One of the more challenging research areas in cognitive science is the attempt to understand how the brain supports consciousness. This historically philosophical endeavor is now actively studied in the sciences, with research on visual attention being an especially promising area that can further our understanding of consciousness. A major problem with this cross-disciplinary pursuit, however,...

Both infants and adults are sensitive to the non-linguistic features of speech, and this sensitivity impacts speech sound categorization, but with somewhat different effects. While both infants and adults sometimes confuse the non-linguistic for the linguistic and are susceptible to categorization problems when the two covary, adults, on the other hand, are often able to exploit non-linguistic ...

A taxonomy is presented that categorizes theories of organizational justice with respect to two independent dimensions: a reactiveproactive dimension and a process-content dimension. Various theories within each of the four resulting categories are identified. The implications of the taxonomy are discussed with respect to clarifying theoretical interrelationships, tracking research trends, and ...

Bandura [1] has theorized that during preparation for sport competition some doubt about one’s capabilities to perform effectively may be beneficial to spurring athletes to put forth a strong preparatory effort. We designed two experiments to test the idea that lower preparatory efficacy levels would benefit practice effort. Participants who competed in golf putting competitions were separated ...

Designing interaction entails addressing multiple issues and challenges, ranging from the technical and economic to the legal and ethical. Usability guidelines recommend or prescribe courses of action and thus play a significant role in designing usable systems. This paper argues that approaches to guidelines need to support processes of deliberation and tradeoff and suggests a deliberation the...

Over the last decades, the field of legal ontologies has seen a sharp increase in the number of published papers. The literature on legal ontologies now covers a wide variety of topics and research approaches. One of these topics is legal core ontologies, which have received significant attention since the 1990s. In order to provide an up-to-date overview of this research area, this article pre...

The paper uses the Matrix Categorization Devices theory in order to analyze way which abandoned mines Romania have been presented newspapers over period beginning with their closure up present time. In conduct analysis, provides a theoretical framework of Membership Device (the category being and members – people places); last part discusses results analysis.