Retrieval of memories is enhanced when bilateral saccades are made immediately before attempting retrieval. One hypothesis is that saccades enhance retrieval by increasing interaction of the brain hemispheres. To test this, subjects viewed arrays of lateralized letters and indicated whether target letters matched either of two probe letters. Matching targets and probes were presented to either ...

Disambiguating personal names in a set of documents (such as a set of web pages returned in response to a person name) is a difficult and challenging task. In this paper, we explore the extent to which the “cluster hypothesis” for this task holds (i.e., that similar documents tend to represent the same person). We explore two clustering techniques which used either (1) term based matching (sing...

We present a machine learning approach to robust textual inference, in which parses of the text and the hypothesis sentences are used to measure their asymmetric “similarity”, and thereby to decide if the hypothesis can be inferred. This idea is realized in two different ways. In the first, each sentence is represented as a graph (extracted from a dependency parser) in which the nodes are words...

According to the preemptive-control hypothesis, participants can specify their control settings to attend to relevant target colours or to ignore the irrelevant distractor colours in advance of the displays. Two predictions of this hypothesis were tested. First, with the control settings being specified in advance, capture by a stimulus that better matches the settings was expected to temporall...

We examined the conditions under which a feature value in visual working memory (VWM) recruits visual attention to matching stimuli. Previous work has suggested that VWM supports two qualitatively different states of representation: an active state that interacts with perceptual selection and a passive (or accessory) state that does not. An alternative hypothesis is that VWM supports a single f...

The matching hypothesis proposes that interventions for anxiety should be matched to the modality in which anxiety is experienced. This study investigated the relevance of the matching hypothesis for anxiety interventions in tennis. Elite junior tennis players (N = 100; Age: M = 13.9 yr., SD = 1.8 yr.) completed the Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2 before and after one of four randomly ass...

In the last 50 years, our vision of cerebellum has vastly evolved starting with Voogd’s (1967) description extracerebellar projections’ terminations and how projection maps transformed presumptive homogeneity cerebellar cortex into a more complex center subdivided transverse longitudinal distinct functional zones. The picture became still Richard Hawkes colleagues’ (Gravel et al., 1987) discove...

The pain point is a specific form of consumer demand and concept that has been widely used in marketing business strategies recent years. Pain points arise when consumers have put enough effort to achieve their goals but little effect. In this paper, the pain-feature matching effect proposed by combining past research on consumers’ attitudes with targeting features. It predicted willingness pay...

Consider an exchangeable normal vector with parameters ????2, and ?. On the basis of a vector observation some tests about these parameters are found and their properties are discussed. A simulation study for these tests and a few nonparametric tests are presented. Some advantages and disadvantages of these tests are discussed and a few applications are given.

This paper investigates the hypothesis that the left and right hemispheres of the human brain are specialized for processing local and global stimulus information, respectively. Also, functional hemispheric differences with respect to “same– different“ judgements are considered. The hypothesis was tested that the right hemisphere produces faster“same” judgements than the lefthemisphere, whereas...