This paper presents a quantitative assessment of the importance of adaptation to the learning environment as a component of the learning curve in performance data from a computer-based tutor. In Experiment 1, verbal protocols are used to investigate the nature of changes in low-level interactions that take place during learning with a computerized tutor called Stat Lady (Shute & Gluck, 1994). T...

Sixty young and 60 elderly adults completed a pencil-and-paper addition test and solved 40 computer-presented simple addition problems. Strategies and problem solution times were recorded on a trial-by-trial basis and were classified in accordance with the distributions of associations model of strategy choices. The elderly group showed a performance advantage on the ability measure and for the...

The article is devoted to the study of functioning English adjectival emotive units denoting positive semantics as direct linguistic means representing human emotional states that combine semantic and pragmatic components meaning. aim this paper determine features with meaning in modern English. defined approach investigation led use those research methods correspond best its goals: particular,...

Ian McEwan’s novel Enduring Love foregrounds the protagonists’ failed construction of romantic love and illustrates fragility Joe Clarissa’s on one hand destructive forces Jed’s homosexual for other hand. In light Patrick Hogan’s componential statement love, this paper seeks to clarify how sexual desire system, reward attachment system participate in collapse as well make out why Jed can be ove...

Two connectionist models are reported that simulated the defining features of the double dissociation between phonological and surface dyslexia in word reading. One model was a feed-forward, three-layer perceptron, and the other included recurrent connections. Neither model contained an architectural separation of sublexical and lexical processes, nor of phonological and semantic processes. Ana...