Epistemologies in the Text of Children's Books: Nativeand non-Nativeauthored books Morteza Dehghani a , Megan Bang b , Douglas Medin c , Ananda Marin c , Erin Leddon c & Sandra Waxman c a Brain and Creativity Institute , University of Southern California , Los Angeles , CA , USA b College of Education , University of Washington , Seattle , WA , USA c Department of Psychology , Northwestern Univ...

The DIVA network model is introduced based on the novel computational principle of divergent autoencoding. DIVA produces excellent fits to classic data sets from Shepard, Hovland & Jenkins (1961) and Medin & Schafffer (1978). DIVA is also resistant to catastrophic interference. Such results have not previously been demonstrated by a model that is not committed to both localist coding of exempla...

INTRODUCTION This study compared the cleaning efficiency of Mtwo, Race and Medin Nickel-Titanium (NiTi) rotary instruments. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixty mandibular molar mesial roots were selected with angle curvatures between 25-35 degrees and divided into three groups; each containing 20 teeth. Canals were prepared with the rotary files and irrigated with 2.5% NaOCl solution after each instr...

INTRODUCTION Disinfection and subsequent obturation of the root canal space require adequate mechanical enlargement of the canals. The purpose of this in vitro study was to compare the shaping ability of Mtwo, RaCe and Medin rotary instruments during the preparation of curved root canals. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixty mesiobuccal root canals of mandibular molars with severe curvatures between 2...

Recent research (e.g. López, Atran, Coley, Medin & Smith, 1997; Proffitt, Coley & Medin, 2000; Shafto & Coley, in press) has revealed striking expert-novice differences in category-based induction in the domain of folk biology. In this paper we examine the generality of those findings by investigating expert-novice differences in category-based induction in the domain of music. Experiment 1 rev...

Recent research suggests that inductive inference may be based on salient relations between premise and/or conclusion categories (Medin, Coley, Storms and Hayes, 2003). The types of relations deemed relevant may be influenced by experience (e.g. López, Atran, Coley, Medin and Smith, 1997; Shafto & Coley, 2003). Novices in a given domain have been shown to rely primarily on taxonomic relationshi...