Since publication of the landmark article describing his severe memory impairment (Scoville and Milner, 1957), patient H.M. has been a touchstone for research on amnesia and memory systems (Corkin, 2002). After surgical resection of a majority of his medial temporal lobes, H.M. experienced profound forgetfulness. Yet it was the observation of spared cognitive abilities such as attention and lan...

Episodic memory is the form of involved in remembering personally experienced past events. Here, I address two questions about episodic memory’s function: what does do for us, and why we have it? Recent work addressing these has emphasized role imaginative simulation, criticizing mnemonic view on which “for” remembering. In this paper, offer a defense by highlighting an underexplored function –...

Signature-based algorithms is a popular kind of algorithms for computing Gröbner bases, and many related papers have been published recently. In this paper, no new signature-based algorithms and no new proofs are presented. Instead, a view of signature-based algorithms is given, that is, signature-based algorithms can be regarded as an extended version of the famous MMM algorithm. By this view,...

Since its introduction to EAP theory in the 1980s, the concept of genre has proven to be a rigorous theoretical construct for a deeperunderstanding of the nature of academic discourse. However, the inherent potential of this concept as a means of classifying and categorizing academic texts has also given rise to what we have called “the misconception of homogeneity”. Criticizing this misconcept...