Much previous research on implicit learning has examined form-based sequential regularities over letters and syllables. Recently, however, researchers have begun to examine implicit learning of systems in which the regularities are described at the level of meaning. We review existing work in this area, primarily from vision research and natural language. These studies suggest that meaning-base...

as a living specimen of the eclectic but sensitive approach being promoted in the anthology. Eight sections entail: "the way we are, disease and mental illness, doctors and psychiatrists, nurses and patients, healing, last things, research, and ethics and purpose": not all medical categories in their own right and each with sub-sections. There is an advantage to the non-chronological arrangemen...

An epidemiological survey of subjects aged over 50 in a sub urban area of India was carried out. 406 subjects aged over 50were examined by making house visits. 13 were diagnosed as suffering from organic psychoses, 3 from schioephrenia, 98 from depression and 28 from other functional disorder. Depression was the commonest diagnosis made. 24.1% of the subjects aged over 50 in the community were ...

People of southern coastal border Central Java have extraordinary features, not only biological ecology, but also ecolinguistic features that can be seen from the socio-cultural awareness community. Socio-cultural people is reflected in behavior simplicity and openness with ecology their immediate environment. These two things are reflection solidarity upheld by Their closeness to nature forms ...

Advances in text analysis, particularly the ability to extract network based information from texts, is enabling researches to conduct detailed socio-cultural ethnographies rapidly by retrieving characteristic descriptions from texts and fusing the results from varied sources. We describe this process and illustrate it in the context of conflict in the Sudan. We show how network information can...

In our paper we are presenting a socio-cultural model of the student as the main actor of a virtual learning environment. The model is part of a larger project DANTE – Socio-Cultural Models implemented through multi-agent architecture for e-learning – that has as main objective the development of a model for the virtual education system, student centred, that facilitates the learning through co...