This study examined four universal operating principles for first language acquisition proposed by Slobin (1973) and MacWhinney (1978). The applicability of these principles to second-language acquisition was tested by teaching children and adults a miniature linguistic system. The results suggested that the four principles played a major role in the learning of the system by 5-to 7-year-olds b...

Given that our ability to remember is inherently limited, one “solution” is to artificially enhancememory. Here I discuss four general approaches that have been developed to augment human long-term memory: nootropics agents, brain stimulation, mnemonic strategies, and external aids. The former two have only been recently developed in the field of systems neuroscience, and have become the focus ...

Previous studies in the field of second language acquisition have emphasized that visual tools play a crucial role improving vocabulary for learners. This article aims to summarize positive effects and limitations pictures as one The also explores how teachers can use properly their teaching practices. By summarizing established experiments theories, learning has superiority deepening memory st...

I hate calculus. Which is a lie: secretly love it. enjoy teaching it, drawing intricate diagrams of where the definition derivative comes from, stumping my students on convoluted trigonometric integrals with solutions dependent partial fractions, hammering mnemonics for rules—all joys And enjoyed learning too. Well, not failing it first time, but after that. long undergraduate time spent in rea...

In a previous report we used the Linked Dipole Chain model unintegrated gluon densities to investigate the uncertainties in the predictions for central exclusive production of scalars at hadron colliders. Here we expand this investigation by also looking at other parameterizations of the unintegrated gluon density, and look in more detail on the behavior of these at small k⊥. We confirm our con...

Seeing others is a central metaphor in James Cameron’s film Avatar, used as a means to express empathy and empathic bonding throughout the film, both between humans and the Na’vi, and between the Na’vi and the animals that inhabit their world. Empathy entails an ability to see and feel the world from another’s perspective—feeling with rather than feeling for. Jake Sully’s shifting and boundary-...