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Assessing the Generality and Stability of Ontological Confusions
(2010-01-01)Ontology is the study of how people classify entities in the world. People use ontological categories to attribute properties to the entities subsumed by those categories (Slotta et al., 1995). For instance, entities like ... -
Clarifying the Effects of Flavor Expectations on a Food's Perceived Taste
(2010-01-01)The appearance of food helps guide a consumer's expectation of taste, but it is the prior experiences of the taste buds that foster perceptions of taste. Color and odor are unique and significant to being able to conjure ... -
Intentional Misunderstandings: Belief & Desire in Human-Computer Interaction
(2003-01-01)As computational devices have become more complex, so have our interactions with them. In this paper, the author suggests that these interactions have become so sophisticated that humans cannot but impute some degree of ... -
Metacognition as a Predictor of Conceptual Change
(2012-07-01)Metacognitive ability - proficiency in analyzing ones own thought processes - is related to the ability to correctly gauge one's mastery of a task (Kruger1999; Dunning2003). It may also be tied to the ability to make radical ... -
Modeling Response Times from a Lexical Decision Task
(2006-01-01)Diffusion models are recognized for their ability to consider both response time and accuracy as variants in the process. They provide predictions for the relationships between response time and the probability of correct ... -
Over the River and Through the Woods: Nature and Cognitive Development
(2011-01-01)This study was conducted at the Audubon Center at Debs Park in Highland Park for two weeks during the annual summer camp. The participants consisted of 20 children ranging from the ages of six to ten. During the weeks at ... -
Possibilities and Permissibilities: A Comparison of Modal and Moral Belief Judgments
(2008-01-01)This experiment investigates the existence of correspondences between modal and moral belief judgments. Since both modal and moral beliefs are based on non-factual reasoning, it seems possible there is a common mechanism ... -
Saucy Studies: Exploring Top-Down Processing in Taste Preferences
(2010-01-01)Our perceptions of every experience are much more complicated than they at first seem. My research seeks to explore the ways that previously acquired knowledge, prejudices, associations, etc., affect our perception (top-down ... -
Syntax Transference & Interference in Second Language Acquisition: An Approach Through Artificial Language
(2007-01-01)Transference of language has been studied in the past and there have been observations specifically about syntax transference and interference in the acquisition of natural second languages. We wondered if learning a ... -
The Effect of Meditation on Maximum and Minimum Dollar Willingness to Pay
(2011-01-01)Prior research has explored which specific neurological areas are activated when people calculate how much they would be willing to pay for various household items. Other studies have shown that these neurological areas ... -
Visual Word Recognition in Italian-English Bilinguals: Neighborhood Effects on Contrasting Orthographies
(2005-01-01)In the past twenty years, there has been a rise in the number of experimental studies investigating bilingualism, specifically the bilingual mental lexicon and how the human brain processes and uses two languages. ... -
What you see is what you just heard: The effect of temporal rate adaptation on human intersensory perception
(2010-01-01)It is unknown from previous studies on perception whether psychophysical adaptation effects transfer from one sense to another. To test for this phenomenon, the current study examines the possible crossmodal transfer of ...