0953-5438/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.intcom.2011.04.007 ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (M.J. Co (J. Gwizdka), [email protected] (C. Liu), ralf@b rutgers.edu (N.J. Belkin), [email protected] (X. Zh We report on an investigation into people’s behaviors on information search tasks, specifically the relation between eye movement patte...

Working memory predicts children's reading comprehension but it is not clear whether this relation is due to a modality-specific or general working memory. This study, which investigated the relations between children's reading skills and working memory (WM) abilities in 3 modalities, extends previous work by including measures of both reading comprehension and reading accuracy. Tests of word r...

In today’s grid deployments, resource selection is based on the prior knowledge of the performance characteristics of the application on a particular resource and on real-time monitoring status of the resource such as load on the system, network bandwidth, etc. Any lag between a resource selection decision and the time the job appears in the system’s monitoring facility will cause subsequent de...

The lexical decision (LD) and naming (NAM) tasks are ubiquitous paradigms that employ printed word identification. They are major tools for investigating how factors like morphology, semantic information, lexical neighborhood and others affect identification. Although use of the tasks is widespread, there has been little research into how performance in LD or NAM relates to reading ability, a d...