Anna Hadwick Gayton 1899-1977

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So far studies on language comprehension adopting the embodied and grounded perspective have underlined the similarities between language and action. In line with the idea of neural re-use, this chapter shows that language reflects some characteristics of action organization, but also that it builds on these characteristics, and modifies them in sophisticated ways. In the first part evidence is...

Anna Pajor

Multivariate models of asset returns are very important in financial applications. Asset allocation, risk assessment and construction of an optimal portfolio require estimates of the covariance matrix between the returns of assets (see e.g. Aguilar and West (2000), Pajor (2005a, 2005b)). Similarly, hedges require a covariance matrix of all the assets in the hedge. There are two main types of vo...

John F. Fulton (1899-1960)

A Midsummer Reminiscence In June of 1957 word came to me in Zurich that Dr. Fulton was gravely ill. He had recently arrived in London to celebrate the Harvey Tercen-tenary and was to go on from there to Oxford to receive an honorary degree. He had rallied from critical illnesses before, but this time it seemed that the end had come. I boarded a plane for London. The muffled roar of the all-but-...

The Inebriates' Acts, 1879—1899

produce cultural universals Anna

Looking across human societies reveals regularities in the languages that people speak and the concepts that they use. One explanation that has been proposed for these “cultural universals” is differences in the ease with which people learn particular languages and concepts. A difference in learnability means that languages and concepts possessing a particular property are more likely to be acc...