For comments and suggestions at various stages in this work’s development, I would like to thank Mark Baker, Amy Rose Deal, Jorge Hankamer, Ruth Kramer, and James McCloskey. Thanks as well go to the Estonians whose judgments and insights have helped shape this paper, especially Leelo Kask and Mervi Kalmus. Thanks as well go to a Dissertation Year Fellowship from the Institute for Humanities Res...

The idea that compositing or blending occurs in human episodic memory stems from two sources: (a) distributed memory models and (b) studies on the errors that occur in eyewitness testimony. These two traditions of research--theoretical and empirical--have been independent and distinct. Here, data from the eyewitness testimony paradigm are simulated by the distributed model CHARM (Composite Holo...

August 2000 Abstract: In a presentation to the American Economics Association, McCloskey (1998) argued that "statistical significance is bankrupt" and that economists' time would be "better spent on finding out How Big Is Big". This brief survey is devoted to methods of determining "How Big Is Big". It is concerned with a rich body of literature called selection procedures, which are statistica...

We study the emergence and coexistence of monetary and credit transactions in a model where exchange is decentralized. Agents belong to different villages which are informationally separated. The frequency of meetings between any two different villages decreases as their respective geographic distance from one another increases. The equilibrium mix of monetary and credit transactions is charact...

The adequacy of similarity to prototype as an account of categorization in natural concepts was assessed by analyzing the monotonicity of the relation between typicality of an item in a category and the probability of a positive categorization response using data from McCloskey and Glucksberg (1978). The analysis revealed a strong underlying similarity-based threshold curve, with systematic dev...

Bárbara Frias,1,2 João Santos,1 Marlene Morgado,3 Mónica Mendes Sousa,3 Susannah M.Y. Gray,6 Karen D. McCloskey,6 Shelley Allen,4 Francisco Cruz,2,5 and Célia Duarte Cruz1,2 1Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Medicine of Porto, University of Porto, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal, 2Translational NeuroUrology and 3Nerve Regeneration Group, IBMC–Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Un...

This squib compares the similar distributions of floating allemaal and all under wh-movement in Dutch and West Ulster English (WUE) (McCloskey 2000).1 The comparison leads to the conclusion that the floated quantifier is merged at the edge of “vP” in both languages. Current theoretical understanding – Binary (external and internal) Merge, universal head complement order (Kayne 1994), syntactic ...

Electronic commerce has taken a vital importance in the last years due to the advantages that it provides to buyers and sellers. However, the use of electronic commerce is still limited, especially in developing countries. The objective of this research is to replicate and compare part of the model proposed by McCloskey, which intends to determine the factors that influence electronic commerce ...

The quartet of articles on eyewitness identification by McCloskey and Egeth, and Loftus (May 1983) represents an excellent example of the ability of the American Psychologist to provide a forum for the discussion of topical issues in the discipline. The broader and perhaps central issue addressed, however, concerned the relative reticence that psychologists should display when asked to serve as...

Two experiments used a digitizing tablet to analyse the temporal, spatial, and kinematic characteristics of handwritten production of arabic numbers. They addressed a specific issue of the numerical domain: Does the lexical and syntactic structure of verbal numerals influence the production of arabic numerals (Experiments 1 and 2), even after enforced semantic processing in a comparison task (E...