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People v. objects: a reply to Rakison and Cicchino

In our Brief Article (KBW, this issue), we present data showing that 5-month-old infants interpret the movements of inanimate objects according to the constraint of spatiotemporal continuity, but do not interpret peoples’ motion according to this same constraint. We suggest from this finding that infants may possess distinct systems for learning, interpreting, and reasoning about the actions an...

Herbert Thoms

The eventful chapters of contemporaneous medical history in Connecticut have not yet received the historian's scrutiny and are still only records scattered here and there in organization archives and miscellaneous correspondence. Many of us have been a part of these events and as participants are poorly qualified to place values on them. As in all history, one must await the developing vista of...

Herbert Herbert: his corneal pits and scleral slits.

PURPOSE To evaluate the life and professional work of the English ophthalmologist Herbert Herbert (1865-1942). DESIGN Historical study. METHODS The main sources for this investigation are Herbert's approximately 65 published papers and 3 monographs. Other sources are contemporary publications by other ophthalmologists and secondary historical reviews of this period. Written communications w...

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Herbert King Thoms