When physical intuition fails

Grammar frequency and simplification: when intuition fails

We investigate whether a medical writer can simplify text by only changing the grammatical structure. Based on a user study, we find that while the sentences look simpler after simplification, they are not easier to understand. For grammatical simplification, better tools are needed to provide more concrete guidance and feedback. Introduction Providing text to patients and health information co...

When memory fails, intuition reigns: midazolam enhances implicit inference in humans.

People often make logically sound decisions using explicit reasoning strategies, but sometimes it pays to rely on more implicit "gut-level" intuition. The transitive inference paradigm has been widely used as a test of explicit logical reasoning in animals and humans, but it can also be solved in a more implicit manner. Some researchers have argued that the hippocampus supports relational memor...

The Lexicographic Treatment of Days in Sepedi, or When Mother-Tongue Intuition Fails

Since May 2001 the Sepedi National Lexicography Unit officially started the actual dictionary-writing of a pioneering Explanatory Sepedi Dictionary (PyaSsaL). The compilation is undertaken within the theoretical framework of Simultaneous Feedback, is fully corpus-based, and follows an onomasiological approach to the Sepedi lexicon. In this article the various compilation aspects are examined an...

When Bellman's Principle Fails

We present several examples which show that the well known statements about Markov Decision Processes can fail if the loss function is not bounded.

When Sharing Fails