This paper is concerned with information-seeking yes/no (yn-)questions expressing an epistemic bias on the speaker’s side. Two main kinds of bias have been discussed in the recent literature: a type of bias where the polarity of the question and the polarity of the propositional content of the bias differ, and a type of bias where the polarities are the same. The first type of epistemic bias ca...

This project studied the convergent validity of current recall of tobacco-related health behaviors, compared with prospective self-report collected earlier at two sites. Cohorts were from the Oregon Research Institute at Eugene (N = 346, collected 19.5 years earlier) and the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (N = 294, collected 3.9 years earlier). Current recall was examined through comput...

The idea that compositing or blending occurs in human episodic memory stems from two sources: (a) distributed memory models and (b) studies on the errors that occur in eyewitness testimony. These two traditions of research--theoretical and empirical--have been independent and distinct. Here, data from the eyewitness testimony paradigm are simulated by the distributed model CHARM (Composite Holo...

Consider the situation where a researcher wants to determine the predictors for the fitness level (yes/no) to be assessed by treadmill by collecting the variables (Table I) of 50 subjects. Unfortunately the treadmill machine in the air-con room has broken down (the participants do not want to run in the hot sun!), and no assessment of fitness could be carried out. What could be done to analyse ...

This study describes the effects of floor system, digital dermatitis (DD) and interdigital dermatitis and heel-horn erosion (IDHE) on locomotion performance in 225 dairy cows of 12 commercial dairy herds. Nine herds were kept in cubicle houses with concrete passageways (either solid, slatted, or grooved concrete) and three herds were kept in straw yards. Animals were at most five times examined...

The pattern of masked repetition priming effects for word and nonword targets differs across tasks: Masked-priming effects in lexical decision occur for positive responses (i.e., words), but not for negative responses (nonwords), whereas masked-priming effects in the cross-case same-different task occur for positive responses (same), but not for negative responses (different)--regardless of lex...

This paper is a phonetic study of prosody of wh-words in whquestions, yes/no-questions and echo questions in Standard Chinese. The production data from 4 speakers show that there is a prosodic difference of wh-words and the corresponding VPs between different question types. Wh-words in whquestions are the focus of sentence, whereas in yes/noquestions, VPs are the focus. The focused constituent...

Settlement and metamorphosis of marine invertebrate larvae is an ecological process of profound importance to the structure of benthic marine communities. Yet, metamorphosis is also a developmental process and our understanding of the mechanisms that regulate it remains relatively poor. Over the last 15 years, a nitric oxide (NO) based signaling system has emerged as the most phylogenetically w...

This study investigated the effects on perceptual and motor decisions of low-contrast distractors, presented 5 degrees on the left and/or the right of the fixation point. Perceptual decisions were assessed with a yes/no (distractor) detection task. Motor decisions were assessed via these distractors' effects on the trajectory of an impending saccade to a distinct imperative stimulus, presented ...

This document is a record of my contribution to a panel discussion which took place on July 27, 2011 as part of the Infinity and Truth Workshop held at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore, July 25–29, 2011. In preparation for the panel discussion, Professor Woodin asked each panelist to formulate a yes/no question to be asked of a benevolent, omniscient mat...