Centromere strength: just a sense of proportion

A sense of proportion: commentary on Opfer, Siegler and Young

A growing body of evidence (Barth & Paladino, 2011; Cohen & Blanc-Goldhammer, 2011; Sullivan, Juhasz, Slattery & Barth, 2011) shows that ‘linear’ estimation patterns in published number-line data actually follow a cyclic power function, a signature of proportional reasoning (Hollands & Dyre, 2000; Spence, 1990). Opfer, Siegler and Young argue that fitting a cyclic power function to number-line ...

It just doesn't make good business sense.

Is Word Sense Disambiguation Just One More NLP Task?

The paper compares the tasks of part-of-speech (POS) tagging and word-sense-tagging or disambiguation (WSD), and argues that the tasks are not related by fineness of grain or anything like that, but are quite different kinds of task, particularly because there is nothing in POS corresponding to sense novelty. The paper also argues for the reintegration of sub-tasks that are being separated for ...

The relationship between sense of coherence and ego strength with death anxiety in elderly

Elderly people are getting more evidence of death from physical changes, higher rates of illness and disability, and the loss of relatives and friends. Experiencing some anxiety about death is normal, but, like other fears, it weakens adaptability if it is too severe. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between sense of coherence and ego strength with death anxiety in ...

Strength of Intentional Effort Enhances the Sense of Agency

Sense of agency (SoA) refers to the feeling of controlling one's own actions, and the experience of controlling external events with one's actions. The present study examined the effect of strength of intentional effort on SoA. We manipulated the strength of intentional effort using three types of buttons that differed in the amount of force required to depress them. We used a self-attribution ...