Dishabituation of visual attention by infantand adult-directed (ID and AD) speech was investigated in four experiments. Four-month-olds received 12 10-s presentations of a checkerboard pattern with a speech segment compounded only on the ninth trial. Recovery of visual attention was observed on the compound trial in response to both ID and AD speech, but only ID speech dishabituated visual atte...

The bold vision to transform our school into the nation’s first school of medicine and public health in 2005 was sparked by the desire to build an innovative academic infrastructure that would improve the health of all of the people of Wisconsin through the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease.1 This transformation is an acceleration and expansion of the “Wisconsin Idea,” with a loft...

THELEN, E. AND J.P. SPENCER. Postural control during reaching in young infants: A dynamic systems approach. NEUROSCI BIOBEHAV REV 22(4)507–514, 1998.—We conceptualize the coordinated development of posture and reaching within Schöner’s (Ecological Psychology, 7:291–314, 1995) dynamic model of coupled levels of control: load, timing, and goal. In particular, the goal of postural stability must b...

Abstract Using elementary methods we obtain a power-law lower bound on the two-point function of planar XY spin model at low temperatures. This was famously first rigorously obtained by Fröhlich and Spencer (Commun Math Phys 81(4):527–602, 1981) establishes Berezinskii–Kosterlitz–Thouless phase transition in model. Our argument relies new loop representation correlations, recent result Lammers ...

This study compares the handling of agreement and disagreement by speakers from two different cultural groups: London’s British West African community and its mainstream British white community. Using data from elicited conversations, we consider naturally-occurring agreements and disagreements at three different linguistic levels. Firstly, based on Pomerantz’s (1984) observations of turn-takin...