Please cite this article in press as: Yap, M ory and Language (2009), doi:10.1016/j.jm The visual word recognition literature has been dominated by the study of monosyllabic words in factorial experiments, computational models, and megastudies. However, it is not yet clear whether the behavioral effects reported for monosyllabic words generalize reliably to multisyllabic words. Hierarchical reg...

Theory refinement is the task of updating a domain theory in the light of new cases, to be done automatically or with some expert as­ sistance. The problem of theory refinement under uncertainty is reviewed here in the con­ text of Bayesian statistics, a theory of belief revision. The problem is reduced to an incre­ mental learning task as follows: the learning system is initially primed with a...

Quasi-Bayesian theory uses convex sets of probability distributions and expected loss to represent preferences about plans. The the­ ory focuses on decision robustness, i .e., the extent to which plans are affected by devi­ ations in subjective assessments of probabil­ ity. Generating a plan means enumerating the actions to be taken and providing infor­ mation about the robustness of the action...

T he task of designing a systematic program for testing and teaching higher order thinking skills is formidable, yet recent advances in the ory and research provide some basis for defining a core of fundamental skills and for designing exercises that require using such skills Since testing programs at the national, state, and local levels are being used to assess students' reasoning skills, the...

We present in this paper a deterministic silence and self stabilizing leader election algorithm on unidirectional id based rings which have bound on their id values The id values of processors in a ring whose size is N have to be inferior to N k The size of commu nication registers required by the algorithm is constant The algorithm stabilizes in k N time In DGS Dolev Gouda and Schneider have e...

Hypertension or substantially elevated blood pres­ sure is one of the more prevalent chronic conditions lmownto increase the risk ofdevelopingcirculatory dis­ eases, particularly heart disease and stroke. 1-4 Circula­ ory diseases are the leading cause of death and of hos­ e pitalization in the United States. This report presents national estimates for blood pressure levels, the preva­ lence of...

We pres ent pre lim i nary re sults from the Be trayal Trauma In ven tory (BTI) test ing pre dic tions from be trayal trauma the ory (Freyd, 1994, 1996, in press) about the re la tion ship be tween am ne sia and be trayal by a care giver. The BTI as sesses trauma his tory us ing behaviorally de fined events in the do mains of sex ual, phys i cal, and emo tional child hood abuse, as well as othe...

consistent with the cognitive map theory characterization Department of Anatomy and Developmental of hippocampal function (O'Keefe and Nadel, 1978, 1979). Biology The cognitive map theory proposes that the hippo-University College London campus of rats and other animals represents their envi-17 Queen Square ronments, locations within those environments, and London WC1N 3AR their contents, thus ...

This is a brief in tro duc tion to an en gi neer ing the ory on the or i gin and gen er a tion of geo met ric form in all flow sys tems: the an i mate, the in an i mate and the en gi neered. The the ory is named constructal, and is based on the thought that it is nat u ral for cur rents to con struct for them selves in time paths of greater flow access. It is shown that this pro cess of flow pa...

This paper analyzes the theoretical under­ pinnings of recent proposals for computing Dempster-Shafer Belief functions from ATMS labels. Such proposals are intended to be a means of integrating symbolic and numeric rep­ resentation methods and of focusing search in the ATMS. This synthesis is formalized us­ ing graph theory, thus showing the relation­ ship between graph theory, the logic-theore...