The term creativity is frequently used by educators to identify behavior that is different or novel when compared to conventional modes of conduct. This creative behavior usually is the ability to be imaginative and original in handling words, ideas, or materials. For reading specialists, an understanding of creative behavior may provide insight into certain reading problems. CREATIVITY AND THE...

This chapter evaluates the debate between behavior-rule and mindreading accounts of the abilities of some nonhuman animals. (Although the evidence concerns canids and corvids in addition to primates, we focus on the latter.) We show that although the data are by no means conclusive, they presently favor a mindreading account, suggesting that simple forms of mentalizing are quite prevalent among...

This paper presents a study of the various aspects of blog reading behavior. The analyzed data are obtained from a Japanese weblog hosting service, Doblog. Four kinds of social networks are generated and analyzed: citation, comment, trackback, and blogroll networks. In addition, the user log data are used to identify readership relations among bloggers. After analysis of more than 50,000 users ...

In this paper we show that it is possible to make good predictions of text relevance, from only features of conscious eye movements during reading. We pay special attention to the order in which the lines of text are read, and compute simple features of this sequence. Artificial neural networks are applied to classify the relevance of the read lines. The use of ensemble techniques creates stabl...

this research attempted to study the reading behavior of graduate students in digital environment at university of isfahan through 2008-2009.  different elements such as types of electronic resources, reading methods, amounts of note taking, amounts of printing and the advantages of using the electronic resources are being discussed. the paper employs descriptive survey research method to answe...