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Lau, Jey Han; Clark, Alexander; Lappin, Shalom – Cognitive Science, 2017
The question of whether humans represent grammatical knowledge as a binary condition on membership in a set of well-formed sentences, or as a probabilistic property has been the subject of debate among linguists, psychologists, and cognitive scientists for many decades. Acceptability judgments present a serious problem for both classical binary…
Descriptors: Grammar, Probability, Sentences, Language Research
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Schmidt, Sebastian; Troge, Thomas A.; Lorrain, Denis – Creativity Research Journal, 2013
A theory of listening to music is proposed. It suggests that, for listeners, the process of prediction is the starting point to experiencing music. This implies that perception of music starts through both a predisposed and an experience-based extrapolation into the future (this is labeled "a priori" listening). Indications for this…
Descriptors: Music, Listening, Probability, Logical Thinking
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Ranade, Saidas M.; Corrales, Angela – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2013
The importance of intrapersonal and interpersonal intelligences has long been known but educators have debated whether to and how to incorporate those topics in an already crowded engineering curriculum. In 2010, the authors used the classroom as a laboratory to observe the usefulness of including selected case studies and exercises from the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Design, Case Studies, Problem Solving
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Hahn, Ulrike; Warren, Paul A. – Psychological Review, 2009
A long tradition of psychological research has lamented the systematic errors and biases in people's perception of the characteristics of sequences generated by a random mechanism such as a coin toss. It is proposed that once the likely nature of people's actual experience of such processes is taken into account, these "errors" and "biases"…
Descriptors: Psychological Studies, Short Term Memory, Probability, Perception