Sequential learning (SL) is believed to be an essential component of language development. Despite support from behavioral studies, neural evidence of this relationship, especially in children, is scarce. The current study measured 7-12-year-olds’ ERPs to a visual SL task involving incidental learning of probabilistic relationships between predictors and targets presented within a serial input ...

Economists have long thought of technological progress as a primary determinant of rising living standards over time. One might think of technological progress as increasing the “effectiveness” of labor, thereby raising the amount of output that each unit of labor can produce. The purpose of this paper is to ask whether, as an empirical matter, technological progress increases the productivity ...

The current theoretical status of the Lamb shift in He is discussed. Recent calculations of twoloop binding corrections to the Lamb shift significantly shift the theoretical value of the “classic” Lamb shift in He, i.e. of the 2S1/2–2P1/2-interval. In this brief research note, we present a new (theoretical) value for this interval which reads 14041.474(42) Mhz. The theoretical uncertainty is re...

The current research investigates the claim that sort-before-long (SL) constituent orderings are easier to produce than long-beforeshort (LS) orderings (e.g., Stallings et al., 1998). 12 Japanese native speakers repeated LS and SL ordered simple transitive and double object sentences. In a control condition, participants repeated sentences directly, and in another participants performed a memor...

The current study investigates the associations of Machiavellianism (Mach) with trait and ability emotional intelligence (EI), and theory of mind (ToM) in 109 primary school children. Consistent with previous research with adults, negative associations were found between Mach and social and emotional understanding. Subsequent multiple regression analyses for girls showed that being more adept a...

In the history of cybernetics there have been several attempts by cyberneticians to put themselves into the circularities of their theories and designs, invoking a shift from the cybernetics of mechanisms to a cybernetics of cybernetics. The latter is the title of a book chapter by Margaret Mead (1968) and of Heinz von Foerster’s (1974) edited compilation of articles on cybernetics. Foerster in...