Ocean Vuong’s semi-autobiographical novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous opens as a letter to the narrator, Little Dog’s, mother—it is she’ll never be able read, she illiterate in both her Vietnamese mother tongue and limited English has learned following immigration America. Dog, having languages, resists rigidity of their respective, repressive syntaxes; if syntax functions ideology—as an im...

During a pursuit eye movement made across a stationary stimulus, that stimulus is often perceived as moving slightly in the direction opposite to the eyes (Filehne illusion). The illusion is generally thought to increase in strength when the stimulus is made visible only briefly. In two experiments the illusion was indeed observed with young subjects. However, with older subjects brief stimulus...

Memories fade over time, but do they disappear altogether? The persistence of overlearned material has been regarded as evidence for permanent memories (Bahrick, 1984). However there seems a general consensus in the cognitive literature that briefly studied stimuli disappear from memory altogether (Wixted, 2004ab). We present evidence from implicit (stem completion) and explicit (stem cued reca...

Some future telephone services will require that ongoing calls be interrupted briefly so that one of the parties can receive data transmitted over the voice path. For example, the new service Caller ID on Call Waiting (CIDCW) will allow subscribers who are off-hook and engaged in conversation to receive data indicating the name and telephone number of a new caller, but the data transmission wil...

Wilson and Humanski (1993) have recently reported evidence that adapting to low temporal frequency sinewave gratings yields little threshold elevation for briefly presented test stimuli. We postulated that brief stimuli may be detected by a transient channel which would be minimally affected by a low temporal frequency adapting pattern. We therefore measured the effect of adaptation on briefly ...