There have been extensive discussions about whether emotional memories contain more accurate detail than nonemotional memories do, or whether individuals simply believe that they have remembered emotional experiences more accurately. I review evidence that negative emotion enhances not only the subjective vividness of a memory but also the likelihood of remembering some (but not all) event deta...

Even if we don’t like it, we often face counterexamples to the inferences we have made or would like to make. With the exception of the SimProb model (Blok, Medin & Osherson, 2007), models of inductions to date have predominantly focused on the relevance of positive evidence to the inference process. Here we provide data from single and double premise arguments in a category-based property indu...

Computer games constantly promote particular values to be adopted by their players during gameplay, but there has been little research into how this takes place. Understanding value promotion in computer games is of importance for a variety of reasons, ranging from game design to criticism. This paper presents an initial method for assessing value promotion in computer games by examining what h...

The scientific literature on work-related back disorders was reviewed to identify consistent risk factors and to determine the strength of the association between the two. Thirty-five publications were selected with quantitative information. Lifting or carrying loads, whole-body vibration, and frequent bending and twisting proved to be the physical load risk factors consistently associated with...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the speech preparation processes of adults who stutter (AWS). Fifteen AWS and fifteen adults with fluent speech (AFS) participated in the experiment. The event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded in a foreperiod paradigm. The warning signal (S1) was a color square, and the following imperative stimulus (S2) was either a white square (the Go si...

Since John Locke, the so-called argument from ignorance has been considered to be a fallacy, and is widely represented in informal logic textbooks as an example of incorrect reasoning. This might seem surprising to researchers in many scientific disciplines who routinely draw inferences from negative evidence. Oaksford and Hahn (2004) argued that this discrepancy can be explained within a Bayes...

We present a part-of-speech tagger which introduces two new concepts: virtual evidence in the form of an “observed child” node, and negative training data to learn the conditional probabilities for the observed child. Associated with each word is a flexible feature-set which can include binary flags, neighboring words, etc. The conditional probability of Tag given Word + Features is implemented...

Uptake of external glucose and production of lactate were measured in freshly-excised bovine articular cartilage under O2 concentrations ranging from 21% (air) to zero (N2-bubbled). Anoxia (O2 concentration < 1% in the gas phase) severely inhibited both glucose uptake and lactate production. The decrease in lactate formation correlated closely with the decrease in glucose uptake, in a mole rati...

Aberrant expression of the islet amyloid polypeptide (IAPP) gene might be involved in the pathogenesis of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM). Here, we report that IAPP promoter-luciferase constructs revealed tissue-specific activity. This activity was not mediated by cAMP. Sequential 5' deletions of the IAPP promoter caused a progressive derepression of the IAPP gene promoter in IA...

Responses to recently ignored stimuli may be slower or less accurate than to new stimuli. This negative priming effect decays over time when delay is randomized within subjects, but not when delay varies between subjects. In Experiment 1, response-stimulus intervals (RSI) of 500 and 4,000 ms were randomized within subjects in a target localization task. Negative priming of ignored locations dim...