‘I can't quite put my finger on it’: Racism's touch

“i Couldn’t Really Put [mガ] Finger on It”: Phonetic Realisations of the Possessive Singular ‘my’ in Tyneside English*

The phonetic realisation of the first-person singular possessive form my is highly variable, as observed by Hollmann and Siewierska (2007) in their account of the feature in Lancashire and Snell (2008, 2010) in her sociolinguistic study of Teesside school children’s speech. This paper presents an investigation into the phonetic variability of the possessive singular in a different variety, Tyne...

Defining osteopathic medicine: can you put your finger on it?

Rogers • Editorial A of us have been in situations like this: You may have trained in a major medical center, you may work there now, or you may be attending a large educational symposium. You look around and you observe, “I am as good as anybody else here, but there is something different.” The problem is, can you put your finger on it? As members of a “hands-on” profession, we osteopathic phy...

Put your head on my shoulder.

Hard to Put Your Finger on it: Haptic Modality Disadvantage in Conceptual Processing

Recent neuroimaging research has shown that perceptual and conceptual processing share a common, modality-specific neural substrate, while work on modality switching costs shows that they appear to share some of the same attentional mechanisms. In two experiments, we employed a modality detection task that displayed modality-specific object properties (e.g., shrill, warm, crimson) for extremely...

Here Is the Knowledge-Where Should I Put It?

In order to design useful knowledge media spaces to knowledge workers it is essential that we understand the nature of the work conducted and the knowledge applied in real settings. This paper reports from a study of how a group of quality assurance specialists gather, structure and distribute information and knowledge. Based on the findings a number of overall requirements for knowledge media ...