The notion of subvocal speech looms over the American writer William S. Burroughs’ work and its defining feature is an involuntary continuity. Burroughs borrows concept from behaviorist psychologist John B. Watson’s attempts between 1920s ‘30s to come up with image thinking which foregrounds laryngeal correlates. Yet, while adopting this picture, brings a much more pragmatic experimental slant ...

One of the most important part of the Distributed Musical Rehearsal project was the evaluation of the overall system performance. This task required the development of precise methodology, based on both subjective and objective performance measurements. The results of the evaluation are presented in the report in their raw form and from these we draw our conclusion concerning the quality, usabi...

We present a system for 3D planning and pre-operative rehearsal of mandibular distraction osteogenesis procedures. Two primary architectural components are described: a planning system that allows geometric bone manipulation to rapidly explore various modifications and configurations, and a visuohaptic simulator that allows both general-purpose training and preoperative, patient-specific proced...

A short-term memory task was used to explore the effects of verbal labeling and rehearsal on serial-position recall in mildly retarded 9to llyear-old children. A stimulus array consisting of seven cards depicting familiar animals was presented for seven trials. In Expt I, recall when subjects labeled the pictures as they were shown was compared to recall when no labeling occurred. Total recall ...

This paper extends prior work on knowledge consolidation and the stability-plasticity problem within the context of a Lifelong Machine Learning (LML) system. A contextsensitive multiple task learning (csMTL) neural network is used as a consolidated domain knowledge store. Prior work has demonstrated that a csMTL network, in combination with task rehearsal, can retain previous task knowledge whe...

Covert motor learning can sometimes transfer to overt behavior. We investigated the neural mechanism underlying transfer by constructing a two-context paradigm. Subjects performed cursor movements either overtly using arm movements, or covertly via a brain-machine interface that moves the cursor based on motor cortical activity (in lieu of arm movement). These tasks helped evaluate whether and ...

The more accessible an attitude is, the stronger is its influence on information processing and behavior. Accessibility can be increased through attitude rehearsal, but it remains unknown whether attitude rehearsal also affects the accessibility of related attitudes. To investigate this hypothesis, participants in an experimental condition repeatedly expressed their attitudes towards exemplars ...

A key question in cognitive psychology is whether information in short-term memory is lost as a function of time. Lewandowsky, Duncan, and Brown (2004) argued against that memory loss because forgetting in serial recall occurred to the same extent across serial positions regardless of the rate of recall. However, we believe Lewandowsky et al. (2004) only prevented one of two types of rehearsal;...

The main purpose of this study was to investigate whether rehearsal, defined as the tendency to recurrently ruminate over upsetting aversive experiences, had an effect on pedometry reactivity. A total of 156 Hong Kong Chinese children aged 9-12 years were recruited. Participants completed the Rehearsal Scale for Children-Chinese (RSC-C; Ling, Maxwell, Masters, & McManus, 2010) and wore the pedo...

Using 5 experiments, the authors explored the dependency of spacing effects on rehearsal patterns. Encouraging rehearsal borrowing produced opposing effects on mixed lists (containing both spaced and massed repetitions) and pure lists (containing only one or the other), magnifying spacing effects on mixed lists but diminishing spacing effects on pure lists. Rehearsing with borrowing produced la...