They Call It 'Teleological'

They call it like they see it: spontaneous naming and attention to shape.

Two experiments explore children's spontaneous labeling of novel objects as a method to study early lexical access. The experiments also provide new evidence on children's attention to object shape when labeling objects. In Experiment 1, the spontaneous productions of 21 23- to 28-month-olds (mean 26;28) shown a set of novel, unnamed objects were analyzed both in terms of the specific words sai...

They Call It Learning Style But It’s So Much More

The questions of how important a learner’s ‘learning style’ is for the learning outcome needs to be investigated for learning environments: (1) for a didactically flexible design and possibly for an adaptation to the individual learner and (2) for a differential evaluation of learning systems. Many dichotomies of learning styles have been investigated empirically. For several reasons, the impli...

Just call it “treatment”

Although many in the addiction treatment field use the term "medication-assisted treatment" to describe a combination of pharmacotherapy and counseling to address substance dependence, research has demonstrated that opioid agonist treatment alone is effective in patients with opioid dependence, regardless of whether they receive counseling. The time has come to call pharmacotherapy for such pat...

What is this thing they call research?

" Make It Accessible ! " , They Say

This keynote introduces definitions and concepts related to eAccessibility and its potential for the inclusion of people with disabilities. It defends the idea that a fully accessible society can only result from a global policy where all players are involved. It examines and discusses the main instruments that should support such a policy, namely standards and recommendations, development meth...